• speculate7383@lemmy.today
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        6 days ago

        It took me all of about 20 minutes to remove the SIM chip from my 2015 Leaf, following a youtube video that showed everything step by step.

        AFAIK, all cars before 2021 still have physical SIM chips, so easy to remove and disable the telematics.

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          6 days ago

          Even if you can’t remove a SIM (as in a case of an eSIM), simply disconnecting the mobile cellular antennas and grounding them would likely prevent it ever from connecting to a network.

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            4 days ago

            Well sure, my Leaf has that also. But that assumes a level of trust that it actually fully disables everything and doesn’t have “exceptions”, and that it won’t get re-enabled during service or battery changeout or something else like that.