Dealer service and car tracking. ???

[Mr. C]

I’m sure it’s a coincidence. But my Toyota Rav literally yesterday rolled to were the maintenance required flashes on. ( it’s the 5k mile service, which I’ve come to find out is for tire rotation, not actually oil change which is 7500)
Anywhoo. Back to the topic

I wake up this morning to an email from my dealer your car is ready/ need of maintenance. I’m not at the date for service / . So ????
Coincidence or do they have access to my car through the dealers system?

 

[monkeyswrench]

If your car has the WiFi stuff, I think it will contact the dealer. Cool and creepy.

 

[Blue Oval]

A customer called to buy out his lease last week. I told him how many miles where on his truck. He was driving it. He couldn't figure out how I did that. I punched his vin in as we talked. LOL

 

[$hot]

A customer called to buy out his lease last week. I told him what how many miles where on his truck. He was driving it. He couldn't figure out how I did that. I punched his vin in as we talked. LOL

Can insurance companies do the same?

 

[Racey]

Can insurance companies do the same?

Maybe if you give them explicit permission in your policy.

This stuff works either off the car's cellular modem, or if you have it linked up with an app on your phone via your phone's modem.

 

[Mr. C]

If your car has the WiFi stuff, I think it will contact the dealer. Cool and creepy.

I can’t connect to Wi-Fi from car but as all do now have the navigation / Bluetooth. Obviously phone connects to it.
As you said. Cool and creepy at the same time.

 

[Orange Juice]

Can insurance companies do the same?

Yes.

 

[bilz]

Just drive old shit that isn't spy equipped.

 

[Blue Oval]

Just drive old shit that isn't spy equipped.

I have been driving a 2010 Ranger I took in from a old couple for a year now. I grab something off the lot if I leave town. The phone rings and I go to click the radio, LOL the Ranger is old school.

 

[Wedgy]

Just drive old shit that isn't spy equipped.

Pre 2014, if I am not mistaken..
Insurance companies used to have you plug a device into the OBD2 port, to observe your driving habits. Proly not anymore

 

[Paradox]

Just had the 5,000 mile service done on my Tacoma this week. Got this in a text noting that they had wrapped it up. Thought it was pretty cool.

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[SPYLIFE]

'19 Silverado - I would get monthly emails from GM giving me vehicle stats... tire pressure, miles driven, oil life, etc.

I used to try to hide from all this tracking stuff we have these days however it becomes more difficult to do having to opt out everywhere one goes. I figured I'm not doing anything I shouldn't so if people want to track me, have at it.

 

[joecfd1]

I bought a new Chevy Silverado a two months ago from Premier Chevy in Buena Park. I was having a friend install AMP steps which are supposed to be plug and play into the OBD2 port. We weren't getting 12v through the port. We went round and round with AMP and they basically said it's the truck not the steps. So it turns out the dealer installed a GPS tracker inline with the OBD2 port which wouldn't pass the 12v to the steps allowing them to function. I text the sales girl that I bought the truck from and her response was "well we didn't charge you for it'. I was F'N pissed. Needless to say, I took a sledgehammer to it. At least the dealer wont be tracking me any longer.

 

[JDKRXW]

I bought a new Chevy Silverado a two months ago from Premier Chevy in Buena Park. I was having a friend install AMP steps which are supposed to be plug and play into the OBD2 port. We weren't getting 12v through the port. We went round and round with AMP and they basically said it's the truck not the steps. So it turns out the dealer installed a GPS tracker inline with the OBD2 port which wouldn't pass the 12v to the steps allowing them to function. I text the sales girl that I bought the truck from and her response was "well we didn't charge you for it'. I was F'N pissed. Needless to say, I took a sledgehammer to it. At least the dealer wont be tracking me any longer.

Haha ... you're going to get a bill in the mail for it

 

[lbhsbz]

I’m sure it’s a coincidence. But my Toyota Rav literally yesterday rolled to were the maintenance required flashes on. ( it’s the 5k mile service, which I’ve come to find out is for tire rotation, not actually oil change which is 7500)
Anywhoo. Back to the topic

I wake up this morning to an email from my dealer your car is ready/ need of maintenance. I’m not at the date for service / . So ????
Coincidence or do they have access to my car through the dealers system?

