are they worth it if so whats the best one to get?

variable cracker tracker :tongue:

this place wouldnt be the same without you indian!!

 

erm... pass on the tracker question!

whats the content on them

quite partial to a tracker myself :p

 

Ive looked at both Tracker and RACtrackstar. They both seem to do the same, although there are a few different options. The main difference seems the police have the tracker equipment in their vehicles and they can track the cars once the tracker has been activated. The RAC one, it looks like the operators at RAC talk to the police and direct them in.

 

I have emailed Tracker asking why I should buy their system over the RAC one, but they havent got back to me yet.

 

Barry

I sell these at work the tracker by track mate is very good as it makes a real difference to insurance quotes but is very costly buy and subcribe to, if you want one for your own peace of mind then go for the track mate swift its £171.14 plus vat to buy and £171 per year for the subscription its by far the best buy in the market today for trackers.

Tracker Monitor is a good system, should be looking around £300.00 fitted plus £119.00 a year subscription.

 

Bob

if it's any use, I knew a guy sho sold ones that use a Sim card and you can track your own car :)

 

Vijay

surely you can do that with any mobile. Plumb one in behind he dash so its permanently charged and out of the way, then if your car gets nicked go on to one of those mobile phone tracker websites and track it for a few quid. Go round, kill the people who took your car.. maybe even burn their feet with a hot crack pipe if the need takes you.

Think it does a little more than that ;)

 

Real time tracking

 

 

very small (the footprint of a credit card)

comes with cigarette lighter adaptor

 

GSM / GPRS / GPS Automatic Vehicle Locating System (AVLS)

 

GPS - SirfStar III, 20 parallel satellite tracking channels for fast acquisition and reacquisition

GSM - dual band 900/1800 MHz

 

Built-in tri band GSM antenna

 

Motion sensor

 

Large capacity flash memory, continuous records for 250,000 positions

Geofencing

Alarm - external power off, no data from GPS, I/O - Low power consumption

Intelligent power management

Li-lon internal battery for 5 hour continuous communication without external power

 

2 x protected digital inputs

 

1 x protected digital output

Real time tracking

 

 

locate vehicles

track real time

follow multiple vehicles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detailed Street Level Maps

 

 

 

over 550 000 km of roads

full street level coverage of Great Britain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History

 

 

See where vehicles have been even when you weren't tracking them

The VTU008 has enough on-board memory to store up to 250,000 positions. That is more than 12 months of typical use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reporting

 

 

create reports on mileages, speeds and driving times

summary reports of the length and time of each journey

detailed reports of each street that the vehicle travelled on (including maximum speed)

add your own user objects to reports (home, office, customers, etc.)

export reports to Excell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scheduling

 

 

 

detailed itinerary of your route

accurate mileages

calculate fuel costs

set road preferences and speed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manage vehicles

display information on screen (date, time, heading, speed, altitude etc.)

create vehicle groups which you can locate and schedule at the same time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geofencing

 

 

 

add geofences from the map

SMS alert report if overrun geofence borders (in and out)

- "Alarm" geofence can be set using your mobile phone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System Requirements

Any PC running Win 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP (800MHz processor, 256MB RAM recommended)

GB - 800MB hard disk space for full installation

Europe - 6.5 GB hard disk space for full installation

 

You still install the program on your computer but you can now track it using an internet connection instead of having to dial it up through a modem. It also sends alarms if the power is cut to the tracker and if it moves outside a local geofence. You can arm and disarm this feature from your mobile phone. Might even be possible to connect the digital output of the tracker to the central locking so a call to the tracker disables the geofence and open the doors!

We can also supply a bluetooth adapter so you can use the tracker GPS with whatever satnav device you're using.

I SO wanted one of these when you put up the suggestion of a Group Buy on one :(

 

Wish everyone else had gone for it :(

I SO wanted one of these when you put up the suggestion of a Group Buy on one :(

 

Wish everyone else had gone for it :(

 

Id put my name down for one of these depending on price and explanation of what the hell it is/does :rofl:

Well that's interesting I was about to post up asking about Trackers.

What was the best on the market and if any one had used one. As I am considering the Tracker option against a new alarm/immobilizer/remote start system which will page me if someone tries to brake into my Zed.

 

Thanks guys for the infor I think I'll have to give it some more thought now.