diff --git a/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml
index ac9074afd..aef9a0a49 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ jobs:
       run: eval "$BUILD"
     - name: Run valgrind
       run: |
-        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) --coverage && \
+        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) && \
                         FILEREADER_CACHE=1 python selfdrive/test/test_valgrind_replay.py"
     - name: Print logs
       if: always()
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ jobs:
       run: eval "$BUILD"
     - name: Run unit tests
       run: |
-        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) --test --coverage && \
+        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) --test && \
                         coverage run selfdrive/test/test_fingerprints.py && \
                         $UNIT_TEST common && \
                         $UNIT_TEST opendbc/can && \
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ jobs:
                         ./selfdrive/proclogd/tests/test_proclog && \
                         ./selfdrive/ui/replay/tests/test_replay && \
                         ./selfdrive/camerad/test/ae_gray_test && \
-                        tools/collect_coverage.sh"
+                        coverage xml"
     - name: "Upload coverage to Codecov"
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
 
@@ -299,9 +299,9 @@ jobs:
       run: eval "$BUILD"
     - name: Run replay
       run: |
-        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) --coverage && \
+        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) && \
                         FILEREADER_CACHE=1 CI=1 coverage run selfdrive/test/process_replay/test_processes.py && \
-                        tools/collect_coverage.sh"
+                        coverage xml"
     - name: "Upload coverage to Codecov"
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
     - name: Print diff
@@ -354,12 +354,10 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test longitudinal
       run: |
         ${{ env.RUN }} "mkdir -p selfdrive/test/out && \
-                        scons -j$(nproc) --coverage && \
+                        scons -j$(nproc) && \
                         cd selfdrive/test/longitudinal_maneuvers && \
                         coverage run ./test_longitudinal.py && \
-                        coverage xml && \
-                        cd ../../.. && \
-                        tools/collect_coverage.sh"
+                        coverage xml"
     - name: "Upload coverage to Codecov"
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
     - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
@@ -403,9 +401,9 @@ jobs:
       run: eval "$BUILD"
     - name: Test car models
       run: |
-        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) --test --coverage && \
+        ${{ env.RUN }} "scons -j$(nproc) --test && \
                         FILEREADER_CACHE=1 coverage run -m pytest selfdrive/test/test_models.py && \
-                        tools/collect_coverage.sh && \
+                        coverage xml && \
                         chmod -R 777 /tmp/comma_download_cache"
       env:
         NUM_JOBS: 4
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a9bd85120..06c6117b1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -83,7 +83,3 @@ models/*.thneed
 build/
 
 !**/.gitkeep
-
-*.gcno
-*.gcda
-coverage.info
diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 1b3ac1e5b..832550b14 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ AddOption('--no-thneed',
           dest='no_thneed',
           help='avoid using thneed')
 
-AddOption('--coverage',
-          action='store_true',
-          dest='coverage',
-          help='outpute covarge information')
-
 real_arch = arch = subprocess.check_output(["uname", "-m"], encoding='utf8').rstrip()
 if platform.system() == "Darwin":
   arch = "Darwin"
@@ -173,10 +168,6 @@ else:
   ccflags = []
   ldflags = []
 
-if GetOption('coverage'):
-  ccflags += ["-fprofile-arcs", "-ftest-coverage"]
-  ldflags += ["-fprofile-arcs", "-ftest-coverage"]
-
 # no --as-needed on mac linker
 if arch != "Darwin":
   ldflags += ["-Wl,--as-needed", "-Wl,--no-undefined"]
@@ -294,10 +285,6 @@ elif arch == "aarch64":
 else:
   envCython["LINKFLAGS"] = ["-pthread", "-shared"]
 
-if GetOption('coverage'):
-  envCython['CCFLAGS'] += ["-fprofile-arcs", "-ftest-coverage"]
-  envCython['LINKFLAGS'] += ["-fprofile-arcs", "-ftest-coverage"]
-
 Export('envCython')
 
 # Qt build environment
diff --git a/tools/collect_coverage.sh b/tools/collect_coverage.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6244ac23a..000000000
--- a/tools/collect_coverage.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-find opendbc/can/dbc_out -name "*.gcda" -delete
-find rednose/helpers -name "*.gcda" -delete
-find rednose_repo/rednose/helpers -name "*.gcda" -delete
-find cereal/gen -name "*.gcda" -delete
-
-lcov --capture --directory . --gcov-tool tools/gcov_for_clang.sh --output-file coverage.info
-lcov --remove coverage.info '*/third_party/*' --output-file coverage.info
-lcov --remove coverage.info '/usr/*' --output-file coverage.info
-
-coverage xml || true
diff --git a/tools/gcov_for_clang.sh b/tools/gcov_for_clang.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 4e320d8c2..000000000
--- a/tools/gcov_for_clang.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-exec llvm-cov gcov "$@"
diff --git a/tools/ubuntu_setup.sh b/tools/ubuntu_setup.sh
index 26b52bbf7..e688c79c1 100755
--- a/tools/ubuntu_setup.sh
+++ b/tools/ubuntu_setup.sh
@@ -31,9 +31,8 @@ function install_ubuntu_common_requirements() {
     git \
     git-lfs \
     ffmpeg \
-    lcov \
-    libavcodec-dev \
     libavformat-dev \
+    libavcodec-dev \
     libavdevice-dev \
     libavutil-dev \
     libavfilter-dev \
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ function install_ubuntu_common_requirements() {
     libusb-1.0-0-dev \
     libzmq3-dev \
     libsystemd-dev \
-    llvm \
     locales \
     opencl-headers \
     ocl-icd-libopencl1 \