Anyone know what this is?

Oneball

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Black box under the top of the dash says “this way up” and “sky side” on it. I’m guessing it’s a gps antenna but what for?
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Zep

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If you has the Becker it would be for the GPS box in the glovebox. Looks like it has the same sort of cable to me.
 

Oneball

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Thanks both.

Mine has the really old Becker tape player so don’t think it’s for that but guess it may have had another head unit in the past. The lead does go down into the glove box area.

Just trying to find the screwdriver bit I’ve dropped in the dash whilst trying to find what’s rolling around in the dash :mad::mad: Maybe the two things will cancel each other out :rolleyes:
 

masertel

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Most likely the dreaded tracker that will suck the life out of your main car battery when it's own internal battery packs in (usually after about 7 years). The tracker I removed from my car was bigger than the one in the photo put still think it is a tracker.

If it is indeed the tracker my advise is rip it out before the grief starts.
 

conaero

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Are we talking the black *** packet size thing or the bigger double vhs tape size thing?

The smaller unit is definitely the gps unit for the head unit. The larger item is either the passenger airbag or the tracker. I’d need to see better pics.
 

Oneball

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The small black thing.

The other box is the airbag. Will trace the end of the wires while trying to fix the speaker crackle.
 

lifes2short

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my money is on tracker, I would be inclined to snip the plastic cable tie flip the unit over and see if there is anything on the other side with regards to labels, part numbers etc.
 

allandwf

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It's a tracker with built in antenna, hence the sky side label. You can't mount them upside down.
 

Zep

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That is a lot more compact than the tracker that used to be in my GS, about the same size as the GPS box for the Becker. But there aren’t enough wires for it to connect back to the headunit.
 

Oneball

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Is this the tracker unit? Screwed behind the right rear panel, wired directly to the battery.

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babel 101

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[QUOTE = "a2ruedas, post: 655613, miembro: 8534"] Parece que una antena gps + gsm, podría ser para un rastreador [/ QUOTE]
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