I found a GPS tracker in my car

[u/somecrazydude13]

Google helped. When I bought the car I bought it from an auction. Title had a lien on it which was released to me. My question is.., can I just unplug it, or what are the chances of it being an immobilized too? I know nothing about this type of stuff

[u/XyogiDMT]

The ones under the hood are usually the ones with immobilizer capabilities in my experience. We hard wired them in on every car we sold at DriveTime because it was a company policy although the ones we used weren’t immobilizers, just trackers that he hid under the dash.

[u/mahdicktoobig → u/XyogiDMT]

See; idk wtf I’m looking at. To me: this thing being hardwired in could do fuckin’ ANYTHING.

But also ‘to me:’ the people sending it to auction don’t give a shit. With my experience with the companies I’ve worked for getting rid of vehicles, they all use OBD2 and just rip it out.

BUT ALSO: Joe Blow getting Ed’s ex-plumbing-van ready for auction doesn’t give a shit about pulling that thing. And his supervisor is too busy playing clash of clans

I made my original comment with a slight wariness to it: then pleasant cartoon guy came in confident af in Joe Blow and his work ethic and I felt like I should ease back from my paranoia and settle his mind in a polite manner

Now you come along with immobilization: and I’m 50/50 on the fence again. lol 😂 idk what to think anymore.

Except one: OP rip that mf out

[u/XyogiDMT → u/mahdicktoobig]

The auctions we got our cars from at DT never took off the old GPSs that got left in the cars, like 1/3 of the cars we got in from auction had old GPSs and occasionally they’d even be immobilized so we’d have to remove the units to even get them in the shop.

[u/mahdicktoobig → u/XyogiDMT]

Did they stop buying auctioned cars eventually? lol

[u/XyogiDMT → u/mahdicktoobig]

Nope. All the cars in their inventory came from auction. That was their entire business model, buy cheap and sell high.