bike gps trackers

[mysterious_rider]

hello guys,
I recently bought one of those gps trackers, fitted it, hardwired it to a 12-5v stepdown supply, and it works perfect. For one goddamn week. It will turn itself off for no reason, with a full battery. It cannot be fixed.

have any of you actually tried these trackers, and had them/tested them for longer than a week.

any help would be amazing, coming across chinese rubbish at the moment.

I bought another, that literally snapped as i pushed the simcard in. They all seem to be tatt, my budget is probably 50-80 for one.


oh also it HAS to be one you wire in, i dont like maintenance.

cheers.
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[P.addy]

https://www.rewiresecurity.co.uk/concox-gt100-gps-gsm-gprs-live-ip65-weatherproof-motorcycle-tracking-device

[Pigeon]

I bought a cheap, £25-30 Rewire Security Chinese GPS tracker around Feb I think because of a change in parking situation.

It worked fine up until a few weeks ago when it behaved as you described. Full battery and it would turn itself off (after warning of 5% battery).

I found that constant adding/removing of the battery had made the plastic cage inside stretch enough to make the battery too loose.

I am now using a snapped off cocktail stick end to jam down one side to force the battery to make contact.

Its not great, but works and I CBA to do any more than that.

[mysterious_rider]

Paddys option looks nice . i may wait for more replies first.


I went one step further, i epoxied the sim card, i then jammed the battery with folded up paper, and epoxied it all together .


Still does it . useless.
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[NutsyUk]

The geek in me wants to say, build your own tracker :p surprisingly easy if you have the time... and or know a little programming with android or ardunio :p
Sorry i cant be much help
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[B0ndy]

Like yourself I gave the chinky "less than a takeaway" priced GPS a try, it didn't turn out too well - I used to message it and sometimes it would reply with aload of nonsense and sometimes wouldn't reply with anything.

Que "you get what you pay for brigade".

[mysterious_rider]

Yeah i got a tk102. Shame. It works well when its on.


I dont wanna waste 70 on one unless it does what it says on the tin . so ideally want some sort of review off someone.
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[MCN]

You paid £50 for a GPS tracker and expect ?????

Since you don't want to spend any 'real' money on a tracker (to help protect what you cherish/value) then I won't respond to this thread.


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[Rogerborg]

I'm not even going to read it.

[Marineti]

Well, that it is with these cheap chinese manufactured devices. You get what you pay. Actually there is another problem with these cheap trackers. A lot of them are incompatible with popular gps softwares. I was assured by one software provider gpswox that any tracker is compatible with software. But that it is - you have to buy a separate vehicle tracking software separately from tracking device.

[goonerfromlag]

Got fed up with all the faff with one of those rewire units as well. If it's worth doing biketrac ftw.
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