In Light of Marv's Stolen Car, My security solution and recommendation Options

[Robarabian]

Hi everyone,

Who would have thunk that our cars would become valuable enough to steal in the manner it is happening. If you scroll the FB and other sites, it is happening more and more.

My answer to helping you secure getting it back comes from my LE experience. A Tracker. I use the one I post at the bottom of this paragraph. They are under a hundred bucks, and the air cards 60 bucks a year. I have 3 of them. 2 are hard wired and I keep one as a "floater" to just slap on whatever car I want. I bought these years ago when my kids were new drivers because they would forget to text that they made it to school and it was easy to just live time, dial up the car's location.

You can set parameters to send you a text if the car goes outside of the geofence you select. Ie, travels more than 5 miles from home or wherever. You can set a speed alarm that will send you a text if it exceeds whatever speed you select. So say you think your mechanic is the same guy as the valet from Ferris Bueller's Day off, you will know the car is doing 100 mph...


They are easy to hide, and use cellular and unlike an Air Tag, they don't tell anyone they are there.

My insurance company provides a discount on my daily driver as it is considered a "tracking device" to assist in recovery. I think for the low cost, you get a high peace of mind with these.

I hated reading the story about Marv's car and pray for its recovery. It is like losing a family member after the time, effort and energy we spend nurturing them through life.

Robert




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[Arno914]

Like I mentioned before, if you are under any structure it will affect it's ability to connect.

...that is the "problem" with those trackers. Thiefes know about them and will transport your stolen car in an enclosed trailer completely lined with aluminum foil or something alike. "Faraday Cage". No signal, no matter what tracker is installed. Same goes for a well equipped "shop" where your car is beeing ripped for parts...until then they have discovered your tracker anyways and put it for a ride on the next school bus...

Any thoughts?

[ClayPerrine]

Like I mentioned before, if you are under any structure it will affect it's ability to connect.

...that is the "problem" with those trackers. Thiefes know about them and will transport your stolen car in an enclosed trailer completely lined with aluminum foil or something alike. "Faraday Cage". No signal, no matter what tracker is installed. Same goes for a well equipped "shop" where your car is beeing ripped for parts...until then they have discovered your tracker anyways and put it for a ride on the next school bus...

Any thoughts?

@Arno914 You have to remember, no car is theft proof. If someone wants the car bad enough, they will get it.

Years ago, I worked near a BMW dealer in Arlington, Texas. They kept losing brand new high end BMWs off the fenced lot overnight. The fence was 10 feet tall topped with razor wire. They had dobermans running the lot at night as well.

The perps had a brick truck with a hoist on it. They would drive the truck down the alley at the back. One guy would throw ground beef balls mixed with peanut butter over the fence to distract the dobies, and then ride crane on a sling over the fence. They would put straps around the car, and lift it out of the lot and onto the brick truck. The truck had bricks around the outside edge of the truck to hide the car. They would hit that dealer 3 times a night.

The only reason they got caught was the cops stepped up patrols of the area and caught them with a car suspended in mid air over the fence.

Bottom line is you can't make your car impossible to steal. But what you can do is make it harder to steal than the other guy's car down the street. Thieves are lazy, and they will normally go with the easy score.

Clay