Dealer says GPS Tracker will be installed on all new build orders?

[Jaackil]

As pertains to "data"...
My other car is a Volvo. When we purchased it and contacted insurance, they wanted to know how many miles per year we were going to drive with the car.
I told them less than 10,000, which was true.
2yrs went by and grandbabies appeared 300mi away Very joyous event!

A year later, the insurance company reached out and said "We've become aware that your annual mileage is well above 10,000. Based on this, your new rate for this vehicle will be $XXX. If you wish to provide documentation to the contrary, please let us know."

My first thought was the dealership that does the service, but when I spoke with them about it, they showed me in writing that they do NOT sell customer data to anyone.

I think the only other entity that would know about the actual mileage is the State of Maine, through it's registration and inspection system. So did the state sell it?...must have.

They didn’t sell it. They share it. All insurance companies doing business in that state have access to it through the registry of motor vehicles or what ever Maine calls it. The same way they share your driving record.

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[Lobstah]

Not sure if this is paywalled...but.
NYT just did a write up on Arity. It's a company that specializes in "driving data", and helps to assign a Driver Score to you that insurance companies then use to adjust your rates.

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[Scott Asheville]

We need this to pass. I believe it might have been killed, but I'm not sure about that.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/bu...o-dealers--bait-and-switch-tactics--junk-fees



https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2023/12/new-cars-rule-what-you-need-know

 

[TomD]

If my car is stolen I don’t want it back. Tracker is for the police to find it.
I had a Honda stolen once and when it was found 3 days later it was just the frame and fuel tank with steering wheel left.

I had a car stolen once. They dropped it when they got the wheels off. That bent the steering gear somehow and it never drove right after.

As far as that tracker goes the dealer where I bought mine runs my credit report every month. So even though I have never missed a payment on anything in my life they monitor it.

 

[Lobstah]

I'd be curious what mechanism enables them to do that...

 

[Jah.]

They are already tracking you . if they can tell you things over fordpass about your Mav .

 

[Landric]

I don't see any benefit to any of this stupid "anti-theft" stuff that dealers sell. VIN etching, GPS, etc., all worthless. If my vehicle is stolen and not recovered within an hour or two, I would rather have a check from the insurance company than a trashed vehicle with who knows what hidden inside it. Even without FordPass there is no value to this stuff. With FordPass it is nothing but a cash grab.

 

[Master Blaster]

Find a different dealer. The current one is shady. The tracking that they add is for their lot control only, and not for your benefit. You get to pay for it though. If they don't remove it, don't do anything nefarious because you're being tracked constantly. If you go through the shady dealer, make sure that they remove the tracker and replace the wiring harness that they tapped into to run it, damaging the harness when the stupid T-taps were installed.

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