Ragnar Lothbrook

Better to keep ones data private and be assumed a fool than to share it and confirm the assumption.

Defense wins championships!

I'm not really inclined to assist them in making their case against me am I? I mean I've already done so much to get filed into their "that was easy" inbox, right?

I like the soda input. Liquid spills! Anything else oh great warriors of Clan Bowling Green?

haljensen

What are the chances somebody from your Insurance Company and/or the Police force involved reads this Forum?

You just posted on a Public Forum and admitted to ??????? (something that you don't want known). That should be enough to make them take a look to see what you are trying to hide.

jackhall99

Well, with the following post, you already confirmed it!

I don’t think anybody will believe you were going around a corner at 10 miles an hour and the car slid 30 feet and bent itself around a tree for some unknown reason.

That leaves a brandy new owner who couldn’t handle the car trying to take a corner too fast, or a brandy new CF member having some fun with the rest of us. In either case, good luck.

pewter99

IF the investigator has the proper equipment he can pull the last X seconds from the box....some LE agencies do....usually only used when death or lawsuit is involved. Why do you think the insurance guy is gonna pull data?

pewter99

not the same guy AFAICT

ProfessorDeath

Ragnar Lothbrok would simply behead anyone who may have access to the tools or data.

Duh.

ProfessorDeath

Could be the silver car that spun out and into a yard trying to show off. Wouldn't that be a coincidence... However, that was a C5.

~Stingray

As a point of information, is there a way to disconnect the box so in the event you have an accident, it can't record any data?

COMMANDER2OOO

hmmmmm sounds to me like he doesn't want the mrs getting her hands on the details of this accident

Gearhead Jim

Last I heard, you would need to disable the airbags. Not a good tradeoff.

ExRedRacer

I'm going with this theory ^^^.

Gearhead Jim

The Manual says the recorder stores the last several seconds of data before an airbag deployment or near deployment. So OP's car might have stored something, or not.

If the police have not yet closed their investigation of the accident, then any attempt to clear the data becomes destruction of evidence in a possible criminal (traffic charge) investigation. Not a good thing to have on your record.

If you look deeply into your insurance contract and previous court decisions, I suspect you'll find that you have a duty to cooperate with the insurer's investigation when they are going to pay for a loss. Erasing the data does not sound like "cooperating". If they deny your claim then you can spend more on attorney fees than the car was worth.

I wish there was a practical way to disable the recorder beforehand, without disabling the airbags. Since I can't figure out how to do that, I'll have to live with the consequences of what the data shows if I have an accident.

The one accident I had in our previous C6, the circumstances were obvious and the other driver's insurance paid without question; but if anyone had needed to pull the data, it would have shown the other driver to be clearly at fault. Recorders are not always a bad thing.

1rusty1

You're forgetting about the mini cam with 360 degree capabilities. All Corvettes have this. They only record 160 hours at a time and the data is stored off site. The incident may already be on YouTube.

su8pack1

Baxter's Dad

Walter White used strong magnets to erase data. Got him out of a big jam.

Cyber2010

I'm sure someone else has covered this in this thread, but if I was asking for what you're asking, I sure as sh*t wouldn't have posted it using my normal username on this forum, nor would I have confirmed it had to do with another post, which presumably contains descriptions and/or pictures of the accident.

I do see that it's a single car, so that's a plus. But if someone wanted to dig dirt on you and this accident, posting about it here in this manner was a bad idea.

Stavesacre21

This is...good.

TKgs2010

I can't say for sure what data is stored and downloadable from the car's ECM, but from my heavy truck experience pretty much everything is stored in the ECM and readily downloadable from ports either under the hood or in the cab. Not to try to scare you, but by everything, I do mean EVERYTHING, vehicle speed, gear, steering input, brake application, airbag deployment, engine rpm, etc. As far as I know the only way to wipe info from the ECM is either by destroying or replacing it.

bolivar

But, I think there are only a very few seconds recorded. Like 5 seconds or so. And then it is overstored. So, if you were at 100mph 30 seconds before the accident, but had slowed to only 30mph in the last 5 seconds, I think you're ok.

3X2

I think the data is stored in the airbag module. Not that I'm advocating doing anything illegal or unethical but you could spend a couple thousand dollars and buy the tool needed to retrieve the data or -guessing here- replace the module? Here is a link to the tool

http://www.boschdiagnostics.com/test...Pages/CDR.aspx