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I use http://smartrack.eu/. I bought life time cover shortly after I bought the car. It was about £900, with fitting, I recall. Five years on more that worth the initial outlay. I get the odd text to tell me when my battery is low. Otherwise I've pretty much forgotten it's there. 
Just early signs of rod bearing failure driving from the petrol station to the track one morning - it was fine on the drive back to the hotel the night before, and the drive to the petrol station in the morning, but when I started it back up I heard a very faint noise from the bottom end, so drove it (very carefully) to a mechanic mate at Rent4Ring who told me to turn the engine off there & then.buzyg said:Now you really need to tell us more.
A quick check of the oil showed LOTS of metal in there and the filter (changed 2 weeks before) was full of metal...on both sides of the filter.
So decided to leave it there and get my breakdown company to recover it (which ended up being a bit of a ball ache) - and that’s when I started receiving the tracker calls.
Was going to rebuild it with the idea of supercharging, but the engine in 140,000 miles old and it was cheaper to buy a 2nd hand low mileage one from a crashed Z4M. Posted about it on here at the time.
Unfortunately money has been a bit tight, so after buying the engine, the job has been put on the back burner somewhat until I can afford to do a fair amount of work on the rest of the car whilst the engine is out - such as realigning the clutch so that the 1st/2nd gear notchiness is removed (as it was before the clutch & flywheel change, and subsequent accident).
Thanks for the explanation.mmm-five said:Just early signs of rod bearing failure driving from the petrol station to the track one morning - it was fine on the drive back to the hotel the night before, and the drive to the petrol station in the morning, but when I started it back up I heard a very faint noise from the bottom end, so drove it (very carefully) to a mechanic mate at Rent4Ring who told me to turn the engine off there & then.buzyg said:Now you really need to tell us more.
A quick check of the oil showed LOTS of metal in there and the filter (changed 2 weeks before) was full of metal...on both sides of the filter.
So decided to leave it there and get my breakdown company to recover it (which ended up being a bit of a ball ache) - and that’s when I started receiving the tracker calls.
Was going to rebuild it with the idea of supercharging, but the engine in 140,000 miles old and it was cheaper to buy a 2nd hand low mileage one from a crashed Z4M. Posted about it on here at the time.
Unfortunately money has been a bit tight, so after buying the engine, the job has been put on the back burner somewhat until I can afford to do a fair amount of work on the rest of the car whilst the engine is out - such as realigning the clutch so that the 1st/2nd gear notchiness is removed (as it was before the clutch & flywheel change, and subsequent accident).
That was how my Fiat Coupe finally died. Except I had spent enough on it by then, so ended up giving it to the garage were it was towed. Last time I saw it the engine was in the boot.
They did get it back on the road. MrsG spotted it. She didn't tell me at the time though, in case I bought it back. Cars aye. :roll:
Tony,
In 2009, I had a catastrophic bearing shell failure when actually driving around the Nurburgring (GP track at the time) in my Z3 MC which required repatriation on a pick up truck. The car had a lifetime Tracker Monitor subscription and I never received any calls from Tracker. Tracker ended up fitting a new unit.
Before that, when I first bought that car in 2003 and received the paperwork from Tracker, my silver Z3MC was recorded as a black Audi TT on Tracker's system!
IMO Tracker are a bunch of charlatans.
Good luck with the replacement engine.
In 2009, I had a catastrophic bearing shell failure when actually driving around the Nurburgring (GP track at the time) in my Z3 MC which required repatriation on a pick up truck. The car had a lifetime Tracker Monitor subscription and I never received any calls from Tracker. Tracker ended up fitting a new unit.
Before that, when I first bought that car in 2003 and received the paperwork from Tracker, my silver Z3MC was recorded as a black Audi TT on Tracker's system!
IMO Tracker are a bunch of charlatans.
Good luck with the replacement engine.
I keep expecting it to stop working, as I’ve read many of them do. Maybe mine is lasting longer because mine was driven a lot, and the tracker battery kept being charged?exdos said:
It’s been on there since 2006, and it’s only the last couple of years that it’s not been doing 20,000 miles a year - so maybe now’s the time it will fail, and Tracker will give me a new unit to add to my list of new parts on the car
I surprised my friend when I gave him the keys to do a lap on the suspension he'd refreshed/adjusted for me - and when I came back from coffee he said he'd just done the one lap and it only bottomed-out once (actually a little scrape on the arch liner going through the flat-out bumps at Tiergarten).
He also said he'd done almost 160mph before Schwedenkreuz, which I doubted, and so I replayed the video for him - to show that he actually did 2 laps, and his max speed was 135mph - then he admitted that it just felt like doing 160mph in his Skyline
He also said he'd done almost 160mph before Schwedenkreuz, which I doubted, and so I replayed the video for him - to show that he actually did 2 laps, and his max speed was 135mph - then he admitted that it just felt like doing 160mph in his Skyline
