Josh Sirota
ITR '99 BMW Z3 Coupe
Jeff L
ITA Miata
2010 NARRC Champion
2007 NERRC Championship, 2nd place
2008 NARRC Championship, 2nd place
2009 NARRC Championship, 2nd place
I have no idea what needs to be there to be GCR-compliant. I'm just saying what our chief of T&S said.
That's exactly what I'm saying. If you buy that $350+ chunk of plastic that will take the heat/bouncing/dampness/vibration of being on a racecar and mylaps went dark the very next day... you cannot return the transponder because I'm pretty certain that AMB never said that the website service was part of purchasing the transponder.
Do your AMB Transponders have a seven digit number on them?
I race RC cars and there is a company in the UK that can make a "copy" if you send them your transponder.
With the car units, it seems you should not include it with the sale, but it would be nice if AMB would have warned of this and allowed a 3-6 month grace period.
I do know that our RC lap times, even if using house transponders had correct driver info once uploaded to MyLaps.com
I hope even ground is found here. Maybe a $50 tranfer fee of ownership????
BoneSpec Transmissions
Honda D-series tranny specialist
I gave the guy at mylaps.com the URL for this website so that they can see that people are pissed off by this change. Hopefully they will be smart enough to do something about it. This was prompted by my recent purchase of a spec miata with a hardwired AMB transponder included in the selling price. Obviously, my seller didn't know about the recent rule change.
Bruce
Last edited by BruceG; 11-24-2008 at 11:42 AM.
Very interested to hear the outcome; hoping to sell my car, has a hardwire tx, want to be able to sell it with and buy a new one for the new car, but that won't be possible to do if the policy isn't improved...
I do think a modest transfer fee would be reasonable.
+1
Charge me $20 to unregister it and add it to my account. That would involve setting up a payment link from the screens they ALREADY have for this process. Of course, now that sales of new units are down (most of us already have at least one...), this is a great way to force a new purchase on customers......
Matt Downing
1995 Honda Civic EX Coupe - ITA
Ohio Valley Region, SCCA
Just to clarify, this is purely about how the results are correlated on MyLaps.com ... the regions get your xpdr number for each event so your results at the track aren't affected by this issue.
My dissatisfaction here is not based on whether or not the results will have my name on them on MyLaps.com. It's based on them trying to use the MyLaps.com facility to blackmail us into replacing perfectly good xpdrs. I don't consider blackmail to be good customer service, especially when we literally have *no* alternative to their product.
Doug "Lefty" Franklin
NutDriver Racing
ITA/IT7 RX-7 and SPU Baby Grand
Flagging & Communication
SEDiv/AtlRegion
Maybe we should try the "Sunpass" and see if the timer takes it??
:> MM
Mike Ogren , FWDracingguide.com, 352.4288.983 ,http://www.ogren-engineering.com/
Hi all,
I'm having exactly the same issue, I bought a race car with an AMB transponder already hard wired to teh vehicle and didn't think it was a problem..
And when I asked at Mylaps to unregister it and put it to my name, I have been told it's not possible but can buy a new one.., completely BS..!!!
Yes, post something here if you find resolution...
Thanks
Frederic
Find a way to list the lap info on somewhere else than MyLaps.
This would require someone able to convert the file info from AMB program into a simple txt format.
I race RC cars and have three AMB personal transponders. The laps are saved in .pdf format I believe.
Couldn't after the racing is done, the files be hosted for easy download in .pdf format?
I know our little personal units can be copied, wonder if same company could copy the REAL car units?
You can just make out my AMB personal transponder for RC car on the left side of this picture
BoneSpec Transmissions
Honda D-series tranny specialist
I just got a car with a transponder, luckily, the previous owner hadnt registered it. Read this:
http://www.mylaps.com/general/usedtransponders.jsp
Jesse Draper
#08 ITA Honda CRX Si
Just as there are new competitors for HNR devices perhaps we will get competition for AMB and get them off their high perch!
I started this thread after purchasing a spec miata with the hard wired transponder included. Since we have this issue, I will purchase the portable transponder, move it between vehicles and never give AMB any business ever again(unless something breaks).
What goes around comes around!!
Thanks to this thread I yanked mine when I sold the rabbit and put it in the new build.
Tristan Herbert
2011 World Challenge TC Rookie of the Year
2011 ARRC ITB Champion
2011 IT Fest ITB Champion
2009 MARRS - ITB Champion
BRIMTEK/Germanautoparts.com
Unless you are fortunate enough to own mulitple race cars I never understood the desire to have a portable unit that required recharging. Seems like a big PITA and one more thing I'd forget to do, but to each his own.
When I bought my previous car it did not come with a transponder and the PO used a rechargable unit.
Tom Sprecher
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