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It was even the same brand. I love when hoarding materials pays off.

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[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

This is one of the counter intuitive things about production at scale. I remember I added factory cruise control to a Mazda 3 by buying the steering wheel with the buttons and having a technician flip a switch in the ECU. Everything else was already there.

They never made any additional changes to non equipped cara because it's cheaper to just produce 1 part or 1 configuration and digitally lock it out. 2500$ option with a 200$ fix.

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