Ah, i have no fear, as i am capable of providing quite a surprise, involving sudden personal delivery of a "Very Special" and quite potent type of chemical nerve agent.

RP

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I don't understand it but I know people who are expert at interrogating almost any device and it is incredible what you learn about people from their gadgets.

Yea i know someone like that

I am guessing it was my User Name (BBS SPY) that gave me away
You are quite right about about how many manufacturers are turning to such techniques though and this is never more so in the Computing industry.

In a vehicle, it is, or has been, only the Airbag ECU that keeps a constant buffer of vehicle parameters it stores in a Crash memory when fired. This is likely however only for their own legal reasons to help them in cases bought against them, most often in the US. It seems that law enforcement have been catching onto this and I have come across equipment specifically designed for them to gain access to this.

DJ:
As you probably appreciate, as it is my profession, i would humbly suggest that i am quite experienced, knowledgeable and capable about LR's vehicle ECU's, especially in respect of their memories, storage capabilities and what information they store and can be accessed from them by all methods.

To date i know of only 3 possibilities that might possibly result in a stored record of a torque value in a vehicle.

1) The supercharged EMS has a flight recorder built in, but i have never really looked into how sophisticated this is and it might not even record torque.

2) The afore mentioned Airbag, but this would be stored only after a crash.

3) When storing certain fault codes, some data at the time the fault occurred is also stored, although this requires the right fault and the time of storage to be exactly when you have torque applied above normal.
Its a really very long shot and now i mention it, i don't recall torque as being one of the possible parameters stored.

RP is also correct about LR now keeping records of vehicles fault history. When IDS changed to SDD it became a much more "required to be currently on line" kind of diagnostic system. The detailed access logs the dealers tool creates along with all read faults, actions performed and results etc are uploaded in real time.

countrywide wrote:

Land Rover themselves read this forum quite a lot

Absolutely, I have experience of this