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A car thief always try to disable the GPS system to avoid owner to track the cars. Nowadays they are well trained and experts in this job. However they might need to spend longer time to check where you put your old handphone inside the car. Or they re busy with other staff too (chopping your car, calling boss etc).
I am using Maxis Friend Finder and hiding my old motorola E390 inside my car too. And 1 more, I not only using my handphone to track my car, but my gf handphone too. So with an extra "searching channel" to my car. All 3 handphones can track each others, just in case 1 is out of battery and the next will do the job.
That old phone is charge around 4 to 5 days, and only after I park my car into my house during daytime.

Another stolen car found with the help of friend finder.

Source

Friend Finder helps police smash auto theft ring

Muzliza Mustafa
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 13:54:00

KUALA LUMPUR: All a car owner had to do to track down his stolen Honda Accord was to use his telco's Friend Finder service and locate his cellphone left in his car.

It helped police recover two other stolen vehicles and led to the arrest of three suspects at Bandar Sri Permaisuri in Cheras last Friday.

It all began last Thursday evening when the car owner, a lawyer in Kuala Lumpur, discovered his car missing near the Jalan Duta Courts complex. He wasted no time in lodging a police report.

A source close to the police investigation said the lawyer also alerted his car immobiliser company but they could not immobilise his car as the thief had apparently jammed the signal.

However, the car immobiliser company managed to provide the lawyer with the last location of his car before the signal ended. The lawyer relayed this vital bit of information to the police who then went on a four-hour search for the car in Bandar Sri Permaisuri.

The source said later the same evening, the lawyer told police he had left his cellphone in the car and had used his telco's Friend Finder service to pinpoint the exact location of the cellphone. With this additional information, police narrowed down several spots in Bandar Sri Permaisuri where they soon spotted three men acting suspiciously along a quiet road in the neighbourhood.

The three men were seen alighting from a Toyota Camry and then driving away in a Toyota Estima.

Police checks on the two vehicles revealed the Camry was reported stolen in Damansara while the Estima was reported stolen in Jalan Pudu.

Realising they had stumbled upon a car theft syndicate, a police team kept an eye on the Camry while another team went scouring the neighbourhood for the lawyer's Honda Accord.

The next day, police managed to locate the Honda Accord which was parked not far from the Camry. A few hours later when three men came to pick up the Camry, police moved in to arrest them and also seized a Toyota Mark X which the suspects had arrived in.

Checks showed the Toyota Mark X belonged to a Singaporean and was reported stolen in Puchong recently.

Police investigations so far revealed the suspects would deliver stolen cars to a particular location in Johor Baru where the syndicate would cannibalise the parts for sale in the black market or smuggle it overseas.

A police source said the three suspects have been remanded to assist in police investigations.

“We are trying to determine who the rest of their gang members and also other stolen car cases linked to them,� said the source, adding this is the second time a telco's Friend Finder service had been used to locate a stolen car in the country. The first was last year.

hi all, i'm a new guy here.
well, i have my own way of 'fighting car theft' or avoid car being stolen.

i have 3 nokia phones, there are all symbian based phones(for those who know about phones will understand what that means), i have installed an app called "Baby Mobile", initially this app was designed to monitor any crying sounds that's detected in a baby's room when a baby is sleeping alone in a room, so... when this app detects any sound, it'll call my other phone (the phone number can be preset as well as the sensitivity of sound detection), so this phone can be hidden somewhere in the car where no stranger can see it, and when the thief tries to knock your windows or force open the door, the phone will detect the sound and starts calling you, so you can pick it up and listen to the situation that's happening in your car, this app is very helpful when you park your car at a very quiet secluded spot, i tried and it works fine, sound sensitivity can be fine tuned to suit you so that you don't get false alarm all the time.

For those of you who are using nokia's Symbian based phone(S60v3), can google search for this fantastic app.
hope that helps.

I think this it is a good proposal, to make full use of your iddle old handphones. Other possibility is to use friend finder services offered by MAXIS n DIGI (not CELCOM), of course with a limited accuracies within a group of cellids of cellular BTS towers. To have a reasonable control over the car u need to install vehicle tacker with capable of cutting fuel line (even that the smart thieve, can by pass to power fuel pump using external 12V battery). With GPS tracker = about RM300 product from China, worth of considering, + monthly SIM card (last time RM5/month) . To Locate and STOP all are via SMSs. Intrusion alert also via SMS. Convenient, no third party service provider to rely on. Thank.

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