jeepoch
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- Jay
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- 2019 JL Wrangler Sport S 3.6L Auto 2 door, 2.5" lift, 35s
All,One of the first few mods I did...
These ESS threads are just so interesting...
People are so damn religious about ESS and why use it (or most prevalently in this forum) why not. I have one very humble but honest, sincere and controversial question: How many people that absolutely hate ESS, and are willing to yank it the hell out of their rigs no matter the cost or effort) continue to vote for pro-environmental, pro-government, left leaning nanny-state, socialist (Borg Collective) policies?
ESS is unfortunately or fortunately if you are an environmentalist, a DIRECT result. You (we) are now reaping what has unfortunately been sown. ESS is the natural result of over-the-top CAFE standards in our headlong race into killing the internal combustion engine and all things fossil fuel.
Furthermore and independently, all third-party programmer products like this one have a fundamental flaw, they bypass designed in security measures that inherently prevent tampering.
In order to run this permanent ESS disable, this Autostop Eliminator (as well as the Tazer JL and all others) require the removal of the Security Gateway (SGW) Module. Read their installation manuals. Each and every single one of them requires that the SGW be bypassed.
Is this not a BIG Red Flag to anyone? In your haste to eradicate a federally mandated (nuisance) system, you are now willing to potentially allow a remote bad actor (hacker) access into your vehicle's communication control network just so you don't have to press a silly little button. A disable button that is thankfully there (the radical environmentalists may still prevail in removing even that) just because you may have unwittingly helped ESS be implemented (via your vote) in the first place?
Also please understand that the Security Gateway Module is FCA's (and the entire automotive industry's) answer in preventing remote digital intrusion into your vehicle. If you have any type of remote Internet connected radio in your Jeep, like the UConnect 4, you have a path into your rig that the bad guys or gals, or whatever moniker they now want to call themselves, (feeling compelled to be politically correct), that they now can potentially exploit. You've just removed the very thing that was designed and implemented to prevent unauthorized intrusion. Without the SGW, remote digital hacking is certainly possible.
Still not very likely, the hackers don't necessarily know which Jeeps have these defeats attached (unless you advertise this fact). However, you can be your own judge as to how worried you'll need to be. By using any programmer there is a non-zero probability that you're Jeep can be remotely attacked.
While Jeeps are completely mechanical for steering, many throttle and braking components are 'drive-by-wire'. Especially the top-end trim levels.
Additionally, these way cool programmers are crafted to provide exceptionally creative ways into your engine, transmission and body control computer's variable calibrations. That is after all the genius that these products offer.
So please consider all these possibilities when deciding how best to thwart that evil nasty government mandated little pushbutton on your dash.
The proper way to permanently disable ESS is to let your free market opinions be heard and acted upon in a free and open society. Rather than pressing the dash button, press the correct lever at the ballot box to help remove these much hated environmental nanny-state regulations.
Or stop bitching about it...
Please don't be mad at me for bringing this to your attention. I'm being both candid and honest. I'm on your side. I'd rather have an environment that doesn't mandate anything. The little dash pushbutton would instead enable (rather than disable) the ESS feature. However, as of right now our current political will clearly demonstrates that the government knows best. Individually we clearly don't know how to make our own informed decisions.
Jay
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