Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari Digest, Vol 157, Issue 30

[Cody Laird (ecl3]

This is the main reason I will only lease new vehicles or buy older vehicles 
that do not require proprietary stuff or can be retrofitted with off the shelf 
and easily available replacements. Now with that said I do own a couple of 
Ferrari’s among other cars that may fall into that category in a few years; an 
‘89 Mondial t coupe and ’90 348tb. Queue the Clyde’isms, ha ha. 

I personally hope that one day the car manufactures are required to provide 
free or for a reasonable fee, whatever that may be is subjective, to owners of 
the vehicles the proprietary software needed to replicate and/or diagnose the 
systems after the components are no longer manufactured. 

In case no one noticed this is my first reply to the list after “listening” for 
over a year to the great commentary and banter. Thank you Clyde for telling me 
about it. 

Regards,
Cody Laird
Atlanta

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> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 19:40:44 +0000
> From: Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>
> To: Doug & Terri <dnt [at] dock.net>
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> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Realistic prices are retuning
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> Of course.
> 
> But ? and that?s a big BUT ? what makes it harder is that Ferrari has 
> proprietary codes for all of the body controls, plus other drivetrain stuff 
> that?s not covered in the open, emissions-accessible OBD area.
> 
> While there are still working ECUs out there, they?d have to be ?cracked? 
> open and reverse-engineered.
> 
> It?s still a small market and somebody will have to pay for all of that.
> 
> There?s only one consumer-grade full scanner available (Leonardo) and it?s 
> five figures. Might as well spring a couple more grand and get the genuine 
> Ferrari scanner... If you can find one.
> 
> Hopefully by then, the aftermarket crowd will just come up a plug-and-play 
> system that can drive all of that and one can ditch all of the Marelli stuff 
> altogether. That?s the route I?d take...
> 
> Peter
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