Car Alarm Gps Tracking

[Travis Trayhern]

Fount this gps tracking alarm look great anyone got one?

it has the remote start by sms, fuel cut by sms, can even call you car and speak to who eva stole it with its built in mic and speaker.

looked at the cheapest phone deals best i found was tpg for $9.99 a month with no contract, so that all it would cost to keep credit on the sim.

looks great can u guys fault it or canu think of any issues it might hve?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[paulr33]

i dont get the point i spose? if your car is stolen, or blown up, or mangled, or cut in half etc, its gone, then its gone - and you can't get it back

as long as you have full comp insurance and its not some mega rare spec exoctic with unreplaceble stuff in it, i dont see the point?

of course you would want to make sure you have reasonable insurance and agreed value etc

[R31Nismoid]

Its more to track the car for the cops.

If you don't know a car has GPS tracking, and you can get the last known location before signal drops (ie, into a garage) it can save some headache.

[rs73]

most car theft happens in public car parks (shopping centres, train stations) or overnight between 1 and 4, so we can only hope there is enough time between finding out the car is gone and before the car is long gone/out of signal reach...

but still a good idea...

the question to ask is, if the car goes under a garage/building and lost gps signal,

does the unit saved LAST KNOWN gps coordinate before it lost signal. or just reporting signal not received and sends no coordinate back when queried with sms?

[Chris Rogers]

seen that branded under a few local brands. to be honest - insurance. thats waht you pay it for.

GSM/GPS paging works well IF the unit saves the last location of signal. that said toss the car in a container and its still gone.

they are good for the element of surprise and thats it really.

[R31Nismoid]

insurance. thats waht you pay it for.

Insurance doesn't bring back rare models unfortunately.

[Travis Trayhern]

yeh good point ill just spend that extra $300 on my insurance and get my agreed value higher.

i guess though you could always track it to a location of the chop shop and go pay the a visit a few months down the track after the insurance chq has cleared if you can be botherd.

[W0rp3D]

There was one kicking around in the group buy section (or for sale) a while ago, the best option for a sim is apparently a vodafone prepaid, can put a few $ credit on it and the service will last for 12 months, i think it costs $10 for the starter kit and then you just add credit as needed.

[rs73]

I checked with the seller - if the GPS signal is not available the unit will send its last position prior to loosing signal.

That would work to some extent... unless of course the car is driven straight into a container in the dock and got loaded onto a ship immediately....

u'll probably see the car re-appear somewhere in the other half of the world a few months later!

[W0rp3D]

I checked with the seller - if the GPS signal is not available the unit will send its last position prior to loosing signal.

That would work to some extent... unless of course the car is driven straight into a container in the dock and got loaded onto a ship immediately....

u'll probably see the car re-appear somewhere in the other half of the world a few months later!

But they generally dont load shipping containers in the street so you should be able to track down what shipping yard/factory it was loaded in, also there is a queue to get containers on a boat, would be atleast a few days before it is actually on a boat and by then the cops should have tracked it down.

[rs73]

not if you have "Eleanor" Mustang GT500 and the thieves are 'Nicholas Cage' except he didn't have a bro with gambling problem...

it'll get loaded straight and sent off overseas

[SS8_Gohan]

i seriously considered the group buy one but when i asked Shannons about it, they just said 'that's nice'.... no difference to premium. Surely if the car has a much greater chance of being recovered, and saving them from forking out X amount of dollars, that's worth a little bit off the premium

i still think it's a good thing to have, the one here was only $220 i think, something like that.

there must be some method of having a constant signal to the car.....

[JamesK]

You could make a cheap out out of an old cell phone, but if you get a cellphone with A-GPS you could get a lock practically anywhere in range of a 3G cell tower undercover or not within seconds

[SS8_Gohan]

ah, so there is some other protocol... interesting...

if there was a unit that was ALWAYS track-able that would be very cool

[JamesK]

ah, so there is some other protocol... interesting...

if there was a unit that was ALWAYS track-able that would be very cool

Yea basically it uses the cell towers to help calculate your position although it uses a minute bit of data transfer to do it but it will add up, and I made a mistake with my first post it doesn't have to be a 3G capable network just in reach of a cell tower