My car isn't from Kia, but this is not unique to Kia. I eventually personally found the microcontroller and shorted the modem myself, after doing extensive work to figure out how to do it without breaking anything else.
My car isn't from Kia, but this is not unique to Kia. I eventually personally found the microcontroller and shorted the modem myself, after doing extensive work to figure out how to do it without breaking anything else.
(perhaps silly?) question - why not just disable the antenna or put it in an appropriate faraday cage?
The antenna on the body of the car is for XM/FM/AM radio and is only a receiver. It's not connected to the cellular modem in any way at all as far as I can tell (apart from being attached to the same car).
It'll vary for each manufacturer, but in my case shorting the modem was trivial once you knew which pins to connect.
I would think that breaking the antenna would be easier.
Or are they not that large anymore since car bodies have so much plastic in them these days and not so much metal to interfere with the signal?
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