I think it would be funny to get a battery and a cheap ebay solar panel and attach it to a shipping container and they can watch it go all the way to China.
@@jeremydickman8042 just turn off your GPS on your phone and they won't know where you're at lol.... can't find me if I turn my location off on my phone
I’m a diagnostic guy and find a lot of these GPS devices that have been left on cars and cause parasitic draws. That one you had in the floorboard is one of the common ones I find that fails and causes a draw. A couple of months ago I had one that had two of those dealer type GPS trackers. Almost every single one I find is a hack job install.
parasitic draws caused by dealer trackers are common after 3 to 5 years. this is because the tracker has a battery in it like a cell phone. This allows the tracker to work without the car turned on. after a few years the battery in the dealer tracker dies and will not charge. this causes the gps unit to draw power from the car battery and will run down with the car off, I.e., a parasitic draw. and a dead battery after a couple of days.
I've installed a bunch of these things. I always hard wire them into the car... Using the OBD2 port is an easier install, but as you point out it is easy to find and remove. Buy here - pay here places might use these, but the reason that we did is because we had a finance company that required them in order to finance people with crappy credit or a history of repo's.
Hi I just read a great review about you / I need your help my car was stolen 2 weeks ago with LoJack and LoJack has Been activated please help me find my car please
GPS units are usually fed off of a regular constant 12v lead. A gps/immobilizer is spliced into the obd 2 port and will 99.99999% of the time will not allow a scanner to communicate with the obd 2 port because of the interference due to the immobilizer.
Dealerships: we need to install a GPS we can get your car quicker if you miss your payment Also dealerships: we can't repair your vehicle even if it has a failing head gasket or has no reverse gear left in your transmission
Dealership locked us in the show room after taking our keys to check our trade in. First they said we could not afford a full size pickup and tried like hell to sell us a mini-truck. They didn't know that we already had financing but they INSISTED that we must use their financing plan on the truck we did not want. We already had a truck lined up we were just comparing prices. Things took a change when I pulled a framing hammer out and said, "C'mon Mary they're trying to fuck us here". I almost had to break glass to get them to allow us to leave in our old pickup truck. Marvin Hill has a wonderful heart that's pure as gold. Marvin Hill Ford. DON'T GO THERE.
This is brilliant thanks. Now I know, there is a story a guy bought a car in Queensland Australia fell behind in his payments asked a friend to hide his car in South Australia in the middle of nowhere (now this was quite a few years ago ) it is about 2000 kilometers away 1200 mile I think. The finance company found and tried to repossess it. But he had caught up with his payment but the repo order was still carried out. Not sure what happened after that! But they found it!
Some of the Buy here Pay dealers use a version of the GPS that ties into your ignition switch so that they can effectively disable your key switch. It doesn't shut off your car, but you can't re-start it after they trigger it. I bought a car from a regular dealership and it had one in it and they didn't use them. The previous owner had bought the car from a buy here pay here and they never removed it. 6 months later, they activated the unit. It was a lot of fun!
@@jonathanlaque4248 The dealership I bought it from did it for free. They seemed as pissed off as I was. The dealership had clear title on the vehicle so the buy here pay here had no claim on it at all. It was a cell based unit that also clipped the lead to the starter so everything powered up, it just wouldn't turn over.
@@beckumgrym thanks for responding. I brought mine from a buy here pay here place. Got charged with 22% interest so i paid it off early. negative cable some how got really hot and terminal snap in half and disconected i replaced BATERY+ terminal + cable but would not start.even replace starter and many sensors. Long story short i discovered the tracker blinking lights and all. I took the wire the had going into the ignition and OBD. Not sure where the black and red wires that lead to the dvd player on the roof connect to? But i was wondering maybe you had any luck removing it yourself. I might put. Everything back together and try to start it.
@@jonathanlaque4248 There were 6 wires on the unit. 2 were for power and 2 were for the relay inside (disconnect) and 2 that were not hooked up. I would think that if you kill the power to it you should be able to start you vehicle. Follow the other leads and look for the wire they cut to plaice it into the system. And then remove the unit. Everything was under the dash in mine.
