Need advice from anyone with LOJACK experience.
How much does this cost?
Is it worth the money?

 

Here's my 2 cents:

1) Lo-Jack doesn't work in all 50 states nor Canada - if they steal your car and take it out of state, chances are your car is gone forever
2) A police unit has to personaly track down your car by following it's signal, which most jurisdiction won't unless they find it by accident. It also requires extra equipment installed in the cruiser, so not all police cars can actualy perform the work.
3) The extra savings (over an alarm) from insurance will require you to have the car for over 10 years to pay for the cost of Lo-Jack
4) If someone steals your car, do you REALLY want it back? If you have $10k in mods, then yes. If it's stock, hell no. Get a new one.

Flip side:

1) Lo-Jack used to offer a full alarm system w/ the tracking beacon for the same price as the tracker itself. I.e. free car alarm
2) If they steal your car, and Lo-Jack can't find it, you get your $599 back

I personaly have something called Force Tracker in my S2000. It works in all 50 states, and the car can be located remotely. Trucking companies use it to track their big rigs, so it's a multi-purpose system with other sources of income (less likely to bankrupt). It normaly costs $100 more then Lo-Jack, but I talked my salesman into matching the price. I also don't have any alarm installed in my car, but still get full discount from my insurance. So for me, I found it a harder deal to pass up then Lo-Jack, which IMO, has a very poor method of locating a car.

To sum it up - should you get Lo-Jack on top of an alarm? No. Instead of an alarm? HELL NO! Spend the money on an alarm system instead.

 

I have Lo Jack and it does not run $599, I paid about $369 for mine which is really not that bad.

Most of the police units here have the equipment installed to track vehicles that have Lo Jack installed.

The jurisdiction issue is not, as a Sheriff (no jurisdiction boundries) unit would normally be dispatched to track the signal.

Since cars that are stolen by professionals are generally allowed to sit somewhere to "cool off" (where the thief parks the car somewhere waiting until it's safe to take it to their shop to dismantle it). I would doubt the car would be out of state when you call it in unless you are on a long vacation or something.

At $369, I really don't think you can go wrong having it. But it definitely should not be used in place of an alarm.

The alarm is the first line of defense which could prevent the more novice thieves from even trying to steal your car. But if they do, you have the LoJack backup.