What your car knows about you, and where ours sends it
New cars quietly report where you go and how you drive to the maker. The Astra doesn't, so we added that ourselves and put it on our own network.
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One car, run like the rest of the network — what we fitted, how its tech logs to our own servers, and where its history actually lives.
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Front and rear dashcam, and the footage stays ours
The VIOFO A329 records front and rear, and the multimedia upgrade adds a third camera on the road behind. Here's what we fitted, and where the footage lives.
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Where your car's service history should actually live
A glovebox folder fades and a manufacturer's app can vanish. We keep the Astra's mileage, services and MOT on our own server, where they stay ours for good.
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