Stolen Vehicle Finder kinda Useless
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Stolen Vehicle Finder kinda Useless
I wanted to share what happened last week. It was a false alarm but worth sharing. The wife "thought" she lost the car in Newark Airport (as expected - she just misplaced it)
Both the police and I called the Stolen Vehicle Locator (number in the My Audi App) only to be told that without a police report number they couldn't help us. Even after the copy explained the car could be on a boat in the port of Newark getting chopped by the time he got a number, they refused to help. While I understand certain protocol, this is a major fail on Audi's part.
Both the police and I called the Stolen Vehicle Locator (number in the My Audi App) only to be told that without a police report number they couldn't help us. Even after the copy explained the car could be on a boat in the port of Newark getting chopped by the time he got a number, they refused to help. While I understand certain protocol, this is a major fail on Audi's part.
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I wanted to share what happened last week. It was a false alarm but worth sharing. The wife "thought" she lost the car in Newark Airport (as expected - she just misplaced it)
Both the police and I called the Stolen Vehicle Locator (number in the My Audi App) only to be told that without a police report number they couldn't help us. Even after the copy explained the car could be on a boat in the port of Newark getting chopped by the time he got a number, they refused to help. While I understand certain protocol, this is a major fail on Audi's part.
Both the police and I called the Stolen Vehicle Locator (number in the My Audi App) only to be told that without a police report number they couldn't help us. Even after the copy explained the car could be on a boat in the port of Newark getting chopped by the time he got a number, they refused to help. While I understand certain protocol, this is a major fail on Audi's part.
Every New Audi on their lot has a “Lo-Jack installed” sticker on the windshield. Must be a good “Added Dealer Profit” (ADP) item to tack on.
When I ordered mine I told my salesman I neither wanted nor would pay for that service. AFAIK, that’s something installed either at the port or at the dealership.
— John
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Maybe that’s why my dealer automatically installs Lo-Jack?
Every New Audi on their lot has a “Lo-Jack installed” sticker on the windshield. Must be a good “Added Dealer Profit” (ADP) item to tack on.
When I ordered mine I told my salesman I neither wanted nor would pay for that service. AFAIK, that’s something installed either at the port or at the dealership.
— John
Every New Audi on their lot has a “Lo-Jack installed” sticker on the windshield. Must be a good “Added Dealer Profit” (ADP) item to tack on.
When I ordered mine I told my salesman I neither wanted nor would pay for that service. AFAIK, that’s something installed either at the port or at the dealership.
— John
Last edited by heisnuts; 05-20-2019 at 07:10 AM.
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Why would you need the stolen vehicle locator when the App can tell you where the car is? Does the stolen vehicle locator show you more information?
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Both the Audi Stolen Vehicle Locator and Lo-Jack will require a police report number to start tracking a stolen car.
#7
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Audi recently enabled the Vehicle Locator feature free of charge. I've been using it.
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DCB1951 (02-04-2021)
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If you are under the 6 month free trial period for Audi Connect, or paid for a subscription after that, you will have the vehicle locate feature. That goes away once the trial period or subscription has expired.
Both the Audi Stolen Vehicle Locator and Lo-Jack will require a police report number to start tracking a stolen car.
Both the Audi Stolen Vehicle Locator and Lo-Jack will require a police report number to start tracking a stolen car.
I believe they made some changes not too long ago where they moved some Audi Connect pay features to the base free package (Connect Care) which included the car finder feature:
https://www.audiusa.com/technology/i...e/audi-connect
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Let me get this right, you want the cops to look for your wife's car because she forgot where she parked it and thought someone had stole it. It is a good thing a police report is needed to save a lot of wasted time and effort.
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IMYM (02-13-2021)
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Here in canada, car locate is included with the Audi connect package as stated above. It all works through the myAudi app...however unlike bmw and Benz, for some reason Audi won’t give us free remote starting, but I guess can’t complain about free stuff.