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- Model: VIM-OBD2SL
Your seventeen-year-old has had their licence three months and the car comes home at eleven on a Saturday. This 4G OBD2 GPS tracker clips into the socket under the dash in a few seconds and draws its power from the car, so it never needs charging and there is nothing to hide under a wheel arch. On your phone you get live location, a score on how it was driven, and you can ring in to hear the cabin, or send a command that captures a clip to your account.
Key Features & Benefits
- Listen In From Your Phone - ring the tracker from the one number you saved and you hear the car live. It stays off until you switch it on, and only that number gets through
- Scores Hard Braking And Fast Corners - heavy braking, quick starts, sharp corners and anything that reads as a knock all get flagged against the trip they happened on
- Send A Command, Get A Clip - it captures a short recording of the cabin on demand and uploads it to your account. It is you pressing a button, not a mic left running
- Nothing To Pay Us Each Month - the app and the website are free to use. The SIM is your only running cost, and tracking alone uses roughly 50MB a month. Listening in adds to that
- See Every Trip On A Map - where it went, when it left, how long it sat there and how quickly it got there, by day, week or month
- Four Seconds To Fit - find the socket below the steering column, push it home, done. No wiring, no auto electrician, no trip to a workshop
- Buzzes You If It Is Unplugged - pull the tracker out and you get a push alert in the app and a message to the number you registered, with the last place the car was
- Over-Speed Alert On Your Phone - set the speed you are comfortable with and get told when the car passes it. Idle time shows up in the trip reports too
- Draw A Zone Around Home - get told when the car leaves or arrives. A vibration alarm covers it being bumped or shifted while it is parked
- Updates Every 10 Seconds - the dot keeps up with the car instead of trailing a street behind it. Stretch it out to 60 seconds to use less data
- Unplug It Before A Service - it occupies the socket your mechanic uses for a fault check, so pull it out for the appointment and push it back after. An OBD2 splitter avoids even that
- Keeps Logging In A Tunnel - a 600-point offline buffer holds positions when the signal drops in a car park, then fills the gap in once it reconnects. Roughly 100 minutes of it
- Works On 12V And 24V - the 9 to 36 volt range covers a hatchback, a ute or a light truck, so it moves with you if you change cars
- Runs On The 4G Network - it reads two satellite systems, GPS and BDS, and falls back to phone-tower positioning where the sky is blocked
- Twelve Month Warranty - covered for a year, the same as everything else we sell. The returns process is set out on our returns page
- Needs A Micro SIM - that is the middle size, bigger than the nano most phones take now. Any Australian carrier sells one, and the plan is your call
- Sealed To IP65 - dust tight, hosed-water rated, flame resistant shell, which matters in a footwell that collects wet shoes all winter
- Only Fits Cars With An OBD2 Port - Australian petrol cars built from 2006 onward, diesels from 2007. Anything older probably has no socket at all
- Anyone Can See It Down There - it plugs in where feet go, so it is not hidden. Someone looking for it will find it. If it has to be out of sight, this is not the one
- Audio Needs A Plan With Calls - the listening side works over a phone call, so a data only SIM tracks the car but will not let you listen
- Playback Happens On Your Phone - there is no memory card to fish out of the footwell and nothing to plug into a laptop. You open the app and it is there
Real-World Scenarios
A new driver in the house
They have had the licence a few months and the car comes home at odd hours. You get the route, the speed it was doing and a flag on every hard stop. It is easier to talk about a Saturday night when you both already know what happened on it.
Lending the car out
A friend or a relative borrows it for the weekend. You know where it ended up, whether it sat idling outside somewhere for an hour, and you get a nudge if it leaves the area you drew on the map.
The car is taken
If it moves off the driveway at three in the morning you hear about it, and the last position keeps updating while the car has power. This is also the one time the microphone earns its keep: it is your car, nobody in it has your permission to be there, and you can listen before you ring it in.
How It Works
- Slot the SIM in - pop the cover off, drop in a Micro SIM, click it shut.
- Push it into the port - the socket sits under the dash on the driver's side. The light goes solid once it has power, satellites and signal. Leave the car running a while on the first day, because the small backup battery inside arrives flat and the unplug alert needs it charged.
- Set it up - register your own number as the controlling number and switch listening on, both by text message to the tracker. After that the map, the alerts and the reports all live in the app.
Technical Specifications
- Model: VIM-OBD2SL
- Network: 4G LTE Cat 1 (Micro-SIM, not included)
- Positioning: GPS and BDS satellites, plus phone tower positioning
- Position accuracy: within 10 metres
- Time to first fix: under 2 seconds hot, under 28 seconds warm, under 38 seconds cold
- Update rate: 10 to 60 seconds, adjustable
- Audio: Yes. Built-in microphone for listening in and recording. Off by default
- Offline storage: 600 position points
- Input voltage: 9 to 36V DC through the OBD2 port
- Current draw: 50mA at 12V running, 5mA at rest
- Backup battery: 100mAh internal, for the unplug alert
- Alerts: unplugged, power cut, movement, over-speed, idling, zone entry and exit
- Driving events: hard acceleration, hard braking, sharp cornering, impact
- App: Free smartphone app (iOS and Android), plus browser access
- Firmware: updated over the air
- Operating temperature: -30°C to +80°C
- Ingress rating: IP65
- Housing: flame-resistant PC and ABS
- Dimensions: 54 x 34 x 32mm
- Weight: 39g
Packaging Contents
- 1 x 4G OBD2 GPS tracker
- 1 x User manual
The SIM card is not included. The tracker uses the mobile network the same way a phone does, so any standard Micro-SIM from an Australian carrier works. Pick a plan that includes calls, not just data, if you want to use the listen-in feature.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Is it illegal to put a GPS tracker on someone's car?
Yes, if the car is not yours and they have not agreed to it. Most Australian states treat tracking someone else's vehicle without consent as an offence. On a car you own and share with family, tell the other drivers it is fitted.
2. Does a GPS tracker need to be charged?
No. It takes its power from the car through the OBD2 port, so there is nothing to charge. It will not flatten your battery either: parked, it sips about as much as the car's own clock, and the small cell inside only exists to send an alert if someone pulls it out.
3. Will it fit my car?
Yes, if it is a petrol car sold here from 2006 onward, or a diesel from 2007. The port is a standard 16-pin socket, usually under the dash on the driver's side near the pedals. Older cars and most trailers do not have one.
4. Do I need a special SIM plan to listen in?
Yes, it needs a plan with calls, not data alone. Listening works by ringing the tracker from your saved number, so the SIM has to handle voice. Any normal Australian prepaid plan with calls and a small data allowance will cover both jobs.
5. What happens if someone unplugs it?
Your phone gets an alert and the last known position, sent on the small backup battery inside. That battery arrives flat, so drive the car for a while after fitting the tracker to give it enough charge to do its job.
Lawful Use
Track cars you own. Listening to or recording anyone in the car, including passengers, is an offence unless every person has agreed. Owning the car does not give you that right, and telling someone the tracker is fitted is not the same as their consent.
