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tommo1

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Following a number of porsches being stolen in my area recently I'm looking at purchasing a tracker for my 987,
1. can anyone recomend a tracker and give me some idea of he cost
2. where do I get one fitted
3. what should I look for to bring my insurance down

look forward to your relpies

Tommo
 
most common one is tracker itself as the police have locators in their car for them, and is probably most recognised by insurer's

then you have rac tracker and of course you have porsche one which is very expensive imo

i'm sure some owners will be along shortly with more advice
 
just google Tracker and you'll find the national website and details no problem. You have to ask yourself..

1. do i want the cost and hassle of the install (typically £500 and a day off the road)
2. do i want to be paying an annual subscription of approx £100/yr
3. if your car gets stolen do you really want it recovered, repaired and returned to you ?
4. any thief could rip the car apart in 20 minutes and disable the tracker - will the police react quick enough ?
5. if the car is parked in a shipping container the tracker signal cannot be traced

Typical insurance premium reduction for a tracking device is £30 - hardly worth the effort in my opinion.
 
Not all police cars are equipped with tracker devices ,so even if the tracker company alerts the police then there is no guarantee of a response. The OEM Porsche trackers are supplied by Cobra , as with all of the Uk security devices on Porsches they are Uk sourced so they can meet thatcham approval.
 
Noting that the system is now included by default when using the online car configurator to make a 997.2, I wonder if should you choose not to have it fitted, if then the Porsche insurance (or any other, come to that) would refuse to cover you?
 
the porsche tracker cannot be fitted to early model 987/997 because the wiring for it is not present, should you choose to go down porsche tracker route you will need to get your car checked for the harness.
 
I had a "Tracker" for a couple of years but the company hacked me off by getting so much wrong, and, like others have said, their dated technology replies on the police. Both Cobra/Porsche and iMob use GPS/GMS so the company (not police) do the tracking. I've now got an iMob because I prefer the added reassurance of being able to track the car myself via my phone (if that's not nicked at same time!). I've also got their remote immobilisation kit.

ORIGINAL: Black80XSA
3. if your car gets stolen do you really want it recovered, repaired and returned to you ?

Agree with this point for newer cars, but mine took me 18 months to find and I would want it back.
 
Another point to advise is that porsche only reccomend the Cobra /Porsche tracker with newer 987/ 997 vehicles as the other manufacturers units have been know to cause false alarms and immobiliser issues. The 987 and 997 have a more integrated security than previous vehilces so the tracker has to work along side these as they cannot be turned off.
 
Mine came with the car, cost £400 for lifetime membership, and warns me of traffic cameras (via downkink updates). Also my insurer wouldn't insure me without one (although some might).

Didn't think that was too much really.
 
My '07 987S is fitted with the Porsche/Cobra system. This system comes with a separate driver's card, so even if the car is stolen with the keys the monitoring centre is immediately alerted. I know this works since until I got used to it I managed to set off without the card and received a text and phone call within minutes, from Cobra, to check the situation. The likely police response is another question. All of the insurance companies who gave me quotes insisted on a tracker. I personally would not consider running a car of this value without a tracker.
The Porsche system works all over Europe whereas the Tracker only operates in the UK, or did when I spoke to them last year.
 
when the vts/cobra renewal comes up i have no hesitation in paying up the £200.now the warranty is another story......and another thread....[;)]
 
In time there will be cheaper units available, if you search on the internet you can get your own system up and running in a few hours. I bought the items from the US asked advice from an Army chap from the net. I now can tell you where, my cars are, my wifes car, all of my work cars/van. All for under £600. I have a map on the laptop. It works with in 5-10meters of the car and uses mobile phone tec. So in time this sort of thing will be cheap as chips..and available with out the need for expensive equipment.

I have a mate that was even more cleaver and knew some thing was not right with this wife. So he fitted this item to their car and when she came back he down loaded the info reams of data and then it showed his wife had driven to a hotel. Had parked up for 4 hours before leaving at 1.30am to come home. They are currently splitting up as he caught her red handed. She coughed up there and then. No this is not why I have put one on my wifes car, she knows about it and it's just in case it gets nicked or worse if my wife has the car stolen and my young children are in the back ( eg paying for fuel or some thing ) I can in under 2 mins track the car. To advise the Police.

Do your home work look up on the net.. There is a guy who chucks glass bottles in the sea and tracks them, he wrote to one guy who had found it while out with the dog and said could you put it back in the sea.. he said he didn't know any thing about it .. then this chap said it's in the back room of your house!!! [:eek:] it went back in the sea the next day [:D]
 
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... It works with in 5-10meters of the car and uses mobile phone tec. ...

Yes the GPS/GSM ones are amazing - mine can show me which car park space my car is sitting in and get it correct to within a space either side. If it's an underground car park it shows the entrance I drove into and tells me at what time it lost the GPS signal! (as long as the GSM can find enough signal to text).

Sounds like you have found a very inexpensive way to do it, I just wanted to pay a company to put it in and run it and provide the emergency montoring. I'm too often in situations where I can't follow up on alerts (or even have my mobile switched on) so I wanted one where someone's going to track the car if it moved suspiciously.
 
The DIY trackers use a mobile phone tracking system and as far as im aware rely on a phone tracking service in the country where the car is located. The Cobra systems use GPS via satellite so tend to have a wider coverage and can track across the globe. Both are fallable if the car is put in a sea container.
 

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