Vehicle Tracking Systems - Anyone Know About Them??
 

Hey guys,

I'm having some problems getting my insurance sorted at the moment & one insurer has said that they will cover me on the provision that I get a GPS type vehicle tracking system installed.

The one they recommend that I use can be found here [url]http://www.intellitrac.com.au/index.htm[/url] or another one that I have managed to find can be seen here [url]http://www.ezitrak.com.au/[/url] .

Has anyone got one of these fitted to their car or had any experience with these systems at all?

Thanks

[QUOTE=my-rex]
I'm having some problems getting my insurance sorted at the moment & one insurer has said that they will cover me on the provision that I get a GPS type vehicle tracking system installed.
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Which iinsurance company was this?

That sounds bizzare!

Intellitrac is fitted standard to all Mitsu evo8s...have a read on the forums at [url]www.evolutionoz.com[/url] ...lots of good stuff about them

From all accounts they are excellent and better than what is fitted on the later model evo9.

I believe cost is around $1500 fitted and includes the 1st year monitoring...annual fee after that was around $300 per annum. If they steal your car...chuck it in a container and ship to iraq...it can be found when it exists the container.....now how you get it back - that would be a trick question !

God Luck!

Chers n beers

Cooj

[QUOTE=Sethor]Which iinsurance company was this?[/QUOTE]

It is Allianz

try RAC

I've tried them all & I am even using an insurance broker.

Allianz insuring a WRX?!?!?! Well there is a first for everything!

Insurance Brokers usually only stick with main stream.
Have you seriously tried them all?
Just cars for instance?
Also i would like to know what RAC said to you, I know shitloads of people with RAC including myself when I had the WRX, they were absolute champs to deal with, gave me a choice of repairer/mechanic and were cheap as!!

I've tried Just Cars, but the agreed value they gave me was ridiculously low and the premium & excess with them was damn expensive.

I've tried Shannon's, QBE (who don't even do WRX's btw), CGU, Elders, etc..... the list goes on.

RAC said that the local assessor had to look at the car, but the person I was speaking too didn't think that he would want to take it on.

HBF have asked me to get the car valued by a car yard, but none of them want to give me a valuation because it's for insurance purposes & they are worried about potential legal action. There is only 1 guy in Albany that can do valuations, but he's on holidays for a few weeks so I guess I will have to wait until then & just see what he comes up with...

[QUOTE=DAN682]Allianz insuring a WRX?!?!?! Well there is a first for everything!

Insurance Brokers usually only stick with main stream.
Have you seriously tried them all?
Just cars for instance?
Also i would like to know what RAC said to you, I know shitloads of people with RAC including myself when I had the WRX, they were absolute champs to deal with, gave me a choice of repairer/mechanic and were cheap as!![/QUOTE]

dan, rac straight out said no to me. i was tryin to insurer a '04 Liberty at the time.

it was my driving history that did it.

-Luke

Thats amazing about RAC!

and my-rex:

PM Sent.

Dan - PM received & replied with thanks.

What's really annoying is that I have a completely clean driving history & NO claims.

I have EziTrack,

It is self monitored. That is, I have to pay for the phone SIM (around $8 a month)
in the unit. When something goes wrong (alarm, tow away etc) the unit
rings my mobile. I can also lock/unlock doors and kill engine from my phone.

At any time you can ring the car up and you get a nice female voice
which guides you through a menu system like online banking. From there you
can GPS position, speed, kill engine etc...

Installed it myself and integrates well with existing alarm, timer and anti-hijack.

[QUOTE=fobz]I have EziTrack,

Installed it myself and integrates well with existing alarm, timer and anti-hijack.[/QUOTE]

Fobz, thanks for the reply.

Does it void the warranty of the unit if it's not installed by them?? I don't want to have to fork out mega $$'s & stuff it up without a warranty to back me up.

Is your alarm one that came with the unit or did it link up to one you already had in the car?


Thanks

[QUOTE=my-rex]Dan - PM received & replied with thanks.

What's really annoying is that I have a completely clean driving history & NO claims.[/QUOTE]

ROFL

I have bulk fines ranging from 10kms over to WELL over 50k and JC were happy to charge me a reasonable premium.

I dunno about Allianz. I recently got a letter about a new budget direct insurance company and they just come across as dodgy!

01 bug eye, insured at 30k, 3 fines recorded and I'm 24.
Paying $980 for full comp with RAC (not bad i reckon).

[QUOTE=my-rex]Fobz, thanks for the reply.

Does it void the warranty of the unit if it's not installed by them?? I don't want to have to fork out mega $$'s & stuff it up without a warranty to back me up.

Is your alarm one that came with the unit or did it link up to one you already had in the car?


Thanks[/QUOTE]


Good question on the warranty. I have not had any problems with it so
far, except during installation and the guys at Ashley Electrical were
very helpful. It would be a good question to ask the seller before buying.

I already had an alarm in the car, but by chance it was one that Ashley
Electrical had supplied. They told me which wire to run from the alarm.
Should be easy for any alarm anyway. Just need to find a wire which
switches when the alarm goes off. Either always +ve and goes -ve in alarm
or always -ve and goes +ve in alarm. Either will do coz you can use
a changeover relay to connect it to the EziTrack.

Because I already had an alarm, I turned off many things on the EziTrack
coz it would double up with the alarm.

Be Careful: Although the EziTrack does have "intruder detection" like an
alarm, you can only turn it on/off via a phone. So no beep-beep remote.
Far better to integrate with existing alarm, and get alarm to do all the
monitoring and the EziTrack to ring you if the alarm goes off.

Thanks for your help fobz, that all makes sense & maybe the unit would be a good idea anyways...