Previous discussion of another device from the same crappy vendor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833566

Previous discussion of another device from the same crappy vendor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833566#30838294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833566#30838294 I discovered it when my new car started having the same issues you saw. NOTE: it's somewhere between a scam and a crappy business practice. Here in southern california it's by no means only used cars or shady financing. The dealers install them on all the cars to keep track of their own inventory. Then they try to sell it to you as a kind of lojack for $$$$. If you are smart and decline, they just deactivate the unit (stop paying for the service), but do you think that they remove it? or repair the wiring?