Vyncs - GPS Tracker for Vehicles, [No Monthly Fee], 4G LTE, Vehicle Location, Trip History, Driving Alerts, GeoFence, Fuel Economy, OBD Fault Codes, USA-Developed, Family or Fleets

So far this product has been a phenomenal tool to use on my son‘s car. When he first started driving and had his license, it was a great way to check how dumb he is at driving. It was a great leverage tool to show how bad he is driving as well as where he was at. As he got older, he turned 21. Being that now he was legal, and after graduating college, he decided to carry on his partying life with his professional life. Those things don’t mix, especially when he was behind the wheel, making stupid mistakes without us knowing. It got so bad that we used this device to show him and to a friend of our school as a police officer what the repercussions would be. Technology is key in order to stop them from hurting themselves as well as others. This tracker did its job. Showing the pattern and the places he went effectively. It is easy to track as well as it alert alerts you of not only driver performance, but the performance of the vehicle itself. He has taken a turn, and now realizes driving while impaired is not an option. That doesn’t mean the battle is over, but there is been a few instances that scared him enough to change his way of thinking. It’s probably because of maturity now that he is 24 years old. Last year, my son was mugged in Chicago. He got out of his car in half block away he was mugged. They took his phone. And he was unable to call us to tell us he was OK. He used someone else’s phone (Good Samaritan), and after calling along with the cops and everything else, he was on his way home. I was able to track his car as he made it home. There has been multiple times I have been able to ping his car, not only knowing where he is at, but also in times like this this tracker is worth its weight in gold and then some. I highly recommend this tracker for your kids. Not only after when they get their license where they’re doing 120 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone, but as they get older and alcohol is involved, it is another means to show, and to prevent them from harming themselves as well as so many other others. I cannot stress this enough, get one of these. Battery life is extremely long since it is connected into the Obd port, and I have done it in a way where it is talked inside the dash up at the steering wheel housing. At $79 per year to track, this makes an effective tool to stop and prevent your kids from doing something stupid. If they disconnect, it tells you that it has been tampered. So if they turn off their phone tracker, you can still track them if they are driving in the car. Once they stop and turn off the ignition, the point is close to about 3 feet from where they are located. So it is almost pinpoint accuracy. That doesn’t mean that you are a hover parent, however, kids will do many stupid things. And as they get older, some of those things can’t get very dangerous. This is a wonderful tool to use. I would also recommend that you tell them that you have a tracker on the car. If they disconnect, then you do repercussions. Harsh repercussions. Tell them it is for their own good, and show them how they are driving. We did with our kid, and if it was tampered, we then took away the keys in the car and disabled the car entirely. Product came on time, packaged well easy to set up easy to maneuver and to start. Just follow the directions and use the app and you will do fine. Highly highly highly recommend.

This device is the very best decision I have ever made. I am a single parent with a licenced teenage driver with a job. This is our third device and I have been using Vyncs for 6 years. The devices are in older model cars and work fabulously. Our older model cars are not equipped with any kind of anti-theft device, GPS, or location services. A friend recommended Vyncs. I researched it and decided it was a good fit for my family circumstance. I had the devices installed at my local auto repair shop and it has proven itself useful nearly everyday. I now know where the cars are at any given time of the day. The app shows a detailed description of the route the car took, the speed, the driving behavior of the operator, the mechanical functioning of the vehicle, and it sends notifications if something is not as it should. For example, I got a notification there was a mechanical malfunction with the car. Two minutes later I received a call my young driver from the side of the road. They told me the check engine light was on. As it turned out, the engine oil was low. Vyncs saved the engine! It's great for people who travel a long distance for work or school. While coming home during the recent snow storm, it took my driver twice the amount of time it usually does. I checked the app and could their travel progress. I could see where the car was on the highway, how fast it was driving, the driving behavior for that trip, the mechanical status of the car and all in real time. On a different occasion the Vyncs device notified me of an impact. Again two minutes later I recieved a call to report a fender bender in a parking lot and all was ok. I was able to see where the impact occured and the plot points where the cars impacted and where the car had moved off the road. The vehicles were registered and insured in my name. I get an insurance discount for having it. It's also a great deterant to foolishness. My driver is aware the device is in the car and this information discourages friends from using the car to skip school, or joy riding. "I can't take the car there. My mom will know where we are." It gives a kid another option to use as a way out of doing something they don't want to do. It keeps them honest. It keeps me informed, and everyone safe. The car was stolen twice since having the device in the car.. The police were able to retrieve the car quickly based on the accuracy of the GPS. The device also documents vehicle speed, driving behavior (harsh turning, excessive breaking, G force limits, abrupt stopping, excessive idle time 40 minutes, etc) This information was valuable to the police and helped retrieve the car more quickly. I would recommend this device for any parent who is truely motivated to keep a young driver in the correct lane. It does wonders for a parents state of mind. My insurance premiums were also lowered due to the accuracy, functionality, and quality of the device. The benefits of having a device in your car outweigh the price of the device by a million times. I highly recommend this product!

