<VV> New Car Black Boxes-now Snapshot

[Ulli Dittmar]

I had an Audi A6 in 2002 and I had an major engine failure while being in Italy for vacation. The car was picked up from Audi, I had a full cover warranty, and a new car was brought to finish my vacation. When I was back in Germany my service guy told me exactly how fast I was driving the last 1000 km, how many rpm´s on which engine temp., fuel consumption, oil temp etc. they found out what the problem was with just reading the "black box". This was 10 yeats ago - imagine what the can do nowadays.
Black box is no future thing it is reality.

Happy 2. Advent for you guys

Regards
Ulli the Ba-Vair-ian

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Am 09.12.2012 um 08:01 schrieb Charlie:

> I'm pretty sure that those things only work with OBD-II compliant cars with
> computerized gizmos to feed it?
> 
> Just a thought - 
> 
> It would have saved me money, if I had it, and it was admissible in court?  
> (Probably would have said I bought and 'app' for it!)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Frank DuVal
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 10:39 PM
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> New Car Black Boxes-now Snapshot
> 
> Speaking of being spyed upon, anybody here buy Progressive Insurance's 
> Snapshot device to save money on their Corvair or other car?
> 
> This little device reports your speed and driving style back to the 
> insurance company to save you money. Well, save you money if you drive 
> the way they like!
> 
> Better turn it off during the Autocross!  gggg
> 
> I'll stick with my non-Snapshot carrier...
> 
> Frank DuVal
> 
> 
> In a message dated 12/7/2012 6:17:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> Shelrockbored at aol.com writes: Probably the wave of the future, whether 
> we like it or not. It's not really a big deal since most automobiles 
> already are equipped with "black boxes." SVS
> 
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