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Depending upon serious interest - I might be able to get a really good deal on some vehicle security tracking systems. They usually retail for around $2,000 - $2,200 depending on the vehicle - (installed and incl. first years monitoring). but I might be able to save around $500 off that, depending on how many are ordered.

If you chose to have it installed yourself - there would probably be even more savings... full details are yet to be provided...

I am not looking to make anything out of these - I think that around $50 from each unit sold would be donated to SAU for bandwidth costs etc

I know that $1500-$1700 is not something have just lying around, so this can be planned for a future date, to allow people to save up etc.

At this stage, just looking for expressions of interest on who would like one, or who is looking to get one fitted in the near future anyway...

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No, It's not QuikTrak, this is a GPS based system.

I am not allowed to say who it it publically as the new and existing dealer network would get mighty pissed off if they knew the company was giving dealer prices to individuals. Naturally, if you are definitely interested, you will be given all the details once prices are finalised.. But it is requested you don't go around advertising the special deal.

The company is new to Australia, but they are using equipment from one of the largest vehicle tracking companies in the world. Monitoring would be handled locally, by a Third party monitoring company.

They are looking to get it's name out there quickly and they asked me to guage interest in car clubs etc.

A word of self monitored systems..

Ezytrak is a cheaper system sure - there are quite a few systems like this that are out there and there is a reason for their low cost.

Self monitored systems are not all 100% insurance approved by most companies. What if your phone battery is flat, or turned off for an important meeting or the movies or visiting someone in hospital etc, what if you forget your phone or you sleep through the SMS notification and your car is stolen - who is going to call the police or get a security guard to check your vehicle. You can have it call other numbers and so on, but do they have the correct software available to them (that you have to pay extra for) to be able to track the vehicle real time ??? - if you are out at a shopping centre and you get a call from the system to say that your car is stolen - do you have a PC in front of you with the correct software installed to be able to track the vehicle, what are you going to tell the police - between constantly SMSing back and forth to the car every 30-40 secs to get updates - what are you going to give the Police - The Last known / current suburb and GPS co-ordinates ?? - Not much help to the police when they use street names and landmarks to identify the location. Even if you had a detailed map in front of you, with Latitude and Longitude listed - how long will it take to read the SMS, translate the co-ordinates and then tell the Police where it is (or should I say "WAS") a couple of minutes ago....

hey I'm interested - i cant get insurance for my car so would definitly a GPS system for it ... so i can personally pin point vehicle if it gets stolen.

please notify with updates - prices mainly and reilability

the easytrak system uses gps to track the car and calls ur phone ( not sms ) it tells u the location the speed its traveling and the direction its heading and u can imobilise it from ur phone . it has a backup battery as well so if they disconect ur battery and tow it u can still track it .

what the initial cost for something like this - and monthly cost for maintanence for the whole calling if ur car is stolen procedure

QuickTrak is about $2300 installed and then about $300 a year for the monitoring service.

LW.

asytrak no monthly fees , only the cost of the sim card

I assume that you have to monitor the car yourself then? QuickTrak has an operations centre that does it for you, hence the monthly fee.

LW.

I'll pay the $300/yeah. Seems reasonable. Are there guarantees they can definitly pin point ur vehicle if it decides to go wondering off.

QuickTrak the only people who does monitoring service?

Any setup which you can pin point the vehicle urself? Thus u can recover the vehicle urself - now that would be fun :)

Any setup which you can pin point the vehicle urself? Thus u can recover the vehicle urself - now that would be fun :)

Quite a few. Generally they are controller by SMS, and you can get UBD map references plus disable the car remotely.

However, they are rather inferior to a QuickTrak monitoring-type system as you obviously have to have a) your phone on B) your phone with you c) hear your phone d) be awake whenever its stolen e) track the vehicle yourself f) alert the police yourself, and on and on.

I would much rather pay to have someone else monitor the car 24/7, alert the police, and track/disable the car in conjunction with the police.

LW.

There are a few companies that do Tracking with "Back to base" 24/7 Monitoring..

GPS/GSM Based

Novatronics - www.smarttrak.com.au / www.intellitrac.com.au

Satrak - www.satrak.com.au

Tower based - Limited coverage

quiktrak - www.quiktrak.com.au

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also interested, however need more details on the actual workings of the system (don't need to give me names).

I assume you have seen this?

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=29057

LW.

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