The functioning of this product has been hit and miss - more miss than hit. My sole purpose for buying the product was to track my car’s location, and its accuracy has left much to be desired. When we first purchased the product, my husband and I drove predetermined routes to test the service’s accuracy. The trip map always showed us a ways behind our actual location - delays from minutes to hours - and sometimes a trip would not show up on the map until 24-36 hours after the trip had been taken. (The trip was properly dated when it finally did show up, but discovering the trip a day+ late defeated our purpose in having the product.) This did not improve even after I purchased the live auto refresh feature for either $20 or $30 – I don't remember. The map may refresh, but the location of the car does not - or at least not to its current location. As an example of its inaccuracy, one time I took a 20-mile trip from point A to point B and then 20 miles back to point A. The trip map properly showed how and when I went from A to B, but then showed my return trip as starting (and the car being turned on) in the middle of the freeway about halfway between point B and point A. There was no indication of how or when I got from point B to this halfway point, and not only had I never stopped the car after leaving point B, I certainly didn't start the car in the middle of the freeway (the map did not show me starting the car off to the side of the freeway at this halfway point, but literally in the middle of the road). According to the trip maps, we have more than once taken several minutes to get from the entrance of our neighborhood to our house, which actually takes about one minute, max. My husband and I also tested the product to see if it accurately determined and sent notifications of speeding. It did not. For our purposes, one of the biggest disappointments was the inaccuracy of the “zone” feature of the product (called “geofencing” in the PDF instructions). Supposedly, you can outline a geographical area on the Internet map and receive an email when the car in question enters or leaves that zone. We set up such a zone at the entrance to our dead-end street which is probably a half a mile from our house. Theoretically, every time our car went more than this half-mile away from our house, we would receive an email. We have been using this product for about three weeks now, and have only received a 2-3 emails indicating that our car was entering or leaving our street, when it has actually should be well over 100. (Every time my husband or I go anywhere in this car, we should get four emails: one for entering and one for leaving the zone created at the end of our street when we start our errands, and one for entering the zone and leaving the zone when we return home.) I used my VYNCS for the first time on July 3, 2017. I immediately realized that the default GPS update frequency of once every three minutes was inadequate, and that having the automatic update feature was much more convenient than updating the map manually, which for me meant switching out of the map screen and starting over in the drill down menus to get back to the screen that I had just closed (my Internet refresh button did not do anything). July 4, 2017 was a holiday. On July 5, 2017, I contacted the company (which was "immediately," for all practical purposes) to upgrade from the Basic service to the Pro service. The Basic service was the only option available on the Amazon site. The Pro service costs $ 50 more and additionally includes one year of roadside service, a 60-second GPS update (instead of three minutes), and the live map auto refresh feature. I wanted to pay $ 50 more to subscribe to the Pro service and therefore have these three additional features included in my plan, but I was told that because I already had the Basic plan (even though it had been in service for only two days and even though the Pro plan was not offered at my point of purchase), I would have to buy each of the three additional features at its individual price which totaled $ 70, and which I chose not to do. Not very customer friendly, in my opinion. The user manual to which the website links is outdated. The table of contents is not accurate, the list of features is not accurate, and some functions are called one thing in this manual and something else in the website instructions. You can figure out what’s going on, but I think it indicates some sloppiness on the company’s part. The marketing and website of this product includes a blatant push to give this product a social dimension among teenagers, where teenagers are supposed to have fun making a game of tracking and competing with each other’s driving skills, measured in points and penalty points for speeding, accelerating too fast, etc. This feature eliminates all associated privacy and confidentially and if a family car is shared, your teenager's friends not only know about your teenager's driving habits, but those of all other drivers of the car. This feature is so shamelessly pushed that “Vyncs Social” is the name of the homepage one reaches after logging in to Vyncs's website. Of course, users get rewards for signing up their friends. I have not used this product for any auto diagnostics, so I can’t speak to their accuracy. The product is easy to install and, at least on our model of car, it’s location is inconspicuous. The price of the service is low, but make sure you correctly purchase the plan you want at the outset, which may mean buying it directly from the company, rather than through Amazon. CONCLUSION: My conclusion is that unless sketchy (about 30%) accuracy and timeliness about location and driving characteristics is adequate, this is not the product for you. This would include an inaccurate and/or untimely indication of the car's location, unreliable information about, for instance, if the driver is driving recklessly, and no notifications which would allow you to act in a consequential manner to the information your have set up Vyncs to provide you. (It is hard to request that your child stop speeding or leave an unsafe part of town or a certain friend's house, if you haven't been notified that that is what the child is doing or that is where the child is.) If you really do want to know the information Vyncs claims to be providing you, you would be better off paying more for a monthly service and getting the results that you expect. A product isn't a bargain if it doesn't do what you are counting on it to do. If I had it to do over again, I would definitely go in a different direction, even though it would be more expensive. And when I do that now, I am not going to return the device to Vyncs; I refuse to give the company a restocking fee as a reward for having a totally unsatisfactory product. I don't know how much the restocking fee would be, as the amount indicated varies depending on where you find it on the website. I am rating this product one star because of it simply is not accurate or timely in detecting travel locations, driving characteristics, or providing the notifications I have set it up to provide. As I said, I don’t know if its vehicle diagnostics may be more satisfactory.

