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Originally posted by egregore:
BHPH (buy here pay here) car dealers have done something like this for decades, minus the self-driving part. They put GPS trackers and remote shutdown devices in cars they sell. Really, the best solution is prevention, i.e,, to make your payments. Sometimes things do happen that might prevent this, but non-subprime lenders will work with you. (Don't ask me how I know this.)

This is true, A friend bought a used car 5-6 years ago and asked me to help him put in an auto start, pull the kick panel and lo and behold, a tracker poorly wired in.

"hey Martha, come look, the Johnsons Van is driving itself down the street, Tom's running after it with a shovel! Guess they're getting Repo'd by Ford again!


Have no problem with it, as long as the process is explained, the customer agrees and when they don't make payments it drives away. Imagine it will come with warnings, won't start, or will start but won't move, or even better, starts, drives you half way to work then pulls over for you to send a payment


Love the new slogan too!

"If you done pay, we drive it away" Ford!


Wait until you speed, the car registers the time, date, distance and reports it to law enforcement. You'll get an iTicket, apple will pay the fine on your AppleCard, transmit the aggression to a national insurance database with your DL, Car, Date, Time of infraction(s) and erases your digital license to drive and insurance is now rated at the highest cost.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Nice to see the dealership is taking care of itself. Perhaps this function will also allow the car to drive itself to the dealership when warranty repairs are needed.

Or not allow you into any other service garage except a dealer. If you touch the oil plug to do your own service the panic alarm will go off, and announce you are violating its private area and you will be charged by Ford a tampering fee.

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
Or not allow you into any other service garage except a dealer. If you touch the oil plug to do your own service the panic alarm will go off, and announce you are violating its private area and you will be charged by Ford a tampering fee.

Interesting take. I think John Deere just lost a case which now allows farmers to fix their own equipment. Maybe it's not decided yet?

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Originally posted by Bytes:

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
Or not allow you into any other service garage except a dealer. If you touch the oil plug to do your own service the panic alarm will go off, and announce you are violating its private area and you will be charged by Ford a tampering fee.

Interesting take. I think John Deere just lost a case which now allows farmers to fix their own equipment. Maybe it's not decided yet?

I believe it had something to do with their computer software not allowing the farmer to update and do repairs. It’s still in court, JD is backing away and allowing a patch to the software to allow self service. Farmers would go broke if they could not work on their own equipment. The equipment is not like the 9N Ford I used on my grandfathers farm. Self driving in the field with row view and gps is amazing.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
I’m fairly certain that the Covid payouts funded a lot of car “purchases” that ended up with missed payments when the tap was turned off. Hopefully it results in the used car market returning to somewhat reasonable now that the chip problem seems to have stabilized, and a glut of cars getting repossessed. I’m in the market for a reasonably priced starter car for a teen and it has not been easy.

It was definitely that but it was also a middle class problem. Middle class people, not all, just many, are so used to spending every dime they have to them. Checking account and credit card limits. When stores/restaurants slowed or stopped they took it upon themselves to go trade in and get an even more expensive vehicle than normal. Bumping up a whole class or level of car. Society opened back up, they went back to their normal wine and dine lifestyles, and they are just as bad with the repos as lower income folks. These are people who didn’t get covid payouts. Same shit.

We are seeing record repos and auto loan denials currently. Banks have finally had enough of people stretching their asses buying vehicles they should have no business purchasing. Now there is an inventory issue with new autos piling up. The automobile mfr’s better hope the Fed does indeed lower rates or they are fucked. Anyone with good credit, good d to i ratios, that need a vehicle, 2nd and 3rd quarter of this year will be a buyers market in both terms of negotiating at the dealer on purchase price, but much better financing rates than the past year.

His truck leaving him will be part of a country song if this works.

What if the garage door is closed?