I want to put a tracking device on my car

[Auggie56]

I've been looking, at a couple but I want a no-monthly fee. Any suggestions?

 

[jimt1971rr]

I have an Apple Air Tag in my car. It is paired to my IPhone and unless it is at home and I get a bit away from it, I will get a notification on my phone. Of course, you have to have an iPhone for it to work.

 

[Takoctopus]

I do this also, use airtags

 

[kiwigtx]

Put a bag of crystal meth under the back seats..... Police drug dogs will be chasing all the time.

You'll never lose the car.

 

[OKDart]

I have an Apple Air Tag in my car. It is paired to my IPhone and unless it is at home and I get a bit away from it, I will get a notification on my phone. Of course, you have to have an iPhone for it to work.

If the thief has an Iphone, their phone will tell them it's there, and then the Airtag will start beeping so they can find it. Here's a video showing how to remove the speaker, seems like they should just be optional from the start.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Just a few bananas…

 

[Car #4]

Following.

 

[BMosely]

How much money and time do you have invested in your car? Spend a few bucks and get Optimus. Battery operated and rechargeable. Get the waterproof magnetic case and it can be tucked anywhere inside or outside of the car. I seem to be getting 45 days or so before recharging but your settings will make this vary. Movement alarms can be set to hit your phone.

Optimus

 

[Coelacanth]

Put a bag of crystal meth under the back seats..... Police drug dogs will be chasing all the time.

You'll never lose the car.

Just don't forget about it when you cross a border...

 

[kiwigtx]

Just don't forget about it when you cross a border...

Mehico, Californiastan or Canadia ?

 

[Coelacanth]

Mehico, Californiastan or Canadia ?

If you've been following Canadian politics lately, it's either Chinada or Canadistan.

 

[kiwigtx]

If you've been following Canadian politics lately, it's either Chinada or Canadistan.

...or Candidia


You can get cream for that.

 

[33 IMP]

The trunk monkey series of adverts were the BEST!

 

[tmaleck]

I sell GPSandTrack brand at my store. They come with 2 years service included, a third year is $20. Self contained battery lasts 2-3 years (no recharging), so no draw on the car. Comes with Geofencing and more. Uses an app on your phone. These are non descript waterproof plastic boxes, 6 inches long, not obvious at all.
Best part is they do not use Air Tag or wireless networks, so not easy to find. They use GPS signals for location and cellular for communication, much more robust. I've had several successful recoveries, very easy to do.
For a 50k+ car my shop had a great idea. Put one in a fairly easy to find place and another in a more difficult place. Thieves find the easy one and stop looking. That's my plan for the Charger among other things.

 

[tmaleck]

I sell GPSandTrack brand at my store. They come with 2 years service included, a third year is $20. Self contained battery lasts 2-3 years (no recharging), so no draw on the car. Comes with Geofencing and more. Uses an app on your phone. These are non descript waterproof plastic boxes, 6 inches long, not obvious at all.
Best part is they do not use Air Tag or wireless networks, so not easy to find. They use GPS signals for location and cellular for communication, much more robust. I've had several successful recoveries, very easy to do.
For a 50k+ car my shop had a great idea. Put one in a fairly easy to find place and another in a more difficult place. Thieves find the easy one and stop looking. That's my plan for the Charger among other things.

Or you could use a vulcia necklace. IYKYK

 

[1STMP]

Had LoJack installed in a car
at time of purchase. No
monthly charge.

 

[kiwigtx]

I heard a few years ago that you could get Microdots mixed in the paint - but I guess the technology to read and locate them is not wide-spread enough to make it viable.

 

[Stereolab42]

LandSeaAir54 tracker:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XVZ6Y4T?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Unit is dirt-cheap and extremely reliable. Easy to hardwire into the 12v system (get a 12v USB port on Amazon, also dirt cheap) and it's smart enough not to draw too much power so you can have it on continuous 12v and it won't affect your car battery at all even sitting for many weeks. (And it has a battery of its own so if disconnected from the car 12v it can last weeks by itself.) There is a monthly fee because it uses the cell network but you gotta pay to play if you value your car.

 

[themechanic]

A friend of mine sells GPS tracking devices. They're around $100 for the installation and first year's subscription and $12/year after that.

 

[33 IMP]

I had LoJack on a car I had that was stored in Arizona, while I was still living in california. Didn't help, cause it was stolen out of my garage and I didn't know it for a few weeks. The LoJack was registered to a close family friend that I bought the car from, neither of us knew it had been stolen. The car was absolutely ruined to make it look different than it did when it was mine.
Oh, almost forgot. It was used in home invasion robberies, and (I think) stolen by someone in my neighborhood, because it was abandoned, out of gas, on someone's sidewalk, within hours of our showing up in az and realizing it was stolen (along with the house being broken in)
Police have done nothing, hardly a surprise.