Thanks for keep us updated. Anyone who comments "why is it taking so long" clearly don't know how slow the justice system works. It could take months or even years with cases like these. Just keep us updated as much as you can. Thanks for the quality content!
So glad i found this late (today). I get to binge on the whole story start to finish. Its like watching a whole season because everything is already complete.
I worked at a dealership in Florida where we installed GPS trackers on every new car as part of the pre-delivery inspection. The primary reason was the dealership's limited space for inventory, leading to the use of satellite lots throughout the city. When a customer was interested in a specific vehicle, the associated GPS code helped locate and retrieve it for showing. However, the GPS trackers were not removed upon purchase. Customers were meant to be informed of the tracker's presence and offered the option to buy a package for access to the tracking information, which could be useful if the vehicle was stolen. I believe the dealership also used the system to locate vehicles for repossession if the owners fell behind on payments.
The prevalence of this issue is greater than many people realize. You won't always be able to locate them; sometimes they are hidden behind the radio or in the engine bay. Essentially, you just need a power wire and a ground. As a technician, I've discovered trackers in various locations on cars, and often, they were the source of the wiring or electrical problems I was investigating. For instance, I encountered a vehicle that wouldn't start because a tracker had been connected to the fuel pump's power supply, and when the tracker shorted out, it cut off power to the pump.
Which is illegal unless it's fully disclosed to the customer. Unlikely they'll disclose it if they are going to use it for repossession. Depending on the outcome of this lawsuit, I'd say we are fixing to see a bunch of dealerships sued. Just because everyone else does something doesn't mean it's legal. I'm still watching the outcome of the proposed class action lawsuits against gas stations for fraud. Yes they almost all went to single hose pumps, so when you purchase a gallon of premium gas, you don't get a gallon of premium gas, you get whatever the customer before you left in the hose before you get the premium gas. With only a gallon (people getting gas for lawn mowing equipment or motorcycles that require 93 octane) you only get about 1/3 premium gas. Of course big oil lawyers are trying to settle and suppress this information.
In case the car was stolen? Do you really think that someone able to run a car without the keys are unaware of GPS trackers and reaching the device with a screwdriver under the dashboard. To get to the spark plugs people needs 1 hour for new cars. To get to the Tracker only 30 seconds.
@@Spushed I wouldnt have known either except I was in the tropics with someone from Houston. I stopped watching most news because its just horrible. Not a truth told these days
@@WilliamArrington-m7d but damn the news feed when you first open up your browser, UA-cam recommendations on current events, possible discussion of current events at work, spouse, friends...? No?
Still glad you put this out. After your video I went out to check on my 2022 Toyota Tacoma to see if it might had a tracker on it ( I leased it with the intention to buy it out this coming January at the end of my lease contract). It’s possible I didn’t give them enough time to wire one in cause it arrived on a Thursday afternoon and I arranged to do the pickup and paperwork on a Friday evening so I could take delivery of it ASAP. But no I didn’t find one in my truck
I didn't realize you were in Houston! Glad you're safe from the hurricane. Just did a drive there at the start of last month, stayed for a week and did see a blue GR Corolla around, probably passed you and didn't even know it!
This is also a Houston Chevy dealer issue as well. I found a tracker on my 2019 Colorado after seeing these vids on youtube. That's when I bought it cash. No one at dealer said anything at that time. So, I suppose most Houston area dealers have been doing this at least over the last five years or more.
Legal stuff always takes a long time...and that's when you aren't dealing with hurricane damage! Also, folks need to remember that Anthony's lawyer and his paralegal have other cases they're working on. As he said, once the lawyer and his team have reviewed the contract they'll contact him with an update and to review options, based on what's found (or not found) in the purchase agreement.
But why was it not removed? Why was it not disclosed? You work at a dealership, which means nobody can trust you anyway. I know I speak for every car buyer when I say, “screw your inventory control.”
I at least would want to make sure than to get a new from the dealer car that one had never been installed in. If it had been done behind my back, I'd want to see anybody involve dispensered.
I have been having a really bad battery drain. Because of your videos, I asked the installer of my alarm to look and see if there was a GPS in my car, aside from my alarm. They found a GPS Locator, by Ikon. The dealership said they turned off their signal upon the sale of the car. But it still draws power. Research showed it was only for a dealership to track inventory. Hopefully, they weren't tracking me.
