Ever mislaid your VTS fob and need it in a hurry?

Want to burgle you neighbour's house to steal their Porsche and want to know where they keep their VTS fob?

You just need:



and couple it up to a receiver that will do 433 MHz and bob's your uncle.

(I can track mine pretty accurately from about a 1/4 mile)

 

Uh oh. It's those ham operators at it again.

 

It's just standard falconry telemetry equipment. I tried it the other night out of interest.

I now turn my fob off every night. It doesn't seem much point having a secret fob if someone can track it in a matter of seconds.

 

How do you turn it off? Remove batteries?

 

The fob has a rubberised button on the front (or the back if you turn it over) just press and hold it for a few seconds and the fob turns off. Press it once and it comes to life again.

If you forget to turn it on - or leave it in the house - the car will give you a bong and display a warning on the small display before the car phones home and alerts the network centre.

 

Crikey. That is great. So much to discover.

 

I think they allow 5 false call-outs per year before they start hitting you with charges. Here it's £205 per year for the VTS contract, I'm guessing it's something similar where you are?

My old Cayenne had a system from Tracker which worked very well - I'd have stuck with them if it was an option. I had a Cayenne stolen a few years back - I'd had it 3 weeks and we had the house broken into at night to steal the keys. Have been a bit overly security conscious ever since.

 

IMHO,Being security conscious is NEVER an over reaction
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