Afternoon,
I've just been contacted by Tracker and need to locate my unit. I have had the rear seats out and found nothing. I've had my head under the dash too. The thing is, i don't even know what it looks like, i assume it is NOT going to have TRACKER slapped all over it?

If any one has a picture of a Tracker unit they could PM or E-Mail to me, that would be a great help. As it's f'ing freezing out and i don't really want to be stripping the dash if i can avoid it. It wasn't a factory fit so i can't see it being too far in the depths. It is looking like a cold one for me tomorrow.

Any help greatly appreciated. Ta.

 

It' a little black box which will most likely be under the dash near the centre consol stuck on the loom. You will struggle to find it your better of going to an auto electrician or auto audio outlet and get them to locate it for you.

 

odds on its under the glovebox right up underneath FITTED TO THE MAIN BRACE thats goes right across the dashboard little black box about the size of a *** packet with all the wires coming out black hope this helps

 

Just out of interest what do Tracker want you to do once you've found it???

I have no idea where mine is either if they ever asked me to do the same.

Tony.

 

Thanx lads.

Tone Loc, i'll post the reasons later.

 

If its a classic, ive seen them fitted down in the drivers footwell behind the bit of plastic trim on the right hand side, kind of next to throttle pedal..

 

i have seen them there before too,just drop the glove box down and take a look.

 

Ummm... When I had a tracker fitted at the dealership they refused to tell me where it is due to security reasons and people knowing where it is so that the car cannot be taken without the tracker being removed first. Did get a certificate to show I had one though....

 

ask tracker if they know the engineer who fitted it, they can then contact him, different fitters have a favourate places to fit them i have had 2 fitted in the past and they were both in different places to the above

 

Can you PM them please.

Yeah, i have tried to contact the company that fitted it but no joy. Can't even find any archive topics about them on the net.

I'll get in there tomorrow and see whats what.

Have done alot of searching online and it seems that most aftermarket fitters tend not hide them too well. So i shouldn't get too cold, hopefully.

 

They need a permanent live feed and earth so are often cut into the wiring going up the steering column to the ignition switch. If you don't have too many other gadgets spliced in then you can maybe work back from the supply feeds.

Kevin

 

Under the rear parcel shelf

 

When my car was off the road for over a month, i got a call from tracker saying that my battery was low. Tracker came out to replace the battery, 5 hours latter the tracker engineer gave up and fitted another. So i now have 2 working trackers. LOL

 

You should not be relating this information to the World IMHO

 

What telling some one that i have 2 trackers. LOL, behave dude. If they want to try and steal it. A tracker will be the least of there worries.

 

sounds dodgy to me, the reason I say this is I'm a registered Tracker installer and when the tracker is installed they are informed where abouts on the vehicle the said unit is located on the instalation form, So why do they want to know where it is ??

as Tracker told me when training if the customer knows where it is it's no good as its easilly found and removed.

 

i found mine when i fitted my gauges

 

+1

to me it sounds dodgy also, how hard the tracker is to find depends on how lazy the fitter is and how many he has to do in a day, i have seen them fitted any where.

 

Did you get any means of identification from them to seem genuine? Alarm bells would be ringing for me

 

No - I was refering to listing every place that a tracker may be fitted.

 

Me too ! The only reasons I know I have one are a certificate and a flat battery when I don't use the car over winter !

 

Car theives can find them easily enough anyway

 

Cheers for that Moley. Proper reassuring you are.

 

If they are a professional car thief they Tracker will be out within 2 minutes unfortunately

 

They have not asked me to find it. They have mearly informed me that i seem to have a problem. I'm locating it of my own back. If there are no obvious faults then i suppose it will be down to the likes of your self to replace it for me. If it's just a case of a dodgy earth/live then i will sort it.

If they have no idea what i'm talking about when i ring them back tomorrow then i may start to get a bit jumpy.

 

Great read for all the tea leaves amongst us!

TX.

 

so why are they a pre requisite for most impreza insurance schemes then?

 

I fitted a tracker from ebay you can track yourself via mobile sms 60-80 quid, loads of other features
I bet the tracker firms dont want them to catch on and ruin their rip off prices

 

a) They're not (not the ones i use anyway)
b) Only the professional ones know what they're doing, most don't have a clue

 

Rob, The tracker dude ie, employed by tracker, had the location code, but it wasn't there. But my signal strength was good etc. Nothing dodgy about that. I had a laugh with the first installer, about how easy they were to find. So i think that is why the other guy couldn't find it.