Glad you got your power and A/C back on!!! Pretty sure your lawyer is going to tell you that you and everyone who comments here will each be getting a check for a cool $1M. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
The legal process in the US is abysmally bad. My case from my motorcycle accident took over 2 years to finally be finished and there was no question about the way things should rightfully go, just clowns doing their best to screw everybody else over and not have to pay what is rightfully owed. Not to mention my lawyer said I had a $250,000 case and I didn't even get half of that after fighting. You just keep doing you and let the legalese mofos do their legalese. You got a team so you'll be as protected as you can be. Tip toe where they tell ya to tip toe and keep rollin along otherwise. This could be HUGE!
The wheels of justice, especially for civil cases, do not move very fast under normal conditions. The case will take months if not years to resolve. Many will get settled with arbitration. And, it will more than likely have a gag clause attached to it. So he cannot tell us anything about how it was settled, other than it was settled. He can't even say, if it was settled good or bad.
These things take time, we’ll all be watching. What affects you affects us all. Please make it an eye catching headline when you update this subject. Thank you.
Wow. I didn’t know you could sue for this. I found one in my mustang about 3 months after buying it and ripped it out. I would guess i wouldn’t have a case as the car was used and the previous owner could be blamed…
Thanks for the update and glad you're okay with the storm that passed. Just out of curiosity, what kind of bucket seat are you using in your GR Corolla? Looks like you replaced it with an aftermarket one unless you're filming in a completely different car.
Hell has a better A/C than Houston does after Beryl so all you snowflakes thinking about moving here you better be tough! I just went 7 days without power 97 degrees 95 percent humidity! Get you some of that
I can tell you that apparently Toyota does not fit them to leased Tacomas. Looked for one in mine, didn’t find it so I guess it wasn’t there to find. Was buying my lease out in January so even if I found one I would be removing it for safety concerns
I found one in my car after watching your video. Id love to know what you would consider accetable offer from dealer. I honestly dont think we can sue for anything unless there was intended malice. When i called star guard they told me it was registered but not activated... Fwiw. Also i saw led flashes that imo looked like it was talking.
Hi Anthony, I just checked my 2024 4Runner TRD Pro and I have this same device installed. I put down a deposit on it in Nov 2023 and received the truck in Jan 2024. I never signed up to have any of this installed. I just came back from a four week vaca and my battery was dead and had to be replaced so I upgraded the battery with a X2 Power battery. What is the best way to confront the dealer about this with your experience regarding this tracker? I also removed it.
90% of this video have absolutely nothing to do with the tracker issue, I want to get reimbursed for my life lost or I am going to found a lawyer and see if there is anything we can do to sued you, UA-cam-Google-internet on behalf of all who have waste their life watching this click bait. Class action possibility coming. 😅😅😅
Sue them and get at least a new car out of them. Pass the information and lawyer info to others (like this youtube channel) so they can do the same thing too and for the lawyer to make more money. Check if you/kids/family were physically harmed then have the dealership/criminals arrested and send them to jail. After suing them, I think these stalkers should be charged as felony in criminal court and send them to jail for a long time (at the very least, tracked and not be able to do it again). If they can put a GPS tracker on your own car, then tomorrow someone will put a GPS camera tracker on somebody's underwear and say it is legal.
Since there hasn't been an update in 2 months, my guess is that there is a lawsuit being filed otherwise he would have said something even if it was small. Though if he has said something in another one of his videos please comment that under this comment.
Anytime you finance a vehicle they have gps trackers. I've had over 300 vehicles. Almost every vehicle that came from a dealership had a functioning gps wired into the ignition system. Buy here pay here lots also do this to keep track of there vehicles. These gps are almost never mentioned in any paperwork. Depending on the state they don't have to tell you.
@theelmobad1 they hide them extremely well. Banks wanna know where the vehicles are. Only exception I could see is different laws in different state's.
It is pretty messed up that a tracker was installed without your consent. What are you trying to get out of the lawsuit? Like was there some kind of "damages" done to you and your car or you trying to get some transparency from the repair shop of who had access to the tracking data? Are you filing a criminal case as well?
