Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: P @ F on July 01, 2017, 08:52:24 pm
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Just been playing with DIY motoring up my reel , blew a fuse and found this little badger in my dash ?
What the heck is it , solid green light and flashing red lights , think its uploading or planning on exploding :o :o :o
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Pic would help ....
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It's a tracker , someone's watching your every move 😱
Cut that $hit out of your van
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Is it mine to cut out though ?
The van is second hand but it is on monthly repayment , no mention of it on paperwork , i do hope that the finance co have not done this , previously it was fleet with a catering co , maybe they kept an eye on the engineers ?
Seems weird to leave it in though eh ?
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Maybe they forgot to take it out , however I'm sure it's illegal to track someone else van .... in fact , I'd call the police
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Just done a search on Coldstar which is written on the tracker , its a refridgeration co in Bristol , hope its just a case of me still having their tracker !
Think i will ring them on Monday to find out .
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Yeah definitely give them a ring but I'd also call the police for advice on someone having a tracker fitted to your van
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Got me thinking now , i only got one key with the van .......Where is the other ? :o
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Is it mine to cut out though ?
The van is second hand but it is on monthly repayment , no mention of it on paperwork , i do hope that the finance co have not done this , previously it was fleet with a catering co , maybe they kept an eye on the engineers ?
Seems weird to leave it in though eh ?
No its not yours to cut out and you could be held responsible for 'damage' to third party property if you do.
The previous company should have had it removed before selling the van on.
https://www.ramtracking.com/vehicle-tracking-systems/van-tracking/
Most of these trackers are billed monthly so it could be that the previous owner doesn't know and RAM will just keep invoicing them. It could be that the right hand just doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
Its not an impossibility that a job order was made to remove the tracker, the job charged and never done by a dishonest employee.
I would certainly report it to the previous company. I would also be asking what happened to the second key. If the van has an electric fuel pump I would be discreetly adding an on/off switch into the fuel line to cut power to the fuel pump as an additional security measure sooner rather than later.
About 5 years ago my sister in law asked me if I would be prepared to quote on internal and external window cleaning of their company on a monthly basis. The business was part of a blue chip organisation who decided to sell off that section to the existing management.
So office cleaning was now the responsibility of the 'new' management.
Their original cleaners have continued to clean the windows on a monthly basis but the 'new' company has never received or paid a single invoice for the service. So nobody says a word. Its not a small job either. It takes a cleaner a couple of days to do the job. So for the past 5 years someone else has been paying for a service they aren't receiving. How poor is that that a company can have so little control over their accounts department regarding services they pay for yet don't receive?
Perhaps this is similar.
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I will consider that Spruce , never thought of that to be honest cheers ;)
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That's an old tracker. Does it not just unplug? The newer ones do.
I'd cut it out either way. No one is going to do you with anything, if somebody notices it's been removed then they've been tracking you without your knowledge, which is illegal.
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If you cut it out how will they find you to ask you about it ;)
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this might be a RF tracker rather than a gps one, which is only activated by the company should the van be stolen.
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Think i will look for a plug first , unplug and start the van , wasnt sure if it could immobilise too , if it then starts then its time to meet my little tin snips !
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It might be a bomb. I'd carry out a controlled explosion.
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If the van has an electric fuel pump I would be discreetly adding an on/off switch into the fuel line to cut power to the fuel pump as an additional security measure sooner rather than later.
How difficult to do is this Spruce, say on a mk6 transit?
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Well its out ,its GPS and GSM , nothing in the RF , i took it out about 4.30 , now 8.30 and all the light are still flashing , i can only assume its got a rechargable back up inside , never mind i will be free one day ;D ;D ;D
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Just leave it on a bus? Actually maybe a bad idea. :-X
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Just leave it on a bus? Actually maybe a bad idea. :-X
;D ;D ;D
I could raffle it on here and sell Dave f the only ticket :-X
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Got me thinking now , i only got one key with the van .......Where is the other ? :o
I would contact them about this, your van will be worth a couple of hundred less without the second key.
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By the time i finish with it , it wont be worth a 5 knuckle shuffle anyway ;D
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If the van has an electric fuel pump I would be discreetly adding an on/off switch into the fuel line to cut power to the fuel pump as an additional security measure sooner rather than later.
How difficult to do is this Spruce, say on a mk6 transit?
Our Citroen vans have an electric fuel pump that sits in the diesel tank. On my Citroen Relay the unit also consists of the float level sender unit. There are 2 wires that are responsible for the pump to work, a positive and a negative. In my case I would identify which wire is the pump positive by using a tester.
When we turn the ignition on the fuel pump runs for a short time to prime the injector pump and then switches off if the ignition is left on. So it won't take long to find.
The idea is to cut this wire back in the harness a bit and extend a twin electric cable into the cabin to an on/off switch in an out of sight easy to reach position - in our case on the left hand side of the driver's seat. The return cable from the switch goes to the wire going to the pump.
This isn't a good fix if you continually crank the engine over trying to start the engine before realising you have forgotten to switch the pump on. A fuel injection pump needs diesel all the time as diesel is a lubricant. But I would rather the cost of having to recondition an injector pump than losing my van and all its equipment. The insurance excess is probably more than repairing the pump anyway. So if you did consider this its at your risk.
Not all vans have electric fuel pumps like our Citroen cars and van have.
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Just spoke to the previous owners , it turns out i was no longer being tracked , unit live but not monitored , the reason they leave the trackers in when they sell the vans is due to the fact that RAM charge £200 +VAT to remove the old units , thats not bad is it , 2 lives , 1 ground .......Snip,snip,snip £240 please sir .
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Just spoke to the previous owners , it turns out i was no longer being tracked , unit live but not monitored , the reason they leave the trackers in when they sell the vans is due to the fact that RAM charge £200 +VAT to remove the old units , thats not bad is it , 2 lives , 1 ground .......Snip,snip,snip £240 please sir .
Why would someone pay that?
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If the van has an electric fuel pump I would be discreetly adding an on/off switch into the fuel line to cut power to the fuel pump as an additional security measure sooner rather than later.
How difficult to do is this Spruce, say on a mk6 transit?
Our Citroen vans have an electric fuel pump that sits in the diesel tank. On my Citroen Relay the unit also consists of the float level sender unit. There are 2 wires that are responsible for the pump to work, a positive and a negative. In my case I would identify which wire is the pump positive by using a tester.
When we turn the ignition on the fuel pump runs for a short time to prime the injector pump and then switches off if the ignition is left on. So it won't take long to find.
The idea is to cut this wire back in the harness a bit and extend a twin electric cable into the cabin to an on/off switch in an out of sight easy to reach position - in our case on the left hand side of the driver's seat. The return cable from the switch goes to the wire going to the pump.
This isn't a good fix if you continually crank the engine over trying to start the engine before realising you have forgotten to switch the pump on. A fuel injection pump needs diesel all the time as diesel is a lubricant. But I would rather the cost of having to recondition an injector pump than losing my van and all its equipment. The insurance excess is probably more than repairing the pump anyway. So if you did consider this its at your risk.
Not all vans have electric fuel pumps like our Citroen cars and van have.
Cheers Spruce, will get it looked at on the next service.