Trackers

hi there, I have just joined this forum and wish to share my experience with fitting a tracker and the responses from my insurance company

I have recently had a tracker fitted to one of my land rovers, the tracker is called Trackstar and is a category 6 Thatcham approved unit, professionally fitted and with a call out charge, totalling over £250.00. Then there is the monitoring subscription of £399 for three years (non transferable if I sell it) which works out at around £11.00 per month. So far so good.
My insurance company assured me that there would be big savings on my premium which would make fitting the tracker worthwhile, apparently this is not true, I am only saving around £3.00 to £4.00/ month on my premium which makes it a costly exercise especially when I take into account the purchase, fitting and monitoring costs of the unit.
I am now questioning whether it's worth fitting trackers to vehicles at all as it seems there is no financial benefit!
I'm interested to hear others views.

Harry.

Hmmmm....not for insurance perhaps, but a cheap and effective one with GPS and Geo-Fence alarm for less than £20 does at least give you peace of mind and a reasonable chance of tracking down your landy should it go astray

Welcome

It's worth fitting a tracker to a tratter. Insurance will only discount for top notch systems like tracker UK provide. All others get minor discount if any. Normally £5 to £15 only. Problem is they're only discounting the risk of theft element. If this is already low then there's nowt to discount. If the vehicle is too high risk then nothing will bring down insurance cost.

welcome to the forum