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Hi all im new to this site i've been caravaning for a couple of years now and im gonna buy an elddis advante club 556 2009 model im worried that its gonna be a target for theives and im thinking of getting a tracker for it are they worth it? And which is better the monitored tracker or the pager type where it sends you a text message

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mark

When our last caravan was stolen from our drive, it was found because the police were following a tracker signal looking for a stolen Senator. Our caravan was found in the same place as it along with aother aravan & a number of other stolen vehicles.

This is only my/our opinion, but I personally wouldn't want a tracker in our caravan simply because I wouldn't want it back after the filth who stole ours had been in it. I wish they'd never found ours, we kept it for a few months after it was returned to us but we didn't feel the same about it & decided to sell it.

I've got a tracker in my lorry, I don't know if the ones in caravans are paid for the same way but I paid a life of ownership fee for mine & it's monitored 24/7. When I sell it, the new owner will have the option to pay again to have the tracker activated. I would want the lorry back because it pays the bills but the caravan just never felt right after they'd had it for a day.

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Quote: Originally posted by Basilbrush on 24/4/2010

This is only my/our opinion, but I personally wouldn't want a tracker in our caravan simply because I wouldn't want it back after the filth who stole ours had been in it. I wish they'd never found ours, we kept it for a few months after it was returned to us but we didn't feel the same about it & decided to sell it.

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I know exactly how you feel.  Once ours had gone we didn't want it back.  'Fortunately' it was never recovered and we had a new van from the insurance company.  The only thing I really regret loosing was my Father's old wooden mallet - useful for banging in the awning pegs - it was of sentimental value.

I stepped into my caravan today and got a phonecall from the tracker company to tell me that they had spotted movement in my van.

Normally I do not switch off the system unless I am actually moving the van but today it must have gone into super sensitive made.

However, it is nice to know that such a small amount of movement will activate the tracker system.

As to whether it is worth it or not, well I am saving over £200 a year on my van insurance because I have the tracker system fitted

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Hi Knightwarrior, This is the way that all tracker companies work.

Our Tracker was bought through, and fitted by, a company called Driven.

But our Tracker is monitored by a company called SmartTrack.

With SmarTrack you can make a one off (for life) payment, which we did and last year we upgraded this to cover the whole of Europe.

With the savings I get on my insurance because of the Tracker System, I will have saved the cost of the unit and the tracking service within 3 years.

Tracker and I mean the real Tracker and not the generic name for them is the only company who are solely used and operated by the British Police Force, A large amount of police vehicles have the abiltity to track stolen vehicles with on board equipment, including all police helicopters.

Other companies liase with the police but do not have the ability or their own equipment fitted to police vehicles.

The genuine tracker is the only way to go!

Things may of changed in an ever increasing market, but doubt it.

We had a Phantom tracker fitted to our van when we bought it a couple of years ago.

Last year, I inadvertantly drove off without disarming the tracker. Within a quarter of a mile the Phantom control centre were on the phone to us telling us our van was on the move. Very embarrasing for me but it proved just how efficient they are