morto

ok im looking at taking my tracker off , im not going to be activating it and have a very bad battery drain, ive only just bought the car and new this when i bought it.. looking back at all the paperwork it hasent been activated in over 6years, ive looked on other forums and people have had this same issue of battery drain cus of the tracker, if the tracker battery's are fucked it will be constantly using the main battery, any help on location are were to start

andy

Minirotty

Thief!!!!

S1

The whole point of tracker installations is they go somewhere random, no point putting them all in the same place otherwise they're too easy to rip out. You just have to start stripping the interior until you find it. Could be behind the dash or rear quarter trim or boot etc. Once you find it trace the wires back to wherever they're spliced into the loom and remove them from there, recover the loom with some heatshrink or self-amalgamating tape.

morto

thanks mate, as said it hasent been activated in over 6 years so the battery's will deff be no good , will start to look

andy

Jasesapphy

iTrader: (1)

Both mine were in centre pillers where seat belt goes

Mk4 Lew

iTrader: (1)

like that dosnt sound dodgy lol

morto

lol.. stu has my name and addressee ive had my s2 worked on many times by kenny a few years ago.. lol........

update on this took me around 45 mins to find one tracker that has GSM and gps.. but i now think there could be 2 trackers on this as all the info on it dont relate to www,tracker.com
unless they used this equipment back in 2002

andy

Mk4 Lew

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it like what my mate saw on ebay a car with a smashed window and no ignition barrel

rubinsbin

just leave it ------------why would you want to remove it????
tracker wont tell you either where it is

morto

do you think im taking it off for fun mate!! they use rechargeable battery's, the units over 6 years old could be as old as 1999, i have a battery drain , the tracker will be constantly charging the old battery's and now i found there could be 2 units on this car, now wonder it wont hold charge

dojj

iTrader: (3)

you could always use one of them drain clamps to follow the wires

i'm not sure what they are called but they have a readout and a spring loaded claw thing that detects current drain

got to be easier than poking a tester into random wires looking for the power

morto

thanks mate!!! will google one and have a look,,,,


andy

fiestaturbo1984

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always noobs with the stupid comments. i found mine by mistake last week when strippin out my subaru

tabetha

My one is around that age and even left for 4 weeks still starts with it and cat 1 being left, it does turn over ever so slightly slower but nowhere near slow enough not to start, maybe just get a decent battery ?, if not used much try a AGM battery will be a massive improvement but kill the wallet!!
tabetha

vaughant

iTrader: (1)

the device your looking for is called a clip on ammeter,but if youve got an okayish multimeter,you`ll have an ammeter on that. I`m with tabetha that its highly unlikely to be a tracker causing it,mine wasnt activated on the scooby for years and it never drained my battery once,again with a cat 1 etc on it.

The ammeter section of your meter usually requires you to swap the red lead into a different part of your multimeter and you then put it into series with your car battery to see how much current your battery is draining.

If you then start to remove fuses the current should drop off when you find the faulty circuit and then you can trace it back from there.Usually its something like a boot light staying on but i`ve known heated rear screens to get stuck on with a faulty switch contact but not display on the switch/dash etc.An old sound system not removed correctly can also cause probs.

morto

have read on different car forums and alot of people have had loads of trouble with trackers and battery drain, the rac trackstar is very bad for battery drain ive just been on scooby net and there is alot of posts about the trackstar and they do have rechargeable batterys and once they go they drain the main battery

Eigdoog

What does it even look like...?

tabetha

Mine is a trackstar, the other tracker isn't though, I've used these for nearly 15 years and never had issues.
A lot get blamed when not at fault, alarms with lots of add ons, ie cliffords etc can take a serious hammering to your battery.
For the record I use a VARTA BLUE DYNAMIC battery 095, 72ah, cost me Ł50, but 5 year warranty.
tabetha

morto

has anyone herd of a DanTrack DT-100 this is one of the trackers i found, its GSM and gps, but is very old

vaughant

iTrader: (1)

Mine was a proper tracker so maybe thats why it was ok?you can still test it all the same way as unless its wired absolutely directly from the battery or ignition perm live then its more than likely been put through a fused circuit somewhere,if its for something you dont use very often then you could just remove the fuse therefore disabling the wiring to it,save ripping it all out then.

1.9 xr2 on 40's

if you find the box probe the wires til you find the live 1 then cut and tape it, dont fuck with the rest of the wiring, just take out the feed
may need to put it back 1 day too

i know very little about trackers but i do know if you wanted to get round one Ł50 buys you the kit to do it off many websites

morto

this has the proper tracker on it mate, ive got all the paperwork for it and it was last activated around 2005..

vaughant

iTrader: (1)

If your not 100% about the wiring,i`m sure an alarm specialist could remove it for you?

dojj

iTrader: (3)

our vans have trackers in them, with a chip and everything with live data recall etc

Ł7 a month for the sim and it's been the fault of many a battery drain as it's on ALL the time, with the engine running it transmits every 30 seconds or so, with the engine off it transmits every hour so after a few days sitting on the side it kills the battery

1.9 xr2 on 40's

my company didnt want to pay the Ł14 per year for our vans (prob about 100 vans i guess), happy days
and ford removed the speed limit when it wa serviced last too

awesome

morto

thers deff 2 trackers on this car the one ive found is a DanTrack DT-100 here is a right up in 2003 from the scooby net..
http://bbs.scoobynet.com/security-16...o-car2car.html

and says..

Communication between you and your DanTrack DT-100 is extremely convenient and fast: simply use your GSM. Call your DanTrack DT-100, or send an SMS, and within seconds you will see the accurate coordinates in the telephone display. This puts you in full control because you can track your vehicle within a margin of only 15 metres – anywhere on earth.

1. You read the exact coordinates in the display of your GSM phone.

2. Then you look up www.dantrack.com on your computer and enter the coordinates.

3. DanTrack’s WebMap flashes a clear, red dot at the exact location of your vehicle – wherever you are in Europe.

NO SUBSCRIPTION FEES

One investment is all it takes to secure your valuables in future.

There are no alarm centres involved. You are in full control thanks to the direct communication between you and your DanTrack DT-100. So a DanTrack DT-100, a SIM card from your telecom and DanTrack’s WebMap are all it takes to know exactly where your vehicle is. And gone are all the other costly tracking solutions.

so this is deff not a tracker as in www.tracker.com.. so there must be 2

andy