The clone uses a 16MHz ceramic resonator. Replace it with a 16MHz quartz crystal and two 22pF capacitors. This drops the jitter from 0.5% to 0.005%, allowing the clone to talk to finicky modules (like Audi MMI 3G) without timing out.
If bootloader intact:
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avrdude -c usbasp -p m162 -U lfuse:w:0xE4:m -U hfuse:w:0xDA:m -U efuse:w:0xFF:m vcds 2231 hex v2 clone repair better