My Connected Car 4+

Thankfully not had to use it in anger but for everyday notifications it’s a pain. I have geofencing on for when the car leaves home and a note pops up as expected. Clearing that note doesn’t remove the round dot on the app to say it needs attention. That dot should not be there if the message has been read. Secondly when you open the app to clear the messages you have to use a pin. Even my daughters primary school has face recognition on their app so a high end tech company still requiring manual passwords seems very lazy.

I rue the day we got this tracker. We thought it would give us peace of mind and it does the opposite. If it’s not numerous messages saying vehicle jamming detected it’s theft/tampering phone calls in the early hours of the morning. Every time the battery is low we get a theft alert. Now I’m getting messages saying special mode is still enabled. A mode I HAVE NOT enabled. We have not been able to use our vehicle for two months due to the immobiliser - we assumed. But Vodafone say that’s nothing to do with them so it’s just a coincidence and nothing to do with the special mode that was apparently activated two months ago. When, and I do mean when, you can connect to the server the location is out by miles. Our next payment is due soon. Time for a different tracker and app I think. The place we got our van from advised we got a tracker from Vodafone. Commission maybe?

I haven’t had to test the app in a theft scenario but had to have a tracker fitted so I could insure my car for a reasonable price.

I hope VodaFone listen to all of the one star reviewers because the product is great and is let down by the response speed of the app.

It would be great if the geofence can be set to ignore specific routes in addition to the radius because I no longer use the function because it’s a pain enabling and disabling it and if I leave it enabled it’s a pain to dismiss the notifications.