How to disconnect the tracking device in my 2022 TRD off road

There's a few threads on "how to" on TW
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...the-dcm-telematics-silencing-antennas.821649/

 

more recently, there's a wide variety of license plate readers that are installed along main roads that document who/when/where everyone goes. last i checked, civilians can't get access to that database, but just about any business or government enterprise relating to vehicles has access.

honestly, the tacoma tracking is really going to be the least of your worries if everything goes tits-up.

 

As already mentioned there are a few steps to stop tracking. It's possible but you have to be determined. Your phone, your Tacoma, your license plate, and your credit cards are all being data recorded so you have to take one step at a time. In SHTF scenario I have a motorcycle that's not trackable once the license plate is removed or replaced. That only solves one problem. You also need to eat and buy fuel so you need cash. Where can you get cash without visiting a bank or using a card? You start storing cash away now so you'll have it in the future. If the economy collapses if another administration like the one we have now is either reelected or replaced with another puppet then your cash may become worthless. What do you do then? Make sure you have some food and fuel stored up along with ammo, gold and silver preferably in coins.

If you think none of this can happen to America you have been fooled by an inferior education system because all through human history great Dynasties and Kingdoms have failed and the causes are usually internal from corruption of those in power as we see today. You're going to have to build a survival instinct and the means to survive for yourself. I've only given you a few suggestions so you understand it's a real concern. If I have to park my Tacoma and use my motorcycle to survive that's what I'll do.

 

When I was born, my parents filled out a birth certificate and I was issued a Social Security number.When I turned 18, I had to fill out the Selective Service paperwork. Prior to that, I got a driver's license. I've been to the doctor's a few times. I own property and pay my taxes on it, and I file a 1040 with the IRS every April. Even without a smartphone and my truck, which may or may not be tracking me, the government knows my address, my business address, my face, my blood type, who I'm married to, my kids and their spouses and kids...they will have no trouble rounding me up f they ever want to. Everything and everyone you do business with sells your private information to anyone that will pay for it, despite whatever mealy-mouth "privacy policies" they claim to honor. It is what it is, and I quit worrying about it years ago. I'm 59 years old, and my wife is 55; any NSA or FBI or CIA agent that spies on me deserves everything he sees.

The time to speak up or do anything about all the spying and corruption, or thinking that your vote will change anything, is long past. Freedom and liberty may be given away, but they always require blood and suffering to win back. As a student of history, I find that it's a story as old as Ur and Sumeria, and probably predates even them by thousands of years.

 

Sell the truck
Buy a 1974 Chevy

 

Is it safe?



Is your bunker big enough for your Tacoma? Keep digging.
I’m sure it’s much better and safer living in Russia or China

 

If "SHTF" ever happens, it's not the government you have to worry about. Do you remember the TV movie, "The Day After"? Well, it's going to be like that. The rest of these answers are hilarious!

 

Probably get in trouble for going off-topic here, but you are 100% right. In any sort of SHTF event, like HEMP, CME, nuclear war, meteor strike, etc.etc...it won't be the government that will be your immediate concern, nor will it be the gangs roving Mad Max-style from the big cities; it will be your neighbors.

If you ever find yourself bored, for a fun exercise, buy an old-style paper map, find your home address, and stick a pin in it. Referring to the scale of the map, calculate and cut a piece of string representing about 25 miles. That is how far a moderately healthy person can walk in 8-10 hours. Fasten one end of the string to the pin, and the other to a pencil, and draw a circle around your address. How many people live/work within that circle? How many of them are prepared? For me, in relatively rural central Maine, that number is ~20,000. Of course, they won't ALL necessarily show up at your house, but many will, especially the people that know you.

You have guns and ammo? Congrats! So will they.

No matter what you read, unless you live in one of a very few truly remote areas of the US, the only conceivable way you will survive is to hole-up completely out of sight for 2 years, and let the die-off run it's course. If you survive that, when you come out of your bunker, THEN you can worry about whatever is left of the government. Personally, I hope the meteor, or the first missile lands in my living room at 4:00 AM on Monday morning. I have no desire to try to eke out an existence in a post-Apocalyptic hellscape.

 

Planet of the Apes was a documentary. I, for one, welcome our new ape overlords. SHTF indeed.

 

LOL. I don't see how they can be much worse than our current overlords, plus, they can be bribed with bananas......

 

This was the Only way I was able to pass Contra

 

Round us up lol lol lol lol lol you need to quit getting your news from Facebook groups.

 

what about your phone?

 

I don’t know where I’m at half the time, somebody needs to keep an eye on me.

 

I remember many years ago when some one was able to remotely control certain jeeps controls by "hacking into it" with a computer (remotely). With all the fly by wire everything in cars it seems like a legitimate concern.

Certainly nothing wrong with having the understanding/knowledge how to disconnect. I remember years ago jeep Cherokee could be hacked externally and controlled.

Sure my datas being dumped and sold all over the place, I dont like it and do like to know how to stop it if a situation came up where I didnt want to easily "Be seen". Its not the biggest concern I have, but understanding possibilities, making plans, and being prepared makes sense to me.

 

If you want to keep your head then don’t, just don’t.

 

I wish Amazon would use the Tacoma tracking chip , maybe my orders wouldn’t end up delivered to random neighbors houses

 

remember those camera's i mentioned just before your post? unless you're changing riding gear, and the color of your bike, a plateless "____-color" motorcycle with a rider wearing "_____" is still quite easy to track.

but honestly, if it gets to that point, angry men in helicopters will make an appearance to stop your forward progress, which makes this entire exercise mostly useless.

 

Very true, off the grid was nearly impossible even 30 years ago but could be done by a select few. I'm on at least one federal list as well so I would not be shocked to learn that I'm looked at more than average maybe..

Advantage to a degree is people who do stupid shit. I remember saying to someone the other day at his job (convenience store) "how dumb are people to come in here and give you crap not thinking it's gotta be cameras everywhere?"

He wasn't fearful of it per se, but my recently deceased uncle is an example of this. He had a lot of cash stored in his house, such as buckets full of coins. In the process of cleaning it out so far we've found a lot of money in total and I'm sure much more to come. He had quite a bit of nonperishable food and whatnot, batteries, lights among other things. He did have a couple of older vehicles that weren't worth all that much.

This really could happen anywhere, it isn't something I'll plan my life around but not going to be a shock if so..here or elsewhere.

You got a point there. I know most of the people on my street but it only takes one you don't know..or someone's friend, relative..or someone passing through. I live in a quiet suburb so in many ways that's more attractive for raiding versus a big city.

I don't have guns and ammo so I'm already way behind there.

If it was tomorrow, I"d want to make sure my parents were taken care of as best I can. Then my wife as well.