What an ungrateful client - they installed a pretty useful option on his car for free and he is not happy. If someone didn't understand, it was sarcasm.
what's taking so long 🤣, heck I'm in year 6 of a case we've been running these things only run fast if you're a celebrity, politician or there's some sort of time crunch that the court respects
Well if the tracker is registered on the dealership it doesn't matter if it was one day or one month after he took it in. That shit doesn't magically appear out of thin air.
Is the device only a GPS tracker, or is it also a data collection device. After watching your video UA-cam recommended a video about how your car is spying on you and collecting your data. Every time you connect your phone to your vehicle with Bluetooth or plug it into a USB port the vehicle computer clones your phone and copies everything on it including your emails, texts, personal photos, social media, etc. Apparently, some cell phone companies will give you a deal if you plug a device into your OBD2 port so they can have full access to all your phone data and if your passengers connected to your vehicle then their phone data was also cloned onto your vehicle computer. Apparently, nobody really knows who is collecting this data, who is selling it, or what is it being used for. But with full access to your phone, where people store a lot of personal information, it allows corporations to pry into your personal life without needing to break into your house and steal your personal documents.
I understand from a previous video that you own the car outright, which means that the GPS device need not remain in the vehicle. However, this video implies that the case is more complicated than that, which strikes me as rather unusual. But then again, it's none of my business. May you go in peace.
I wouldn't be surprised if every new car on that lot has one on it. If the offers anti theft for an extra cost that you would have been presented in the F&I office. So if they offer it for sale, every new car that comes in will get one. With that being said, if you purchase the package, the device is not activated.
Let's take the weather aside - what kind of shady contract and probably dealership is it when you enter a store, say you want to buy a car, put 20, 30, 40k on the table, they put a tracking device into your car and it takes a lawyer 1 or 2 weeks to understand half of the fineprint? And a willing buyer is said: sit down and make a signature right now! 🤦♂️ There is something fundamentally wrong! 😳
@@tyrenmallory9398however, if it takes a legal person 4 days to read through the contract, what hope does a regular person have, who is handed the contract and a pen, and told to sign now? You could be signing away the deed to your house, or your left kidney, and there's no way you'd ever know.
FYI, State law in Texas requires law enforcement to obtain a court order from a Court of Record to be able to legally install a tracking device on a vehicle and must make application for the court order in the form of an affidavit detailing the justification to track a vehicle without the owners consent. There is absolutely no legal means under Texas law for Toyota to install a tracking device/track a vehicle without owners consent, period, end of discussion. If your lawyer tells you otherwise you need to find another lawyer. Depending on where you live in East Texas the law firm might not see big enough $$$ to want to mess with it, or there might be some local political conflict/compromise causing the law firm to give their local Toyota dealership a pass. There’s no good reason your lawyer didn’t have time to review and comprehend the dealer paperwork you provided. Sounds like the law firm might be stalling and blowing off your legitimate cause.
I don’t know if anybody has said this yet, but I’m pretty sure if there isn’t anything about that in there, your attorney will probably try to make it a class action suit, which isn’t good for you if you want a settlement out of it
Depends a lot on how the class-action suit or settlement is structured... Often "named" plaintiffs (typically the ones who initiated the action) are cut in for a much bigger chunk of the settlement for their time and trouble.
I'm not a lawyer or attorney so this isn't legal advice: It is a possibility that when your vehicle went from harbor to dealer, or from factory to harbor, or from factory to dealer and even a rail company--in the logistics process--that a GPS tracker was installed to reduce a transit or freight company's risk of loss (/theft). Use of a GPS tracking device is probably legal in transporting the vehicle to be sold. So the GPS tracker may not have come from the car dealer. And I would think that an auto dealer using a GPS tracker to help secure their inventory ("acquisitions") is also a legal & legitimate reason. However, this doesn't mean that the dealership or vehicle seller is not without fault. This is to say that there maybe other parties involved with this issue. And in my limited experience & knowledge it seems that proving, or even demonstrating, ill intent would be very difficult. Now if you could get access to [electronic] records of your vehicle being tracked on and after the date of purchase then you would have an interesting case to say the least. There's also the possibility that when your vehicle was purchased, or when it arrived in a certain location (i.e. the dealership), that the tracker was remotely deactivated. Thanks for the update! All of this is interesting because I purchased my car used, I found a GPS tracker attached to the OBD2 port and instantly disconnected it and asked the prior owner what they knew about it. I speculated that it was part of the previous owner's auto security system. However, the prior owner knew nothing about it. The prior owners said that it was purchased from a used car lot. Since I am the third owner, this didn't surprise me. Did you pay for a Car Fax (car history audit)? That may give you some more clues.
