[quintushoratius]

> If you finance most vehicles they will install a poorly hidden cell tracker that usually draws power from the OBD2 port.

What kind of janky banks are you working with?

My spouse and I financed a couple of cars recently, one new and one slightly used, and did not have anything of the sort. Different manufacturers, different banks, different dealerships.

[sidewndr46]

They don't disclose when they install those devices generally. If they do, it's buried under 100s of pages of documents.

[pdabbadabba]

But how does this actually happen? Who puts the tracker on there and when?

Sure, if you finance through the dealership, then dealership personnel could stick it in there before you drive away, I guess. It plenty of people finance through third parties. Surely Wells Fargo, for example, doesn’t send an agent down to stick a tracker in your car while you’re sleeping or at work…

[sidewndr46]

The dealership has an employee who installs it, usually when the vehicle is undergoing what manufacturers call "pre purchase inspection".

[ilikenwf]

The dealership itself, a mainline GM dealer owned by Berkshire-Hathaway.