https://ibb.co/ is an image uploading site, no scam alert with my avg antivirus.

I'm illiterate as regards trackers and their protocols, but is there any chance that the tracker has been separated from the car ? I would guess that experts in hijacking such cars may well be acquainted with where to find a tracker ?

If the thief could locate the tracker I suspect they'd disconnect it. I can't see any advantage in removing it and keeping it powered up as then it could be traced.

Thanks Avant,for that..I have been a member for more than some others on this website and have seen many backroomers come and go over the last 17 years.

1)The links are from an image sharing website

For those who dont know about image sharing websites

Basically I upload the image and then post a link to the image which is a short link , this is when one posts an image in a forum.

There are other image sharing websites like ibb/imgbb such as Tinypic, postimage and imageshack among others.

2)To clarify, we have "not gone out" trying to recover the car.

However I have heard of others who have gone out and bought another car,only to be told a week later that their stolen car was recovered and so didn't want my friend to end up having two cars hence the reason for trying to understand what our options are
More importantly this information may well be something that could be useful to the car manufacturer to prevent their cars being hacked and stolen in future

Edited by JohnX on 17/07/2020 at 10:01

John X has been a member since 2003, so I think we can trust him not to post an unsound link.

Is it possible for spammers to re-use names that have been dormant for a while in an attempt to look genuine.

I have seen on other forums people create a new account using someones existing username with a full stop at the end that no one will notice, its happened to me. I only became aware when I received a warning from the moderator for breaking forum rules and suspending my account for 4 weeks. When the 4 weeks were up I messaged the moderator thanking him for the ban pointing out that it was not me but me with a dot at the end. He then banned me.

Not being an expert, but surely the insurers must have a big interest to get Landrover to pull their fingers out? Have you explained to the insurers that the tracker is working, that you have paid for this service, but Landrover are not helping? The bigger insurers do have quite a lot of industrial influence, and I'd have thought they'd be on the phone to someone important in Landrover reasonably fast.

It's quite possible the tracker has been found, removed and lobbed into the back of someone else's truck.

I always thought that these trackers when activated were able to direct the police to within about 50 yards from the signal. I wonder if Landrover's tracker is palmed out to a third party? If the car has been taken by professional thieves they would be well aware that high value cars may have trackers and if they can clone keys etc then feel sure that they have electronics to detect a tracker. Your car is probably in a thousand pieces in the back of a workshop somewhere or in a container on the dock to move abroad. Seems like a very poor response from the company which will probably leave you out of packet when insurance finally settles.

Probably just the old cynic in me rising to the surface again.

Hmm, well i was actually wondering if the reason the tracker wasn't working properly is because Landrover made their own?!