Working for toyota i install lojacks daliy, There are two different types of systems, you got your basic system, Then you got a early warning system, The early warning system is setup with your cell, work, house number, The system knows when your car is moved without your keys, and you will get a phone call, Your car must be 12volts, Hope this helps you guys out
"Found" a little something covering this in an unexpected source today. I also have an interest in homebuilt airplanes, and in the August issue of "Kitplanes" magazine, there's an article about a tracking system that will follow your plane, in real time, and one can watch it on your home computer. Seems this system uses a GPS reciever, and a burst data transmitter on the 2-meter ham radio band. Shoots an update every 60 seconds, and it shows up on the website map as a series of dots with a connecting line. (Also has a pretty good article on fire extinguishers.) Might be worth the $5 to pick up a copy and read about it. Roger
Lojack is actually a really good system. I used to sell motorcycles and we installed on tons of bikes. In my area, sportbike theft was huge and Lojack really helped out. We got reports on how long it would take to recover the bikes after they were reported stolen. In many cases it was under an hour, sometimes just a FEW MINUTES. That sold me on the system. One time it led the cops tho a garage that had like 20 stolen bikes in it, some complete, some already disassembled! my 2 cents
Just drive around with your gun on the dash! nothing makes a thief think twice like a nice shinny 357 or 1911!
I was thinking about having LOJACK installed in my car. I'm also going to do some other thief deterrent things to make it hard to steal. But, I know that nothing is 100%. I'll do what I can and hope a "professional" doesn't want my car. I would be sick if someone stole my car, but I would be double sick if I didn't do everything I could to make it hard to steal or found (if stolen).
can you get a used lojack installed in your used car ? there must be 1000s of them in junkyards (if you can find them) does lojack make their money off the unit or the monthly fee? Beaulieu
Each time you add something like LOJACK or a kill switch you are adding a layer to slow thiefs down. One thing I would like to see is a law regarding roll backs. If one is out at 2 AM and not on a call he looses the truck. If you are going for coffee at that time take something else. When traveling and at a motel for the night I try to park within sight of the front desk and also in a tight spot where it would be difficult to get a rollback/wrecker to.
Considering I just moved my car today and noticed that someone has been chillin' in the front seat(found a shirt, some sunglasses, magazines, and most frightening a rubber wizard of oz 'tinman' mask!! Talk about freaky!) anyway it wouldn't have taken a minute for someone to hotwire that thing and drive off in it. I've gotta do *something*, and a kill switch is the obvious easy first choice. When I drove around in central america(in an o/t car) I had a battery quick disconnect and padlocked the hood It sure couldn't hurt to make it a little harder to steal the thing. I don't think I'm willling to pony up for lojack or anything, but it doesn't sound like a bad idea. If the flatbed the damn thing, well Lojack is about the only chance you have of getting it back. That's *IF* the LAPD feels like chasing it down that day, and that's real iffy IMHO. As another person said, it's really tough to get them to show up for anything. If my car gets ripped off though, man that $500 recovery system is going to look like it would've been a real bargain. EDIT: I think the odds of your car getting flatbedded and the thief having a jamming device and the device actually *working*, are not that great. Just my guess though.
I lost 2 cars to rollbacks , neith ran so there was no way they were driven away, Cops do not care, you figure someone in the middle of the night has a junk car on a rollback , WHY ohh well.... Beaulieu
Well, we run a privately owned rollback - sometimes it's been used as a daily because everything else was broke down. So you can't outlaw those too. If you have a high dollar car, it's worth the money. If you have a '58 Rambler 4-door, you can probably leave the keys in it at night. I'd just install 2 or 3 kill switches in one car, that should stop anyone trying to drive it away - most thieves want to be gone, quickly. They're not going to take 10 minutes to find all of them and figure out which ones are real. And if you mount a couple razor blades to the top, that's also going to make them want to give up.
Hook TNT to a cell phone put it under the drivers seat. Cant find the car call the cell phone and look for smoke.
im an investigator and we use the www.gpssnitch.com very cheap and can be hardwired. even if they cut the battery if you hide it good , the internal battery will last 6 days, plenty of time to find the thieves. it even transmits from inside a building,shop , hideout..
Well if its in the 2 meter amateur band you will need an fcc radio license to use it and it better be fcc approved.. Now if its outside of the actual band with we hams use then thats different but i wonder how they license it... Dave N8DC
We spoke to a guy who returned to the parking lot only to find the LoJack where his car was. I also spoke to a theif who said he wouldn't screw with a car that had a Viper alarm (sticker). He'd skip to the next one.
****************************************** You're right, Dave......(sorry, forgot to add that.). Yeah, that article indicated one would have to get a "technician's" license in order to operate it, and claimed that it was about the easiest way. 'Course, for a pilot, it would probably be a piece of cake compared to passing the private pilot's exam. A couple thoughts about adding layers..........a magnetic reed switch in the bottom of a cupholder, with the magnet glued to the bottom of your "daily" coffee cup? (Yeah, I know....how goldchainer.) Half a dozen two-position switches labeled "ignition", and all six of them are in the circuit. Seems the thief would always be turning half of them off, and half of them on. Roger
i use a tracker in my trailer with a solar panel flushed in the roof and my tracker is also on top . not a place usually looked at ,and also cops serve little purpose in life .i never travel with out my guns .i can get my stuff back my self also my trailer has my shop name in 14 inch letters most people think i have a big ego but its part of my recovery plan it stands out and hard to remove along with a trailer light ground kill its the only thing that cops care about at night thats just my take on the subject
So this is in addition to the radio liscence the plane is already supposed to have, or is this for before you complete it?
Quick idea that come to me while reading this tread. Hidden emergency break so it can't be putt into a trailer/container and a electric shut off to the fuel line, is there something like that already?
When I was driving Buses back home in London, there was a spate of joyriders stealing them....so London Transport installed something very similar on every single bus in the fleet, it worked VERY well.
im sure theres got to be a way to install them in a not so sophisticated car..it seems to just be an inter lock type of device. just another way to make a kill switch atleast thats the way it comes off to me
They don't make any claims for indoor usage. They do say that it uses tracking via the GSM wireless network it operates on. Please see my previous post, I outline why GPS DOES NOT work inside and why GSM/CDMA tracking CAN work indoors.
It is a kill switch, it has 4 wires, you can "kill" 2 different systems, when you take the plug with you the 2 systems are cut off, it is usually mounted in plain sight, the wires that run from it are in a steel cable. It can go in ANY car.
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