Dealership Installed This On My Car WITHOUT My Permission! | Toyota GR Corolla

Oh for everyone saying "you financed the car". I bought my car cash brand NEW and didn't sign up for any tracking services. And I still found one under my dash hooked up to my OBD II port. Light was still one so it clearly wasn't deactivated.

Son-of-a-B.... My Honda is 1 year old, bought it new, paid cash. I found one, and it's more than just piggybacked onto my OBD II port, it was connected to a wiring harness that disappears behind the driver side left kick panel. I figured out how to get that panel off and traced the parasitic wiring harness to where it was spliced into the factory wiring, removed the dang thing. The "communication"/GPS module (as labeled), it had two LED indicator lights on, even after I disconnected it from my wiring, I opened it up and there was an internal battery... not anymore, pulled out the battery, lights are off so it can no longer do its thing. I'm pissed.... thanks for this heads-up video!

That dealership is lucky that nobody's brought one of their GPS trackers back to them and physically inserted it into the service manager.

I just inspected my 2023 Corolla GR and found a tracker as well! I went ahead and removed it. Thanks for the letting me know it was there!

This is very common, unfortunately. About a week after my wife bought her SUV from a used car dealership, I found a tracking dongle plugged into the OBDII port. I immediately removed the tracker and took it into the car dealership (after I cracked it with a hammer). Of course, they denied having any knowledge of any trackers installed on the vehicle and suggested that it may have been installed by the prior owner. I agreed that this could have been a possibility, but cornered him when I stated that the dongle should have been found and removed by their mechanic/technician when they plugged the vehicle into their scanner during the used car “inspection.” He gave me a blank stare and didn’t have an answer. If dealerships install a tracker on your vehicle for potential “repo” purposes, they should disclose this fact to you.

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Check the gps for a SIM card.. you might have a free simcard that you can use on an extra phone.. it'll take them forever to figure out you put it in a phone and disconnect the sim. Also feel free to go nuts on data usage. The sim cards come in bulk and are all connected to 1 account, so if they don't disconnect your sim, the data overages will affect their entire account.

Just found a tracker on my car now! I paid cash for mine too. Thanks for this video!

Some of the most valuable information on the entire net. We all can see big brother becoming a real thing. Bet it's not just Toyota.

Just bought my car brand new last week outright. And I just found one in my circuit edition. Needless to say it's now being tracked all the way to the dump. Thanks for this video.

You should've glued that to the underside of a city bus. Let them track that!

In Germany where I live, such secret surveillance using a GPS tracker is a real criminal offense...

Stalking, and invasion of privacy are two things that quickly come to mind

I'm 65 years old, driving a 2012 Tundra. With all the crap going on with these vehicles, once the Tundra bites the dust, I'm going back to my bicycle.

I used to work for a Chevy dealership in New Mexico and part of my job was installing those GPS devices in cars that were financed..... I assumed because it would make repossessing the vehicle easier in case they defaulted on the car loan. They plug in, in series at the computer diagnostic plug under the dash to the left of the steering column. They are easy to install/or remove. Im fairly certain that ALL new & used car dealerships are doing this.

As an automotive locksmith I've run into this problem many times. The tracker makes it so OBD2 tools won't work. You have to remove it 1st. Many guys assume there is something else wrong with the vehicle.

Louis Rossmann would have a field day with this.

I bought a used 2016 Subaru in May from a dealer. They tried to sell me a anti theft tracker device for $900, when I looked up the brand name it showed the device only cost $60. I refused and they said it would be removed. Having just now watched this video I checked, and sure enough, the device was still in the car just like in this video. Thank you for making this video.

Some folks pointed out that their insurance rates went up but couldn't figure out why. Until, they found out the car companies were providing info from even deactivated onstars and other devices to the insurances companies like sudden braking or sudden directional changes. Big Brother is watching.

Im going to show this to my mechanic! He's going nuts trying figure out the battery drain on some of these newer cars. Plus, your car is a gorgeous color! 😍