Been sjops, got wet! Gggrrrrr!!!
@gennepher did you get car sorted,I'm too lazy to go through the weekend posts!
It is an ongoing saga
@Lamont D
Here's a copy and paste of a post I did a couple of days ago....
"It turns out that I have a complimentary Bluelink free in my car until 2027. This runs the infotainment centre along with the sat nav and all the controls for other features and safety features which are within the car infotainment centre.
At various times something comes up on the infotainment screen when I turn on the engine and it says I cannot use Bluelink or satnav or all the features on the infotainment centre, unless I agree at the end of this lengthy document. Currently I have this complementary Bluelink up to 2027.
I was talking with my daughter in Australia this morning, and explaining about all my problems with the car and the noisy intrusive alarms. And explained that the software on the infotainment centre changed from time to time as though it had updated. I also explain that there is an icon on the right of the entertainment centre telling me that it is LIVE as I am driving as though it is connected up to something and some transmission is taking place.
The icons sometimes change place on the infotainment screen, as if it had had an update. I couldn't understand this because I didn't know it was connected up to something for this to happen.
Apparently there's an app to go with this, the car's infotainment screen did invite me to download the app when I first got the car, but I did not do that.
I have learnt that this is OTA software and it's updates my car's vehicles system software remotely and automatically and it keeps up to date without me doing anything or visiting a dealership.
I've had a look at the app but I have not downloaded it because there is a whole new world on that app to me... Things that you can do with your car that are way out of my knowledge. Like you can even make a digital key with your phone and the app to start your car.
I have had my fill of new technology today and I cannot take one more thing into my poor little brain.
I am just a girl who was brought up on a farm with no electricity, no sanitation, it was an oil drum in the pig sty. I didn't attend school most of the time (I couldn't hear what was being said anyway). I just roamed the countryside with my dog.
Life was simple back then.
I am a cantankerous old biddy and I want my life to be simple in my old age.
According to the app I can get alarm notifications if someone tries to break into my car, I can do remote diagnostic checks, and a whole pile of other stuff. But all I want to do is turn off all these alarms and safety alerts, which are unnecessary in my opinion.
Apparently I can even find my car up to a 1 mile radius, if I have forgotten where I have parked it, if I have the app...
Now I understand, that this car snitched on me (I was only joking when I said that last week), when I tried to turn off safety settings because initially it let me turn them off and did not reinstate them, but a day later the imfotainment screen now decides that it's going to tell me straight away that I cannot turn these settings off and it is going to recheck these safety settings immediately. It did not do that in the first place."
I have been on a chat line to the car dealers. They say the safety features stay.
I do appear however, to have cut out the majority of the alarm noise from the safety features.
I was going on a trip tomorrow to see how it is to drive at the moment and if it is tolerable for me. But my friend just cancelled. So, depending on the weather I may or may not go out tomorrow.
I might yet end up getting a horse and cart, at least that won't have any alarms on it, nor have constant updates to keep it running...
I have found out why that 12 volt battery went dead. Apparently these OTA updates carry on even if your car is standing in the driveway and not being used. And this can be a drain on that 12volt battery.
Have an above average Tuesday everyone - except for bg levels.
