Hey yall, I have a preowned 2017 King Ranch & am installing a tune via the OBDII. I got to looking around under the dash in that area, and noticed a bunch of wire bundles, connection ports, transmitter antenna and a button with some type of a sensor.
Any idea what all this is? Thanks!!

 

Guessing it’s a GPS tracking system. The fcc id on the sticker points to a cellular modem.

Wonder if there’s a gps receiver somewhere farther up.

 

Im hoping the prior owner wasnt jacking with anything under there, whatever it is. It almost looks like a wiring harness for some aftermarket device. I can tell it's been messed with because it wasn't tucked up tightly and secured like it would be from the factory.
Thanks Packet

 

Finance company GPS tracker...

 

probably the government tracking you and spying, id cut it out ASAP!!

 

Did you finance it from a dealer as a buy here pay here? If you did dont mess with it they will probably charge you for it.

 

FCC ID comes up as:

GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA module

made by a Chinese company. The orange plug has to be connected to your OBD port for it to work. Probably everything is there, and it's probably a tracker. Leave it unplugged or take it out makes no difference.

 

I'm the second owner, it was a lease vehicle originally. I did finance it, but used my credit union and they did not install this device. I have to agree with everybody here..Im thinking it was installed by the leasing company.
Thanks guys!!

 

This type of thread is fairly common and once the conversation continues on we usually learn the vehicle was at one point a corporate or lease/rental type vehicle.
Seem's you've joined that club to where the previous ownership needed a way to confirm the whereabouts of the vehicle to likely protect themselves as a business owner. Proving or disproving a vehicle was in a certain place or doing all the right things.

 

Mostly these are installed for theft recovery. Cheap versions of a lowjack system. Uses cellular to report location every 'x' hours. Not worth a penny if the vehicle goes straight to a chop shop.