Be Aware, thieves find new way to break into cars

[aerojt]

I find it kinda funny you're in law enforcement and you're running no cats.

haha, I guess he doesn't need em down there. I'd have no registration for my car if I had no cats.

[BADASS2000SS]

Cmon Lt. badass.... not all dealerships are that bad! I know mine isn't!!

I am sure you are not involved in that kinda stuff Captain, its usually has nothing to do with the dealership. I know 99% of the people there are good, its just that one guy that wants to make a little more money on the side! Its hard to turn down 1K to cut a key hand it to a guy with an address on it!

As for not running cats, its not my DD. I get to drive my Camaro about once a month, if I am lucky!

[Firebirdjones]

This is something I found on the internet recently, perhaps this should have been posted in the off topic section but this section would have given this post more exposure and I think its important we inform as many members as we can to this.


How to lock your car safely:

While traveling a man stopped at a roadside park. He came out
to his car less than 5 minutes later and found someone had gotten into his car, and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigation unit,
briefcase, everything. He called the police and they said there were no
signs of his car being broken into. How did this happen?


There is a device out now that thieves are using that can clone the security code of your car's key-chain lock device. When you use the door lock on your key-chain it sends the code through the airwaves that can be read by another device (not just your car) and stolen. Thieves will sit a distance away from your car, watch for you to use your key-chain lock and steal your code. They know you are going inside of a store, restaurant, or bathroom and have a few minutes to steal and run.

How do you prevent this? Be sure to manually lock your car door by hitting the lock button inside the car, when you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting it does not send out the security code.

Be aware of this and please pass this information on to as many people as you can.


Keep safe everyone!

Interesting for sure. I've never used the key fobs, just not my thing. I have always locked the doors with the door switch and used the keys to open it. My wife likes them however

At the race track where loud cars are around I have to lock the doors by manually moving the locks so the alarm won't set,,,you could imagine why,,,lol.

[claytonr]

so this is very great timing for this post.......last night went to a party with my cousin who jsut got back from iraq saturday.it was two blocks from my house..was in there for four hours get outside unlock the doors(i have a paging aftermarket alarm system) sit down and see somthing shiny on my seat in the glare of light ..grab it real fast before my cuz sits on it..and guess what its my fuckin dash. they stole my navi screen($1000) two JL w3's(600) probox(200) and an alpine amp(500)THE PAGER NEVER WENT OFF!!! i had the shortest efin leash ever and was knockin on doors buzzed at 5am gettin ready to kill someone..and my cuz who just got off a two year term was worse than i was... anyways called the cops and they said the same stuff about no sign of entry and i said look at the efin dash all ripped out and A/C unit hanging by my shifter and tell me someone didnt break in this bitch some how..anyways i was ready to murder and have not heard anything from my buddy yet (his neighboorhood) i told him to put the word out for someone to tempt me with information...Talk about very upset..OH AND THE BEST PART IS THAT I HAD MY CAMARO STOLEN AT GUNPOINT IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR..GOT IT BACK REBUILT IT MYSELF JUST GOT DONE ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO AND NOW THISS BULL SHIT...COME ON PEOPLE GET A HONEST LIFE OR ROB THE PEOPLE ROBBING YOU OR SOMETHIN SHIT...anyways that was jsut my stress relief..anythin yal can say to make me feel better i would appreciate it by the way lol oh and im only 19 so try that out for life expierences before 20..not cool!

[KahanaReef]

Wow! I am so sorry to hear that I remember your post about the car jacking too.

That is soooo wrong. I'm afraid I have nothing to say to make you feel better though.

But, I do feel for you!

Will the insurance take care of it?