So glad I watched this. I was looking for one and found the exact same thing as the second one menyioned there and was sure I found gps but for some reason entering some of the info into Google it came back as just an after market engine mapping ecu designed to optimize fuel and hp. Further looking w fcc id esp conforms its gps. Might try putting it on shipping container to China idea.
Nice job on the video. Any time that you can put together an informative video, you are all right in my book Also, simply ignore ALL of the petty complaints. These are the same people who are unhappy with themselves. If they are unhappy with themselves, they are certainly not going to be happy with anything that you do!!! Thanks
I bought a car from a buy her pay here. Only tuck me an hour to find mine...it also had a ignition Interlock....also had a bunch of sticker on it that said it was a crime to remove it...... Didn't stop me..... Payed off car in 3 mounths
My girl had repo guys looking for her car. So I took her tracker out and would connect it to a extra car battery I had inside my garage. Made them think I was just disconnecting the car battery cables. So she would leave for work and I turned on her gps and sure as shit you would see a tow truck come creeping by the house. 3 tow companies later, had a repo Man who had the respect to come knock on the door he was professional and very respectful to me and my girlfriend, and he was treated with the same respect back from myself and handed over the keys. I moved everything out of his way to let him have the car. He in return was nice enough to hand me back the keys to unlock the car and helped me unload my girlfriend belongings from the car. Then the thing I straight up had mad respect for the that repo Man was he said I'm not going to hookup the car in front of the house I will go a few blocks down so the neighbors don't see anymore then they already have. That is mutual respect and i understand that he was doing his job and he understood that some times things come up in person life that changes how they can pay their payments.
Contracts are SERIOUS BUSINESS and when you violate one there are UNAVOIDABLE consequences that are UNCOMFORTABLE and ANNOYING. Imagine me promising to pay you $1800 by this Tuesday. (Yesterday) IOU $1800. You ain't getting it. Wtf you gunna do about it?
@s k and @Mike Reis: repossession is a normal, acceptable process. People DO fall on unfortunate circumstances that warrants them needing to back out of an agreement. In the contract there was always TWO legitimate options: Pay and keep, don't pay and have it repossessed. There's no extra shame in choosing option 2 when its the best or only option. For most people who have loans from snap on for 10,000 dollar toolboxes (stupidly) they'd all be WISE to allow those to go straight to repossession and stem the tide of that money pit they dug rather than pay their way out. Sometimes the stupid decision isn't the allowing repossession, it was the purchasing on credit in the first place.
If the device has an IMEI or MEID number on it, it suggests that it has a cell phone "call-home" feature built into it, or it can be contacted remotely through the mobile phone network. It may or may not have GPS receiving capability.
@@Robert-zv7ry yeah never touched one of those. I was more concerned with Remote shut off and GPS tracking devices. The whole thing started when someone came to me who had PAID OFF his car and they shut his car down anyway.. so i gladly helped him remove it.
You can easily tell if you have a diagnostic link t-harness that might be a gps unit by looking to see if all the terminals are occupied. Oem connectors only have the terminals it uses.
We had a Car-mart next to us at my last job. They would have us install Passtime units. GPS trackers with a starter interrupt circuit. Miss a payment, the car won't start and they come and get it. You could wire the interrupt into the ignition circuit and make a bait car that could be disabled anytime, anywhere.
@@tribulationprepper787The antenna is built into the unit. They have to be installed with the antenna side facing upwards. They only have five wires. Power, ground, ignition, and two for the starter interrupt.
@@nismo2070 Thank you for the reply. I have a 2010 F100 which has a satellite receiving antenna mounted on top of the cab. I guess this is only for use by the satellite radio.
Just found mine. Thank you. Now i can go xmas shopping without worry my car getting picked up. Fun fact,i re installed it into..shhhhh its a surprise😘😘
@@risunokairu I am not a Pastafarian!!!! I just don't want the government to monitor my thoughts. Although I do wear Pecorino cheese as a condiment and personal scent.
I wonder if there's a program/app to reformat the GPS tracker for the vehicle owners personal use. Might be good to know for families with young adult drivers, etc.
