tracker stats for last year; top 20 values expressed in '000:

bmw 9057
mercedes benz 7390
porsche 3489
plant 2915
audi 2585
ford 1533
subaru 1055
jaguar 792
landrover 538
leyland daf 479
aston martin 470
range rover 429
scania 401
vw 384
mitsubishi 339
volvo 279
ford iveco 253
ferrari 230
mg 212
erf 200

oddly, they never actually have anything useful like "number of vehicles retrieved" or indeed "number of vehicles reported to tracker but not retrieved". 60% of cars stolen had keys and 48% were stolen from the driveway. I guess the above stats are fairly useless because it does not tell us that a high %age of mercedes drivers have tracker installed on purchase. Fiat was the lowest with just 9,000 pounds worth of cars retrieved, or the equivalent of 59 1 year old Fiat Bravas.

The area were the most cars were stolen, and then retreived was London followed by West Yorkshire, Essex and the West Midlands. Interestingly, the system now works in france and spain.

rd

 

4th one down 'plant' ...must be some hanging basket ........gets coat ....

 

I see Northants had recovered car(s) to the value of £15000 very low compared with other counties.
Does this mean a low car crime rate, a number of very cheap cars being pinched or that Northants Police don't have a car with the tracking gear installed?

Nick

 

A million quids worth of Subarus. That's about a 100 cars recovered

Didn't realise that theft was so rife

 

And you have to serious wonder how many of those Subaru's are one model. Whereas the BMW's and Merc's are likely to be lots of different models across the range.

Another one that surprised me were 9% were taken from garages? You kinda think that a garage is a real safe place, but almost 1/10th were nicked from there!

 

If 60 % of vehicles were stolen with keys I'm actually surprised more were not take from garages.

However, since the worst place for theft was London and only weirdos keep their cars in the garage in London this does not surprise me so much.

I think plant means diggers and suchlike.

 

Was talking to one of the blokes on the Tracker stand and the motor show, with the competition wo win the MG ZR. I asked him why put a tracker on a car no-one would pinch?

He agreed

 

I'm a bit concerned that after watching the latest car crime TV shows where they went to some foreign country and in just 15 mins picked up about 20 stolen vehicles emitting tracker signals that had been stolen here and shipped abroad. The local plod don't do anything about is as it's not their problem.

They raided some scrap yards in London and there were loads of nicked cars there and one comment was something along the lines of "Tracker has been around so long that the professional thieves can get around it in about 15 mins" and even if they can't be arsed to deactivate it then they just bung it in a freight container and it's radio signal is useless.

So here is me, in Surrey (next to London - the worse place for theft) and only a short drive from lots of docks, so perhaps Tracker is a waste of money ??

 

BMW will be top of the list as dealers were selling cars with Trackers fitted as part of a deal on new and nearly new 2nd hand cars (I think it was a tracker or CD changer IIRC).

I just received their "newsletter" from tracker the other day. Pure marketing propagander, not to say it's untrue. Just it only tells one side of the story.

I would love to see the figures of trackered cars that are stolen and never recovered!!