Edit: Vyncs did contact me after I wrote this review, I submitted a ticket to their helpdesk, which essentially told me whatever accident data the device may have collected is unrecoverable. They asked me to update this review in light of the tech support ticket, so here's the important excerpt: "It looks like your device experienced power failure at the time of the accident. The power system behavior of the OBD-II port depends on how the vehicle was designed by the vehicle manufacturer. ...we really can not guarantee this since it depends on the vehicle's internal power system." So the bottom line is that this device isn't guaranteed to work during an accident, and thus the accident detection notification, while possible, isn't part of the service being offered. I've reviewed their website and find they make no specific claims regarding accident detection and notification. So I'm amending my review to 4 stars - the product does what it claims to do, which does not include accident detection and notification. I'm not happy with my initial customer service interaction, but later interactions, while not resolving the problem I was trying to solve, were at least complete, informative, and within the realm of what I expect customer service and tech support to do. ---------- Bottom line, it didn't notify us of a substantial (car totaling) accident my children were involved in, compounding this is poor customer service, and no way to retrieve accident data from the device if it fails to upload something important. Otherwise it provided real time tracking and logging of each trip with some scoring of driver behavior. The vehicle accident occurred, totaling the sedan, and because the passenger and driver were ok they were able to call us (their parents) and the app (which was configured correctly) never notified us. The car and vyncs device both still had power after the accident, and it was still correctly attached to the OBDII connector, and the app showed data up until several minutes prior to the accident. After dealing with that, I called the company (support only available during business hours) and the person I talked to did not understand the technical details of the device, nor was able to transfer me to someone who could explain 1) why the device failed and 2) how to obtain the accident data (which, again, never uploaded). They indicated they'd get back to me, but have not done so. At this point I suppose I could put it in another car, and it would give me vehicle location, which is useful (thus the 2 stars), but I was told I can't transfer to another vehicle myself, the web/app interface doesn't permit this operation, I have to call support and given my experience with them I'm not sure they would be able to respond in a timely manner to such a request. So if you want to track multiple vehicles, you have to have multiple devices, you can't just switch them out when it's convenient. The only other thing I wish it had was a way to find the speed on a given stretch of road. Color coding, for instance, would be nice so I can show my teenage driver when and where they've been speeding. ---------- Technical thoughts: This is a rebadged Audiovox V10G device. That contains an Huwei MU509-C GPRS cellular modem (ATT), a uBlox G7020 GPS/GNSS receiver, a Murata Bluetooth LE transceiver, which is all glued together with an STM32F105 Arm7 microcontroller. If you look around, Tracfone, Straight Talk, ATT, and several other places have offered this device, but it has garnered universally mediocre reviews. I suspect many of those review problems were with the firmware and bluetooth implementation - which is disabled in the vyncs device. In this case, software is king, and it appears that while it's clunky and slow, Vyncs has turned this device into something useful that works. While I'm very disappointed in the lack of accident detection (and, honestly, this could be solved with a $5 supercapacitor), I am going to put this in another vehicle and continue to use it. I sincerely hope they continue to upgrade the software, and I hope they think hard about implementing their own hardware solution. It's still a good value for the service provided, but make sure you understand what you're getting when you buy it.

