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Old May 15, 2010 | 10:09 PM
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Also use the system check service at least twice a year....

It is poor that "we" don't even know if the damn thing is working at all !

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Old May 15, 2010 | 10:14 PM
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That's the point fella, it's a secret the RAC wouldn't want peeps to know this would they! RAC is hardly gonna go out of business as 99% of peeps just pay up ...

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Of course it would but........ What benefit is that to the RAC? when a service they are charging for is being forced to be given for free thus sending them out of buisness very quickly. It really doesn't matter to the police if the car is found only the criminal caught. I can imagine in extreme cases that they will indeed activate it.
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Old May 15, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Terminator X
That's the point fella, it's a secret the RAC wouldn't want peeps to know this would they! RAC is hardly gonna go out of business as 99% of peeps just pay up ...

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If everybody knew this then they would go out of buisness, if this happened we would know about it by now as the first person who's car was stolen and then found by the police forcing the tracker company to activate it would have told someone who told someone who told someone........................

and this applys to all cars fitted with trackers, if this was the case everyone would know about it by now either from experience or through people who knew police. It wouldn't be a secret now, how do you know this by the way?

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Old May 15, 2010 | 10:42 PM
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i had a traffic master in mine and the insurance company wasnt even interested all they wanted was proof of a cat1 alarm/immob so all of about 20mins later the complete tracker system was located and removed and taking into consideration how easy and quickly a tracker can be removed it just proves them to be a waste of time and money ..oh and forgot to mention the tracker was fitted by the rac...

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Old May 16, 2010 | 09:21 AM
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Those trackers are very good at running the battery flat as well!

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Old May 17, 2010 | 06:26 PM
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have read this and just laughed, if u dont pay for your tracker subscription and it gets stolen the police cant force a tracker compant to activate it ,my mates car got stolen and he never paid his and when he told police he had a tracker they contacted the company and were told as he never paid his subscription they wouldnt activate it to help them find it,
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Old May 17, 2010 | 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by azz250478
... how do you know this by the way?
A policeman told me Carry on paying your £150 a year

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Old May 17, 2010 | 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Tomwrx
have read this and just laughed, if u dont pay for your tracker subscription and it gets stolen the police cant force a tracker compant to activate it ,my mates car got stolen and he never paid his and when he told police he had a tracker they contacted the company and were told as he never paid his subscription they wouldnt activate it to help them find it,
Why not? They're obstructing the police by not helping solve a crime ...

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Old May 17, 2010 | 10:19 PM
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I had one in my first MY01 Impreza and I called the service three times to check the unit was working. Each time, they couldn't trace the car as the unit was broken. Has the hardware changed?

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Old May 18, 2010 | 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Tomwrx
have read this and just laughed, if u dont pay for your tracker subscription and it gets stolen the police cant force a tracker compant to activate it ,my mates car got stolen and he never paid his and when he told police he had a tracker they contacted the company and were told as he never paid his subscription they wouldnt activate it to help them find it,
Laughed, at what

I have better things to do with £144 a year than waste it on a service I have no idea is working or have my car back after some ****** has trashed it to bits.

It's gone, I am not renewing
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Old May 18, 2010 | 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Terminator X
A policeman told me Carry on paying your £150 a year

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All that and you didn't realise i don't pay it as i wouldn't want it back, find me one piece of evidence of this happening.

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Old May 18, 2010 | 08:41 PM
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^^ That what is happening where's your evidence?

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Old May 18, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Lee247
It's gone, I am not renewing
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Old May 18, 2010 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Terminator X
^^ That what is happening where's your evidence?

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You're the one that needs evidence as your saying that police force the Rac to activate trackers that aren't subscribed to I'm open to be proved wrong which you can do, i won't be able to find evidence as who comes on the internet and makes themselves look like a complete tool by saying " i didn't pay my tracker subscription and now they won't locate my car"

If it had happened the other way round, you can bet your b*llocks to a barn dance the internet would be full of this info

That's the system, that is the way it has worked for years and continues to do so, i like others have no reason to doubt it happens differently unless you have evidence that proves otherwise which you have obviously got
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Old May 18, 2010 | 09:38 PM
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^^ Well I'll continue to not pay for the service & inform the police if the car gets nicked & you continue to not pay as well - what are we arguing about again

I've already said a policeman told me so how can I eveidence that. You've said it doesn't happen so where's your evidence to back that up

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Old May 18, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Terminator X
^^ Well I'll continue to not pay for the service & inform the police if the car gets nicked & you continue to not pay as well - what are we arguing about again

I've already said a policeman told me so how can I eveidence that. You've said it doesn't happen so where's your evidence to back that up

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There is lots of evidence on the internet of people getting their car back with subscrition and not one incident of them getting them back without paying it.

Where as your evidence is based on what a policeman told you. Do you believe everything that a police officer tells you?
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Old May 19, 2010 | 12:25 AM
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How exactly do they turn it 'on' or 'off' then? Surely it continues to transmit so long as the battery is charged? Shame it isn't blue tooth enabled as I could use it for my sat nav
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Old May 19, 2010 | 12:40 AM
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Kind of answers my post & yours

http://www.5ive-o.org/forum/archive/...p/t-14792.html
http://www.5ive-o.org/forum/archive/...hp/t-1262.html

I'll leave you to it with both of us not paying ours subs

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Originally Posted by azz250478
There is lots of evidence on the internet of people getting their car back with subscrition and not one incident of them getting them back without paying it.

Where as your evidence is based on what a policeman told you. Do you believe everything that a police officer tells you?

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