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LoJack Installation and Caveat
I don't know if you got my long explaination or not since I am new to Spyderlovers.com and didn't really know how to reply...the short of it is:
Do not buy a used Lojack from anyone, once it has been programmed for a particular vehicle that is it. The programming and coding info and data cannot be erased from LoJacks database or from the transmitter itself either by Lojack or anyone. So if you purchased a used LoJack you just wasted your money.
A new LoJack, transmitter, etc. must be installed by a Lojack Certified Technician. These technicians are given a special computer to send coding information and receive same back from LoJack Central. The tech receives a coded number in response from LoJack Central with respect to the data from the Transmitter he/she installed. Then within a certain time period you are required to register your new LoJack with the coded number received by the tech and given to you. Once these two steps are completed your LoJack is activated.
Caveat: During my motorcycle endorsement class there were several classmates, and the police instructors, who confirmed that LoJack is not what it is cracked up to be because of the variable involved:
1. Police force must have a cruiser with Lojack.
2. Once your bike moves 30 feet away from your FOB thing the message is sent. However, it takes 15 - 30 minutes before LoJack calls you and then you have to notify the cops (I don't know, but I doubt that LoJack automatically calls the cops for you).
3. 30 min. for LoJack to call you then you have to call the cops. then they have to get the cruiser with LoJack computer or whatever. It's at least an hour or two before the cops are picking up your transpoder to locate your bike, which by this time is stripped to easily migratable parts.
4. A couple guys in the class said that their bikes or even the LoJack Transmitters have still not been recovered.
5. Recommendation: For me I feel like I wasted the money on the LoJack, but it does provide a level of comfort. The police told me that thieves go after the easiest target they can get...the quiet bikes. I purchased the Stinger Alarm System and will install that (If LaMonster can show me how in one of his great how to's) otherwise it'll cost me another $400 for the dealer I ordered it through to install. So, now my comfort level will be REAL HIGH! LoJack plus and screamin' loud alarm system if someone so much as touches my beautiful 2010 Pearl White RS-S Spyder. Other Mods. 25" tall wide touring windshield, luggae rack and passenger back rest, Fog Lights, and 12V convenience outlet (cigarette lighter plug thing)
I don't know if you got my long explaination or not since I am new to Spyderlovers.com and didn't really know how to reply...the short of it is:
Do not buy a used Lojack from anyone, once it has been programmed for a particular vehicle that is it. The programming and coding info and data cannot be erased from LoJacks database or from the transmitter itself either by Lojack or anyone. So if you purchased a used LoJack you just wasted your money.
A new LoJack, transmitter, etc. must be installed by a Lojack Certified Technician. These technicians are given a special computer to send coding information and receive same back from LoJack Central. The tech receives a coded number in response from LoJack Central with respect to the data from the Transmitter he/she installed. Then within a certain time period you are required to register your new LoJack with the coded number received by the tech and given to you. Once these two steps are completed your LoJack is activated.
Caveat: During my motorcycle endorsement class there were several classmates, and the police instructors, who confirmed that LoJack is not what it is cracked up to be because of the variable involved:
1. Police force must have a cruiser with Lojack.
2. Once your bike moves 30 feet away from your FOB thing the message is sent. However, it takes 15 - 30 minutes before LoJack calls you and then you have to notify the cops (I don't know, but I doubt that LoJack automatically calls the cops for you).
3. 30 min. for LoJack to call you then you have to call the cops. then they have to get the cruiser with LoJack computer or whatever. It's at least an hour or two before the cops are picking up your transpoder to locate your bike, which by this time is stripped to easily migratable parts.
4. A couple guys in the class said that their bikes or even the LoJack Transmitters have still not been recovered.
5. Recommendation: For me I feel like I wasted the money on the LoJack, but it does provide a level of comfort. The police told me that thieves go after the easiest target they can get...the quiet bikes. I purchased the Stinger Alarm System and will install that (If LaMonster can show me how in one of his great how to's) otherwise it'll cost me another $400 for the dealer I ordered it through to install. So, now my comfort level will be REAL HIGH! LoJack plus and screamin' loud alarm system if someone so much as touches my beautiful 2010 Pearl White RS-S Spyder. Other Mods. 25" tall wide touring windshield, luggae rack and passenger back rest, Fog Lights, and 12V convenience outlet (cigarette lighter plug thing)
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