It's amazing how many of these young YT content creators think they need to post videos without having anything to say. This is a great example-- "lawyer said I can't say anything blah blah blah." It's also amazing how much you're trying to turn this nothing complaint into a big drama. What exactly are you going to go after the dealership for?? All this crap is just going to end up as a case of "not worth pursuing." I can't stand how full of themselves so many of these YTers are, you and your car are simply NOT THAT IMPORTANT.
Thanks for keep us updated. Anyone who comments "why is it taking so long" clearly don't know how slow the justice system works. It could take months or even years with cases like these. Just keep us updated as much as you can. Thanks for the quality content!
Yup. Even without the Holiday weekend and the hurricane. I wouldn't have expected to hear back any time soon.
Justice is what you can afford
HIS LAWYER IS SCAMMING HIM. no reason a purchase agreement review should take that long.
The US doesn't have a justice system. The US has a legal system. Small change in verbiage, huge change in practice.
The wheels of government and lawyers turn very slow. The longer it take the more money they get.
So glad i found this late (today). I get to binge on the whole story start to finish. Its like watching a whole season because everything is already complete.
Same same😂
But it's not completed...
I worked at a dealership in Florida where we installed GPS trackers on every new car as part of the pre-delivery inspection. The primary reason was the dealership's limited space for inventory, leading to the use of satellite lots throughout the city. When a customer was interested in a specific vehicle, the associated GPS code helped locate and retrieve it for showing. However, the GPS trackers were not removed upon purchase. Customers were meant to be informed of the tracker's presence and offered the option to buy a package for access to the tracking information, which could be useful if the vehicle was stolen. I believe the dealership also used the system to locate vehicles for repossession if the owners fell behind on payments.
The prevalence of this issue is greater than many people realize. You won't always be able to locate them; sometimes they are hidden behind the radio or in the engine bay. Essentially, you just need a power wire and a ground. As a technician, I've discovered trackers in various locations on cars, and often, they were the source of the wiring or electrical problems I was investigating. For instance, I encountered a vehicle that wouldn't start because a tracker had been connected to the fuel pump's power supply, and when the tracker shorted out, it cut off power to the pump.
Which is illegal unless it's fully disclosed to the customer. Unlikely they'll disclose it if they are going to use it for repossession. Depending on the outcome of this lawsuit, I'd say we are fixing to see a bunch of dealerships sued. Just because everyone else does something doesn't mean it's legal. I'm still watching the outcome of the proposed class action lawsuits against gas stations for fraud. Yes they almost all went to single hose pumps, so when you purchase a gallon of premium gas, you don't get a gallon of premium gas, you get whatever the customer before you left in the hose before you get the premium gas. With only a gallon (people getting gas for lawn mowing equipment or motorcycles that require 93 octane) you only get about 1/3 premium gas. Of course big oil lawyers are trying to settle and suppress this information.
In case the car was stolen? Do you really think that someone able to run a car without the keys are unaware of GPS trackers and reaching the device with a screwdriver under the dashboard. To get to the spark plugs people needs 1 hour for new cars. To get to the Tracker only 30 seconds.
That's fucking dumb.
They’re selling data to data brokers. There’s no good reason for them to include the hardware free when they nickel and dime everything else.
Thanks for the update! I hope you and your family is safe after the Hurricane
Totally ubderstandable. The wheels of justice turn slowly.
Especially when a hurricane just blew through
I won't lie. I was one of the people asking for an update. Didn't realize you guys got hit by a hurricane. Hope all is well.
What boulder are you living under??
@@Spushed I wouldnt have known either except I was in the tropics with someone from Houston. I stopped watching most news because its just horrible. Not a truth told these days
@@WilliamArrington-m7d but damn the news feed when you first open up your browser, UA-cam recommendations on current events, possible discussion of current events at work, spouse, friends...? No?
