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by makenova 4119 days ago
I agree, there is a company in my city that will hook a device up to the car battery and place it in a discrete location. They mostly deal with fleet management but some of their business is from spouses tracking each other. There a "funny" story about a wife bringing in a vehicle that her husband had brought in earlier.
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tacoman 4119 days ago
A family member works for a large chain of car dealerships. They regularly buy vehicles at auction. It's not uncommon that they find trackers on the vehicles. Here's a picture of one he sent me to play with a couple years ago.

The battery pack on the left, and the tracker on the right were in a magnetic Pelican case attached to the underside of a black Escalade. The sim in the tracker was from some US MVNO that I didn't recognize.

https://i.imgur.com/VLzTPt4.jpg

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furyg3 4119 days ago
Hilarious. No problem for the company, but I wonder if they installed two or just sent the data to both of them...

I have a car I don't use very often and often forget where I park it. DX and BangGood have GPS trackers you can buy for $20-40 that you can install a prepaid SIM card in, text message and receive coordinates. Not a bad roll-your-own-LoJack.

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