Autowatch Ghost
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Yes, I can see that point of view too.
Since, unless the situation changes, my next car will be a Tesla 3, I'll need to get used to using a touch screen!
@Dippy I seem to recall asking you previously if you’d explored the Tesla. Have you now done so? I recently sat in a Tesla Model 3 at the Bluewater dealership a few weeks ago. The interior architecture is very different from current car design, which is fine; no doubt I’d get used to it. But once I had adjusted everything to get the seating position correct, I realised there was a major problem. The Model 3 has quite a long roof and low windscreen header rail -almost a panoramic roof in reverse. So when I sit in the car at the desired position and look straight ahead, I’m not seeing the road ahead but staring at the sun visors. That tells me that however good a car it is, it’ll be no use to me.
Maybe, maybe not, but my car is more secure today than it was two days ago.Thanks Jeff. I'm starting to think that insurance discounts are an urban myth
£325 fitted for mine as I caught it on sale somewhere local, that's in the north east.
The standard price is £399. Depending how local you are to me, I can totally recommend Bromley Car Audio, who are Autowatch accredited installers for SE London.
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Good to know Jeff. I have not investigated at all. All I know is that when it comes to replace my S5 it will be to a full electric car and at the moment only the Tesla 3 performance ticks all my boxes (on paper). But chances are I'll be keeping my S5 for quite a few years yet.
@Dippy , well if you plan to keep the S5 a while yet, that's a pretty good reason to get a Ghost fitted, even though your car is garaged.
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I think I will after my GAP insurance expires.
What's your experience of it so far? I read that the first version requires that you press a sequence of buttons before you can start the car, but the second version now works via BT to a smartphone for authentication. How's that working?
What's your experience of it so far? I read that the first version requires that you press a sequence of buttons before you can start the car, but the second version now works via BT to a smartphone for authentication. How's that working?
Yes, I have a button-press sequence code to input: in effect, a PIN. I also have the facility to download an app to my phone that allows the Ghost to detect when I’m in the car and allow me to start it without inputting the PIN. But I won’t be using it; it’s a bit self-defeating when the detection range is about ten metres.
Have a look into the criteria for "Thatcham" approval.... complete load of carp IMO.
In a sense, yes. If the phone is within ten metres and the Ghost app is running, the car can be started without the PIN. So if I download the app and activate it, I have to remember every time to shut the app and/or locate my phone somewhere in the house that is more than ten metres away from the car. I can do that but it’s an extra faff in exchange for the limited (and arguably pointless and self-defeating) “benefit” of being able to start the car myself without inputting my PIN. It seems more sensible to me that entering my PIN becomes the standard routine.
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I see. I hadn't really thought about the at home scenario. Maybe they could put an option on the app so that you need to acknowledge a request to disable Ghost, a bit like these "give me a push" type security measures we get these days.