If he's not from Houston why would he even know.... Try and use some common sense.
@@Spushed boulder, colorado
Thanks for updating us. We didn't get power back until last night!
Still glad you put this out. After your video I went out to check on my 2022 Toyota Tacoma to see if it might had a tracker on it ( I leased it with the intention to buy it out this coming January at the end of my lease contract). It’s possible I didn’t give them enough time to wire one in cause it arrived on a Thursday afternoon and I arranged to do the pickup and paperwork on a Friday evening so I could take delivery of it ASAP. But no I didn’t find one in my truck
Missed opportunity with starting this off with... " Soooooo.. UA-cam, What do we wanna talk about?' LOL
THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE!
The American Nightmare!!!! 😂
Missed opportunity with starting this off with... " Soooooo... UA-cam, What do we wanna talk about?' LOL
Not just the US - in the 1990's, the Netherlands had more citizen phones tapped than any other Western country.....
@@ckm-mkc ?
@@KAdesignz808ahh yes the infamous ignorant reply
@@SpushedWhat are you talking about? I said American Nightmare because of his shirt and that’s the wrestler Cody Rhodes.
Thanks again for keeping us updated!
I didn't realize you were in Houston! Glad you're safe from the hurricane. Just did a drive there at the start of last month, stayed for a week and did see a blue GR Corolla around, probably passed you and didn't even know it!
Thanks for the update!
Glad you're ok and kept safe from the hurricane
Glad to hear you made it thru the storm safe. Hope yall get back to normal soon.
Just found this little saga. I hope you get it resolved.
Thanks for keeping us all updated. Glad you made it through the storm safe.
I love the American Nightmare shirt!
This is also a Houston Chevy dealer issue as well. I found a tracker on my 2019 Colorado after seeing these vids on youtube. That's when I bought it cash. No one at dealer said anything at that time. So, I suppose most Houston area dealers have been doing this at least over the last five years or more.
Thanks for this update. Glad to hear you made it out of the storm safe and sound.
Legal stuff always takes a long time...and that's when you aren't dealing with hurricane damage! Also, folks need to remember that Anthony's lawyer and his paralegal have other cases they're working on. As he said, once the lawyer and his team have reviewed the contract they'll contact him with an update and to review options, based on what's found (or not found) in the purchase agreement.
Looking forward to the next update.
Crazy this video came up. I'm actually a lineman here for Houston.
It's been months and I don't see another related video on youtube your channel.Did I miss it?
Thanks for updating us. Hopefully you can get this resolved quickly
Thanks for keeping us up to date on this situation!
Keep the updates coming as much as you can. We he actually has at least half a brain understand the legal system can take a long time.
Thanks for the update. Don't give up!
I use that exact product at my dealership. Very useful tool for inventory managment.
But why was it not removed? Why was it not disclosed? You work at a dealership, which means nobody can trust you anyway. I know I speak for every car buyer when I say, “screw your inventory control.”
I at least would want to make sure than to get a new from the dealer car that one had never been installed in. If it had been done behind my back, I'd want to see anybody involve dispensered.
Thanks Anthony for the update.
I have been having a really bad battery drain. Because of your videos, I asked the installer of my alarm to look and see if there was a GPS in my car, aside from my alarm. They found a GPS Locator, by Ikon. The dealership said they turned off their signal upon the sale of the car. But it still draws power. Research showed it was only for a dealership to track inventory. Hopefully, they weren't tracking me.
Sounds like you are about to come into a good chunk of money!
Interesting, thanks for the updates Anthony.
Glad you got your power and A/C back on!!! Pretty sure your lawyer is going to tell you that you and everyone who comments here will each be getting a check for a cool $1M. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
The legal process in the US is abysmally bad. My case from my motorcycle accident took over 2 years to finally be finished and there was no question about the way things should rightfully go, just clowns doing their best to screw everybody else over and not have to pay what is rightfully owed. Not to mention my lawyer said I had a $250,000 case and I didn't even get half of that after fighting.
You just keep doing you and let the legalese mofos do their legalese. You got a team so you'll be as protected as you can be. Tip toe where they tell ya to tip toe and keep rollin along otherwise. This could be HUGE!
