Tracker (fairly boaty, bit car-ish too)

[tcm]

has anyone got a tracker thing on their boat for when it gets nicked? I thought about it, with publicity in the med, boats vanishing etc.

However....I've had several cars which i have smugly fittted with Tracker, and the peeps say ooh, vaior fabulous and 100% retrieval summink...but the first time a car gets nicked erm it fails to do anything at all, or at least so far 30ish hours later. Bit of a waste of money, it seems. Does it only werk when the car is moving around? Doesn't have a satellitey thing where it zooms in like on the telly or Match Of The Day? Can i get my money back?



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[DepSol]

I am working with a company that uses it for mobile phones but in essence will do the same job and give the exact position of where your car or boat is.

The finished product should be ready in the new year. It can be installed in boats cars on motorbikes anything really and all you pay for is the unit (not badly priced but cant say exact yet) and a monthly connection fee poss about a tenner.

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[itsonlymoney]

Do you not have a very good case for litigation if the thing aint workin at all.
Ian

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[duncan]

do they work from inside containers - in ships - heading for the middle east?

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[markc]

When I got my car - RRover, I had a tracker fitted, but insurance company (Norwich Union) wouldn't give any discount for it, so when connection renewal came, I didn't bother! If NU wont give discount, then they can't think very highly of it.

M


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[Questor]

Since they had the keys, maybe they disconnected the battery before nicking it. Would that knock the tracker out or has it got it's own power supply? Only a thought.

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[burgundyben]

Follow my example, if my car gets nicked, I go and buy another, its worthless, filling the tank has a significant effect on its value, the tax is the most valuable part, it breaks down, I get a cab home and buy another, it gets nicked, i get a cab home and buy another, minimalist motoring is the least stressfull approach, go on, buy a banger, go on, go on, go on, go on.......

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[tcm]

Banger advice

<sigh> ok then, please advise suitable banger/rat heap motor. I will go as far as a white volvo estate with cow markings on it.



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[jimi]

Re: Banger advice

Well if you were'nt a rich sod, I'd say you'd be a white van man .. so live the dream get a white ford transit with some bus seats in the back for the kids and a whopping great bass thingie .. oh and of course leopardskin seat covers and red furry dice.

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[itsonlymoney]

Re: Banger advice

Nah, cant park a transit very easily. What you need is a Morris Maestro van, forget the rear seats just chuck an old mattress in there, well it used to work for me /forums/images/icons/wink.gif
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[Gludy]

The only problem seems to be that you need to get it back to prove its not working!!! Bit of a circular problem really.

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[BarryH]

Re: Banger advice

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forget the rear seats just chuck an old mattress in there, well it used to work for me

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[itsonlymoney]

Re: Banger advice

Well it was 20yrs ago in my not so classy youth, and I did know some not so classy women. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
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[mjf]

How on earth can you get a sat/vhf signal when the unit is sitting in a 40ft/20ft (delete as applicable) steel container?. Not sure how the tracker works - signal through car which is bit thinner steel.

For whats its worth I reckon your merc was nicked to order and put inside a box pdq - Felixstowe yesterday afternoon and ............

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[Jim44]

No you dont, it cant be working if they cant find the car, thats the point of a tracker isnt it?

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[jfm]

Hmm. I wonder if your tracker is working, or else have they quickly put car in steel container or summink.

I have had tracker on the last 3 cars but unfortunately never hadem nicked to find out if it works. But the current car was winched onto a breakdown truck once and as this was happening my mobile rang and it was tracker telling me "You car is moving sir and the engine is not turned on so we think it is being winched/nicked"

I thort that was very fab, and said all is ok, I am standing beside it. OK they said, we will cancel the alert

On reflection this is a bit crap because I could have been the thief and nicked jfm's motor AND his phone, but that's an inherent flaw in tracker

In your case they nicked the keys, so no automatic tracker alert. By the time you had called tracker to alert them the robbers must have disabled the device, either located it and smashed it or put the car in a steel box, dang either way


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[Deleted User YDKXO]

I have a tracker on my car but IMHO, the system is flawed because AFAIK any GPS based system needs line of sight to the satellites which it is using for a fix so first thing lowlife does is to park stolen vehicle under a bridge or in a lock-up. In any case, I'm quite sure experienced lowlife know exactly where antenna is fitted on a particular make of car and rip it out asap
This is what makes all this alarmist talk about govt fitted GPS based tracking and speed monitoring systems a nonsense 'coz it'll be too easy to mess with it

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[nwclegg]

There is a company currently working on the same things for the Home Office so that firemen etc. can be tracked in large fires etc.. It will be about the size of the ubiquitous credit card.

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[Planty]

Don't know obviously and on reflection, but if your car was started with the keys, wouldn't the system automatically disengage as it would assume it was you driving it??

Have Tracker got a mechanism to switch the unit on remotely once you report the vehicle stolen??

On my old discovery it was parked in a very windy hotel car park and just the movement of the car had Tracker ringing me telling me the car was on the move. Bugger really as couldn't switch Tracker off without leaving car unlocked.

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[KevB]

What tracker system did you have fitted?

TRACKER Retrieve is operated when your vehicle has been reported stolen, and is activated to send out a unique signal which the police can follow.

TRACKER Monitor detects any unauthorised use of your car, even if it’s being towed or lifted away. It then sends a warning signal to TRACKER’s 24-hour monitoring centre.

TRACKER Horizon operates in the same way, but also incorporates a satellite locating device and uses the Global Positioning System to immediately locate the position of the stolen vehicle.

If it was option 3 I would have thought tracker could locate it's last good position (just before they drove it into the container)??



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