Patent ID: 7142962

Claim:
A method for wireless diagnosis, elimination of a defect, for a servicing, or for preparing a servicing of a motor vehicle, the method comprising the acts of: checking, by a checking device, whether the vehicle has a technical defect, whether a vehicle servicing should be carried out or whether the driver is requesting assistance; determining, by a status determining device, which electrical or electronic components, hardware, or assigned software versions are present in the concrete vehicle, or determining which defects have occurred during the operation of the vehicle and were stored in the vehicle in the form of defect data, or which vehicle servicing should be carried out and which corresponding servicing data were stored in the vehicle; and establishing a telecommunication connection between a service facility outside the vehicle and a service interface inside the vehicle, wherein only a driver of the vehicle can clear the establishment of the telecommunication connection after a corresponding offer to the driver, and during the telecommunication connection, identification data of the concerned vehicle, the hardware information determined by the status determining device or information concerning assigned software versions are transmitted to the service facility outside the vehicle.