You are selling your car, and it has a monitored tracker fitted. So what happens to it? The short answer: it is yours, the service is yours, and you decide what happens to both. What you should not do is walk away and leave a live, monitored tracker on a vehicle you no longer own.
Your tracker and subscription belong to you
A tracker is not part of the car in the way the engine is. It is your hardware, tied to your monitored account. When the car changes hands, the sensible move is to make sure the device and the service either come with you or come out of the vehicle cleanly. Leaving it live on a stranger’s car helps nobody.
Why you should not hand monitoring to a stranger
This is the important bit. Our service is built around one simple idea: we contact you when your vehicle moves. You do not have to notify us; we do the watching and reach out to you. That relationship is personal to you and your vehicle.
If you sell the car and leave the tracker live, you would be receiving alerts about someone else’s driving, and a stranger would effectively be monitored by a service they never signed up for. Neither of those is right. The clean answer is to break that link before the car leaves your hands.
Option one: transfer it to your next car
If you are buying another vehicle, the best move is usually to take the tracker with you. A hardwired unit can be removed and refitted, and your Standard, Secure, or Elite subscription follows you to the new car. A self-powered Scorpion Go is even easier to move.
This is a professional refit, not a driveway job, because a tracker only protects you when it is installed and hidden properly. We walk through the whole process in how to transfer a car tracker to a new car.
Option two: have it removed
If you are not replacing the vehicle, or you simply want the unit out, arrange a clean removal with us or your installer. We will take the device out and close or pause the monitoring so nothing carries over to the buyer. See how car trackers are installed for a sense of what removal involves; it is the same care in reverse.
What about telling the buyer
Be honest with the buyer either way. If the tracker is coming out, tell them the car will not have one after the sale. If, in a rare case, you agree to leave the hardware for them, that only works if they set up their own account and their own monitored service, so the protection is genuinely theirs and not a leftover pointed at your old number.
The bottom line
Selling up does not mean losing your protection. Transfer the tracker to your next car and keep the same monitored service, or have it removed cleanly. Just do not leave a live, monitored device on a car you have sold. Sort it before the keys change hands and everyone is clear. When you are ready, compare the tiers or get in touch to book a transfer or removal.