Phantom Target

RAC Trackstar Plus has also been approved to Thatcham Q standard, which may enable you to secure an insurance discount if your car is fitted with RAC Trackstar Plus. In all this makes it one of the most affordable and comprehensive GPS vehicle tracker systems available. How it works for you! Using highly sensitive motion sensors, the 24 hour RAC Trackstar control centre automatically notifies the owner if the vehicle has been moved illegally.

With GPS technology, the control centre monitors the movement of the vehicle, tracking the location, speed and direction and then continuously updates the police on its position. The vehicle is then guarded until it is collected and returned to your home, free of charge by the RAC. RAC Trackstar calculates that using its system, average recovery time of a stolen vehicle is 59 minutes, compared to 4.5 hours published by another leading vehicle tracker company. RAC Trackstar Plus can be transferred to another car, and with a 12 or 24 volt battery option it can also be fitted onto trucks, caravans, plant and construction vehicles.

GPS Tracking Systems

Thatcham and non Thatcham GPS tracking systems are available on the market and there is a choice of monitored or un monitored trackers. An un monitored tracker system has no yearly fees to cover the cost of a control centre but can still inform you by an automated SMS text message if your vehicle is stolen.

Thatcham Q class

A new Thatcham Quality Accreditation scheme will replace Q class as of January 2007. Designed to offer a more robust programme of product endorsement, the new scheme will provide suppliers and customers alike with a greater degree of confidence in product performance.

The Thatcham Quality Accreditation scheme has been designed to provide a more robust and consumer identifiable product to the automotive industry. Established during the first quarter of 2006, this scheme will ultimately replace the current Thatcham Q Class listing as of January 2007. All participants with Q listed products have been informed regarding the impending change and should now be on the road towards transferring to this initiative.

Thatcham Quality Accreditation is a more robust program of endorsement concentrating on building quality into the manufacture of a product as well as the design. The product will be rigorously tested to a predefined criteria established by Thatcham’s Vehicle Security and Quality functions. This testing, supported by Quality system and process assessments of the manufacturing facility and service provision, will ensure that the product is both designed and manufactured to exacting standards, providing the service the product has been produced to deliver.