Here In Lies the Problem
I fully agree with John Larkin. I own a dealership and 3 finance companies so I KNOW EXACTLY what he is saying. I mostly deal with this class of at RISK CREDIT CUSTOMERS. Trust me we lose on at least 1 out 3 deals. We are in NC and have repoed cars all the way in Maine, Florida, AZ, NM, CA, Oregon, and 1 at the ALASKA border. So trust me people will take your car and LEAVE. We have 3 cars right now that supposedly got shipped to the BAHAMA'S. I would love to be able to install these GPS things and even Started Interupts, but I do not want to be SUED. And it will happen.
There is the PROBLEM. Whether or not it is Right, Wrong, Immorall, or a invasion of Privacy eventually your *SS will get sued.
Like I said earlier I know illegal in NC, gps that is. The starter interupt units are legal, here is how they work.
Every time you make a payment you get a code for the next 30 days. I think it gives you a set amount of days grace period, up to dealer or finance company how long. If you do not put in new code within that grace peroid car WILL NOT START. The way they are saying this is legal is because you get 1 or 2 Emergency codes to use per month. Personally I think this is fair, If you are in the position to have to buy a car from someone who uses them then hey you got to pay to play, or ride in this case. If you had not stuck people in the past you can go buy a car without the equipment installed.
However, even though I agree I do not use them because like I said your *SS will eventually get sued. My attorney and myself have spent countless hours researching this. This is my worst case picture of the starter interupt.
"Man carrying Wife or Child to hospital about to die, and they are past due and enter there emergency code to start. They get on way the car is in need of repair and cuts off. Oh NO, enter the second and final emergency code, get a little farther and guess what cuts off again. No more Codes. Someone dies becuase the starter interupt wont let start again."
Guess what YOUR *SS is SUED if you had that system put on that car. Legal or not I will bet anything on that one. Hell it is legal to serve HOT coffe and look what happened there.