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Old Mar 7, 2020 | 03:04 PM
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Unusual question- how can I get EDR data

My wife was rear ended in her 2019 G550. It was a case of road rage where 3rd car behind her purposely rammed the car immediately behind her 4 times which pushed this car into our G. Long story short, our attorney really wants to get Event Data Recorder data from the G to strengthen the case, I called several premier body shops around me and no one does it. I will call my dealer Monday, but I think they charge like $5000 for this. I am in Los Angeles. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Old Mar 7, 2020 | 04:15 PM
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My wife was rear ended in her 2019 G550. It was a case of road rage where 3rd car behind her purposely rammed the car immediately behind her 4 times which pushed this car into our G. Long story short, our attorney really wants to get Event Data Recorder data from the G to strengthen the case, I called several premier body shops around me and no one does it. I will call my dealer Monday, but I think they charge like $5000 for this. I am in Los Angeles. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My other half has a body shop in the UK and he plugs into plenty of cars with multiple code-readers/ scanners / unsure what you guys call them. He says some vehicles give data ....time/ date and various other details. He said that any decent shop with such a tool should be able to plug into it and see if there’s anything there - no big deal.

He doesn’t even charge for such a thing tbh. I’d just be tempted to rock up at one of these places and just ask them to plug in, there maybe something, or there maybe nothing - worth a shot AS LONG AS THEY DONT CLEAR ANY CODES OR DATA.

Best of luck , sorry this happened :-(
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Old Mar 8, 2020 | 06:00 PM
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An accident reconstructionist can use Bosch equipment to download data if the vehicle is not been driven since the accident. If it has been driven then the date is overwritten.
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