£20 Tracking Systems!!!

[daveb47]

£20 Tracking Systems!!!

Ever fancied a tracker for your pride and joy, but are not prepaired to pay the silly prices for them? Well, with the following instructions, you'll have a tracker which will assist in tracking your car to a specific area, ok it's not going to be at location X like the expensive trackers, but it's better than nothing!

 

What you need!

 

* Mobile phone sim card, ideally Vodaphone for accuracy,

* 1 x Old working mobile phone with a good battery life, i.e Nokia 3310!

* Incar mobile phone charger,

* Subscription to a tracking site, @ £12.

 

How to implement it!

 

1. Insert the simcard into a fully charged phone,

2. Connect the incar charger to the phone and permanently connect it to a fused +12v power source,

3. Turn all sounds, notifications and vibrations OFF!, therefore it doesn't matter who call's the phone, no one will hear

4. Hide the mobile phone connected to the +12v supply out of site, in the last place to be exposed if the car is stripped. Ideally with some sort of cushion to avoid that annoying vibration while driving .

5.Go online and search for a tracking site, i.e FOLLOWUS.COM, once registered with the above mentioned fee, you'll be able track your mobile phone

 

Providing the phone is suitably hidden and powered up, in town the tracking range is about 50 - 300 meters and out of town the range accuracy drops to 350 - 550 meters. The accuracy between networks do vari, but the best one is Vodaphone!

 

The above tracking system isn't within 2 - 3 houses but it's allot closer than waiting for a call from the Police!

[Pete-M]

What happens when you park the car for a few days and the battery goes flat because it's been charging the Nokia 24/7 ?

 

Or is it now a "£20 Tracking and Immobiliser System"?

 

Just wondering, like.

[Volksy]

I guess if you wired the charger in to a Ignition switched power source it wouldn't drain the battery. With a full charge a Nokia 3310/3210 will last for about a week, if no calls are made, ask D. Hirst.

[Pete-M]

Spose you could be right.

[Volksy]

Although, I doubt even a Nokia brick would stand fragging, or fire, which to be honest is probably what is going to happen to any of the shite I've got if it gets nicked

[Pete-M]

I reckon it'd be more reliable to train a dwarf to live in the glovebox and draw pictures.

[Volksy]

Yep, given what i remember mobile reception to be like on those....

[pompei]

Don't use an O2 sim card or you'll never find it if it's lost in Lincolnshire ...

[maxpower]

I reckon it'd be more reliable to train a dwarf to live in the glovebox and draw pictures.

 

this made me

[M'coli]

Don't use an O2 sim card or you'll never find it if it's lost in Lincolnshire ...

why do I get the impression that you haven't posted that using an O2 broadband dongle???

[Guest Len H]

I'm surprised O2 has a bad reputation in most of the UK, it's the only consistent mobile network in the Highlands, Orange being especially poor.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I've always fancied doing this, and I look into it every time there's a report of a stolen car. An imperfect £20 tracker must be better than nothing (unless the charger overheats and burns the car out).

[scooters]

I have phones with T-mobile and a work one with 02 - old work one was with Orange who were pish.

 

T-Mobile quite good these days as you can piggyback Orange network - T-mobiles 3G network is superb and unlimited Web&Walk is very good cost effective.

 

O2 - much more reliable signal though BT Cellnet were one of the first networks and bagged the best locations for their cells and nodes.

 

- a truly shit tracker solution though - well done!

[Father Ted]

(unless the charger overheats and burns the car out).

 

DONT buy Poundland 2 way fag lighter and USB sockets. Just used mine with the air compressor to pump up a bike tyre and had to launch a blob of molten plastic out of the window and onto next doors driveway thanks to its super melting ability.

[Cavcraft]

Pah, surely one of the best ways to find a stolen car is if it's on fire?

[Justin Case]

For many here, a device to enable them to track a stolen mobile phone with their car may be more useful

[Pillock]

Use a switched feed - my work Nokia 2332 (most basic of the basic) lasts around 5 days in use, and well over a week if I don't use it without charge.

For a few extra quid you can have proper tracking - PAYG Android phones are less than £80 in some places, and I've got some free software called Wavesecure which turns the GPS on and then tracks it to a couple of metres. It'll also draw you a nice map of where it's been, and there's similar software that does all that plus can activate the microphone so you can hear what's going on.