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this will help you track your car a
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even your kids let's check it out Dave
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Taylor here and I'm looking at this this
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is the car lock portable and this small
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device actually is very cool it lets you
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track anything that you put it in so you
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can put this under a cushion in your
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trailer you can put this in a car you
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can put this in your toolbox at the work
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site because toolboxes keep vanishing
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and you can follow this with The
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Associated app and find out where the
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heck that toolbox ended up so this
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actually is an extension of car locks
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existing obdii system and I've reviewed
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this in the past you could check out
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that review but the earlier unit
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basically plugs into the onboard
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diagnostic interface in a car and then
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it not only tracks the car's location
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but it even gives you useful diagnostics
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like you know oil needs changing or
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there are some issues with your timing
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system or whatever whatever your car can
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generate the car lock system can
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actually figure it out and tell you that
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information this is a little bit more
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specialized so it doesn't plug in to
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anything it's a completely
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self-contained unit with its own cell
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phone I mean somehow somewhere in here
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is a 3G cellular communications device
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and as you can see dimensions wise it's
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about five inches by four inches by two
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and a half inches so it's not the
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tiniest thing but still considering what
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it does it's pretty amazing 3.3 ounces
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and like I said you can monitor anything
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that you can slip this in including your
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kids backpack not only that but there's
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a button on it that is the SOS button so
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if your kid did have it in their
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backpack or you're really wealthy client
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and they push the button and held it
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down for a couple of seconds you'd get
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an SOS on your app and it would tell you
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where it is so that's really nice also
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includes real-time notifications well
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here's one with my vehicle being moved
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and then the app is for Android or iOS
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and it's very easy to work with you can
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get location here's an example of my
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location and let me just talk for a
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second so you'll see there's like that
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big green circle there and that's a
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deliberate design that is like the
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immediately adjacent zone and you can
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just tell the system that you know
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within that zone everything's fine so if
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someone needs to move your car to get
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another car out of the parking lot or
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that's fine but tap on that little lock
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icon and suddenly what happens is you're
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in lockdown mode and you will get
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notifications like the one we just saw
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that would say the vehicle has been
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started the vehicle is moving and you'd
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be like what that's not right so really
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nice easy interface you can tap on
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another one of the buttons and now you
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have your trip history log now imagine
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you run a fleet of cars and you have
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this in all the cars in your fleet or
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you have a teenager who says I swear dad
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I go to school I go to work I come home
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then you can put this in their car
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they're not gonna notice this right and
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then you will be able to look at their
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trip history and say you know you don't
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just go to school and work because
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there's all these other places and all
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these other addresses we really do need
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to talk not only that but from a kid
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perspective it also can actually keep
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track of how they drive oh there you go
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see there's a harsh harsh acceleration
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warning you don't really want to get
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those and that's not just for kids that
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could be for your fleet too you might
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find out that one of your truck drivers
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is driving like they're in the Indy 500
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and that's not good for what's in the
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truck or the truck or your insurance so
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this could be great information to know
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now let me tell you that this device
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does not last forever on a charge but
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it's a pretty darn long battery life
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it's five hours for a full charge and
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then you get 14 days of use out of it so
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that's pretty nice basically the way I
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figure this is if every Sunday morning
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you collect them all and plug them all
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in and that every Sunday night you put
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back in all of the vehicles or trailers
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let's say you have an Airstream trailer
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and you're worried someone's going to
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take off with it this is the perfect
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device for that just remember every 7 to
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10 days to give it a charge not only
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that but you can get notifications in
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the app saying that the battery's low so
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that's pretty easy so the only thing
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left to talk about is the price and the
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price is a little tricky because it
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comes with cell phone service so this is
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actually not just a little device you
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buy once and you're good it actually has
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a subscription fee but before we get
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there can I ask if you can go ahead and
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click on that subscribe button and
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instead of worrying about subscribing to
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this subscribe to me and then I'll tell
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you about how to subscribe to this cool
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and feedback give me any feedback I
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now Carlock portable advanced 3g gps
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tracker the subscription fee for the
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unit is nine dollars and 60 cents a
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month or a hundred and thirteen dollars
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a year and you're thinking wow that's
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pretty steep but in fact it's really
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inexpensive compared to for example your
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trailer being ripped off or your
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expensive tools from the job site
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vanishing when you go to work one
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morning how much did it cost for you to
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collect all those tools yeah so ten
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bucks a month is a pretty cheap
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insurance policy it also has a base fee
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so again Carlock portable ninety nine
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ninety five you can pick it up at
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amazon.com and you can learn a lot more
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about it and check out the company at
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car lock dot co so this is Dave Taylor I
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need to slip this back into my vehicle
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because I want to make sure I know where
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it is at all times so I will catch you
