Editing Autel - Otofix (section)

===Ford immobilizer functions removed (''25/08/2025'')===
Dear Valued Autel Distributor,

Thank you for your dedicated sales and support of Autel products. Together, we provide leading solutions essential for today's shops to provide quality and efficient services to their customers. Because we value this relationship, we wanted to promptly discuss an action we must take with our Key and Immobilizer Programming tool line.

Recently, Ford Motor Company notified us that we must remove specific key and immobilizer functions for Ford vehicles from our products, advising us that such functions are not within the scope of our software licensing agreement with them.

To ensure we maintain good relations with Ford and access to Ford's diagnostics data, which is essential to the ability of all our products to diagnose and service Ford vehicles, we are removing the requested Ford key functions from our products as of August 25, 2025. No Ford diagnostics functionality will be removed.

Though we are honoring Ford's request and removing said software, we respectfully disagree with Ford and believe the Right to Repair Act grants us the right as developers of software for independent automotive repair and service shop, technicians, locksmiths and vehicle security professionals access to and use of this security-related data to develop key and immobilizer programming solutions on our products.

The Ford Motor Company is the latest manufacturer in what seems to be an industry trend to deem security-related data and software outside the scope of permissible use in aftermarket products. This is unfortunate as we have acted in good faith to seek an equitable solution that would allow us to continue providing products with the same capabilities to our technicians and locksmith-users that they have relied on for years to carry out their trades and serve their customers.

We ask our distributors to collaborate with us in building the necessary support and demand. to drive change within our industry. Together, we believe we can begin to bring these features back into the aftermarket.

We greatly appreciate your business and patience and apologize for this inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Chloe Hung, CEO

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