What do you do to prevent car theft?

[Luzifer]

What do you do to prevent car theft? For example, when parked on a street or in your driveway or garage. Do you protect your key fob?

Me I've started to use a faraday box when the key is inside the house and also a faraday pocket box(Go Dark) but it's quite bulky though. As for the car in the garage they'll have to move the van and the Vette out of the way before they can get the Lambo out.

 

[Sakura]

It would be pretty hard for anyone to steal my Lambo from my garage. First, my driveway is tricky to navigate for anyone inexperienced. The automatic garage door is locked. Plus, I have large, visible security cameras outside and gold metal signs that say, "Private Property - Keep Out - Security Cameras in Action."

My other car is parked outside, and its key fob is kept in a special pouch that works like a Faraday box to block signals.

For my new upcoming car (a Toyota Alphard), I’m considering getting a steering lock, just to be on the safe side. Any good suggestions?

 

[Luzifer]

It would be pretty hard for anyone to steal my Lambo from my garage. First, my driveway is tricky to navigate for anyone inexperienced. The automatic garage door is locked. Plus, I have large, visible security cameras outside and gold metal signs that say, "Private Property - Keep Out - Security Cameras in Action."

My other car is parked outside, and its key fob is kept in a special pouch that works like a Faraday box to block signals.

For my new upcoming car (a Toyota Alphard), I’m considering getting a steering lock, just to be on the safe side. Any good suggestions?

Gold metal signs! I see you set up bait so they'll steal those instead!

I have motion detectors and a chime in the bedroom so if anyone goes to the garage door or the car in the driveway I'm alerted. Once in a while I get a cat crossing the beam in the middle of the night. The motion detectors alerted me about a month ago, a homeless guy rummaging in my yard, I told him to leave but he wouldn't go. He continued to grab things so I told him I was calling the cops, I went inside to get the phone and he bolted. He left a bunch of beer cans on the side of the garage and stolen bicycle wheels. It sucks because I don't think we are allowed to stop thieves for fear of being charged by the police.

 

[Sakura]

Gold metal signs! I see you set up bait so they'll steal those instead!

I have motion detectors and a chime in the bedroom so if anyone goes to the garage door or the car in the driveway I'm alerted. Once in a while I get a cat crossing the beam in the middle of the night. The motion detectors alerted me about a month ago, a homeless guy rummaging in my yard, I told him to leave but he wouldn't go. He continued to grab things so I told him I was calling the cops, I went inside to get the phone and he bolted. He left a bunch of beer cans on the side of the garage and stolen bicycle wheels. It sucks because I don't think we are allowed to stop thieves for fear of being charged by the police.

What’s amusing is that, despite the metal signs being huge, I made the letters quite small. Curious trespassers always have to come closer to read them. Once they realize what the signs say, they dash away in a hurry. I love watching their startled reactions on my security cameras

Is it common for homeless people to trespass in private yards in Canada?

About 10 years ago, I had an incident with someone who thought my yard was a camping spot. He wandered into my yard and laid down on my beautiful grass. I simply went outside, spoke in a low, punctual whispery voice, and gave him a scary look, like cannibal Hannibal Lecter. He bolted pretty quickly. After I put up the gold signs, it never happened again.

 

[Luzifer]

I think it is common for homeless to trespass in private yards, I've caught a few over the years completely overturning the recycling bin to look for leftover wine bottles and or empty cans. Last summer a guy walked up my driveway all the way to the end, deposited his cigarette beside the house to look at the H while I was washing it. I was not amused. Since then I park my work van perpendicularly and put a bunch of obstacles to hide the car. I also make sure not to drive home or leave it at a certain hour because there's too many eyes.

That's one project I need to work on in the future is to wire cameras myself. WIFI cameras from what I read can be hacked or jammed.

 

[Sakura]

I think it is common for homeless to trespass in private yards, I've caught a few over the years completely overturning the recycling bin to look for leftover wine bottles and or empty cans. Last summer a guy walked up my driveway all the way to the end, deposited his cigarette beside the house to look at the H while I was washing it. I was not amused. Since then I park my work van perpendicularly and put a bunch of obstacles to hide the car. I also make sure not to drive home or leave it at a certain hour because there's too many eyes.

That's one project I need to work on in the future is to wire cameras myself. WIFI cameras from what I read can be hacked or jammed.

That is scary to have homeless people going around people's home. I don't mean because they are financially poor or had bad luck, but majority of these people have some sort of mental problems. I know this from my local soup kitchen. One thing I know is to never take things too seriously, regardless of whatever shortcomings or successes, as these can be detrimental to mental health.

