Does anyone know about the legality of removing the built-in sim cards from your car, specifically in Australia?
I don’t intend on using any car smart-features when I get one. For context, I’ve never owned a car. When I do get one though, I intend to remove the sim card to prevent the car’s location from being constantly tracked. All I care about in terms a cars functionality is a radio, a CD drive (Yes, I use CD’s), and Bluetooth audio, so I don’t think removing the sim card should affect this much, if at all. Any knowledge and advice would be appreciated, thankyou!
Update: What I was referring to is an eSim, which appears not to be in the form of a physical card. Even so, if possible, I would like to disable the functionality of this eSim assuming the car I purchase has one in-built. From my research, I cannot find anything that explicitly forbids disabling or removing Sims.
This site may help you pick a car without a full-time connection. https://vehicleprivacyreport.com/report/
It’s really counter productive that they require a vehicle identification number for a lookup…
Easy to take a phone to a used car lot and enter a few vins
Not as easy as being able to look it up with make and model name from the comfort of my own desk chair
If it doesn’t have a full-time connection, it’s still possible to have an eSim, right?
There are basically two classes of cars.
A “hard drive on wheels” which records events encase of an accident - a black box.
The other is a “smartphone on wheels”. These are the cars that have an eSim with a full-time internet connection.