He picked up his phone to call the scrapyard. As he did, he saw the forum notification from "Diesel_Weasel" pop up.

He slammed the laptop shut. The Loader had worked. It had bypassed the software license. But it had also carried a silent passenger—a bit of code that told the car’s Bosch ECU that the man in the driver’s seat wasn't a mechanic, but a thief.

He knew that. He needed to run a "Charge Pressure Actuator Basic Setting." That button was grayed out before. Now, thanks to the Loader, it was a vivid, dangerous green.