[claytonr]

thats the good part..many of yal know the feeling of having to even call the insurance the money almost doesnt talk ya know but ya..ima have two adjusters one for the broken dash (1500)w labor and one for the parts stolen which was (2650) of coarse i will do all the work my self and have a lil left over which i consider my emotional compensation..lol.and can yal just imagine what my insurance is gunna cost after those two insidents wow and only 19 with two speeding tickets on my record omg its gunna be nuts..but you gotta love your fbodies and everything they bring to the table...except this of coarse...GRRRR

[claytonr]

and plz plz plz elaborate on the booby trap..sounds like a winner to me..my dad said back in the day when cb radios where bumpin that one of his buddies kept gettin his stolen so he took all the little screw out of the side put fishing hooks and screw them on through the little hole.heard a scream on night in the garage and found i guy caught up nasty by the hooks...grabbed him by the legs and ripped his shit straight out with his meat still in the dash got a baseball bat beat him near to death and called the cops..NOW THAT IS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT..on smalllllll problem..with my crap luck i will blow a fuse or something reach back to pull the radio and get hung up myself and that sounds not to bueno to me!! GREAT IDEA..i am seriously seriously gunna do it to my next screen which is gunna be in in a week or two..ill let yal know not if but when i catch my big fish and i dont have a bat but i have a 6 inch buck knife between my seat and console and i might just have to castrate a homie?? what yal think??

[ls1bandit]

The easiest way to steal a car is to simply get the VIN number, they then have an inside man at a dealership cut a key for the vehicle, then they just drive it off. Also another thing that we have seen is in the new vehicles there is what they are calling a "valet key" it is in the manual and you are supposed to leave it with a valet so they dont have all of your other keys. Well alot of people dont know about it or dont care and they leave the manual in the glove box, so someone breaks in and bam, theres the key to the car.

[allbaugh_04]

sorry i still don't buy this way to break in cars...an f-body has to be the easiest car to break into anyways

sorry for your loss..i couldn't imagine that

[Firebirdjones]

so this is very great timing for this post.......last night went to a party with my cousin who jsut got back from iraq saturday.it was two blocks from my house..was in there for four hours get outside unlock the doors(i have a paging aftermarket alarm system) sit down and see somthing shiny on my seat in the glare of light ..grab it real fast before my cuz sits on it..and guess what its my fuckin dash. they stole my navi screen($1000) two JL w3's(600) probox(200) and an alpine amp(500)THE PAGER NEVER WENT OFF!!! i had the shortest efin leash ever and was knockin on doors buzzed at 5am gettin ready to kill someone..and my cuz who just got off a two year term was worse than i was... anyways called the cops and they said the same stuff about no sign of entry and i said look at the efin dash all ripped out and A/C unit hanging by my shifter and tell me someone didnt break in this bitch some how..anyways i was ready to murder and have not heard anything from my buddy yet (his neighboorhood) i told him to put the word out for someone to tempt me with information...Talk about very upset..OH AND THE BEST PART IS THAT I HAD MY CAMARO STOLEN AT GUNPOINT IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR..GOT IT BACK REBUILT IT MYSELF JUST GOT DONE ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO AND NOW THISS BULL SHIT...COME ON PEOPLE GET A HONEST LIFE OR ROB THE PEOPLE ROBBING YOU OR SOMETHIN SHIT...anyways that was jsut my stress relief..anythin yal can say to make me feel better i would appreciate it by the way lol oh and im only 19 so try that out for life expierences before 20..not cool!

My only advice would be to not put all that expensive crap in the car, especially out in plain view. Or at least don't put this stuff in a daily driver. I know kids nowadays like their toys but that stuff is just asking for trouble.
Won't make ya feel better I know, but alot of times theives aren't looking for cars but looking in cars for easy stuff to snatch and sell quickly for profit.

[RedVertTA]

My only advice would be to not put all that expensive crap in the car, especially out in plain view. Or at least don't put this stuff in a daily driver. I know kids nowadays like their toys but that stuff is just asking for trouble.
Won't make ya feel better I know, but alot of times theives aren't looking for cars but looking in cars for easy stuff to snatch and sell quickly for profit.

It was his sound system, how the hell do you hide that?

[Firebirdjones]

It was his sound system, how the hell do you hide that?

Keep the stocker in it's original location and then put the good one in the glove box. Thats what I do on all my classic cars so it looks stock.

