...well it is Halloween!!!
I'm posting this here as I've only just sold my S3 and I know I lot of you guys on here are looking at the Autowatch Ghost system after the recent spate of S3 thefts around the country.
The majority of us on here are complete and utter petrol heads, who spend small fortunes looking after our cars and are OCD when it comes to where we leave them and who we let work on them! so it's nice to share good experiences
I had my system fitted today at www.apmcustoms.co.uk who are based just outside Chester in the North West. I called in there last week to see what their setup was like and who would be touching my car!!! Straight from the off I felt at ease, the place was spotless, Kev and Vicky are very friendly, knowledgable about what they sell and are obviously petrol heads who love cars as much as we do We spent more time chatting about cars in general than we did about the Ghost system lol. I had no hesitation what so ever about booking my car in with them to fit the Ghost system.
So today I tuned up at around 9.15 to get it fitted, they were expecting me and took my car inside straight away, Vicky offered me a drink and then left me to watch the videos of the other things that they do down there, which you can see on their website! Just under an hour later Kev said the system had been fitted and was ready to go! He invited me through to the workshop to show me how the system worked and talked me through all the settings etc.
It was an OCD car owners dream (as good as the extreme parking thread on here ), nothing near my car other than the tools required to do the job
I had phoned Kev on Monday to discuss the different options of setting it up and decided to go for the gearbox lock option. I've made a short video so you can see how it works:
It's a great little system and not that expensive when you consider how much it would cost if your car were to go missing! It also has a valet mode which is easily set by entering your code and then pushing a certain button 5 times, this allows the vehicle to be moved around without the need of giving anyone a code, once the car goes over 30mph for 3-15 minutes (installation dependant) and is stopped the full system kicks back in. The valet mode would be handy if you were just taking the car to be cleaned or have a basic service and it was only going to be moved around a yard etc.
You can change the main code to your own choice which is easy enough to do once you put it in learning mode (all the instructions come with it).
If the worst were to happen and one of your code buttons were to break or you forgot your code, there is a card with a code on that is unique to your car that you can use to get the car going/change the code.
The RRP price for the system fitted is £399.
I'm posting this here as I've only just sold my S3 and I know I lot of you guys on here are looking at the Autowatch Ghost system after the recent spate of S3 thefts around the country.
The majority of us on here are complete and utter petrol heads, who spend small fortunes looking after our cars and are OCD when it comes to where we leave them and who we let work on them! so it's nice to share good experiences
I had my system fitted today at www.apmcustoms.co.uk who are based just outside Chester in the North West. I called in there last week to see what their setup was like and who would be touching my car!!! Straight from the off I felt at ease, the place was spotless, Kev and Vicky are very friendly, knowledgable about what they sell and are obviously petrol heads who love cars as much as we do We spent more time chatting about cars in general than we did about the Ghost system lol. I had no hesitation what so ever about booking my car in with them to fit the Ghost system.
So today I tuned up at around 9.15 to get it fitted, they were expecting me and took my car inside straight away, Vicky offered me a drink and then left me to watch the videos of the other things that they do down there, which you can see on their website! Just under an hour later Kev said the system had been fitted and was ready to go! He invited me through to the workshop to show me how the system worked and talked me through all the settings etc.
It was an OCD car owners dream (as good as the extreme parking thread on here ), nothing near my car other than the tools required to do the job
I had phoned Kev on Monday to discuss the different options of setting it up and decided to go for the gearbox lock option. I've made a short video so you can see how it works:
It's a great little system and not that expensive when you consider how much it would cost if your car were to go missing! It also has a valet mode which is easily set by entering your code and then pushing a certain button 5 times, this allows the vehicle to be moved around without the need of giving anyone a code, once the car goes over 30mph for 3-15 minutes (installation dependant) and is stopped the full system kicks back in. The valet mode would be handy if you were just taking the car to be cleaned or have a basic service and it was only going to be moved around a yard etc.
You can change the main code to your own choice which is easy enough to do once you put it in learning mode (all the instructions come with it).
If the worst were to happen and one of your code buttons were to break or you forgot your code, there is a card with a code on that is unique to your car that you can use to get the car going/change the code.
The RRP price for the system fitted is £399.