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What is this antenna for?? Mounted under what appears to be the fuel tank!?

If that were my car it would scrape every time I left the driveway it looks like.
 
Staz clarified in another thread posting, but it is a tracking device. My family has a used car dealership and we install them (with permission) but more covertly on high risk financing notes until they pay in full. They are then either converted to a anti-theft customer device or removed. The install was just poorly done here, but knew it right away.
 
Yes, these devices are often installed on credit-risky purchaser's vehicles. Saves a lot of time finding and re-possessing them.
 
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jnc2000 said:
guys... relax its just a vent for the battery.
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Battery vent? Not quite, STREETS and jnc2000.

The battery vent is well forward on the right front side in the spare wheel well (see yellow circle in the attached JPEG), and it passes through a rubber grommet.

The "battery vent" in the photo is obviously mounted towards the back of the spare wheel well (probably somewhere around the red square in JPEG), and it clearly has some kind of hex nut at the base of it.

I would say it's a LO JACK antenna, but those guys install their systems in hidden locations. It's probably some third party tracking system, similar to what dsiles and PMCErnie mention.

Like I said earlier...find the wire to the antenna...disconnect it...and see what happens. If we never hear from staz again, we'll know that the Stasi, KGB, Mossad, or the aliens in Area 51 got him. ;)
 

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bradyb said:
+1
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The OP responded in a different thread (not sure why he started new thread) that he went back to the dealer, and they said it was a tracking device. As others have explained, it is sometimes used when the financing/leasing company wants to know were the car is located before the car is paid off, or lease runs out. Dealer did not exactly tell OP that, but they did admit it was a tracking system. Maybe it was used for test drives and they forgot to remove it, not sure.

So I think you owe us a -2?
 
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