Post by VeryViolet on Sept 9, 2017 14:36:44 GMT -5
Can you ask the management company if they can review the tapes of the garage. Most garages are pretty secure especially if you are in a major city. If you are in a smaller building ask your building engineer. If you don't know them I bet your office manager/front desk/receptionist does (whoever you complain to about the temperature or the bathroom lol). When I had that job I was bestows with the engineer and he would have helped me out.
Can you ask the management company if they can review the tapes of the garage. Most garages are pretty secure especially if you are in a major city. If you are in a smaller building ask your building engineer. If you don't know them I bet your office manager/front desk/receptionist does (whoever you complain to about the temperature or the bathroom lol). When I had that job I was bestows with the engineer and he would have helped me out.
Yes I'm going to. Our building is extremely secure. But there have been repairs in the garage at night. My car was parked there overnight. That could be it but those workers dont know me. Plus they definitely didn't have my keys.
This is super freaky. The hacker theory makes the most sense but the odds of them picking dirty hippie??
That's what gets me. It feels targeted. I don't drive a VW bus, there are no grateful dead stickers. Like random person walking by wouldn't be like "hey this is a dirty hippie's car"
walterismydog- So someone had to get in your car and turn it on to change it?
According to Toyota, yes. But nothing in my car was amiss and it was locked/not moved. If someone had access to my car, why didn't they steal something? I had money in the console cup holder, like $10 in ones. Still there.
Post by walterismydog on Sept 9, 2017 17:01:17 GMT -5
I think I would have felt much less violated if it had been just a simple break in. That's almost to be expected at some point in your life. My car got stolen once (yeaaaaars ago) and that felt less violating than this. This just feels creepy. Like is someone following me or being a stalker or something? I texted a couple of work friends and they were equally freaked out. One demanded I go to hr first thing on Monday.
Post by letsgetweird on Sept 9, 2017 17:50:34 GMT -5
This is really creepy. I feel like the chances of someone getting inside your car just to change this are really low. There has to be another explanation.
This is really creepy. I feel like the chances of someone getting inside your car just to change this are really low. There has to be another explanation.
Ditto. There has to be a way to hack it and Toyota just doesn't know about it. Like the 18 million other things hackers know how to do that we don't protect against. Not that it makes it any less wtf but at least someone wasn't in your car?
I vote hacked. I'm googling it and it sounds technical and complicated, but it sounds like a thing. One thing I'm reading is that you should change the bluetooth setting to 'not discoverable' when not being used.
This is is completely freaky. So sorry someone did this to you. DH said that any car with Bluetooth is hackable, but you should be able to make your Bluetooth undiscoverable.
This is super freaky. The hacker theory makes the most sense but the odds of them picking dirty hippie??
That's what gets me. It feels targeted. I don't drive a VW bus, there are no grateful dead stickers. Like random person walking by wouldn't be like "hey this is a dirty hippie's car"
Just because one drives a VW bus with a Grateful Dead sticker on it, doesn't mean that the driver is a dirty hippie either.
Seriously though, I hope you can escalate it up the ladder at Toyota on Monday. Someone jimmied the door open on my car and it was obvious. It seems like if someone were able to get into your car without a key, that it would be obvious. If it was hacked from the outside, I hope they can give you a good explanation as to how it happened and how it can be prevented in the future. Most of all, I hope that your garage has good security videos in more locations.
It feels like it could be targeted to me too. I know what you look like and what your car looks like. Neither says hippie or dirty hippie to me. If you hadn't jokingly referred to yourself as a hippie, that would be one thing. But you did and that is just too weird.
Was it a used car? Could it be the name the previous owner used?
It is a used car and the woman was 75 years old and very prim and proper and I've had it for two+ years. It was Toyota factory name up until Friday afternoon.
Has any of your friends or family been in or used your car lately and could be fucking with you? It sounds like something my asshole friends would do
I know you say it occurred while away but can it be possible that it was changed prior to leaving but only noticed it now?
Have you used a valet recently? They would have access or does the garage carry a duplicate key?
No, nobody touches my car but me. I'm a control freak. And the only people who have been in my car are my mom and boyfriend. I don't think either of them are even technically savvy enough to think of doing that. I actually did check it just last week because my mom wanted to attach her phone. It was blah blah factory name then. Never used a valet in my life. Nobody has a duplicate copy except for the safe in my house. It's a keyless car.
I wouldn't focus on what it was changed to - that might be random chance or even sarcasm if your car is meticulous. Don't let the insult get to you. It would be much creepier if it had been changed to something positive like "my exquisite soulmate."
The issue here is that it got changed at all. That is creepy.