Two things you need to look at are:

Do you want it back if its stolen?

Are you only fitting this as an Ins requirement?

If your only fitting so the Ins company will insure you then ask them the minimum requirement and find the cheapest price!

If your fitting for peace of mind then i'd suggest a Tracker that uses GPS/VHF and GSM technology.

VHF isnt the best on its own due to the limited amount of Police vehicles fitted with "tracker", and it also needs a car to drive near it to start tracking. GPS/GSM pin points the car on a map from the minute its activated and will give speed/direction and previous routes.

However GSM/GPS can be easily blocked with equipment readily available for as little as £10!!!

So get one thats all the tech available. TDV8 HST Sport **Current**

4.4 V8 Autobiography and 22" wheels **Gone**

noddy wrote:

Things must have changed then - I remember having the Tracker fitter come round to a garage where I used to work and he showed me the unit. I asked him how it was powered up and that's what he told me. There was no way of attaching a power feed to it if I recall correctly. I recall asking him how they could rely on just a battery and what were the chances of it going flat. His reply was that it would never go flat as it wasn't used until it was activated.
I remember him fitting it to a Rover Tomcat and he had to pretty much evacuate the garage, so no-one could see how or where he'd fitted it to the car.
It was going back a few years though- around the time when they'd just come out. Things might be different now in that case. I've been off the spanners for about 10 years now.

I suspect your man was talking out his arse and may have fitted a placebo. The unit cannot sleep until activated, as it needs to be activated, this may involve waking up every 5 seconds or so to check for movement, voltage change or remote activation over a radio link. In the case of the latter, the radio must be powered up and listening for the activation, which is a significant drain on the battery.

Cheers

Justin 
Gone - Range Rover Supercharged 2006

Tim in Scotland wrote:

.....and has hidden trigger switches located around the ship

I have a vision of pirates on the starboard bow and a rather frantic game of hide and seek... for the switches



On a serious note.. hope you never need them.. but a comfort to know they are their somewhere.

I used aprs on holiday a couple of years back. You can also use it to chart ships. Work on landbased radio rather than Sats.. interesting watching the odd plane with it installed.

http://aprs.fi/ 2010 Disco XS TDV6, 2009 Freelander 2 GS

Previous Landrover products -1990 110 TDI CSW, 2003 TD6 Vogue - RRC TD Vogue, RRC v8 Fleetline, Disco ES V8 LPG, 101 Ambulance "Morph", 1964 SIIa Auto Powered by Jag 4.2 Lump - "Percy".