In following along closely because i found the exact same unit in my car so im in the process of looking for a lawyer.
What type of car?
@@BOOSTEDDUDE cx30
@@keith4669 Ah ok. Thanks. I might have to double check my car that I paid for!
@@BOOSTEDDUDE mine was just above the brake pedal. And i financed mine not leased.
@@keith4669 ok, thanks for the info. Did you take it out?
Love the Cody shirt.
Thanks for the Update Anthony.
Lawyer said you getting a 2025 GR Corolla
With or without tracking device?
@@petergrunendahl8799 extra GPS’s
@@petergrunendahl8799with. Definitely with
Hey, this was four months ago. Is there an update? Texas should be all recovered by now, right?
The wheels of justice, especially for civil cases, do not move very fast under normal conditions. The case will take months if not years to resolve. Many will get settled with arbitration. And, it will more than likely have a gag clause attached to it. So he cannot tell us anything about how it was settled, other than it was settled. He can't even say, if it was settled good or bad.
These things take time, we’ll all be watching.
What affects you affects us all.
Please make it an eye catching headline
when you update this subject. Thank you.
Adrenaline, in my soul
Something, Something Cody Rhodes!!
Wow. I didn’t know you could sue for this. I found one in my mustang about 3 months after buying it and ripped it out. I would guess i wouldn’t have a case as the car was used and the previous owner could be blamed…
I'm following this closely. We found on our Toyota. And we live in Katy.
Thanks for the update and glad you're okay with the storm that passed. Just out of curiosity, what kind of bucket seat are you using in your GR Corolla? Looks like you replaced it with an aftermarket one unless you're filming in a completely different car.
Thanks! And they are Recaro Pole Position seats.
I just removed a low jack tracker off my Tacoma I bought from a Toyota dealer south of Houston I bought a couple of years ago
Subscribed!
Hell has a better A/C than Houston does after Beryl so all you snowflakes thinking about moving here you better be tough! I just went 7 days without power 97 degrees 95 percent humidity! Get you some of that
We got power back after 7 days
I had one in my M2 as well, I just took it out. Wonder if it's a dealer group policy.
I can tell you that apparently Toyota does not fit them to leased Tacomas. Looked for one in mine, didn’t find it so I guess it wasn’t there to find. Was buying my lease out in January so even if I found one I would be removing it for safety concerns
4 mins of hurrican talk and 10 seconds of i cant talk about it at the end
I'm going on 10 days no power now 😥
That's why i have a generator that connects to my gas line. It runs indefinitely if needed. Power always goes out. The gas always works.
I found one in my car after watching your video. Id love to know what you would consider accetable offer from dealer. I honestly dont think we can sue for anything unless there was intended malice. When i called star guard they told me it was registered but not activated... Fwiw. Also i saw led flashes that imo looked like it was talking.
So, no update. Got it.
WE finally got power back today!
This is why I never want to get another car in my lifetime. Mine is 14 years old with less than 35K on it. May it last me till I pass in the next
Would you mind sharing your story at our Austin, TX event?
It doesn’t have to do with justice. They got hit with a hurricane and they aren’t getting power back fast enough. Can’t do much without power.
Hi Anthony,
I just checked my 2024 4Runner TRD Pro and I have this same device installed. I put down a deposit on it in Nov 2023 and received the truck in Jan 2024. I never signed up to have any of this installed. I just came back from a four week vaca and my battery was dead and had to be replaced so I upgraded the battery with a X2 Power battery. What is the best way to confront the dealer about this with your experience regarding this tracker? I also removed it.
90% of this video have absolutely nothing to do with the tracker issue, I want to get reimbursed for my life lost or I am going to found a lawyer and see if there is anything we can do to sued you, UA-cam-Google-internet on behalf of all who have waste their life watching this click bait. Class action possibility coming. 😅😅😅
This has to be illegal in so many freaking ways
Something tells me these creeps will just rewrite the purchase agreement.
Sue them and get at least a new car out of them. Pass the information and lawyer info to others (like this youtube channel) so they can do the same thing too and for the lawyer to make more money. Check if you/kids/family were physically harmed then have the dealership/criminals arrested and send them to jail. After suing them, I think these stalkers should be charged as felony in criminal court and send them to jail for a long time (at the very least, tracked and not be able to do it again). If they can put a GPS tracker on your own car, then tomorrow someone will put a GPS camera tracker on somebody's underwear and say it is legal.
