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Old 01-09-2015, 09:42 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Iron Lung Jimmy View Post
By inserting one of these things into the throttle circuit you are effectively ceding control of your car to it. The highly engineered and, presumably, extensively tested factory electronics are now being controlled by some box you bought off the internet. Hopefully they are being built in a quality manner and not by some sleep deprived kids in China.

If the circuitry on your TV fails you miss Sons of Anarchy. If the circuitry on this fails you potentially go WOT.

I dunno, maybe I'm being overly paranoid but for something that does not make my car faster I'm not going there.
I thought about this...if the circuitry fails, I'd imagine I'd just pop into neutral, and pull over.
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