How do you keep your vehicle from being stolen?

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Wake

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why waste money on a car alarm most vehicles now a days come with some sort of anti theft
just carry full coverage and make sure your policy includes rental reimbursement
because the ins companys usually allow 21 days for the police to find the vehicle before they pay off the car loan or cut a check so you can get a new vehicle

Well that sounds good until you have to deal with the insurance company. I'd rather go through a little extra trouble to try to keep the vehicle. Here are two scenarios that drive my thinking.

1. The vehicle isn't recovered and you get a check from the insurance company. The problem here is that you're not going to get what the vehicle is worth, but what they say its worth. You're almost definitely not going to get enough money to replace it with one in comparable condition if you have a very clean example.

2. The vehicle is recovered. If it's wrecked I don't want it back. Chances are it will never drive the same again if it was a substantial accident.

Myself, I live in the country so there is less worry about theft out in the boonies. In the city though, I park head in among other vehicles, turn the wheels all the way over one direction, and put a club on the wheel. It won't prevent it from being stolen, but will hopefully have the would-be thief looking for an easier target what would require less work. Turning the wheels all the way over on one side is going to make it harder to tow away, hopefully adding a little discouragement. If I need to go somewhere less secure or sketchy, I take my 98 Oldsmobile and leave the Escalade or other fancy vehicles home.

You can't make a vehicle impossible to steal, but you can add enough layers of discouragement to hopefully make it impractical to steal. Turn a job from seconds into minutes for a thief and you've going to deter most of them.
 

Gzes

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I leafy my sol roofless, Windows down, doors unlocked lol. Thank you small town America. 2dr stays locked with alarm
 

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Move out of the hood....lol but seriously my cars used to always get messed with, now that I live elsewhere I've had no problems.
 

ccapehartusarmyINF.(ret)

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I keep a side by side 12guage by my bed loaded non lethal rounds so when shoot him i dont kill the guy trying to steal my tahoe hes just lying on the ground groveling in pain untill the gilbert pd shows up just in time to arrest his ass for grand theft felony theft

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Ive had a car stolen before in texas its not that bad when u have full coverage the ins give police 21 days to find it then rhey cut u a check to go car shopping
 

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This what my Dad told me years ago he use to be a cop.

If they want you're car bad enough they are going to take it no matter what you do.

Just get good car insurance and put a claim in if ever happens.

But a Rottweiler, 12 gauge, and a screaming wife will make them think twice LOL.
 

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