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 kingston-upon-hull,east yorkshire.
rang this morning to renew my tracker response only to be told that tracker aren't supporting the unit fitted to the car for much longer and wouldn't renew the subscription! anyone else had this problem?
I of course was offered a new unit at £400 plus another £157 for a years subscription!
not going to bother as when doing the insurance quotes, having a tracker fitted doesn't seem to make any difference in the price.
 
Interesting, I have had a TRACKER Monitor on mine since day 1 but it's always been deactivated, I was quoted these prices a while ago

- £149 Annual subscription
- £399 Duration subscription - this will cover you for the length of time you own the vehicle
 
I bought the 'lifetime' subscription when I bought the car over 5 years ago.

If they're going to switch off this system, then I hope they refund me or pay for a new system to be installed and transfer the subscription.
 
my tracker has been fitted to the car from new and always been activated,but it seems not for much longer!!
 
I don't have a Tracker on the Z4, but I do have a Tracker Monitor on my M5. I also took out the Lifetime Subscription (£355 at the time - but that was back in October 2005.)

A while ago I was wondering whether it was still working or not, so I contacted Tracker in June 2012, only to be told that the last signal received from the unit was a "healthy uplink" back in 2007. I was pretty annoyed - what's the point of having a Tracker fitted if you don't know whether or not it is working, and why did they not contact me to say that they had not received any signal from the unit in the previous 5 years?!

Anyway, I ended up paying £99 in December 2012 to get the battery replaced and a health check on the unit. There was no suggestion at the time that they would stop supporting the Tracker Monitor at any point.
 
The last time I got a call about mine was when it was on the back of a recovery truck after I got a flat tyre (December 2008).

It's just got me thinking that I probably should have been called when the car was on the ferry (i.e. moving, but no ignition on) twice a year for the last 5 years too.

Will have to call & check, as my insurance company specifically asked about one being "fitted and having a live subscription".
 
I have a little gizmo that when a certain distance from the car the tracker activates but thinking on I hav'nt had a call from them for almost 2 yrs to say that the tracker has been activated!.the tracker model I have is the response,if anyone else has this one I suggest you give them a call.
 
UPDATE,i went out over the the weekend in the car,i didn't put the little gizmo which Is supposed to be with me when I'm out in the car,no activation so my tracker must now be switched off!.
 
I do wonder how many of the cars which have Tracker fitted actually have it working.

There's no easy way to check, and if your car gets stolen it's too late at that point to find out that it doesn't work - especially if your insurance then starts to say that a working Tracker was a condition of the policy.

If you do have a Tracker fitted to your car, it might be worthwhile contacting them now and asking how do you know whether it is working - they should be able to tell you when they last received a signal from the car.

Tel: 0845 602 2356

Web: https://www.tracker.co.uk/contact-us/
 
What is the point when you can plug in a £15 jamming device in the cigarette lighter anyway? Any thief will know that and they are widely available.
 
pvr said:
What is the point when you can plug in a £15 jamming device in the cigarette lighter anyway? Any thief will know that and they are widely available.
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Are you better off with one of those Amazon jobbies with GPRS as well as GPS?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracker-Vehicle-Theft-Protection-System/dp/B003XDN58K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1403549149&sr=8-2&keywords=gps+tracker
 
Personally, I think that the Tracker could be one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated.

I bought my silver Z3MC with Tracker fitted and when I took out a lifetime subscription, Tracker sent me the paperwork for the car which it had registered as a black Audi TT! I got the registrations correctly recorded.

A few years later, I had to have the car recovered from abroad and I never got any call from Tracker telling me that my car had been moved over 500miles on the back of a truck or for its 200mile journey on the truck in the UK. The only ways that you can test if Tracker is monitoring your car is either find a bit of hilly straight road and let the car roll downhill for as long as you can without the key in the ignition, or push the car in a car park without the key in the ignition. This test failed to produce a call from Tracker and when I enquired about my experiences, Tracker had no alerts for my car on its system.

So they sent out a technician to fit what they claim was another device to my car rather than make any attempt to find the supposed Tracker already fitted and test it etc. Tracker won't tell you whereabouts in the car they've fitted these devices so you've know way of knowing if a device has actually ever been fitted unless you stand over the fitter at the time. This makes me wonder if many vehicles allegedly fitted with Tracker actually have one at all. If your car gets stolen which supposedly has a Tracker and it is never alerted or traced, it's so easy to claim that the thieves are so bloody clever these days as the excuse why Tracker failed to prevent your loss or recover your car.

Tracker claims the accuracy of the system is that 2metres of movement without ignition should create an alert.
 
Not the case for Tracker Monitor though, that is where you call them to tell them the car has been stolen.
 
I had one fitted When I bought the car. Took out life of ownership cover. As I sometimes don't run the Zed for weeks, I get a call every time the battery is low. I guess my tracker uses the car battery for somthing. Plus we had an electrical storm last winter and they called me. On every occasion, so far, the car has been sat in the Garrage. Rather have the occasional faulse alarm than never here any thing. :)
 
Daft thought but could you simply stick a cheap, PAYG, GPS, mobile, under the carpet ,in the boot & power it off the battery. Then you could track your phone. Tracker for peanuts. Or am I just daft.
 
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