can anyone give me a number or web site for these "quick track" alarms? i am in Sydney too. i want to get a price for a set up. i want to keep my calais with me and not let it get stolen. thanks. either pm me or what ever. i tried looking on google quickly but nothing really came up. thanks again
Dallas
don't worry. i just found it. thanks
http://www.quiktrak.com.au/
yo guys read this.....
The Sydney Morning Herald - 22nd October 2002 by Leonie Lamont
Until January 31 this year, Jenny Bull's early morning arrival at her East Sydney office was so routine you could set a clock by it. Now the lawyer varies the route she takes and the time she arrives - one of the legacies of being car-jacked at gunpoint in her work car park.
Yesterday in the District Court, two men pleaded guilty to charges including aggravated car-jacking - a crime which only made it to the statute books last year and carries a maximum jail sentence of 14 years.
Azzam Warwar, 30, and Ali El Etri, 20, held Ms Bull up at 6.45am, but had possession of her $120,000 silver Porsche Boxster for less than 30 minutes because QuikTrak, a satellite tracking system, was installed in the car.
The Porsche was tracked as the thieves drove towards Mascot. At a signal it was immobilised and glided to a halt into the arms of waiting, armed police.
Warwar and El Etri were convicted of being armed with an offensive weapon, a Jennings self-loading pistol, and assaulting Ms Bull with the intention of taking her vehicle, mobile phone and cash.
Police said Warwar was an illegal immigrant, and would be deported to Lebanon after serving his sentence. But with the acting judge, Donald Stewart, voicing his concern about El Etri being assaulted in prison, the Australian citizen was allowed to remain on $200,000 bail.
Judge Stewart said that "what might, and probably will face this young man - it does not bear speaking about - and it seems the authorities are powerless to do anything," he said.
"I take into account the youth of the prisoner El Etri, the fact he has no prior convictions and the fact he has complied with [daily] reporting conditions."
Ms Bull said that as she was opening the automated garage doors she saw the two men emerge right behind her car, but was unable to close the garage door in time to prevent then rolling under it.
"I think they saw that I was vulnerable, alone, a woman unlikely to fight them. They didn't figure I'd keep my head and had QuikTrak," she said.
After initial trepidation, she has kept her Boxster. "I am entitled to have that car, I have worked hard to get it," she said.
Warwar and El Etri will be sentenced on December 13.
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
you can put what ever number or immoblizes and noise makers you want on a car, truth be told unless you are within hearing distance its not protected. hello tow truck while your out. no one looks at a tow truck with suspicion even with an alarm going unless its someone like us who is wise to it.
i would pay for this system if i had the cash. simply because even if someone tries to take it they will be seen.
Quiktrak is good, but like most have said, it's not 100% a guaranteed that your car will never be pinched never to be seen again. The fact remains if it's installed by someone, it can be 'uninstalled' by someone and in a fraction of the time. They need power to work just like all alarms. If you know how to bypass the backup battery then you're in business...
Also pretty expensive too I reckon. One of my previous cars had Quiktrak that the owner before me installed. I payed the $300 odd bucks a year (or whatever it was back then) no worries at all. But I don't think I'd give up 2 grand for the installation. I'd rather just have full comprehensive and if it gets stolen it gets stolen - that's life.
the fact is the theif cant tell if its got quicktrak or not.
so the system works perfectly.
smash a window, the cops come.
bit hard to get out of that hey...
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Originally Posted by david85dc
the fact is the theif cant tell if its got quicktrak or not.
so the system works perfectly.
smash a window, the cops come.
bit hard to get out of that hey...
trust me dave they know if you have it or not, the only thing they may not know is where the tracking box is. do u know how they know, i can tell u if u want
I would know if a car had quiktrakIf the alarm made that "BEEP BIIP" sound when actived and "BIIP" when deactivatedIf the keys had the remote with the red and black button and the key for the sensitivity setting and service callIf there was a red duress button under the dash somewhereIf there was that same little box which stands out like dogg's balls in the engine bay that controls the sensitivety and the siren
Tick all these boxes and chances are the car has a quiktrak system
one of my mates at quiktrak (lol) emailed me their latest press release
01 August 2006
THE CAR CHASE THAT NEVER WAS
Sydney police have prevented a potentially dangerous high-speed car chase in the city centre by using a remotely controlled radio tracking system to immobilise a stolen Subaru WRX.
Around 2am Sunday morning (July 30) police began following the stolen vehicle from the Sydney suburb of Waterloo.
Police were informed of the vehicle’s whereabouts by tracking and monitoring company QuikTrak after the vehicle had been stolen from the owner’s home in the inner-city suburb of St Peters.
The Subaru had a QuikTrak CarWatch system installed, allowing it to be remotely monitored, tracked and controlled by the company’s response centre through its military-grade spread-spectrum radio network.
The owner of the stolen Subaru WRX notified the security company after his house had been broken into and the car keys and vehicle were stolen.
Police pursued the vehicle as it travelled on the Western Distributor towards the Anzac Bridge.
The Subaru was brought to a standstill on the Druitt Street on-ramp after police requested QuikTrak immobilise it.
“QuikTrak’s CarWatch secure tracking system eliminates the need for dangerous high-speed police chases through its remote engine immobiliser – it’s a much safer method of retrieving a stolen car,” said QuikTrak’s operations manager Gary Moore.
Both male occupants fled from the scene after leaving the car abandoned on the Druitt Street on-ramp.
The two men were arrested after a chase on foot – one captured several metres away while the other was apprehended on Sussex Street.