Thanks for the update about no update
Since there hasn't been an update in 2 months, my guess is that there is a lawsuit being filed otherwise he would have said something even if it was small. Though if he has said something in another one of his videos please comment that under this comment.
He posted an IG story a while ago saying that the lawyers are proceeding and to not post anything until it's all said and done.
@JasonGear91 Thank you!
plug that SIM into an old phone Very curious.
What happened long time now November already???
Any update on this?
Anytime you finance a vehicle they have gps trackers. I've had over 300 vehicles. Almost every vehicle that came from a dealership had a functioning gps wired into the ignition system. Buy here pay here lots also do this to keep track of there vehicles. These gps are almost never mentioned in any paperwork. Depending on the state they don't have to tell you.
I have financed 8 vehicles in the last 5 years. Not one has or had a GPS tracker...
@theelmobad1 they hide them extremely well. Banks wanna know where the vehicles are. Only exception I could see is different laws in different state's.
It is pretty messed up that a tracker was installed without your consent. What are you trying to get out of the lawsuit? Like was there some kind of "damages" done to you and your car or you trying to get some transparency from the repair shop of who had access to the tracking data? Are you filing a criminal case as well?
I understand UA-cam encourages longer videos, but - wow, I wish people would GET TO THE POINT.
How do you go through life being this dumb?
No more updates?
You need to tell your lawyer it will probably involve a huge wealthy entity, gulf states Toyota and it could be class action.
Updates?
TLDR: 4th July. A hurricane. Power outage. Lawyers have only read 1/2 the sales agreement. That’s it!
Congratulations... you know how to listen... surprising for someone of your age though I guess.
What an ungrateful client - they installed a pretty useful option on his car for free and he is not happy.
If someone didn't understand, it was sarcasm.
At least some of us did 😅
those cars were never built for speed, no wonder they have so many problems
The American nightmare.
My guess is that they were planning to selling your data, probably to insurance companies.
Getting hush hush money more like it.
what's taking so long 🤣, heck I'm in year 6 of a case we've been running these things only run fast if you're a celebrity, politician or there's some sort of time crunch that the court respects
If you found out this tracker was installed a few days after you took the car, good luck suing.
Well if the tracker is registered on the dealership it doesn't matter if it was one day or one month after he took it in.
That shit doesn't magically appear out of thin air.
Is the device only a GPS tracker, or is it also a data collection device. After watching your video UA-cam recommended a video about how your car is spying on you and collecting your data. Every time you connect your phone to your vehicle with Bluetooth or plug it into a USB port the vehicle computer clones your phone and copies everything on it including your emails, texts, personal photos, social media, etc. Apparently, some cell phone companies will give you a deal if you plug a device into your OBD2 port so they can have full access to all your phone data and if your passengers connected to your vehicle then their phone data was also cloned onto your vehicle computer. Apparently, nobody really knows who is collecting this data, who is selling it, or what is it being used for. But with full access to your phone, where people store a lot of personal information, it allows corporations to pry into your personal life without needing to break into your house and steal your personal documents.
I understand from a previous video that you own the car outright, which means that the GPS device need not remain in the vehicle. However, this video implies that the case is more complicated than that, which strikes me as rather unusual. But then again, it's none of my business. May you go in peace.
I wouldn't be surprised if every new car on that lot has one on it. If the offers anti theft for an extra cost that you would have been presented in the F&I office. So if they offer it for sale, every new car that comes in will get one. With that being said, if you purchase the package, the device is not activated.
Sounds like it still drains your battery even not activated. It's very much like the BMW subscription to use the already installed equipment model.
You're in Texas? You have my condolences. Explains a lot, if I'm being honest.
Let's take the weather aside - what kind of shady contract and probably dealership is it when you enter a store, say you want to buy a car, put 20, 30, 40k on the table, they put a tracking device into your car and it takes a lawyer 1 or 2 weeks to understand half of the fineprint? And a willing buyer is said: sit down and make a signature right now! 🤦♂️
There is something fundamentally wrong! 😳
Were you not even listening... they only worked on it for 2 days.... It has been no where near two weeks. Listening is a fundamental trait in life.
