Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
1–10 of 18 posts
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#2Notice that I added "for a car infotainment system" to the original title because I don't think "lcn2kai" would give enough context for readers.
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#3I'm pretty sure my Nissan Versa has one of these and I'm going to give it a shot tomorrow I think.
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#4Super interesting! I somehow wouldn't have thought about "just buying another headunit" to play around with.
Anyone have an links to anything similar for Hyundai systems?
I know the Mazda system "MZD" has quite the active community, for example: https://mazdatweaks.com/
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#5This reminded me of the time I installed a computer in my car, in 2005. There was a whole community built around making a windows interface suitable for a touchsreen in your dash. Surprisingly my build thread is still online:
https://www.vwvortex.com/threads/mp3.2194412/
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#6Posting under a throwaway for obvious reasons, but I am sure all of these head units are all insecure. There’s a major manufacturer that had a head unit flaw+backed issue that allowed for the remote unlocking and starting of any car..
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#7I'm pretty sure my Nissan Versa has one of these and I'm going to give it a shot tomorrow I think.
This is a really good reverse engineering exercise but as a cautionary note:
If you are doing this in your real car most of the trim on the dashboard is secured by plastic clips. You need specialized car trim tools (similar to the phone case ones but well bigger) to remove them along the edges without denting the outer plastic edges.
Also most of them are meant to clip-on once. So if you take them apart too many times you might start seeing gaps on the trim and things not properly fitting.
Again it might not be something you care about but just thought I would mention. Ideally you would be better off getting one of these from after-sales or 2nd hand from scrap parts and working on a bench top with a 12V line.
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#8If the author is reading this, the version info screen shot[0] includes a unit serial number that can absolutely be traced back to you.
[0] https://github.com/ea/bosch_headunit_root/blob/main/images/0...
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#9I'm pretty sure my Nissan Versa has one of these and I'm going to give it a shot tomorrow I think.
This is a really good reverse engineering exercise but as a cautionary note: If you are doing this in your real car most of the trim on the dashboard is secured by plastic clips. You need specialized car trim tools (similar to the phone case ones but well bigger) to remove them along the edges without denting the outer plastic edges. Also most of them are meant to clip-on once. So if you take them apart too many time…
Very good advice.
If you're still game, a set of trim tools and replacement clips of all sorts are usually available from your favourite large online retailer.
I recently bought a set of trim tools for $AU28 and am assortment of trim clips and roof liner clips for a few more tens of dollars.
Definitely worth watching a couple how to videos on YouTube too.
Having said that: don't be surprised when you break something.
Re: Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
#10very instructional how you can use properties of external drives and filesystems to expolit mountpath variables for path traversal.