25 Jul 05 Local story makes it onto Engadget

Pay that bill On Time… or your car won’t start

Bad credit! No credit! We’re practically giving these things away… but make sure you pay that bill, or the little black box connected to your brand new used car’s electrical harness will prevent the thing from starting. Yup. So while used car dealerships may have been rolling with Payment Protection Systems’ On Time device for a while now, we can understand why since at least one dealer’s delinquent payment rate went from down from 35% of customers to an astounding 5%. Hey, used car dealers usually have names like Crazy Larry, not ones like Stupid Larry.

I was thinking of stopping by this place sometime since it is minutes from where I live and see the exact details. Sounds like he is going to be QUITE busy.

[read story via SPTimes]