datatag bike

[stranger12]

do you think it is worth doing ?

My view is if my bike is stolen , insurance pays me and if found they want it back so what is the point ?

is there any stats showing bikes recovered if they have datatag ?

Has it reduced your premium ?

Thanks
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[staffo]

It reduced my premium. Have seen some threads where people have struggled to prove a recovered bike was theres.

Mine came standard, dunno how much it would cost to do. I guess the Carole Nash DNA thing is pretty similar.
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[BakesBeans]

I was reading about this the other day. My bike has datatag on it, but it costs to change the registration to the new owner.

I don't think it's a huge thing for bikes, as the VRN, VIN proves who owns it. I guess if they were grinded off the frame numbers etc, the datatag will still be there.. however that assumes the chaps in the PDI centre glued the sensors on the bike AND plod has a scanner.

Edit: It was a big thing for Jet Ski's.. when I had one; and Caravans I think.
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[Rogerborg]

Nazi Tractor came with Datatag. The price to re-register it with me was "ask us". In the unlikely event[*] that it's stolen and then identified and recovered because of the tag, it would be owned by my insurer anyway by then, so I didn't bother chasing them to pretty-please take all my monies.

As a deterrent to it being stolen in the first place, putting a "datatag" (or "smartwater" or "alphadot" or../) sticker on the bike will have precisely the same effect.

Is it a significant effect?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorbikes/11332598/Motorcycle-theft-reduced-to-zero-in-London-hotspot.html

Take with a large dose of salt. Everyone involved had reasons to show that this was a success, either by increased visible presence or simply not "recording" (or admitting to have recorded) any thefts.

Still, I'd rather mine had the sticker and yours doesn't.


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https://www.pwcforums.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=63654&PID=565134&title=data-tag#565134

https://www.therevcounter.co.uk/threads/65306-Data-Tag-Is-It-Useless-Then
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[Mudshark]

bike came with datatag, I transferred 'ownership'. not convinced it was worth doing, but you never know, I'm one of the (apparently) few folk who have never had a bike stolen (did have one torched)

I did however get a holograph datatag sticker off eBay to put on the dash, more a deterant than the official datatag label under the seat!

is it worth doing? honestly don't know, if the bike didn't already have datatag I wouldn't have bought the datatag stuff for it

don't think it was asked about on insurance although it may be factored in as all beemers have it.

yeh bike stolen insurance paid out, is there much point, probably not, also not unusual to see bike bits for sale on eBay and they say it's datataged in the ad !?! so hardly a deterrent to handling stolen goods.

recovery stats, cant find all that much but looks like jury is out.

I suppose if your bike was stolen and stripped, then say 2 years later, the recipient bike was in a crash and police got datatag to scan it, they would be able to tell you they had found some bits. yeh big deal
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[Rogerborg]

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