Tracking Device

[W111AAM]

Need a new tracking device fitted to my F355. Can anyone recommend who/what to fit. Many thanks.

[Claret Badger]

I had a Skytag on my 550. You can fit it yourself and about £7 a month. Cant remember what it cost to buy but it was the cheapest one I found I think! They send an email once a month to let you know its working fine and customer service was great.

[rubystone]

Most insurers are asking for Cat 5 or 6 on increasing valuable cars. I chose a Cat 5 despite my insurer speccing a 6 on the basis it should be good for several years. You should check with your insurer rather than fittings something they might not recognise.

[cgt2]

Cobra, they will come and fit it at your house. Around £800 but fully insurance approved.

[divetheworld]

cgt2 said:

Cobra, they will come and fit it at your house. Around £800 but fully insurance approved.

Cobratrak 5?

That's the one fitted to Astons from the factory. Works well.

[cgt2]

Yes that's what I have. Porsche and Bentley also fit them. Response is excellent, when I recently changed my battery, the second the old one was disconnected I got a call.

[W111AAM]

Been looking into it myself. Didn't realise there was so much choice and such a varying degree in price. Spoken with Hagerty, the insurer and they have stated that it just needs to be a GPS Tracking Device.

[Claret Badger]

Hagerty were the ones stipulating a tracker for my car, and they were happy with the Skynet. Think it was about £100.

[divetheworld]

cgt2 said:

Cobra, they will come and fit it at your house. Around £800 but fully insurance approved.

Cobratrak 5 is the OEM on new Aston's from the factory. Seems a good bit of kit and I've found them really good to deal with.

[Durzel]

Tried to activate tracker (Navtrak) & get a replacement keyfob on my recently purchased 458 today, turns out the control centre "can't see it", so it requires an engineer "service" visit (£155) and based on that it could require a new unit (£320+).

Oh, and £270 for the year subscription I thought I was ringing up for.

Don't know if this is par for the course or not.

At this point in time I don't actually even know if I just called the wrong company and they're seized the opportunity to say I need to fit their tracker instead of whatever is already there and working.

[W111AAM]

Durzel said:

Tried to activate tracker (Navtrak) & get a replacement keyfob on my recently purchased 458 today, turns out the control centre "can't see it", so it requires an engineer "service" visit (£155) and based on that it could require a new unit (£320+).

Oh, and £270 for the year subscription I thought I was ringing up for.

Don't know if this is par for the course or not.

At this point in time I don't actually even know if I just called the wrong company and they're seized the opportunity to say I need to fit their tracker instead of whatever is already there and working.

This is what I got with Tracbac. It seemed every other year it would stop working, engineer visit required at £xx/hr. Then the unit needed replacing at £xxx. Its stopped working again so i'm going to try someone else, hence this post. I know they are required by the insurance company but part of me thinks, if it was stolen, i'd rather not have it back.

[andy355]

This guy is good from my experience

http://m.selectautosystems.co.uk

[TISPKJ]

It could be that you are in a poor reception area as it uses the mobile phone network.
I had same issue recently and had to move the car and then ask them to try again.

[Davo456gt]

Alternatively, there's always this to fit yourself...

http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-Car-GSM-GPRS-Tra...

[rubystone]

TISPKJ said:

It could be that you are in a poor reception area as it uses the mobile phone network.
I had same issue recently and had to move the car and then ask them to try again.

Yep. They use O2 (the fools!) which doesn't work in my area....

[tonygt3]

After having various trackers fitted £££, premiums paid ££, changed cars and going through the same process again and again, I heard of another way.
http://www.mtrackonline.co.uk/buy.html
Mtrack is a personal tracker that is standalone, you fit (hide) it.
When you change cars, just move the tracker to your next P&J.
My insurers did call Mtrack to make sure it complied for the insurance of my Scuderia.

[andysv]

My tracker is around £300 a year which is ridiculous when you watch on tv how easy it is to jam most of them I may well look at the above system, presuming cat7 is more advanced than 5 and 6?

[djone101]

andy355 said:

This guy is good from my experience

http://m.selectautosystems.co.uk

+1

The only person we use for our Ford GT requirements.