Nicked car phones home!!

[wolosp]

Heard on the lunchtime news - a new system that calls your mobile if your car gets pinched. You then tap in a PIN, and the car becomes imobilised the next time the car stops. Pity it doesn't operate the central locking so the toe-rag wot pinched it is still inside when you arrive!
A GPS system can then locate it.
Sounds fair enough - I wonder how much it'll cost though!

[PetrolTed]

Bastards. That story is supposed to be embargoed until tomorrow for some reason.

[madcop]

On the local news magazine last night with the inventor (company from Marlow Bucks)

Price = £850 plus VAT installed.

Would the insurance companies reduce the premium pro rata if your vehicle was fitted with one as an anti theft measure. I would think not.

[Captain muppet]

madcop said: On the local news magazine last night with the inventor (company from Marlow Bucks)

Price = £850 plus VAT installed.

Would the insurance companies reduce the premium pro rata if your vehicle was fitted with one as an anti theft measure. I would think not.

Insurance go down when you fit 850 quids worth of accessory? No, no, no, no, no. Insurance always goes up. Always.

Is there an add-on to route the engine exhaust through the A/C on recirculate after theft?

[podie]

What happens if someone nicks yer dog and bone?

[kevinday]

My colleague here in Hungary already has that system fitted to his Supra, its not even a new system here . We all had a laugh a couple of weeks ago when one of the sensors went wrong and his mobile kept ringing to tell him the door was open.

[Fer]

Captain muppet said:
Insurance go down when you fit 850 quids worth of accessory? No, no, no, no, no. Insurance always goes up. Always.

Of course it will go up. You are adding value to the car, and making it more desireable!

[wolosp]

podie said: What happens if someone nicks yer dog and bone?

Yup! Imagine the scene...you leave your phone in the car , the tea-leaf drives off.
Car phones home.
Tea-leaf answers the phone and gets nicked by plod for using a phone whilst driving!

Sorted!

[robkola]

kevinday said: My colleague here in Hungary already has that system fitted to his Supra, its not even a new system here . We all had a laugh a couple of weeks ago when one of the sensors went wrong and his mobile kept ringing to tell him the door was open.

Sounds like out BMS system in our data centre! The record is 160 text messages to the M&E engineer in one day . . . at about 50p a message!

Supra's in Hungary? Aren't they gangsters' cars like Beemer 840's etc? Were in my time (mid-90's)!


>> Edited by robkola on Thursday 17th October 15:19

[kevinday]

No, there are very few and my colleague was daft enough to buy a non-turbo automatic so it has enough performance to outrun the police Ladas but not much more. We are going to take the cars to the Hungaroring when I get my wedge so that I can show what a real sports car is like

[plotloss]

Skynet does a similar thing but it calls a call centre but they can stop the car remotely, lock the doors sound the alarm etc.

Worth a look.

Matt.