Is it possible for a consumer to purchase the Ford scan tool software?

Concerning in about two weeks I will be licensed in Life, Home, Auto, and other Insurance there is no ''Oops'' when it comes to ''temporarily disabling'' any of those features or putting fuses back in after the accident. Who would have time to do it right after a wreck or remember. You have to also understand the police are going to investigate to a high degree especially if its a high speed wreck, also wouldn't it look kinda funny if you smashed something at 55+ and your air bag didn't go off not to mention the nice long black marks of you trying to stop begin to add up quickly. Simply put, you remove them you are to notify your auto insurance and then if you have done such things and such modifications you'll either recieve a higher rate or the insurance company will tell you to put them back in or be dropped. Thirdly unless you're buying your Fiesta outright it isn't smart to do such things until the title is offically yours and in your safe at home. I'm not being a jackass, I'm laying down to you what the Insurance Companies have the right to do not to mention you WILL VOID warranty should there be a defect of some sort in resulting of fuse removal or code disable. Need I list others? Because once again is it worth the risk to pull a fuse, remove a code because you don't want those features when you know well in result it will cause problems with insurance and VOID your warranty. I think the cons outweight the pros.

golf strom said:

I'm curious as to whether or not other markets have the ECT TC feature on their models ..If it is not on ALL markets cars I would bet that selectively disabling this feature would not be a negative impact on any other related feature like ABS....

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Advance Trac is dependent (and integrated with) traction control and ABS. There will be times where Advance Trac would be triggered and would signal the car to reduce engine power. If you disable traction control, he ABS possibly over(under)compensating, and resulting in something that's not pretty. Plus, I'm sure there are enough methods to prevent any such an action i.e. linking fuses together and circuits to discourage the disabling of active handling (considering active handling is MANDATED in all cars for 2012 in the United States, and many other countries have/are following suit).

I would be concerned about things that are almost standard across the board on most modern cars now..like the ABS..but I think that if you disabled the ESC or TC I doubt that the investigators would even understand the nuiances of this feature...NOT SO WITH ABS of course.

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Crash investigators are a highly skilled bunch of individuals. They may understand the "nuisance" factor of some features coming from a consumer's point of view. However, they also understand where these features would play a part in avoiding a collision (or even reducing the severity of one).

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We've deviated from this thread a bit. The original post was talking about where to purchase a scan tool, and now there's talk about potentially overriding safety systems that could save someone's life (either as the driver, passenger, or the oncoming motorist) .

On that note, I will have to pull the fuse on this thread.