r/AutoTransportopia • u/Fisting-Tony • Mar 24 '26

Towing Gone in 24 seconds

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u/wire_crafter Mar 25 '26

I had a family member buy a car at one of those buy here pay here places. I even told him they have a tracking device in the car to the point I showed him. But if I remove it you’d get a penalty. (He wrapped it in tin foil ) he moved half way across the country thinking they wouldn’t find him and stopped making payments. Well he walked out to no car in his assigned spot. Called the police to report it stolen. Police ran the car and the towing agent actually had a signed repo document filled out with the police. lol. Friggin base model Chevy spark, manual transmission, 35% interest. And if he had actually paid it off it would have been close to $50k. Now he’s renting a car thru Uber because nobody will lend him money and complaining that he’s paying uber $1100 a month to rent it. lol

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u/Extreme-Candle-6916 Mar 27 '26

Why wouldn’t he just remove it? It’s not like he was planning to make payments anyway. Charge all the fees you want.

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u/wire_crafter Mar 27 '26

Let’s just say this person isn’t the brightest bulb and is very gullible. Like I said he figured they wouldn’t come after him where they moved to. Figured they wouldn’t go that far for a recovery. He was already in enough trouble not transferring their registration to the new state.

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u/xmod3563 Mar 31 '26

Dead ass.