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Precautions you can take to prevent Car Theft
There are a few things I did and you can do to prevent car theft in public areas and if your car is parked in your driveway. Car theft happens a lot in cities with a port, stolen cars are shipped overseas in containers. On a recent vistit to Montreal there was a car stolen every night at our hotel (which was right next to a BMW dealer) They even stole a Lexus RX350 parked next to my X5, but did not touch my car thankfully.
1) Get a Faraday case for your key fob, this one in medium size works great and only 12.99 for two pouches. It will prevent someone from scanning your key fob in your pocket or from outside your home: https://www.amazon.com/Protector-Blo...1zcF9hdGY&th=1 2) Get a Club for your steering wheel and use it! They can probaably jimmy the lock or cut your steering wheel to remove it but that takes extra time and the thieves will probably go to another car instead of risking getting caught. https://www.amazon.com/3000-Hooks-St...ps%2C93&sr=8-6 My 2023 X5 has an alarm (standard equipment) motion sensors and will sound an alarm when locked if the car is lifted (tow truck) or if there is movement inside the car. Protect your car when it's exposed!! |
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I never leave my car in the driveway anymore.
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I keep my keys upstairs somewhere while the car is in the garage. And when I have the car in the driveway I still bring the keys inside. It's a real pain the ass. I can't believe I have to worry about it on a random sunny weekend day.
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I don’t even drive to my house if someone’s been behind me too long en route
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Cheap to purchase for $70 and a simple idea but time consuming to install. Cost me around $650 for labor. if you want the buttons hidden like I did then it takes time.
The biggest downside is losing the OEM remote start. I got a CPO g20 330ix as a daily now that has a remote start so it is no longer a problem for me. If you want to keep the remote start then you need to look into IGLA , $2000 installed which also has an anti car jacking disabling features. Believe it is called Ghost in UK market.
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Hi all,
New here, but not new to bmw Figured I would share my experience since car theft has been a hot topic in NJ these days. I was carjacked while washing my 2022 X3 M40i in my driveway in broad daylight in September 2022. A dark gray/blue X5 without plates (likely an individual color, close to Orinoco Metallic if I has to guess) pulled up and someone in a ski mask/gloves started my car and flew out of my driveway. The GPS was ripped out within minutes (last location a vacant garage in Irvington). I live in Union County and it turned up 72 hours later in East Orange parked in an assigned parking spot. All things considered, it was recovered in pretty immaculate condition, minus the heavy smoke stench, dutch guts, and cigarette ashes— still have a few cigarette burns in the carpet that I need to deal with. To add insult to injury, I ended up getting a speeding ticket, courtesy of a NYC dept of finance from a red light camera for "speeding in a school zone," and ended up being forced to pay it because even after I presented police reports, repair orders from the shop, etc, the judge claimed I "could have recovered my car" by the offense date. Fast forward to last month, there was another attempted theft. This time at 5am, they pulled on the handles and then proceeded to the backyard with a crow bar, presumably to find the key fob (in a faraday box). Something scared them away, not sure what... I do have dogs, so that's my guess. Since my baby was stolen, I've installed more sophisticated tracking, and hid a few air tags. Next step will be Dahler ATTC. I'm interested to see if anyone has had any success with an aftermarket alarm system. After some research, I came across Pandora and was told they are officially launching in the USA in Q3/Q4 this year. More info on features here. Has anyone installed any Pandora systems? Curious to hear thoughts on Pandora/other aftermarket alarms. Also, any recommendations on installers in the NJ/NYC area are greatly appreciated! Last edited by lo_down; 01-18-2024 at 04:14 PM.. |
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My concern with Dahler unit is the car will still roll when put in drive in automatic tranny. Might work to stop the theft of a manual car though since it cuts power to accelerator/gas pedal. I got starterstopper which is a passive kill switch installed and works great except for car jacking situation. I guess with car running I can turn off the car and throw them the key and run the other way or press the auto on/off button before getting out, the car will shut off at red light and they won’t be able to restart it. PM me your tracking solution. I am curious.
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Get Tury Fast Max installed, put the vehicle in lock mode every night and get a brake pedal lock.
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01-28-2024, 01:37 PM | #124 | |
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Guessing locking the car ? Which I’m assuming everyone’s doing regardless. Or at least I’d hope so
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Chances of the likely hood of knowing such a device is installed while trying to steal the vehicle is slim and unlikely anyone would invest time to remove the device. At best, it slows them down enough for them to bail or be caught. Between this and some sort of steering wheel or pedal lock, not many are going to waste time. I've posted the information on various local car pages and to no surprise many haven't taken the situation seriously enough to either call Don or purchase something and have fallen victim to theft.
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Just saw an alert on citizen for an armed robbery at a garage (probably valet) in greenwich village and the thieves made off with two M3 xdrive? X3M?
Seems like these cars are being targeted pretty hard around here. Quickly went to my garage to make sure my car was where it’s supposed to be |
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A buddy of mine sold his Hellcat for a Mach 1 Stang because of the rise in car thefts recently. Another buddy of mine got his Acura TL stolen right in front of his home parked in the garage. It's getting really bad out here in the NYC area. |
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