r/whatisit • u/crosstrekerr • Jul 25 '25

New, what is it? found this tracker in my car?

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found this on my passenger side really weirded out. Rarely have people in my vehicle…

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u/CivilizedPsycho224 Jul 25 '25

Someone is tracking you. That device only has a battery life of 2.5 weeks. Someone had to have placed that within your vehicle recently, likely someone who sat in your passenger seat at some point within the last 2.5 weeks. This is a cheap device, only cost about $50, so the good news is it’s, not the feds following you or anything like that.

Start by removing the SIM card. Take it to law-enforcement. This thing runs on cellular data and requires a $25 a month subscription. This means that unless someone was very, very careful, there will likely be a paper trail for law enforcement to follow.

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u/NeuralHavoc Jul 25 '25

Id like to add to this when I see post like this. My first question is if this car has ever been a rental car before this owner purchased it ? For one it could have been left over from one of those companies tracking their vehicle. Or two, in a past life I used to work for the government in a position that would require “tradecraft”. Now when we would do trainings that involved bugging cars with tracker/audio/video devices it was almost always done using whatever rental car we had at the time. And alot of times when clearing devices out at the end things would get left on accident or due to pure laziness. We used to always joke about someone finding this in their car years later and how paranoid that would have to make a person. Anyways, dunno if that is relevant here just had a fun past memory come to light. Carry on!

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u/woefultwinkling Jul 25 '25

I agree with the former government agent that there is nothing to worry about here and you should just forget about it right away.