Security Query

[mystery type]

Lots of good advice there, but this e type owner has found a good way to guarantee his car is never stolen, he`s so confident he even leaves the car keys on show. maybe this is the way forward?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f7874ZUJpA

[cactusman]

Was speaking to my garage man this pm and he mentioned a new scam. Potential thieves are buying a £30 tracker off the internet and magnetically attaching to the underside of cars at shows. Then they simply track the car back to its home using a smart phone app and remove it later...along with the car!!!!!!!

If you are at a show be worth peering around before you leave. Give any device you find to the police!! There are no depths to which the scum will not dive....

[Stuart Exelby]

Don't forget, this can also happen wherever you happen to park the car - even when not at a show. While "pickings" (choice) will be better at a show, obviously, the opportunity to affix something in the High Street, or outside the pub, is just as tempting for the would be ne'er-do-well.

So while crawling around the floor to inspect the underside after every park-up isn't necessarily going to be everyone's cup of tea, keep a look-out wherever you are....

[cactusman]

Wise words....and never stop at the road side for idiots flashing. Drive to a safe place like a petrol station, open super market or best of all a police station....not that there are many left ..... and keep the keys in your pocket...

[Heuer]

And the circle of life continues:


They bug your car, you jam their bug http://tinyurl.com/h6edg89

[cdaubs]

This is the most popular system in the U.S.

The Trunk Monkey

[Gfhug]

Got to get one of those

[ralphr1780]

Simple deterrent:

[JJC]

I have found the best car security system is to drive a Jaguar E-Type ! Who in there right mind would steal one !! Any police force in the world would spot it in 5 minutes ........LOL ! In addition, the latest generation of car thief's , like all other folks of the last generation, have no idea what a choke is, for example, and probably can't drive a stick. Your safe !!

[Heuer]

In the UK almost everyone learns to drive on a manual ('stick' in your parlance) car so it is not a deterrent. There were also a number of E-Type's stolen in the UK last summer from car shows, hotel car parks and in the street.

[Mark Gordon]

Not to mention, Pete Crespin's two E Types that were stole after he had entrusted them to a supposedly reliable shipper. Professional thieves apparently have no trouble stealing whatever they want no matter what precautions we owners take. The best that we can do is make it more difficult for the professional and perhaps impossible for the punk. I have a tracker, a steering wheel "club", a battery cut-off and a road wheel clamp. If those should fail me, I do have the car insured.

[Durango2k]

Maybe a slight variation of this one is an idea: I heard of a guy who put a remote control on his bicycle, and fitted the payload of an airbag in the saddle !

Carsten

[JJC]

Well thats the UK. Much safer here in NYC. Once in 45 years did some jerk try to steal my E, but he could not drive a stick, and he foolishly tried while I was standing near by. Silly boy.

[Durango2k]

Did you shoot him ? Everyone over there has a lot of guns ?

Carsten

[chrisfell]

There is nothing quite like the feeling one gets when a pride and joy vehicle is not where you left it. It was 1996. I’d owned this particular car for nine years, it was in better knick than when I’d bought it. Witnesses described the thief. Some weeks later, someone matching the thief’s description was stopped for a moving traffic offence and was found with the engine from my car installed in his. He was known to the police, having been recently released from prison after serving a sentence for car theft.

I cannot tell you how angry I was when the police refused to continue with a prosecution. The car was underinsured. I won’t make that mistake again. And I’ve not trusted the boys in blue since.

[288gto]

Analysis of the the latest crime statistics reveals that nationally 77 percent of vehicle theft investigations are closed by police with no suspect having been identified.

In some parts of the country, including the West Midlands, that figure rises to over 90 per cent.

In London only 15 percent of car thefts result in a suspect being identified with even less eventually being convicted of the offence.

In the year up to March 2019 over 106,000 offences of theft of or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle were reported to police forces in England and Wales. This represented the highest annual total since 2009.

But of those offences, more than 80,000 were eventually classified as "investigation complete - no suspect identified".


Worrying statistics.

Simon

[JJC]

Carsten: Oh my...no I don't have a gun. However, I do recall that as I pulled him out of my E-Type, he was a bit excited, and mysteriously tripped over my foot, which sadly, caused him to fall , head first of course, into a brick wall opposite my parked E. The police informed me it was several months before he could remember his name. I pray that by now, 40 years later, he is on the road to recovery.

JC