Welcome to my worldAh I remember the good old days of having a tracker in my last car. I left the bloody fob at home more times than I took it with me. Nearly every time I took the car out I got a phone call. I do not miss those days
Tracker subscription... err what? Loophole?
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Ah I remember the good old days of having a tracker in my last car. I left the bloody fob at home more times than I took it with me. Nearly every time I took the car out I got a phone call. I do not miss those days
Exactly, id just attach it to the keys which defeats the point of it, so why pay for a useless service.
Smartrack do offer a version where you have to tap it against a in car sensor, which may be more useful.
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I ended up leaving it in the car. If it got nicked they could still track it so I didn't see the point in me getting a phone call twice a day to tell me I had left the fob at home.
If I was getting additional car security again I'd be getting Autowatch Ghost.
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Drives a nice car, quibbles over £400... just ribbing.
It is quite frustrating with some of these things relating to insurance - seems they just add a 0 or two to the price just because they can and you don't have a lot of options - passed time the industry was much more regulated
insurance companies make like next to nothing from selling insurance
I don't have much sympathy when come renewal it goes LOL prices and you end up having to go elsewhere even if you are otherwise happy with the service. I mean the two most recent increases in my household went from ~£300 to just under £900 in one case and £1075!
EDIT: £330 to 850 and "best" they could do was £695
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they are preying on the ignorant and lazy people. much like any tv, phone, broadband subscription service and as well as any mobile subscription service. as well as utilities or any other form of insurance. basically most things work like this and it pays to shop around as soon as your contract ends.
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So Direct Line posted an operating profit in excess of 600 million in 2017, they must be skint.
To be fair he said from selling insurance implying they make their money from addons and other business but yeah I'm currently with Admiral who've been posting profits in the 400million bracket so they are hardly struggling.
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What if they remove the car using a tow truck?
You can make that very difficult as well, but that isn't how 99.9% of cars are stolen.
I spoke to the md of pace ward and he said to be honest short of an opportunistic theft, gallardos are not prime targets. Too risky, too difficult to move on or get out the country.
He would say that but he has 12 bores everywhere.
Enjoy explaining your loophole if you ever have to claim.
"Your T&Cs don't actually say it has to be on with Cat5 features enabled".
Might explain the package that turned up today then.
Who's the underwriter?
Zenith. Who have also signed off on it with a re issued policy certificate with the active subscription part removed
