FordPass: location tracker

Sterlingtimes

My new Ford provides an app called FordPass. One feature of this is that it shows the location of the car on a mobile phone.

Does this fulfil the insurance question: 

You may have also heard of these referred to as Thatcham-Accredited tracking systems. Some insurers may also refer to these as VTS (Vehicle Tracking Systems). Either way, many insurance providers now insist that your car is fitted with a monitored stolen vehicle tracker. 

Do car thieves deactivate the Ford trackers?

northwalesd

There is a Fordpass forum 
https://fpcommunity.ford.com/t5/FordPass-Community/ct-p/FP-Community

Just looking at a few posts on there would seem to suggest it's not Thatcham accredited, but you can always join and find out more

born_again

Kia has the same thing.
They are not trackers, as they are not manned 24/7 or have any contact with the police to track.

Kia easily defeated by simply deleting user profile in car. Possible that ford is the same.

Car_54

northwalesd said:

There is a Fordpass forum 
https://fpcommunity.ford.com/t5/FordPass-Community/ct-p/FP-Community

Just looking at a few posts on there would seem to suggest it's not Thatcham accredited, but you can always join and find out more

If it were approved, Ford would be shouting about it.

Sterlingtimes

northwalesd said:

There is a Fordpass forum 
https://fpcommunity.ford.com/t5/FordPass-Community/ct-p/FP-Community

Just looking at a few posts on there would seem to suggest it's not Thatcham accredited, but you can always join and find out more

Thank you. I will have a look. I mildly suspected that that would be the case.

Sterlingtimes

born_again said:

Kia has the same thing.
They are not trackers, as they are not manned 24/7 or have any contact with the police to track.

Kia easily defeated by simply deleting user profile in car. Possible that ford is the same.

Thank you for a clear answer.

Jaybee_16

born_again said:

Kia has the same thing.
They are not trackers, as they are not manned 24/7 or have any contact with the police to track.

Kia easily defeated by simply deleting user profile in car. Possible that ford is the same.

When I part exchanged my Ford the dealership did that. When I looked at the app on my phone a couple of days later, there were no details visible.