[monerozcash]

I've done this on a W222, a W223, a continental GT and an Urus. On each of those cars it was as easy as disconnecting the antenna, on none of them did I have to tear into the roof pillars.

I've never seen an antenna that was difficult to disconnect, on the super simple end you have something like the W222 where you can literally just pop out the antenna cover on the roof and just remove the antenna module inside.

>But this is usually not without consequences as well such as a perpetual error code display or the radio, navigation or entertainment functions stop working.

Well sure, I do have cars without GPS because I was lazy. Carplay still works fine, so can't really bother to do anything about it.

[potato3732842]

Add a whole ton of Fords to the list. The cell modem is just a module you can unplug on a lot of them to no ill effect.

[monerozcash]

Yeah, I seriously doubt that there's a single car with which this would actually be difficult to accomplish.

Even if you can't pull the modem or the sim card (less common now) directly, you can certainly always find and disable the antenna connection.

Any decent shop will be able to do this for a reasonable price.

[jen20]

> Carplay still works fine, so can't really bother to do anything about it.

That largely depends on the specific vehicle. I’m surprised that there wer no negative effects in pulling the telematics fuse on a W223, less surprised on a W222.

[monerozcash]

I just pulled the antennas on both of those, I don't think there's an easily accessible fuse that wouldn't cut off a bunch of other stuff.