Anybody know what this thing is? It is on the roof (of a '96 Jeep that I just purchased) where the overhead console would be. There is a printed circuit board on the backside with six wires plugged into it. It looks kind of like a security camera enclosure but it is only about 1" in diameter and about 1-1/4" in length. It is also black in color. I have a picture of it but I don't have any way of hosting it.
Tom

 

Upload it into your Member's Photo gallery.

 

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Sure looks like a mini security camera.

Could it be a light sensor for an auto dimming rear view mirror?

Did that technology exist in 1996?, could it be aftermarket?

Ooops, nevermind, no wires coming or going to the rear view.


phox

 

Might want to wear a tinfoil hat while driving...

 

I had an '89 Cherokee with something similar, except squarish and it was the antenna for the keyless entry. I'm pretty sure thats what that thing is.

 

Back before 96, on the Grand Cherokees, the keyless entry transmitters used infrared instead of radio frequency to communicate. Being an infrared signal, the transmitter had to be aimed at that little receiver to work. They used radio frequency by 96, so I don't know why yours would have that. Maybe for some aftermarket transmitter, like a remote starter or something?

 

Its a spy camera...be ver very careful on what you do and say

 

Thats a 360* spy cam used by drug inforcement in the jungles of Brazil while driving through thick plantations of marijuana where you needed eyes in the back of your head to survive.

 

That's a satellite uplink antenna for the microchip that the CIA implanted in your brain while you were sleeping. Ok, I lied. I'm thinking it was early 96 keyless entry before they changed it mid-year. Then again maybe it's an electronic magic 8 ball???? lmao

 

I believe that is a premium, multi channel, brevestatic hoffengeiser with self innoculating, jowvistaticly controlling reverberated technology. Very cool stuff

 

EHHH?!?

 

unpllug it and see what stops working.

 

Thats scary....I wish nagging girlfriends and wifes were that easy.

 

Does it have automatic headlight? Could be a little photocell.. ???