@@tyrenmallory9398however, if it takes a legal person 4 days to read through the contract, what hope does a regular person have, who is handed the contract and a pen, and told to sign now? You could be signing away the deed to your house, or your left kidney, and there's no way you'd ever know.
Man that's dedication, I would have S*** canned the Tracker and been done with it 😄
I'd be dedicated too if my three videos made $22k combined just off the AD revenue.
What do you think of the Auto 2025 GR Corolla?
Hey I am in Houston as well and I just found a gps tracker on mine as well what lawyer did you use as well.
Starts at 2:30
Thanks!
Dude!!! You should run for public office, you talked and over explained and said nothing. 😮
Dude!!! How do you go through life with such a low IQ? 🤦♂️
Should have gotten a big boy's car like my Toyota GR Supra.
What does that have to do with anything?
@@alex.n22honestly it looks like just a troll account. He never comments anything else.
@@miket.8412 Too bad downvoting doesn't do anything. 🤨
I hope you enjoy your BMW Supra you mean.
*BMW* fixed
FYI, State law in Texas requires law enforcement to obtain a court order from a Court of Record to be able to legally install a tracking device on a vehicle and must make application for the court order in the form of an affidavit detailing the justification to track a vehicle without the owners consent. There is absolutely no legal means under Texas law for Toyota to install a tracking device/track a vehicle without owners consent, period, end of discussion. If your lawyer tells you otherwise you need to find another lawyer. Depending on where you live in East Texas the law firm might not see big enough $$$ to want to mess with it, or there might be some local political conflict/compromise causing the law firm to give their local Toyota dealership a pass. There’s no good reason your lawyer didn’t have time to review and comprehend the dealer paperwork you provided. Sounds like the law firm might be stalling and blowing off your legitimate cause.
A fair and speedy trail I guess doesn't apply to this case
I don’t know if anybody has said this yet, but I’m pretty sure if there isn’t anything about that in there, your attorney will probably try to make it a class action suit, which isn’t good for you if you want a settlement out of it
Depends a lot on how the class-action suit or settlement is structured... Often "named" plaintiffs (typically the ones who initiated the action) are cut in for a much bigger chunk of the settlement for their time and trouble.
you need a lawyer to read a document to tell you whether you signed permission for a gps tracker??
How do you go through life being this dumb 🤦♂️
I'm not a lawyer or attorney so this isn't legal advice:
It is a possibility that when your vehicle went from harbor to dealer, or from factory to harbor, or from factory to dealer and even a rail company--in the logistics process--that a GPS tracker was installed to reduce a transit or freight company's risk of loss (/theft). Use of a GPS tracking device is probably legal in transporting the vehicle to be sold. So the GPS tracker may not have come from the car dealer. And I would think that an auto dealer using a GPS tracker to help secure their inventory ("acquisitions") is also a legal & legitimate reason. However, this doesn't mean that the dealership or vehicle seller is not without fault. This is to say that there maybe other parties involved with this issue. And in my limited experience & knowledge it seems that proving, or even demonstrating, ill intent would be very difficult. Now if you could get access to [electronic] records of your vehicle being tracked on and after the date of purchase then you would have an interesting case to say the least. There's also the possibility that when your vehicle was purchased, or when it arrived in a certain location (i.e. the dealership), that the tracker was remotely deactivated.
Thanks for the update!
All of this is interesting because I purchased my car used, I found a GPS tracker attached to the OBD2 port and instantly disconnected it and asked the prior owner what they knew about it. I speculated that it was part of the previous owner's auto security system. However, the prior owner knew nothing about it. The prior owners said that it was purchased from a used car lot. Since I am the third owner, this didn't surprise me.
Did you pay for a Car Fax (car history audit)? That may give you some more clues.
It's amazing how many of these young YT content creators think they need to post videos without having anything to say. This is a great example-- "lawyer said I can't say anything blah blah blah." It's also amazing how much you're trying to turn this nothing complaint into a big drama. What exactly are you going to go after the dealership for?? All this crap is just going to end up as a case of "not worth pursuing." I can't stand how full of themselves so many of these YTers are, you and your car are simply NOT THAT IMPORTANT.