[Suberman]

Originally Posted by lazyluka

Toyota/Subaru could not void your warranty if you exceeded the RPM guideline. I mean it does say except for emergencies and how can someone say if you were in an emergency or not unless they were right there. Also, I really doubt they would waste their time developing a logging system for break in as it technically only occurs once for the life of the car. For a car that's trying to be as cheap as possible, it just doesn't make sense to waste time and money worrying about break in, and if they did worry so much about break in, does that mean that they knew the car would have engine troubles to begin with?

If they had a moving log file for let's say the last 1000miles travelled, then yeah that could work, but I seriously doubt it would void your warranty and I think if your engine blows up before 2000miles it wouldn't matter too much how you broke your car in (assuming you drove it on the public roads).

The other aspect here is the legal issue, and I am no lawyer, but the only thing it says in the manual is about the EDR recording for around 30 seconds (which it doesn't). Now if they were logging your driving patterns with enough parameters such as (throttle position, revs etc) for an extended period of time, surely they couldn't use this data against you legally. I mean for the EDR it requires the customers permission or a warrant, I would imagine private driving data would be the same.

I am a lawyer and I can tell you the cops up here think they can use this data and our state legislation says they can. I think it is unconstitutional but until someone pays to have our Supreme Court rule on it, its useable. Scary stuff. Americans should be upset about this also. The ABS data recorder was only permitted for research on airbag effectiveness be careful what of let your government approve of.