That is a feature you enabled through Entune (toyota's wizardry though the infotainment screen thing).

 

[monkeyswrench]

I bought a new Chevy Silverado a two months ago from Premier Chevy in Buena Park. I was having a friend install AMP steps which are supposed to be plug and play into the OBD2 port. We weren't getting 12v through the port. We went round and round with AMP and they basically said it's the truck not the steps. So it turns out the dealer installed a GPS tracker inline with the OBD2 port which wouldn't pass the 12v to the steps allowing them to function. I text the sales girl that I bought the truck from and her response was "well we didn't charge you for it'. I was F'N pissed. Needless to say, I took a sledgehammer to it. At least the dealer wont be tracking me any longer.

I work on some company trucks that have that type of deal. They can mess with scanners and such sometimes. Some are installed really well, and you have to disect stuff. Others a good tug and pull out the factory port. On a couple rare occasions I've had them mess up how the car ran. Only thing I can think of is CANBUS interference.

 

[OCMerrill]

I can’t connect to Wi-Fi from car but as all do now have the navigation / Bluetooth. Obviously phone connects to it.
As you said. Cool and creepy at the same time.

Its not good if you're a bank heist expert.

Fantastic for everyone living the straight and narrow line.

I'm kind of in the middle.

 

[Mr. C]

That is a feature you enabled through Entune (toyota's wizardry though the infotainment screen thing).

My Ignorance showing here. Is that something I would have enabled manually. Or just by using the Bluetooth for my music or adding in contacts and such for the phone. Or using the maps feature slash driving directions through the car nav?
Again. Not really to concerned as you can find out almost anything these days if you really want to.

 

[Boozer]

I can’t disclose the company due to an NDA but a few years back I did a deal with a well known chain of car dealerships. I sold them thousands of cellular enabled GPS trackers that were hard wired into the cars.

This particular company ships cars all over the country and it wasn’t uncommon for them to lose track of cars which cost big bucks. The other benefit to them was if the car was financed and the financing got behind, it was extremely easy for them to locate the vehicle when it came time to repo it.

In this particular deal we setup location based tracking only. The devices we sold could provide significantly more data/analytics depending on whether or not they went through the vehicles OBD system.

 

[Cobalt232]

When my kid's Silverado got totaled, he literally got an alert on his phone that his tire pressures were low while still spinning around. Followed by several weeks of emails saying the truck couldn't communicate with some modules while it was at Copart.

 

[Sawtooth]

I bought a new Chevy Silverado a two months ago from Premier Chevy in Buena Park. I was having a friend install AMP steps which are supposed to be plug and play into the OBD2 port. We weren't getting 12v through the port. We went round and round with AMP and they basically said it's the truck not the steps. So it turns out the dealer installed a GPS tracker inline with the OBD2 port which wouldn't pass the 12v to the steps allowing them to function. I text the sales girl that I bought the truck from and her response was "well we didn't charge you for it'. I was F'N pissed. Needless to say, I took a sledgehammer to it. At least the dealer wont be tracking me any longer.

Well that’s just great, so how am I supposed to know now when to pick up all the empty silver bullets and solo cups around your pool before you get here I mean get there .
And steps on the new truck, really?, a stock height truck, wow you are getting old buddy. Next thing you’ll be doing is putting air bags on the drivers side so it kneels down for you to get in .
Love ya buddy

 

[Ziggy]

In the olden days we mailed service reminders based on estimated average miles driven off of historical mileage data and Days since last service, nothing in real time.

 

[joecfd1]

Well that’s just great, so how am I supposed to know now when to pick up all the empty silver bullets and solo cups around your pool before you get here I mean get there .
And steps on the new truck, really?, a stock height truck, wow you are getting old buddy. Next thing you’ll be doing is putting air bags on the drivers side so it kneels down for you to get in .
Love ya buddy

Azzhole... The truck isnt' stock height, is leveled which it 2" in the front and it has 35" tires. And you know, we're still taking care of Mom. At 89, she needs the steps... Wait untill tell her that Chris doesn't think you need steps.