Modern cars are spy hubs on wheels, tracking your location, conversations, and behavior.

  • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    I can maybe see a garage, but ruining your paint? Where do you get this paint, how much does it cost, do you “do it right” by properly prepping and masking, how do you maintain this finish, and do you truly not care about resale value?

    I’m sure somebody has done this somewhere, but I can’t imagine it looks better than matte-black rattlecanned shitbox. Nobody really wants to be driving around in that.

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      10 days ago

      Probably just a regular paint with metal flakes, but calling faraday cage paint makes it fancy.

      Also probably doesn’t work very well unless you stretch a copper mesh onto the car under the paint

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      10 days ago

      You do realize that it’s possible to get a professional quality after market paint job, right? I’m not confident in the effectiveness of such a paint, especially when it would be easier and more effective to just fuck with the antenna directly (and paint would affect anything in the car also if it does block signals effectively), but custom paint jobs can increase the resale value even without stopping the spying shit. And personally, I’d be willing to spend more on a car where that shit has been disabled, even if the paint job looked shitty.