Well, hacking it with VDS-Pro was still hacking it, when that hack was discovered – it was just changing bits in the EEPROM of the central convenience module, rather than hijacking the CAN bus.

Buying an expensive bezel, a cheap HDMI display, an Arduino, a CAN bus shield, an iPod touch with a ghetto serial interface cable that didn’t work out, a HM-10 BLE module, an iPad 4S, the camera ...