The Importance of a Tracker

charlie9038
charlie9038 Forum Participant Posts: 11
edited October 2018 in Your stories #1

Last month I was horrified when our 2016 Swift Bolero had been stolen in the night off our drive.

I thought that I would never see her again, however I was lucky as I had paid my renewal subs for the fitted tracker.

I phoned Tracker & they turned the signal on, I was very surprised an hour later the police called me to say they have secured the Motorhome and asked if I could collect it.

So off we went to collect our pride & joy.

On arrival the number plates had been changed to diplomatic plates and the locks and igniton intact, apart from a few items in the cupboards removed it was all intact, they even took the trouble to push the wing mirrors in as it was parked in a side road.

I have now recovered the van and had a very good alarm & immobilser fitted, I have somehow managed to get my keys copied as the locks etc are all intact.

Without the Tracker I am sure I would not have got my Motorhome back

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  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited October 2018 #2

    Good to hear you got your van back, do you know how the van was removed in the first place?

  • charlie9038
    charlie9038 Forum Participant Posts: 11
    edited October 2018 #3

    Hi that was what i wanted to know as well, speaking to several people it would seem that my keys have been copied, I had a security specailist  confirm that this is easily done even with a chipped key which i have on a fob. The only people that have had my keys are the dealer where i had a habitation service done which took them 4 weeks to finish, enough time to get a key copied. But I cannot proove this. So as far as i am concerned they are in the frame.

    I even asked them recently if its possible to get keys copied and they told me its really easy, just go to timsons  and they can even copy the chip. They do not know that it was stolen btw.

    Either that or a skeleton key is available for Fiats, but that doesnt explain how they got through the factory fitted immobiliser.

     

     

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