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Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts

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Re: Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts

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Post by technothrasher »

Bender wrote: post #9
technothrasher wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're joking, right? The systems are locked up tight. I did manage to hack into my Porsche Macan's system so that I could turn Apple CarPlay on (it's disabled in the Macan, but supported by the system because the unit is shared with the VW Atlas which has CarPlay), but it involved a pretty complicated jailbreak.

You're joking, right? Only 3.1415% joking. I predict people will eventually get credits for saying things like, "Brought to you by Carl's Jr." in their car, bonus if the kids also repeat it. But seriously I figured someone would have found Easter-eggs by now that allowed some form of super-duper-root similar to windows god-mode. I am honestly surprised that car manufacturers have not been sued into oblivion for addin…

There's less attack surface on these systems than your typical windows install. The only reason I was able to hack the Macan is because they'd left a debug avenue open such that you could plug an ethernet adapter into one of the USB ports and use it drop a shell, and then exploit a bug with handling of a certificates to get privileged access. I was more surprised they'd left that USB ethernet avenue open than that there was a certificate handling bug.

I believe since I did it, somebody found another way in by inserting a malicious payload into a USB firmware update image.

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Post by queenkjuul »

gdulli wrote: post #2

Trying to estimate whether I'm old enough that when I buy the last car of my life, there will still be ones without screens to choose from.

My 2016 Corolla seems to be the last year without a SIM (it does have a screen but whatever it just shows me what's playing on the stereo), but despite a Corolla being bulletproof and me rarely driving anymore, i do still wonder whether i can get away with this car forever or if I'll have to buy some spyware carriage someday

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Post by whartung »

gdulli wrote: post #2

Trying to estimate whether I'm old enough that when I buy the last car of my life, there will still be ones without screens to choose from.

To be fair, I have a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was the first year of their then new model rollout for the GC. It was (as I understand it) the last of the Mercedes JGCs.

I love this thing, it's a "cold dead hands" kind of car for me. Only has 120k-ish miles on it.

I won't say it's my last car ever, I just have a hard time visualizing swapping it out for anything.

It starts, all the buttons work, it's cosmetically 95%. The single biggest issue is that last year it was down for a couple of months simply because of parts availability. It's not unreliable, but it's swapped a few things (water pump, radiator, A/C has had work twice, guess it's a bit notorious in the community). Purchased in 2013, it's a 12 year old car.

But waiting months for suspension components (air suspension, which I adore) was a real drag. Even with a dealer supplied rental.

That would be the thing that sends me over the edge long term, I think.

It'll be a shame when it happens, I love the car.

The dealer wants to buy it every time I take it in for routine maintenance.

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Post by Animats »

Just when you think Stellantis couldn't do anything worse...

This is the company that ran Chrysler into the ground. The only remaining Chrysler product is one mini-van.

They raised the prices on Jeeps so much that they lost their market. They went the "mild hybrid" route, with such silly things as 21 miles of electric range.

The Stellantis dealers signed a joint letter demanding that the CEO be fired. That was done. It didn't seem to help.

(I own a pre-Stellantis Jeep Wrangler, and would like to buy a replacement, but Jeep now has nothing I want.)

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Post by sudonanohome »

whartung wrote: post #23
gdulli wrote: post #2

Trying to estimate whether I'm old enough that when I buy the last car of my life, there will still be ones without screens to choose from.

To be fair, I have a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was the first year of their then new model rollout for the GC. It was (as I understand it) the last of the Mercedes JGCs. I love this thing, it's a "cold dead hands" kind of car for me. Only has 120k-ish miles on it. I won't say it's my last car ever, I just have a hard time visualizing swapping it out for anything. It starts, all the buttons work, it's cosmetically 9…

So your 12 yrs old truck with only 120k miles got:

- radiator replaced

- water pump replaced

- AC repaired (twice)

- suspension rebuilt

And that's considered to be a "good" truck? Good lord I'm happy we don't get such garbage sold here in Europe

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