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As some of you may know our Hellcat was stolen in December and I ended up arguing with USAA for two months over the price of the car, then they found the car after we settled so they wouldn’t honor the deal after I had already transferred ownership to Copart and USAA. Eventually filed a complaint with the state and they paid the claim.

They tried to get me to pick up the car and sign for it but I declined letting them know it is their car (I did go look at it though).

It’s been several weeks, we have our new car and have moved on.

This morning at the gym I get a call from Copart which I thought was odd. The guy said that they can’t find the car and have no idea what happened to it. They never picked it up from the storage lot. USAA told them to call me and see if I knew what happened to it? I told the guy not to bother me with it again that the last I heard it was at the storage facility USAA told me.

But the joy in the fact that they tried so hard to screw me over on this claim and someone stole the recovered car from them is just amazing!

If they had been respectful at all I would have helped them get the car but they got exactly what they deserved. Paid out the claim in full and now no car to auction off and send overseas.

I know in the long run they will just raise everyone’s rates but this morning it made my day!

Jinkies those cars are getting hot...

This works great. I've had at least 7 or 8 fights with an insurance company over the years. Some time back, I was fighting with some annuity company that ripped off my wife before we were married. They were "working on sending me the money" for 9 months. I filed a complaint with the state, and that check arrived by FedEx the next day!

My latest fight was late last year. My GMC Yukon XL was parked on a residential street and a drunk driver in a Ford Focus managed to hit a 6,000 lb truck hard enough to push it into the car parked in front and total it.

I, of course, wasn't happy with the "Loss mitigation specialist" that my insurance company assigned to pay me my claim.

The drunk's insurance company, progressive, keeps calling me now - 6 months after the incident. Like you, I got my check, so the case is closed - I'm ignoring them.

My coworker recently found an apple airtag on his new Scatpack Challenger

Now he's freaking out and looking into hidden kill switches

Now that's crazy...why? To know where the car is to steal?

Exactly

https://youtu.be/vyk65zfWMG8?si=I-fBrPoPUXz-ZpB7

Challengers are hot, and comically easy to steal with just a usb cord, a random Chrysler key, and an app on your phone. Takes about 30 seconds if the vehicle is unlocked.

Or they use the antenna to intercept the key fob signals going back and forth.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.1bef6f9e...pid=ImgRaw&r=0

Same with Camaro ZL1s. I bought one a couple months ago. The thieves have a device they plug into the ODB port and can make a new key fob and be gone with the car in a minute or so.

He should put the AirTag on a garbage truck or school bus.

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Without getting political just think the risk is worth it to these guys. The guy that had our car had a shop full of stolen cars and was out in a day. Best case he spends 30 days in jail and then goes right back to it. No restitution, no long term effects. To him.

Still- I am glad USAA got a taste of their own medicine.

Have to keep in mind in the eyes of the law and the police it's no different stealing a $1k car or a $100k car ... neither place a very high priority on it, they figure it's an insurance issue.

Same with breaking into a unoccupied house ... you can steal a $1000 stereo or steal $30 million from a Brinks warehouse ... same in the eyes of the law ... in fact, might even be worse in some states for breaking into the house.

Mom was in last stages of Alzheimers and would wander in the neighborhood.
I bought some airtags and put one in her shoe.
Sometime later while we had her at Dr. I get an alert and see the tag moving on other side of lake.
Only thing I can figure is she found it and threw it in trash. The airtag was reporting the trash route.

Offer made and accepted; contractual agreement was virtually complete. The ownership in their name made certain the deal was done and the insurer owned the title and salvage once recovered.

Don't like to see ill-informed adjusters attempt to pull one over on their Insureds.

Had they asked or given you the option to purchase the salvage, following recovery, that would have been a different matter, but to try and force the car back to you is wrong.

Good that you stood your ground.

Thanks Judge that’s how I looked at it.

Update- got a call from USAA today to make sure I received my $250 content’s payment? From January?

So I flat out asked and told them I didn’t have the car.

Apparently….. the car was taken into custody by homeland security. I guess because it was part of organized crime? The tow truck towing the car to Homeland Security ‘broke down’ and had to be towed. The car was then stolen from the storage facility that picked the car and truck up and the current location is unknown.

Sounds like some fast and furious sh!t.

I wonder if the guy that stole it can still be charged with the crime if the cannot produce the car? That car put him over $300k which I think is top tier for theft in Texas.

Sounds like they might have found it at a port waiting to head overseas .. that would get the Feds involved. There's probably still a tracker on it somewhere and the bad guys just followed it to the storage facility. Also possible the second tow company, or the first informed some bad guys he was towing a very valuable car that was already stolen ... so steal it again.

Original thief probably won't see 2 days in jail. They need to figure out a way to seperate the pro's from the kids going on a joyride and punish accordingly.

They also need a way to figure out how to manage use of the airtags.

What's to stop someone from putting one on our classics at a car show/cruise in and find out our location to steal? I'm beginning to loathe technology <grumbling curmudgeon>.

I'm not tech savvy - so googled airtags .
Claims they only have a Bluetooth range - which is about 100 feet. (30 meters)

And that an iPhone will detect any "unknown" airtag within your Bluetooth range also.
Then show its approx location to you , using the Find My screen.
And that you can make that "unknown" airtag start beeping to find it exactly.

Googled info sources. fwiw

THAT is WILD !!

Wonder if the insurance company will have insurance to cover their loss to theft ?
hmm
Let's hope its complicated and long drawn for them

Airtags only have bluetooth range but they will ping any nearby phone, even if that phone has no interest in the tag ... the location then goes into the Apple system and the Tag owner can retrieve the location. That how you can put one in a garbage bag and track it around the world ... any Apple device within blue tooth range will pick it up and report the location to Apple.

Beeping a local unknown Airtag was recently added to help people determine if their car or whatever has a planted Airtag.

Also a ton of more profession cell system, gps trackers that can report a location via the cell phone network back to the trackers owner.

There's gotta be an app for Android users that detects any airtags that might be within that 100ft radius, so you can walk around your car (or anything else) and check?

When we were at Universal Studios in Orlando my daughter kept getting a notification that an air tag was traveling following her. We looked everywhere for it. In her clothes, suitcase, purse, etc. never found it.

Apparently the car was stolen on the way being transferred to Homeland Security. The car is part of a chop shop investigation in Houston, maybe they were shipping over seas as mentioned?

Yes there is , according to info I saw when googling about them before.
But I don't know if it can make them beep to find them defacto .

If not ,,, at that point you could have a friend with iPhone come over and make it beep.

The only difference is the $30 million will get looked into, because they can afford to press the issue. Money talks, even for police.

Also, I am glad they got a taste of their own medicine. Insurance companies are just "legal" thieves.

I'm gonna try Tracker Detect on my android and see how that works. Apparently Airguard might be a better app, but will see.

My coworker had succees with Optimus:

https://forums.maxperformanceinc.com...87&postcount=8

Makes me even happier that I drive an 11 year old POS with 102,000 miles on it.

If I go outside this morning and it's gone I'll be more pissed off about the Leatherman that's in the glovebox that I lost than the car!

On a serious note you have to love this new technology when a guy with a USB cable and cell phone can drive away in your $100,000 car in less than a minute!..........

Insurance companies are not your “Good Neighbor” regardless of what Patrick Mahomes says