This product is just what we were looking for on a tracker . We used it to track our mother in law who was in her eighties . even though she didn’t travel far . We secretly installed in her car with ease . Because she did start to have cognitive decline so in case she was lost - this device tracks . It was a piece of mind for us . Easy to install . App friendly .

Works as expected. Has never interrupted service. Very good for a budget tracker.

We purchased and installed this item in September of this year (2016). I wanted to use the product before commenting. Overall I am satisfied with the product and believe it is a good value for the price. I have used several of the features of the product so far, such as engine diagnostics (OBD trouble codes), driver monitoring, vehicle trips and vehicle location. The product was very easy to install and get operational (no hard wiring or removing panels to access wiring). As an example, recently, several warning lights appeared on the dash. I was able to fix something based on the trouble codes and descriptions given instead of taking the car to a dealer or mechanic. VERY cool. I would have given it five stars excepts for the following: - identifying the last know location of the vehicle lags some times (up to 15 minutes in one case). This is not a "real time" tracker/locator. - the website is extremely slow sometimes (weekends?). <I case you are wondering we have 80+ Mbps connectivity> - Had to purchase a "16 Pin Ultra Flat Low Profile Male to Female OBD II 2 Extension Cable 30cm/12" ($7.39) because the device sticks out far enough in our car that it might be impacted when getting in/out of the car or be notice too easily (this will vary by car), As others have said, the price is reasonable (as compared to other services/devices). For us, trying to keep a teenager safe in an old car, this product works pretty well. If not for the lag time in locating on occasion and the very slow website (mostly on the weekends) I would have given it five stars. Update: Have now had several instances of lag time of up to 45 minutes with this device (location, trips). The latest was today (12/3016). The website was extremely slow and it did not update the last trip or location for 42 minutes. When I asked it to locate the vehicle as message that reads "We are trying to locate your vehicle. Please come back to this page in a few minutes to see the current location" pops up. Took an additional 10 minutes to finally update to the latest location. Still think its an ok product (works some most of the time), but had to deduct another star. After all, the main purpose is for tracking the vehicle...

The Tracker performed as advertised and has worked very well for me since I installed it over four years ago. I had no trouble installing the Tracker and service has been maintained and has been providing me with excellent service. I would recommend this device.