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midlifecrisis said:

Use someone else, I've not had that issue. Admiral/AA happily insure mine without a tracker. I'm sure forum sponsor AIB don't either.

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It is indeed AIB who I insure with. The two cars of mine they insist on Trackers for are both Ferrari's though. I think rules change over certain values. Believe me I don't want to pay £304 each for two trackers. No visible benefit for the money!

Both Adrian Flux & AIB have insured mine without a tracker - even if living on the drive

Yup, tracker. Annual subscription required about £300 a year

schell70 said:

Both Adrian Flux & AIB have insured mine without a tracker - even if living on the drive

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What cars please? Would love to "down negotiate the need for "trackers as the cars are locked away in a garage without windows and doors and when they go out they are always within sight.

I’m with Admiral, no tracker required on 2008 GranT, parked in driveway.

Phil the Brit said:

It is indeed AIB who I insure with. The two cars of mine they insist on Trackers for are both Ferrari's though. I think rules change over certain values. Believe me I don't want to pay £304 each for two trackers. No visible benefit for the money!

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You have my sympathy, that's just pants.

Phil the Brit said:

What cars please? Would love to "down negotiate the need for "trackers as the cars are locked away in a garage without windows and doors and when they go out they are always within sight.

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Neither my GT nor my 4200 had trackers active.

Jag the same. No quotes for Bentleys or AMs specified trackers required either.

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Cquadphil said:

I’m with Admiral, no tracker required on 2008 GranT, parked in driveway.

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Ditto.
Tracker doesn't work at home or environs anyway. No signal.

They asked me to drive to where I could get a signal in order to do a system check. 20 minutes later.
Probably on GSM2 hardware.
Pointless for most of the time and cancelled after 3 years.

I've never had a tracker requirement from Insurance Company on any of my cars ever. Maybe it depends on your postcode?

Me neither. Never been required to have a tracker (or garage anything for that matter) both cars and bikes. Insurance went through the roof when I moved to Sandiacre for work once though.

Doesn't the insurance form say 'Do you have a tracker fitted' - yes, I do - doesn't work anymore but it's fitted!

Likewise

Phil the Brit said:

What cars please? Would love to "down negotiate the need for "trackers as the cars are locked away in a garage without windows and doors and when they go out they are always within sight.

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That's for my GT

I got my first year paid for when I bought the car .... it was absolute shite.

Kept getting calls and texts from Vodafone when the car hadn't moved and when I forgot to take the fob, not a f#cking thing!

I was expecting a challenge in getting insurance without a tracker but no issues at all ... with the difference in premiums being only £7!!!

I'm with Footman James and yes they offer £100 off with Tracker (that's fitted to my QP5 '08MY) Found the Fob in the glovebox with flat battery, changed, and checked with Voodophone to see whether they could re-establish the account. The Fob shows the account it belonged to on their database. They reckoned that, even though I moved to top of Blackheath the system was disconnected. They wanted over £500 to get it reconnected and working via one of their "agents".

When working, the system will transmit a higher power location signal, switched on by Tracker's control room.
When working in the Met as a dispatcher had experienced both good and bad from this system. One classic yankee was reported stolen and said to be around the Tilbury area -- found to be in a container waiting overseas shipment. Not bad for being totally shrouded by the container...

OTOH, the location given by their control room to us could be wildly out from triangulations given by the cellphone masts' locations.

Hawk13 said:

I got my first year paid for when I bought the car .... it was absolute shite.

Kept getting calls and texts from Vodafone when the car hadn't moved and when I forgot to take the fob, not a f#cking thing!

I was expecting a challenge in getting insurance without a tracker but no issues at all ... with the difference in premiums being only £7!!!

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Hence my earlier point of shelling out £300-500 for an annual saving of £7.