GM’s OnStar Used to Locate Stolen Toyota Tundra
Sara | Dec 26, 2008 | Comments 2
The OnStar system seems to be creating a large hurdle for professional car-jackers. Although designed to provide a number of convenient services, OnStar’s satellite system can also locate a car almost anywhere making it an excellent anti-theft device, which is sort of inconvenient for all those thieves out there.
In Santa Clara Valley, a community in Southern California, police were able to locate two stolen vehicles and apprehend those responsible thanks to GM’s OnStar system and the proper identification of a white Toyota Tundra.
As reported on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s web site, the owners of a 2008 Chevy HHR were parked in their car when two Hispanic men drove up in a white Toyota Tundra. One of the men from the Tundra approached the driver’s side of the Chevy with a handgun demanding that the couple turn over their belongings, including the truck.
After the carjackers left in both of the vehicles, the victims called police and notify them of the OnStar system installed on their vehicle.
Police were able to track down the Chevy using OnStar and when they pulled up to the house where the Chevy was hidden, lo’ and behold, there sat the Tundra—which, by the way, was also a stolen vehicle.
This isn’t an endorsement for OnStar – in fact, LoJack is a much better anti-theft system. Still, it’s pretty funny…
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thats cool how they can trak down the cars with all star but also scarry at the same time but anyways I hope that the people that stole got there tundra and hhr get there cars returned
Had Lojack in my 03 F-150. It was a good system but according to the ford people at the dealership tried blaming my computer problems on it. I bought it there at the dealership also. They even moved it without permission and kinked the fiber optic so it malfunction. I contacted lowjack and they sent someone out to repair it and mounted it again. You’re not suppose to know where it is on the vehicle but the dealership made it known. Lowjack got it to work and the guy was very professional and he stated he wasn’t allowed to say anything bad about Ford and he knows what they do. Lowjack wasn’t the cause for my computer failures. Ford factory workers were.