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That pairing is for theft reasons - chop shops will steal a car, take the parts off and sell them. However the expensive computers are paired and so they won't work when sold this way thus making the value of a car to a shop shop much less and so helping prevent that theft mode.

Though I think there should be a process to get the parts paired after verifying the car isn't stolen. I'm not sure what that would be though.



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