So this story is 3rd party, a tech was telling me about it. I did not see the setup with my own eyes and only have his account as to what exactally happened but heres what I got from it:

He said a woman came in with a truck for some maintenance like brakes or something. They put their wireless OBD controller on there and went to scan the computer and it just fried.

They then tried again with another obd reader and it also fried.

After further inspection the woman had moved her obd up under the dash out of access and placed a "fake/dummy" port where the old one would be located. She then had an inverter and rectifier setup off the battery to step up the voltage with a transformer to something like 100v and fed it to every connection on the dummy OBD port.

They are pursuing litigation against the lady and her defense is you dont need my ECM to change the brakes nor were you authorized to do so.

We shall see what happens.

I cant imagine those OBD handhelds and wireless ones are very cheap. I bet that set em back a bit

damn thats a good idea sorry i didnt thin of it

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She must make some awesome sandwiches if she can do that kind of electronics work

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I hope she wins. That's awesome.

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thats freakin great, and beat it all, a woman did it!! damn i hope she wins

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was she single?

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wonder what ever happened to the idea of asking customer about this stuff before they do it. i think they should ask before they do anything.

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I wish I would have been that creative. If I had, I would be able to run my Smarty still.

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Yea, how could they sue her?? HER truck, she can do as she wishes with it!! If there weren't any check engine lights on it, then why would they hook into it? I might look into something like that for my truck, I've had work done on my chevy(gasser) and I bet the hooked up to it for no reason

that was great another way some of us 6.7 guys can get dodge a lawyer contacted me and wanted to know how many times i had been in the shop he got all of my info and about 3 months later i got a check for $5400.00 so as far as im concerned stick it to dodge any way you can i had been into the shop for 18 times and got paid to make my truck run right

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what did you get money for? just curious

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Don't kill the Ford guy for posting in here, but that is 1 damm good story. For ALL vehicle owners. First big brother now this? For a brake job? It's her truck. And no brand bashing from me but every single one of us truck owners has probably built a better truck for ourselves then the factory could/ would.

Keep us updated.

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This is my first diesel, (got it in March 09), so just starting school so to speak.

That's almost a master card commercial - priceless.

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got the money for all of the trouble with the emissions problems with the 6.7. you have to had been in the shop for 10 or more times with an emissions related prob pass the word on and tell them to contact me and i can get them in touch with the att.