Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car

Post by nopenopenopeno » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 4:54 AM UTC

oogali wrote: post #102

GekkePrutser wrote: post #53

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Thanks also, I get it now. I used to do this manually sometimes in the Netherlands to warm up the ice to make it easier to scrape off. But it involved the spare key to relock it while running and also to set the heat to full blast. We never get minus 40 though and where I live now it doesn't even freeze :) And as we also have pretty tiny engines here, it takes a long time to heat up this way because first the cooling…

Almost every car I’ve recently owned and/or rented has this option: unlock the car, then hold down the unlock button to roll all the windows down (and in some models, additionally open the sunroof).

Post by eurasiantiger » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 5:10 AM UTC

hirvi74 wrote: post #100

carom wrote: post #33

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Most people in the US do not drive manuals. You can get them in manuals but you have to hack some stuff, and yea, it will stall your car out if you start it in gear. In the US they are largely for convenience so you can heat or cool your car before you go out.

No manual I have ever driven will even start without the clutch engaged, so I assume a remote starter can bypass that somehow? I always leave my manual car in gear in the opposite the direction the car would be likely to roll if the emergency brake ever failed. (If the car would roll forward, put it in reverse. If it would roll backwards put it in 1st).

Post by natch » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 5:32 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #99

burrows wrote: post #94

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Yeah, people are just imagining the NSA led global surveillance apparatus.

the NSA is certainly real, the likelihood of them bugging your car unless you're smuggling nuclear secrets is rather low the three letter agencies don't care about people who play video games and watch cat videos all day

Post by FireBeyond » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 5:40 AM UTC

WalterBright wrote: post #129

ospzfmbbzr wrote: post #75

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Here it's cold in the winter and it is definitely illegal to install a remote start system in a car with a manual transmission. Before my life in tech I worked in car audio installs back in the 90s. One day one of the senior installer techs put a remote start in his own Mazda truck which had a manual transmission. A bit of time went by and we were outside smoking one day when he must have hit the button in this pocke…

A remote start should have a slider switch and a lock for it, so you can't "push the button" by sitting on it.

Post by worker767424 » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 5:44 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #99

burrows wrote: post #94

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Yeah, people are just imagining the NSA led global surveillance apparatus.

the NSA is certainly real, the likelihood of them bugging your car unless you're smuggling nuclear secrets is rather low the three letter agencies don't care about people who play video games and watch cat videos all day