O/T DIY Tracker (and you catch the theifing *****)

[STi_Bandit]

First off you need an old mobile phone,
oldish Nokias are best, you most likely have a spare somewhere.

You also need a charger cable that goes into a cigarette lighter socket
and a pay as you go sim card.

The first thing you need to do is register
the spare mobile to a tracking service, these were set up so

parents can easily trace the whereabouts of their children at all times
without bothering them.


http://www.followus.co.uk/index.html


http://www.childlocate.co.uk/


http://www.verilocation.com/

There are lot of these sites, just do a search for "mobile phone tracking"

Each service will offer something
different, tariffs, track cost, accuracy etc so it's worth trawling
through some and comparing the services like for like.

Once the mobile phone is registered it can be tracked online for a small
fee.

All we need to do now is to conceal it in
the car, don't just stick it in the drawer.

think carefully about your options, there is plenty of room behind the
dash for a start.

This is the only technical part, you either
have to extend the back of the lighter socket or cut the lighter plug off
the charger and wire it to a switched power supply (stereo, cigarette
lighter socket etc).

What ever way you do it you have to have power to the phone for obvious
reasons.

Even if the battery is disconnected
straight after the car is stolen you still have about 5 days on the
phone's internal battery to locate the car.

Is that all?

Depends if you want to go the whole hog,
you can have some fun if you are a little inventive.

On your phone options you should have
something like "auto answer".

If you select this you can call your phone and it will answer without
ringing.

You will then be able to hear the person in your car.

If you install a hands free car kit you can
even talk to them, imagine how freaked out they'd be.

If you have a phone that does polyphonic
ring tones you could put police sirens on as a ring tone

to try and persuade them to stop.

One other possibility is to wire the petrol
pump to a normally open relay and have it so the pump

turns off when the phone rings. This is only any good if the car is being
driven though, it's unlikely

unless your keys were stolen or you were carjacked.

Now it's up to you.

[uk_Mo]

That sounds like an excellent idea...but im really drunk right now. so i will read it in the morning lol

 

Mo

[andrew_whitelaw]

Mo,

you need 30p for the phone now! got another 10?

[shugo]

IF any one wants plans on how to build these i have sheets printed of as i used to do ese on ebay last year .

even just set your kids phones up so you can track them . Only bad point is when you set one of these up in the car the fork and knife knows where you are .

[uk_Mo]

Mo,

you need 30p for the phone now! got another 10?

 

Thanks m8 have changed it now lol...robbing barstewards

 

Mo