REWIRE SECURITY104 PRO 4G Magnetic GPS Vehicle Tracker – Portable Real-Time Locator for Car, Truck, Van | Easy to Install | Up to 2 Month Tracking Battery Life | Low-Cost Monthly Subscription

Bought about a month ago, after a tip off from the local police that theft of vehicles was on the increase. Sure enough, 3 weeks later my car was nicked from the drive and thanks to this tracker, the police managed to retrieve the vehicle within 2 hours of notifying them.Positives :Fairly discreet device - about the size of a block of butter. Good magnet on the base, but wouldn't trust it under the vehicle.Excellent price - similar devices being sold by others for nearly twice as much.Easy set up - clear instructions provided with excellent support from rewire. Emails responded to very quickly. Sim card provided.Wide range of functions - but easy to default to the basics.Decent battery life - depending on the various mode you set, the battery lasts for a couple of months. I've had it on the basic sleep mode which means that it dozes off after 5 minutes of inactivity. A call or text to the tracker results in a quick response with GPS coords, link to google maps, battery life and speed of vehicle. Even on this mode, the tracker continues to send data via GPRS to the GPSlive server. After 10 days I'm still on 100% battery.Very easy to operate - responds to texts/calls or can be tracked live using the very intuitive GPS live website. Tons of data recorded, even in sleep mode and it's very easy to generate reports of the vehicle activity.GPS really quick to get a fix, and so far pinpoint accurate.Negatives :At this price, can't think of any.

This is such a simple tracking device and small enough to hide basically anywhere in the car.It took me about 10 minutes to get it up and running with basic features and then about another half an hour to setup alerts.I had an issue with the GPSLive Website where I couldn't figure out how to setup a Geofence.I emailed their support and within about half an hour, they came back with a response to the issue I was havingExcellent customer service so far!The battery in the tracker seems to last ages too, it's been installed now for about a week and the battery seems to be lasting well. I was expecting it to only last about a week or two.I would highly recommend this tracker as it's easy to use, excellent customer service and most of all, peace of mind.2 Year Update: Had this fitted to my car now for 2 years and it hasn't let me down once.My car had to go in for extensive repair to the front passenger side when I hit a curb.The garage who repaired it decided to take it for a bit of a joy ride at 141 mph down the motorway.Having this tracker fitted allowed me to catch them out.They literally couldn't argue when I presented them with the hard evidence on paper which I Printed from GPS LiveOther than possible theft recovery, It's worth just having one fitted for the purpose of monitoring your vehicle when it goes in for repair or valet.

Great piece of kit for security. Hid inside my car I can see where it’s been, how fast it’s going and loads of other information. Battery last approx three months but you can see in the app how much charge there is. Small price to pay for knowing your car is safe.

The unit itself works great, it is quite bulky but reasonably easy to hide, and the ability to hard wire it if using in a vehicle is great.The engine cut-off is not really that (not allowed in the UK for safety reasons) but just stops anyone restarting the vehicle again after it has already been turned off.It has some physical design 'flaws' though - I would not like to use it under or outside of a vehicle for instance.1. The strong magnetic backing might be a strong magnet - but it's just a sheet of self adhesive magnet like the car sign people use - and it does not like sticking to the plastic unit.2. The unit itself has no waterproof properties at all - especially if you use the supplied external GPS and GSM antennae.3. A waterproof pouch is supplied - which is of good quality - unfortunately it is about 1" too small and you really have to stretch it to fit it over the unit and get it to seal properly - this is because of the 2 moulded tabs on the unit for screwing it down if you wished to, making it too long, and of course - using the external antennae again renders it useless.GPS Live on the PC is far too complex for most peoples needs, too many options are available for I imagine most users - ie the non commercial user who probably wants to know only if their pride and joy has been moved - and have the ability to find it again or see where it is going.It needs a 'simple' interface or an option to switch between simple or advanced maybe.The telephone app is far more intuitive - but you have to remember - if you set alarms or alerts or zones - that unless you disable them - should you move the vehicle or item yourself - you will get a text message telling you so - which is knocked off the quantity you paid for.Having said all that - I am happy with mine, as I have got it set up so its flaws are not an issue.**EDIT - the item shown for sale is an updated version of the one I gave my review for.I also have this new version - so here are the differences...It is not waterproof in the slightest - it has a label saying do not get wet...It comes with what Rewire describe as a waterproof pouch. - this equates to a ziplock bag, not a strong one - it would struggle to waterproof your sandwiches, Tesco's value range would be far superior - for this price they should be able to provide a waterproof case that is an actual waterproof case!It now has 2 ring shaped magnets on its base - not the magnetic sheet, they are strong. They will chip your car paint depending where you stick it...For those still using the old style incredible flimsy charger with a bodged on white plastic connector - just ditch this - it will break soon anyway.There is a USB port - supposedly for installing software / updates.Just plug in a USB charger from your pc, it will charge the device just fine from this port.It's set interval for reporting its position is long, I have yet to discover how to shorten its reporting interval.