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| Robarabian |
 Aug 31 2022, 09:14 AM
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914 A Roo  Group: Members Posts: 630 Joined: 11-February 19 From: Simi Valley, Kalifornia Member No.: 22,865 Region Association: Southern California 
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Hi everyone,
Who would have thunk that our cars would become valuable enough to steal in the manner it is happening. If you scroll the FB and other sites, it is happening more and more. My answer to helping you secure getting it back comes from my LE experience. A Tracker. I use the one I post at the bottom of this paragraph. They are under a hundred bucks, and the air cards 60 bucks a year. I have 3 of them. 2 are hard wired and I keep one as a "floater" to just slap on whatever car I want. I bought these years ago when my kids were new drivers because they would forget to text that they made it to school and it was easy to just live time, dial up the car's location. You can set parameters to send you a text if the car goes outside of the geofence you select. Ie, travels more than 5 miles from home or wherever. You can set a speed alarm that will send you a text if it exceeds whatever speed you select. So say you think your mechanic is the same guy as the valet from Ferris Bueller's Day off, you will know the car is doing 100 mph... They are easy to hide, and use cellular and unlike an Air Tag, they don't tell anyone they are there. My insurance company provides a discount on my daily driver as it is considered a "tracking device" to assist in recovery. I think for the low cost, you get a high peace of mind with these. I hated reading the story about Marv's car and pray for its recovery. It is like losing a family member after the time, effort and energy we spend nurturing them through life. Robert https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W7YJYSH?psc=1&...product_details |
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| Arno914 |
Sep 9 2022, 04:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 233 Joined: 13-May 20 From: near Frankfurt, Germany Member No.: 24,260 Region Association: Germany
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QUOTE Like I mentioned before, if you are under any structure it will affect it's ability to connect. ...that is the "problem" with those trackers. Thiefes know about them and will transport your stolen car in an enclosed trailer completely lined with aluminum foil or something alike. "Faraday Cage". No signal, no matter what tracker is installed. Same goes for a well equipped "shop" where your car is beeing ripped for parts...until then they have discovered your tracker anyways and put it for a ride on the next school bus... Any thoughts? |
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Robarabian In Light of Marv's Stolen Car Aug 31 2022, 09:14 AM
vitamin914 Excellent and thank you for the info.
I have an A... Aug 31 2022, 09:33 AM
Robarabian That is the beauty. It is air card only. So you bu... Aug 31 2022, 10:15 AM ValcoOscar Same here...I use a different tracker but this one... Aug 31 2022, 09:59 AM jim_hoyland Thanks Rob, a hell of a lot better than than the o... Aug 31 2022, 10:06 AM StratPlayer Bought one, thank you for the tip Aug 31 2022, 12:20 PM Dion Thanks for the info. Will be purchasing one of the... Aug 31 2022, 12:49 PM kerensky Tracking this topic so I can come back to it later... Aug 31 2022, 02:12 PM eric9144
Tracking this topic so I can come back to it late... Aug 31 2022, 05:00 PM Robarabian Figured I would put the SIM card you need here...
... Aug 31 2022, 07:47 PM stickyfingers Amazing tip - thanks for this. Aug 31 2022, 08:18 PM FlacaProductions @Robarabian - Robert,
I've had this same setu... Aug 31 2022, 11:19 PM Jett These are all great ideas, but there is a bit of c... Sep 1 2022, 09:02 AM Robarabian Everything has risk for sure. Yes, they are based ... Sep 1 2022, 09:17 AM Jett
Everything has risk for sure. Yes, they are based... Sep 1 2022, 09:49 PM ClayPerrine I use GEGO trackers...
https://www.gego.io/
They... Sep 1 2022, 09:14 AM vitamin914 Using an offshore tracking company could be a conc... Sep 1 2022, 02:41 PM narino @Robarabian Thanks for heads up on this separate ... Sep 1 2022, 07:49 PM Robarabian THanks. The reason I like these is they are flexib... Sep 1 2022, 08:37 PM mrp400 We have used the Gold Star trackers at our car lot... Sep 1 2022, 09:12 PM narino @Robarabian I bought the TK905B and hardwired it.... Sep 8 2022, 04:10 PM Robarabian In the app, look for "work mode setting... Sep 8 2022, 08:55 PM jim_hoyland I’d like to see more about the set up procedure ... Sep 8 2022, 05:55 PM trojanhorsepower https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-...u-st... Sep 8 2022, 06:09 PM narino @[url=http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showu... Sep 8 2022, 08:59 PM narino Here is a good video that shows how to setup the d... Sep 9 2022, 12:43 AM Robarabian Which is what you want... it sleeps till it senses... Sep 9 2022, 08:40 AM ClayPerrine
...that is the "problem" with those t... Sep 9 2022, 06:11 AM jim_hoyland That for the detailed set-up. :)
Will the tracke... Sep 9 2022, 04:54 AM FlacaProductions As to battery use/hardwire - mine is set up on a s... Sep 9 2022, 09:43 AM jim_hoyland Thanks for posting the Video link; it explains wel... Sep 10 2022, 06:34 AM cali914 Thanks for the video i did not know these devices ... Sep 10 2022, 07:59 AM narino Got to test the system yesterday. Got into the car... Sep 10 2022, 04:02 PM |
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