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muddyjames:
--- Quote from: "Damo" ---Ive already got a Clifford Concept 600 with Pager on mine :) Tilt and Lift sensors + promiximity that screaches at you with quite a peircing sound.
This would be the icing on the cake so to speak and Im sorry but for either £399 + £10 a month or the 700 ish lifetime cost that is a small price to pay for something that would probably have cost you 4000 ish+ not including your mods plus your own personal pleasure in making it YOUR landy.
Im sure everyone could sacrfice some beer tokens in order to keep their landy safe.
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Wouldnt you be even more [!Expletive Deleted!] off if you wrote your landy off a week after you subscribed to the for life option! Risk you take I guess.
I have a tracker in my caravan which uses a mobile phone. I have the phone hidden in my caravan that is connected to the battery 24/7 which in turn is being charged up by a solar pannel. I have registered the phone with www.followus.co.uk and you can track the phone down to the nearest mast. If the caravan is stolen and being towed it will pass through various masts and narrow down where it is in the world to a 10mile radius of the mast or you may even be able work out which road it is going along if a pattern emerges. Also all you have to pay 5p for everytime to track a phone and 10p i think to register a phone and the phone but everyone has an old phone lying about. I believe that even some insurance companies are alowing this method to be used as a tracker device.
Porny:
A trackers ok... unless people know where it's fitted!!!
The ones I've seen in some Defenders (for example) weren't hard to find... an other example is a Escort Cosworths. The favorite place to fit the tracker was on top of the fuel tank - but obviously the thieves found this out.
And I've heard there are ways to get around trakers (and other such devices)....
Mobile phone trackers, are ok.... unless you take it to one of the numerous places where you do not get signal - often country side areas, underground carparks etc etc.
Whilst I agree, any device is a good idea... if somebody want's your car, then they'll take it.
I know of somebody who had an Impreza....
Had all CAT 1 alarms, was parked behind security posts on his drive etc etc...
How did they nick his car????
They shot him in the leg when he went to the shops and took the keys.
I know of two other people who again had various devices on their cars... but were threated with serious bodily harm unless they handed over the keys (in this case a Civic Type R and a Sierra Cosworth).
The other favorite trick is to break into someones house to get the keys.
It is a sad, sad world when you can't even have a nice car, without the worry of someone pinching it... :cry:
I always remember my brothers Metro (not even a nice car)....
Was outside of the house when someone tried to nick it.... bodged the doors lock, ignition barrell etc etc.... but they couldn't get it started..
Did it have the ultimate form of security???
Not really, but it didn't have the cylinder head fitted at the time!!!
At the end of the day, you can make it harder for theives... but it's unlikely you can make a car 100% impossible to pinch!!!
Ian
paul_humphreys:
Its true if they want to nick it they will. Mine is insured for £4000, but any key will open it and start it. But you have know how to heat the glow plugs before it will start.
But its not the cost of a replacement, its the cost of all the work you have done to it.
Paul
Porny:
--- Quote --- But you have know how to heat the glow plugs before it will start.
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Without sounding rude... unless it's freezing cold, any diesel will start without the glow plugs - just takes a bit longer.... unless the thieves got a can of easy start.
Any thief with any knowledge will now that all he needs is a couple of lengths of wire to start most diesels - all under bonnet.
Hence why on most diesels (older ones esp.) an immobiliser is pointless.
At the end of the day, you can do everything you can to make it harder.... but if a 'more professional' thief will know how to get around most security devices.
Ian
paul_humphreys:
--- Quote from: "Porny" ---At the end of the day, you can do everything you can to make it harder.... but if a 'more professional' thief will know how to get around most security devices.Ian
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Thats my point. But mine will not start with the heater plugs working. To look at mine it looks like a bag of s**t. But its whats under the skin. I havd a shock to what it all added up to when I went to get it insured. For a battered 2 door RRC £4000 would seem a lot.
Paul
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