Could it possibly be some sort of aftermarket Remote Start?
That’s not a tracking device, and those are pretty common aftermarket additions.
Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
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#12If you have a loan on the car, it’s quite possible the lender or the dealer installed it.
You can search YouTube for repo tracking devices.
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#13Looks like a crappy remote starter honestly. Those things butcher the wiring. You'd find something to bypass the ignition lock somewhere on the canbus network as well, I wager.
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#14Wow. I can't help you identify the device, but curious if you have any ideas as to who might've installed this. Did your car have a previous owner?
New car, bought from dealer, who swear they did not install it and are blaming another dealer from whom they acquired the vehicle. As far as the dealer goes I intend to make a lot of over-the-top demands and threats until they replace the wiring with all-new OEM parts and a lifetime warranty, but I think I'll start from just pointing to California Penal Code 637.7, demanding a completely new vehicle, and seeing what…
> New car, bought from dealer
Call the automakers regional representative.
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#15You could get some cheapo usb data logger and use sigrock to try and catch/decode whatever is being sent over the CAN bus! Would be fun to see!
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#16r/whatisthisthing might be your friend here
Indeed, there's a larger community over there.
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#18First hit on DDG for "PL884-200" is a asset tracker: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22PL884-200%22&t=fpas&ia=web
Perhaps this is a part of one of those units? They have "hard wired" as a option on the site, but it's greyed out.
Speculation: the site used to talk about a PL884-200 hardwire kit but they have since stopped selling it.
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#19Wow. I can't help you identify the device, but curious if you have any ideas as to who might've installed this. Did your car have a previous owner?
New car, bought from dealer, who swear they did not install it and are blaming another dealer from whom they acquired the vehicle. As far as the dealer goes I intend to make a lot of over-the-top demands and threats until they replace the wiring with all-new OEM parts and a lifetime warranty, but I think I'll start from just pointing to California Penal Code 637.7, demanding a completely new vehicle, and seeing what…
Did you finance it?
Found this: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/drivers-need-to-be-aware-th...
But you'd think it'd be more clearly a GPS device.
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#20Could it possibly be some sort of aftermarket Remote Start? That’s not a tracking device, and those are pretty common aftermarket additions.
> Car starts and runs without it, but every warning light on the dashboard comes on.
Yeah, the simplest explanation is still that it is supposed to be there, but has been spliced in there to save some time and has an as of yet unknown purpose.