I've never had the need to change the factory radio on the 4th gens, I liked them the way they came, and no one wants to steal the stock head units.

Besides,,,,he said they also stole his $1,000 navi screen (what ever the hell that is) But it sounds expensive enough that I wouldn't want it in my car,,,thats got thief written all over it

[BADASS2000SS]

so this is very great timing for this post.......last night went to a party with my cousin who jsut got back from iraq saturday.it was two blocks from my house..was in there for four hours get outside unlock the doors(i have a paging aftermarket alarm system) sit down and see somthing shiny on my seat in the glare of light ..grab it real fast before my cuz sits on it..and guess what its my fuckin dash. they stole my navi screen($1000) two JL w3's(600) probox(200) and an alpine amp(500)THE PAGER NEVER WENT OFF!!! i had the shortest efin leash ever and was knockin on doors buzzed at 5am gettin ready to kill someone..and my cuz who just got off a two year term was worse than i was... anyways called the cops and they said the same stuff about no sign of entry and i said look at the efin dash all ripped out and A/C unit hanging by my shifter and tell me someone didnt break in this bitch some how..anyways i was ready to murder and have not heard anything from my buddy yet (his neighboorhood) i told him to put the word out for someone to tempt me with information...Talk about very upset..OH AND THE BEST PART IS THAT I HAD MY CAMARO STOLEN AT GUNPOINT IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR..GOT IT BACK REBUILT IT MYSELF JUST GOT DONE ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO AND NOW THISS BULL SHIT...COME ON PEOPLE GET A HONEST LIFE OR ROB THE PEOPLE ROBBING YOU OR SOMETHIN SHIT...anyways that was jsut my stress relief..anythin yal can say to make me feel better i would appreciate it by the way lol oh and im only 19 so try that out for life expierences before 20..not cool!

I am not fimiliar with TX, but do you live in a really bad area? You cant have that bad of luck to get car jacked and burglarized on a constant basis.

[RedVertTA]

Keep the stocker in it's original location and then put the good one in the glove box. Thats what I do on all my classic cars so it looks stock.

I've never had the need to change the factory radio on the 4th gens, I liked them the way they came, and no one wants to steal the stock head units.

Besides,,,,he said they also stole his $1,000 navi screen (what ever the hell that is) But it sounds expensive enough that I wouldn't want it in my car,,,thats got thief written all over it

Interesting, but isn't it a little much?

It's sad that people would have to live in fear that they'd have to go to those lengths.

[02WS6dream]

I had a stereo stolen one time while I was on the other side of the wall!!! (attached garage) I had a lot of equipment in my t/a--also had a paging alarm; but the smartest thing to do is install it so that it cannot be quickly taken. If you are interested in what I did with the two subs and 3 amps etc to keep them in the car, hit me up and I'll give you any advice I can! I also don't agree with leaving stuff out of my car that I enjoy because some asshole thinks he can take it!

[RedVertTA]

I also don't agree with leaving stuff out of my car that I enjoy because some asshole thinks he can take it!

[KahanaReef]

Interesting, but isn't it a little much?

It's sad that people would have to live in fear that they'd have to go to those lengths.

It's not living in fear... It's living smart. And, not making yourself an easy target for the scumbags trolling around for a quick take on your investment

And, it is sad that people have to worry about their belongings being stolen. But, it's also a reality. There are people who do nothing else but go about their days or nights ripping people off. It's their chosen career

[BADASS2000SS]

It's not living in fear... It's living smart. And, not making yourself an easy target for the scumbags trolling around for a quick take on your investment

And, it is sad that people have to worry about their belongings being stolen. But, it's also a reality. There are people who do nothing else but go about their days or nights ripping people off. It's their chosen career

You are one smart girl! You hit the nail right on the head, I could not have said it better myself!

[KahanaReef]

You are one smart girl! You hit the nail right on the head, I could not have said it better myself!

Let's just say I've been there... done that! I've been violated and victimized and won't go there again

[BADASS2000SS]

Ahhhh, like I said before..."One Smart Girl"