Re: remote entry -key fob programming

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> Why does it take a $10,000 scantool to interrogate the computer?
> Car computers today could be fitted with an USB ****t and you
> just plug in the laptop and run some software on it that interrogates
the
> computer.  Or better yet as I've said before, put an ethernet ****t
> on the car computer and put a webserver in it, and jack in your
> laptop running a web browser and use that to interrogate the
> computer.

That's been available for years - I own a third party tool that plugs 
into the car's datalink connector and adapts to the USB ****t of a 
computer (typically a laptop) into which you load the tool's software 
(basically your computer and the software comprise the "tool").

Bill Putney
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