Car tracker

Marktheshark

A household property maintenance firm without mention names fitted out their entire fleet with them a few months back.
Basically the majority of top level workers have left and they are left with those who can not just walk out.

From a financial point of view it has been a utter disaster.

Trust is valueless.

rudekid48

scotsbob wrote: »

The OP didn't mention security, neither did I. My son uses them in his vehicles to track their journey locations. That it is the purpose of trackers.

How does that make my post incorrect? I just stated a fact - they are useless as a security device. What's your issue with that?

rhysadams

I use Mobile Solutions in Derby, they do one for £159 plus VAT fitted and £159 + VAT for the subscription

facade

Be better if you fitted it yourself, the crims know where to look for a professional fitting job and just remove them.

There was a chap near here got caught because he was nicking Mercedes vans, driving up a lane and pulling the tracker out. They would never have caught him except he did one right next to a flytipping camera that caught his face, the reg. and the time!

I remember seeing how useful trackers are on an episode of "Police! Shock! Horror!"
The helicopter was tailing a top of the range 4x4 with a tracker fitted, and they remarked that it had the ability to prevent it starting again. So all they have to do is watch which large building it goes into, then stroll round and nick the whole gang, and recover thousands of pounds worth of cars.
Instead they vector a couple of Mad Max Interceptors with full Blues & twos to it, so it takes off at 120, and they follow a trail of wreckage until it finally grinds to a halt having hit every single car in a dead end street, causing £500,000 + damage.

And the thief ran off........

Result!

no1catman

Was Watching a Claimed & Shamed episode recently, where 'Tracker' company were aske to trace a stolen vehicle - the first 'ping' they had was from a French Port - from the info they concluded it was onboard a ship.
liaising with the Police, it was tracked through the Med., through the Red Sea, to Mombasa, then overland to Uganda. A local rep. checked it out, a parking lot with dozens of high-value cars.
A raid was organised, with British & Ugandan Police, and the Tracker company. Then a long convoy of trucks took them back to port, loaded on a ship, back to the UK, off-loaded at Southampton.
Insurance companies happy, many hadn't paid out, the only losers were the criminal gang!

shaun_from_Africa

AdrianC wrote: »

GSM/GPRS communication... Works worldwide...

No, it doesn't. It doesn't work here at all.

GSM systems do work in the UK as the basic 2G system is GSM 900 or GSM 1800

AdrianC

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

GSM systems do work in the UK as the basic 2G system is GSM 900 or GSM 1800

Not in this bit of the UK, they don't.

tykesi

^^^

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stranger12

What is a different between cat5 gps and this?

Spoke to rewire security and they said nothing apart from cat 5 been more expensive due to licensing

They use the same technology

stranger12

bought one of these and can't complain but you get what you pay for.
no instruction no nothing

ok overall

now I have purchased a car and insurer needs cat approved tracker whether it is 5,6 or 7
where would you turn to?