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also i dont no if this part is true...(gps tracking place told me a while back) but when the professional places disable your car remotly, they have to inform the police the second they do it and the second the car is disabled.

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Sort of, The installer calls the monitoring company and lets them know, there is a procedure to follow. The monotoring company will most likely call the customer anyway to confirm.

Police are only called when the monotoring company confirms with you your car has been stolen.

Carminder can be set up to ring you on triggers, it's just switched off by default. Personally I can't see much wrong with Carminder other than the fact that you can block the GPS signal. But if you are really concerned about that, sign up for Quicktrak as well. But even Quicktrak can be disabled by going into a GSM "dead zone" so nothing's perfect unless you buy extra bits to make up for the drawbacks of the first bits.

There's no guarantees to keep your car safe, because if a professional wants it, he will get it. Even the best security devices can be bypassed with a gun to your head and that doesn't even require the thief to be skillful at all. But that's why you also get insurance no matter what security devices you have, because that is really the only guarantee that you'll at least be compensated should the worst happen.

The perfect solution I reckon is to lynch all car thieves like they did to horse thieves in the old west, until there's none left. Hmm, maybe that's more of a "final solution" :cool:

quicktrak works on CDMA (spread spectrum technology) and cannot be jammed. only way to disable it is to drive out of the coverage area or find the unit.

in regard to stopping a stolen car from a monitored point of view, the police have control of it (via the monitoring co. ) once the vehicle is secured.

it works on that concept - not the phone towers . QT own their own towers in the areas tehy cover. yes the rumor on CDMA phones may be true but it DOESNOT apply to QT.

also i dont no if this part is true...(gps tracking place told me a while back) but when the professional places disable your car remotly, they have to inform the police the second they do it and the second the car is disabled.

Hmm, I'm not sure about that rule, but I'm sure it says somewhere that (at least in vic) you cannot kill the engine unless the car is stationary.

I believe the systems do not disable the ignition if the car is not stationary but I could be wrong. Also, I'm unsure of any differences with company's like quiktrak

Hmm, I'm not sure about that rule, but I'm sure it says somewhere that (at least in vic) you cannot kill the engine unless the car is stationary.

I believe the systems do not disable the ignition if the car is not stationary but I could be wrong. Also, I'm unsure of any differences with company's like quiktrak

QT is a 3 pt sysem. two points actively controlled by the reomte in your hand and the third is remotely controlled from the monitoring centre. see above comments for operation when vehicle is moving.

quicktrak works on CDMA (spread spectrum technology) and cannot be jammed. only way to disable it is to drive out of the coverage area or find the unit.

Apologies, I got my terminology wrong but that's what I was referring to. I have heard stories of thieves knowing of the Quicktrak dead zones and driving or towing the car there before they can be found by the police. I agree that it's probably better this way than having a GPS tracker easily jammed, but this is also why it costs more and has an ongoing fee. But I would think that a GPS tracker is better than nothing at all if you don't want to pay the yearly fee, or if you don't live in a decent coverage area.

I think that if your car was worth more than the insurance could cover, it would pay to have both types of trackers. I know of someone who had an R32 GTR that had 6 digits spent on it that had this sort of setup (and probably more I didn't hear about).

Even after all this, I am just waiting for some sort of widespread activity to be considered to be terrorism or an act of war, which most policies won't cover at all.

yeah i heard of an evo that got driven to a blackspot and wasnt recovered...im gonna put everything possible..insurance wont cover my car...

if you are referring to a evo 9 then that is GSM based.

iono all specifics but i heard diamond track or somethin like that..

dude has switched to cdma now and swears by it....

thats teh one. same priciple as the holden version fitted to teh statesman and upspec calais.

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