Yes, wifi cameras can be scrambled. I have wired cameras around my home. I asked a security company to install the cameras for me. Cost like $3k back then. I purposely asked them for big cameras to intimidate the trespassers. They offered me their monthly security service, but I declined. Maybe I will use their service when I get old and can't defend myself. Until that time I'm relying on my ancient katana

 

[Luzifer]

For my new upcoming car (a Toyota Alphard), I’m considering getting a steering lock, just to be on the safe side. Any good suggestions?

I don't really have any good recommendations but you have to know they are just a deterrent, It takes about a minute to cut or disable one. I bought a cheap chinese one but I quickly ditched it as the key didn't work well. Previous to that many years ago I had a better one.

The best anti start is a hidden kill switch.

 

[Luzifer]

Just finished installing a kill switch on the Corvette. I had to do a few custom things to make it work. Now I'm less worried about my key fob signal being captured or a relay attack because the car still won't start. As soon as I get my H back it's going to have one too.

Now if anyone knows of a a good GPS that actually works, (No air tags though).

 

[Sakura]

Just finished installing a kill switch on the Corvette. I had to do a few custom things to make it work. Now I'm less worried about my key fob signal being captured or a relay attack because the car still won't start. As soon as I get my H back it's going to have one too.

Now if anyone knows of a a good GPS that actually works, (No air tags though).

I would love for a kill switch DIY on a Huracan. Was that hard to install? Thinking to install this on my other car too that is parked outside.

 

[Luzifer]

I would love for a kill switch DIY on a Huracan. Was that hard to install? Thinking to install this on my other car too that is parked outside.

It was quite simple actually, it isn't my first kill switch, I had made them for a few of my offroad trucks.

I made a bracket to hold the switch, removed a few trim pieces to put it in place and ran wires to the system.

 

[REKIII]

My wife drives one of the most stolen, and most easily stolen vehicles on the market. Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk. Sadly, the vehicle will get targeted and reported. We live about 45 mins north of Milwaukee, WI. We NEVER take it into the city. The odds of it being stolen from a mall parking lot in broad daylight are depressingly good. If we parked it at the airport, it would be gone guaranteed.
There are all sorts of things people do to these to stop it from getting stolen, fuel pump kill switches, starter kill switches, complex integrated start-up sequencers, high end GPS trackers, etc. But here's the thing....the attempt to steal would still happen. Broken rear window, crawl in, destroy interior, hook up computer, run darkweb software, THEN they'd realize something was amiss, and leave the vehicle. So....even if they don;t get it...it's still destroyed. So...we have chosen not to take any of those measures and simply do not take it into high risk areas. Sucks....but it is what it is.

 

[Luzifer]

I'm less afraid of the Huracan getting stolen than being vandalized when I take it out. I wrote about this I got a close call last summer where teens were about to ram the car with a shopping cart until one of them yelled to the cart guy, a few feet from colliding the cart, that someone was inside the car.

This summer I have to be more careful. Deductible is 5K.

 

[Luzifer]

A must watch video, how some steal cars and they become clean and you could be driving a stolen car without knowing! He even talks about stolen Lambos.

 

[REKIII]

I assume most high end cars get shipped out of the country. To Groups that don't care about the origin.

 

[Luzifer]

I assume most high end cars get shipped out of the country. To Groups that don't care about the origin.

That video demonstrate those UK cars stay in country with a legit exported VIN that weren't destroyed. Even dealers are buying stolen cars they may not know of.

 

[Sakura]

I noticed that this car has a built in tracker and everything from the factory. Not stopping the thieves though because they put the car inside signal blockers and ship the car out of the country asap. I'm going to find a shop that can install kill switch for me or maybe a fire bazooka. Just don't want the later to blow up on me with false sensor.

 

[Luzifer]

I checked with my insurance this morning, which she and I found ridiculous about a tracker rebate on my policy, if there's a tracker in the car it's only a $3 saving a year! She said both my sports car are not targeted by thieves...

 

[Sakura]

I checked with my insurance this morning, which she and I found ridiculous about a tracker rebate on my policy, if there's a tracker in the car it's only a $3 saving a year! She said both my sports car are not targeted by thieves...

That’s crazy! My insurance becomes cheaper by around 100 bucks with factory tracker.

 

[Luzifer]

That’s crazy! My insurance becomes cheaper by around 100 bucks with factory tracker.

I forgot to extend the insurance period for storing and it automatically put the insurance back on but there's still lots of snow banks and right now in pothole season. Probably another month before I can go for a ride. I need a morale booster drive!

 

[Sakura]

I forgot to extend the insurance period for storing and it automatically put the insurance back on but there's still lots of snow banks and right now in pothole season. Probably another month before I can go for a ride. I need a morale booster drive!

LOL same here, but not because of the snow. It's because of flying pollens from Japanese cedar. They are everywhere now & I hate taking the car out. I'm going to invest in hepa filter for my garage just to get the pollens & dusts out!