General Motors had or " Still Has " a " Factory Tracking System " " WITH a Cell-Phone in it " !! They call it " On-Star " ! They used it on the Local Evening News ( ABC Eyewitness New 7 ) to Disable a truck in a freeway Police chase ! But they Also used it to Disable a Friend's Silverado ! His Mechanic called Chevrolet and ask " What the Problem was " ? ! And the Lady Told him; " Oh... He hasn't brought it in for a while for a Check-Up, so we Disabled it ! My Friend is a building Contractor and all the Payments are " On Time, " if not in Advance !! ( I think he " Actually he Owns it ) ! They just wanted to get some more money out of him !! What a bunch of Great Guy's !!
@Curtis Sherwood Better not buy any modern car, GM isn't the only one. Literally every new car on the road has some form of GPS in it, don't make it sound like GM is the only one.
May be why it took 4 hours for me to pay cash for a low mileage T-blazer at a Chrysler dealer. It may have been worth removing or not? But it did get stolen 3 years later. One of those gone in 15 seconds. Surveillance in by 6 cameras high cameras did not stop them. Drove in. Both got out of the car. The gal walked by with a box like device and he opened the door put the seat belt on and was gone. Now the question. How do you remove On Star?
It's not PIN it's P/N as in Part Number from the manufacturer. The IMEI: means that it is using cellular as it's means to connect to a network and relay it's information the FCC ID: MEANS NOTHING it is simply the number issued to the manufacturer that indicates that the device is compliant with US radio frequency laws. NONE of those numbers will tell you anything about the device and certainly not who installed it or why. If you find one of these in your car and your car has been paid off AND you have the title disconnect it and be done with it. If your car is financed leaved it alone... somewhere in the FINE print of your sales contract is information where they told you that they "may" track the vehicle, removing the device is theft and could at the very least cause your vehicle to be repossessed.
The FCC ID can be used to look up the information that the device manufacturer filed with the FCC which includes manuals, photographs, possibly tune up and set up information. The first part of the ID is a manufacturer ID and the rest is the part of the ID that identifies the actual item.
This is good to know people can remove them and if the owner is smart the dealer will never get it back and only had to make one payment to make this all possible, thanks so much after all it’s you against the dealer.
Ugh... Salesmen, saleswomen, Car Sales, Dealerships, All Suck ! I just pay cash for my 20 -30 year old trucks, rebuild it, no Problems. Life is simple and good.
So how are the signals transmitted? I missed that. Do the dealers pay a monthly cell fee? I see adds for little 2” key fob size tracking devices. That claim 5 yr battery life. But what signal do they use? It might be worth it for car repairs.
Dealers install this devices as directed by the bank that has concerns about the loan. These are usually installed quickly and poorly due to the dealership mechanics get paid like $10 to put them in. So the mechanics just throw them in to just work but my stop working shortly. Banks put these in all the time if you just barely made the load criteria and they have concerns about a default. IF YOU DO HAVE A LOAN AND REMOVE THIS TRACKING DEVICE IN SOME CASES THEY WILL REPO THE VEHICLE EVEN IF YOU HAVE MADE YOUR PAYMENTS. THE DEALERSHIP WILL NOT REPOT THE BANK WILL
Hell most dealership installed ones are 1. Connected to your Starter so it can also act as a killswitch similar to low Jack. Not to mention just read your purchasing contract & there is a section about vehicle tracking/disabling & it being a breach of contract if you remove it. In some states like California, New Jersey, Connecticut & New York it's a Criminal offense to remove those devices without a clean title in hand!
We make them sign a paper saying it is equipped with gps device the fact that ppl are taking them out is sad. The document they sign says it is a criminal offense to take out in Virginia and we prosecute
@@richardbyrum6862 I've beat those "Charges" simply on the basis regardless of the documents signed, the Dealership does NOT own the vechile any longer and is in fact the persons personal property, the bank may go for breach of Contract but there is ZERO laws that are enforceable in the US on the criminal side despite claims.
@@richardbyrum6862Lol that paper doesn’t mean shit… I beat that shit 4 times and laughed me ass back to the dealership to get a new car!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 FUCK YALL
As anyone who is an automobile owner who drives an auto which has a GPS tracker, I would ask the dealer (if brought from an dealership) that I will not purchase a car that has a tracker. Make sure they sign an attest statement, in writing, that they are selling the car with no electronic GPS in it. If they sign the statement, and there is one, take it back and show them what they signed, and to remove such device. If they refuse to do so, sue then for breach of contract and merchantability of fitness, as the automobile GPS represents a security risk to you. If YOU want to be tracked (for safety reasons), you should be the one to install the GPS rather than the decision being made for you......else threaten to not buy their auto. Safer to buy older autos that have no electronics. Safer, and more reliable... .
