Originally Posted by chucko

... $1400 a year for the CS

Originally Posted by John H

This whole Tracker nonsense is another in a long line of insurance company scams (IMHO). If the car gets nicked, I want money, not the car back, so the device is of most benefit to the insurer. The Porsche system costs over a grand, or about half that if you get an aftermarket system. This however means entrusting your pride and joy to some back street monkey, armed with a pair of pliers, a packet of Scotchlok connectors and a roll of insulating tape. On a car with fibre optics, more computer systems that the NASA moon lander, and worth anything up to £50K?

I think not!

In the last 3 or 4 cars I have owned, the ONLY unreliablity I have experienced has been to do with aftermarket alarms and immobilisers. I have been locked out of one car, another that would not start, and other random misbehaviour. In may last two Porsches I have paid someone to remove these blasted things. I was absolutely certain that no one was dictating to me that I waste money on something I did not want, AND compromise the most expensive single object (house aside) that I have ever bought. I'd bet a weeks wages that the insurance companies have shares in the firms that make these useless systems.

I HATE INSURANCE COMPANIES!




Useless? ... absolutely. To steal an expensive car with a tracker, all you need is a lorry and a shipping container. Steal the car, drive it into a steel container, which renders the tracker useless due a well known phenomenon known as a Faraday Cage, hoist it on to a lorry and drive off.