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Originally Posted by InventoryGuy
Really? Really?
Are you telling me that you people are letting your blind hatred for a manufacturer fog simple logic.
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The same goes for bline devotion....
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Do you really believe that any manufacturer can pull something off like secretly re-flashing computers without peoples knowledge or consent? Do you really believe that the thousands upon thousands of Toyota employees will just look the other way when Toyota "makes" them do something devious at the dealerships?
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Who said everyone is in on the secret? Maybe a handful of upper managers in Japan issue a new version of the ECU code and fix some harmless issues and other innocuous fixes like "Improved Throttle Response" as a euphamism for stopping the throttle from going out of control. The flash is released to all the service departments and they are quietly instructed to upgrade ALL cars that come in for service to the latest version. They can even make upgrades to the latest version part of their normal service checkout procedure, so anyone that comes in for oil change or tire rotation will get the upgrade to the latest and greatest firmware.
You cannot seriously tell me that any service manager or technician will know or need to know what exactly the flash changes from one version to another.
The tech will simply flash it as part of standard procedure and not know OR care what the thing is doing. There's no reason for them to know. Only a handful of people thousands of miles across the pacific will know what the code did.