Grandpas truck stolen, Onstar recovered!

exalted512
exalted512 Posts: 10,735
edited September 2009 in The Clubhouse
Yup, so my grandpas NNBS truck got stolen sometime before 6am.

Its his work truck with all his tool accumulated through the years in it.

He called the popo around 6-7, they asked if he had onstar. He wasnt sure if it was still activated, evidently it was. Onstar has since told the police where it was and it is recovered...only thing is we dont know where it was at or what police dept. has it...lol.

Im curious how the hell you hotwire one of these things to get it to start without the key. Its hard enough for us to put aftermarket remote starts in these things. And especially if youre smart enough to know how, I would think youd be smart enough to know how to deactivate onstar.


BTW, this was in a town of less than 4k people. Mathis, TX, close to corpus christi.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited September 2009
    I don't think there's too much "hot wiring" going on today, they just bust out the ignition area and get it started from there.....
    exalted512 wrote: »
    Yup, so my grandpas NNBS truck got stolen sometime before 6am.

    Its his work truck with all his tool accumulated through the years in it.

    He called the popo around 6-7, they asked if he had onstar. He wasnt sure if it was still activated, evidently it was. Onstar has since told the police where it was and it is recovered...only thing is we dont know where it was at or what police dept. has it...lol.

    Im curious how the hell you hotwire one of these things to get it to start without the key. Its hard enough for us to put aftermarket remote starts in these things. And especially if youre smart enough to know how, I would think youd be smart enough to know how to deactivate onstar.


    BTW, this was in a town of less than 4k people. Mathis, TX, close to corpus christi.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited September 2009
    But you still have to get past the chip in the key. Def. interesting, glad its back...even if we dont really know where 'back' is.

    Hopefully most of his tools are still with it.
    -Cody
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited September 2009
    I love Onstar, have it in the Caddie. And glad you were able to recover the stolen vehicle too OP.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited September 2009
    We barely found out where the truck is. No idea on the condition or anything else yet.
    -Cody
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited September 2009
    give us an update when you find out. any wires yanked, or did someone somehow steal an extra key of his???

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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited September 2009
    String 'em up!
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited September 2009
    Well, finally got the update we were waiting on.

    Evidently, my grandpa left the doors unlocked...and he keeps an extra key in the center console....not too smart obviously!

    But it appears that nothing was stolen, they caught the guy that stole it as well as he was in the truck when they found it.

    Luckily nothing appears to be stolen either....which is great b/c the insurance company probably wouldnt want to cover anything since he basically handed the guy the keys.

    old people! geeze.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2009
    Wow, very good on OnStar. Glad y'all go **** back with seemingly no theft. Hopefully it won't happen again!
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited September 2009
    on-star is a very handy thing to have. My wife locked my keys in the truck the other night, called on-star and after answering a few security questions -bam, unlocked. second time I've used it now. Glad to hear all will be ok with grandpops truck and tools Cody
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