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by bigfatkitten 172 days ago
> If you had tried, you would know that there is no fuse dedicated to "network connectivity".

Depends on the car. On modern Fords, it’s the TCU fuse.

> What I have seen done is to tear into the right roof pillar and cut the wires going to the antenna on the roof

Nonsense. Only a fool would do this, rather than simply disconnecting the antennas from the back of the module.

Manufacturers almost universally use FAKRA connectors for quick and error-free assembly on the production line.

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Only a fool would do this, rather than simply disconnecting the antennas from the back of the module.

Depends on the car. It some cases, this is not simple. Accessing the connections means disassembling the dash.

Yes, but no vehicle in the world requires you to go around chopping up cables.