Great vid , Now I am buying a 2022 C8 Corvette now first I'm paying cash would they still put a tracker on the car? I have a feeling they put them on all of them ? Also I get severe headaches when around tons of wireless like siting infront of a wifi router for long So can all wireless devices be disabled, the Wifi, OnStar, and other wireless junk can it al be disabled ? Thanks
Dealership`s systems will show up unit removed and alert them. Here in UK, I follow AutomatricsM Tracking recoveries on youtube. How would you find their hidden devices I wonder?
All new, and newish cars are fitted with a gps unit . In the uk they can be tracked using telematics . It can only be accessed by the police. Or they just use ANPR for older models. It’s not something that gets used for the average joe , but if for whatever reason you have come to their attention these, and your phone are tools they use. Even by watching this video you have been put in a certain category
LoJack is a beacon transmitter and not GPS based. You can't be "tracked" by LoJack. I believe they get activated by the pager system towers then transmit a beacon which certain police cars pick up on.
I always thought that Lojack devices would be hidden in places where you would not easily find them. I am thinking of a place that is very difficult to get to for an average person.
Question: on a 2019 Hyundai Veloster N can a tracking device be put on that kind of car? The dress sensors for being too close to a car, sensors for ABS, and sensors for lane changing how do I tell where a tracking device may be in my car wirh all these other things going on? Cause I noticed some days when I’ve open the drivers-side door the alarm goes off to the car when my key fob is out of the ignition and the door is locked, I lift up to get out the car, and the alarm goes off. Is that suppose to happen? But when the key
Interesting topic of GPS. So if I remove it, my daily GPS on the screen and map won't direct me to find a place I am going to. My 2011 Jeep GC has a working GPS.
I am a repo agent and can tell you when cars get repossessed they do not get pulled out of the cars because they sit at the tow yard from there they go to the auction and get sold so unless the next dealer installs one the old never gets taken out and even then they may never get taken out. I can also tell you that its not being tracked the finance company is not going to continue to pay for that device when they do not need to. How do i know? The GPS deices are the tracking are outsourced to another company like Gold Star or Sperion. Ive checked cars i repoed that i know went on to auction 6 months later and more. Just for shits and gigs
Are dealerships allowed to add GPS tracking as long as you're making payments on a vehicle? My next door neighbor said he hears a faint beep every now and then and also gets calls to come to the dealer for a free oil change which seems sketchy.We think its a possible low battery on the GPS unit but then again neither of us are experts on this type of thing. I'm pretty sure he is still making payments but would there be any recourse if we located the GPS and tossed it in the river?
That is not LoJack - maybe it is a very very very old LoJack. I was a LoJack installer in 2013. What you have is not recognizable by me. The LoJack I installed, at most needed constant power and the battery was built in with its own antenna. No chance you would find it that easily. We installed LoJack in such a way that you could disassemble just about everything and not find it. We were also installing versions that needed only GROUND. 7 year battery. LoJack was making changes to make ALL LoJacks battery powered. Also, you cannot scan for LoJack, it is activated by the owner when they call in to report car stolen.
What about rental cars? It's my understanding that some renters have been hit with surcharges because of speeding. The right for them to do it is buried in the contract that none of us read.
The GPS tracking systems i put on cars you won't find. They always work unless its in a metal building but would still have a slight chance. But i spent 17 years installing security systems on automobiles. To find one i did you would have to gut the car.
THE MANOR MECHANIC when I find one how am I supposed to repurpose this or how is my buyer supposed to locate this device?????????? Example dude buys it puts on a car he sells they stop paying on the car how does he locate the signal this device gives?????
I would like to install my GPS from IMETRIK with 50 mA/12 volt to my Quad. Will it draw enough to kill my battery? and can i purchase a lithium battery backup and will this help?
@@patrickglaser1560 Your phone is certainly not a Global Positioning System. It might or might not be a Global Positioning System receiver, and it might be a Global Positioning System tracking device.
