BeMoto quoted me but demanded a tracker…

[TheStammeringBiker]

I'd totally forgot about my insurance renewing in mid January, just had my renewal email through from Bemoto and braced myself for a shock. To my surprise it's £50 more than I paid this year so thats not too bad. Only downside is the underwriter is stipulating a tracker to be fitted, while annoying I kinda get it so I best get one fitted asap.

 

[littleade]

I'd totally forgot about my insurance renewing in mid January, just had my renewal email through from Bemoto and braced myself for a shock. To my surprise it's £50 more than I paid this year so thats not too bad. Only downside is the underwriter is stipulating a tracker to be fitted, while annoying I kinda get it so I best get one fitted asap.

Don't get the Datatool stealth one. I have one fitted as OE on my 1250 and cancelled the subscription at it's 1st renewal. Drains the battery and gives false slarms.

 

[Deleted account 251212001]

if not needing professional installation the monimoto is a cheap and cheerful tracker and runs off its own batteries and will tell you via an app when batteries low or the bike moves, works fine for me so far. £36 a year subscription after month 2.

Monimoto 7 Tracker

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[TheStammeringBiker]

Don't get the Datatool stealth one. I have one fitted as OE on my 1250 and cancelled the subscription at it's 1st renewal. Drains the battery and gives false slarms.

It will be unfortunately, due to the bike being so new I'd rather it was fitted by BMW themselves so any electrical gremlins that might occur they can't wriggle out of (in theory).

I had one on my first 1250 and never had an issue with false alarms or drain, but the bike was always kept on an Optimate so fingers crossed it doesn't become the bane of my life!

 

[TheStammeringBiker]

if not needing professional installation the monimoto is a cheap and cheerful tracker and runs off its own batteries and will tell you via an app when batteries low or the bike moves, works fine for me so far. £36 a year subscription after month 2.

Monimoto 7 Tracker

Monimoto 7 Tracker from the UK's leading online bike store. Free UK delivery over £25 and easy returns on our range of over 80,000 products.

www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk

I nearly bought one, but sadly it has to be fitted to the bike by an approved installer and must be hard wired.

 

[littleade]

It will be unfortunately, due to the bike being so new I'd rather it was fitted by BMW themselves so any electrical gremlins that might occur they can't wriggle out of (in theory).

I had one on my first 1250 and never had an issue with false alarms or drain, but the bike was always kept on an Optimate so fingers crossed it doesn't become the bane of my life!

Good luck! I had a number of calls in the early hours to say my bike had moved only to drag my ar8e downstairs half asleep to find the garage still locked and bike where it should be, chained to it's ground anchor. My 1250 has always been on an optimate 4 and while the tracker was fitted it was very often charging when I went in the garage for other reasons and when I asked the dealer if he wanted me to reconnect it before it gets traded in he said no thanks as they had got fed up of having bikes in the showroom with trackers fitted that had flat batteries.

 

[TheStammeringBiker]

Good luck! I had a number of calls in the early hours to say my bike had moved only to drag my ar8e downstairs half asleep to find the garage still locked and bike where it should be, chained to it's ground anchor. My 1250 has always been on an optimate 4 and while the tracker was fitted it was very often charging when I went in the garage for other reasons and when I asked the dealer if he wanted me to reconnect it before it gets traded in he said no thanks as they had got fed up of having bikes in the showroom with trackers fitted that had flat batteries.

Yeah I hope I get as lucky with this one as I did my first, never had a false alarm, but, now I've said that I'm pretty sure I've gone and jinxed the new one

I would prefer a battery one I could hide somewhere but thats not an option. If the bike wasn't so new I'd have a 3rd party fit one, but given I'm already having weird battery readings on the BMW charger connected to the bike, I'd prefer to avoid any "he said she said" shenanigans with BMW blaming the 3rd party and vice versa.

 

[littleade]

Yeah I hope I get as lucky with this one as I did my first, never had a false alarm, but, now I've said that I'm pretty sure I've gone and jinxed the new one

I would prefer a battery one I could hide somewhere but thats not an option. If the bike wasn't so new I'd have a 3rd party fit one, but given I'm already having weird battery readings on the BMW charger connected to the bike, I'd prefer to avoid any "he said she said" shenanigans with BMW blaming the 3rd party and vice versa.

Sounds like a plan, an expensive one but a plan none the less and in your position I'd probably do the same. My garage backs onto a row of tall leafy trees so I did wonder if these were messing the signal up so you might be ok though I never had/don't have the same oroblem with my Monimoto tracker

 

[TheStammeringBiker]

Sounds like a plan, an expensive one but a plan none the less and in your position I'd probably do the same. My garage backs onto a row of tall leafy trees so I did wonder if these were messing the signal up so you might be ok though I never had/don't have the same oroblem with my Monimoto tracker

Thats a good point, I have a massive tree right above my garage so it wouldn't surprise me if the tracker gets no signal in there anyway

Fingers crossed!