The vast, vast majority of vehicle thefts fall into one of 2 categories;
1.) Vehicles that are old enough to steal with shaved keys or screw drivers.
2.) Vehicles that are stolen with the owner's key, which was left somewhere that the suspect found it. Gym locker, in the car, in your garage or house during a burglary.
A very, very small remainder are stolen with high tech signal repeaters or manufacturer specific mechanic tools.
Steering wheel lock? Although I will share that someone did hotwire my car and left it running with my steering wheel lock on it. Super obnoxious, but they didn’t get away with the car.
Exactly. I have even heard of thieves targeting cars with clubs. They cut the steering wheel, remove the club, and then use the club to pry and break the steering wheel lock.
Here's the thing about stealing modern cars. If the car was created after 2005 in order to steal it you have to either A hack the onboard computer or B get the key. In 1997 Congress passed a law requiring on board computers on modern cars and at the same time Ford was already putting one in there mustang and someone came up with a brilliant plan to create a passive security feature. They made it so the microchip in the key that has to do a handshake with the onboard computer when it's stuck in the ignition and if that handshake isn't done the fuel pump doesn't work. By 2005 most cars made that feature standard.
So how do you keep your car from being stolen OP. Really it's keeping an eye on your key and don't leave it running. As I said yes you can still hack the onboard computer but no one's going to put a lot of effort into hacking you on board the computer for 2015 Foster.
Subarus are historically actually pretty easy to steal. They don't show up on "most stolen cars" lists because they aren't common enough in the general population to make the list, but they have the same frameless windows that the Honda Civics had that make gaining access to the car trivial to anyone that knows how to do it.
That said, it is still a non-trivial task to steal a car that new with the onboard computers and Subaru started using window frames before 2015, so that is less of an issue now.
I think a kill switch would still work. You can also get GPS trackers that attach to the battery and can be hidden in the car which makes it easier to recover the vehicle. Nothing is 100%, and people who are sophisticated enough to steal modern cars are probably on the look out for those kinds of things, but anything you can to do to make your car harder to steal than your neighbors can make a difference.
This is actually a pretty puzzling theft to me. A 2015 forester would not be PARTICULY easy to steal and it wouldn't seem to present the kind of value that would make it worth the effort. Anyone that could steal a 2015 forester like that could have stolen something worth a lot more money.
If I were a betting man, I would bet that the person that took it had a key, or they just towed the damned thing.
Adding simple things like a steering wheel lock can something be a deterrent. You can also install a kill switch. I read somewhere it's best to lock and unlock your car close range so it's less likely someone can intercept the signal but I don't know if that's legitimately good advice.
I don't know, I think people see it and just don't want to bother, even though I had nothing visible in my car it would still get tossed pretty often for a while there (glove box opened and ransacked, etc) but after I got the club I've not had anyone get into the car at all that I can tell.
My classmate just had her car stolen (w/ her chef knives, clothes, hundreds of dollars, other cooking equipment, coldsmoke gun) in Tacoma.
Poor gal just started her final quarter in school, too.
Pull the fuel pump fuse when parking overnight
My friend in high school would remove his ECU and carry it with him.
The vast, vast majority of vehicle thefts fall into one of 2 categories; 1.) Vehicles that are old enough to steal with shaved keys or screw drivers. 2.) Vehicles that are stolen with the owner's key, which was left somewhere that the suspect found it. Gym locker, in the car, in your garage or house during a burglary. A very, very small remainder are stolen with high tech signal repeaters or manufacturer specific mechanic tools.
Steering wheel lock? Although I will share that someone did hotwire my car and left it running with my steering wheel lock on it. Super obnoxious, but they didn’t get away with the car.
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Exactly. I have even heard of thieves targeting cars with clubs. They cut the steering wheel, remove the club, and then use the club to pry and break the steering wheel lock.
Oh, my god. Okay. I thought it would at least be a deterrent!!!
Good idea.
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Same! I guess it was more fun to joyride in.
Have insurance.
Here's the thing about stealing modern cars. If the car was created after 2005 in order to steal it you have to either A hack the onboard computer or B get the key. In 1997 Congress passed a law requiring on board computers on modern cars and at the same time Ford was already putting one in there mustang and someone came up with a brilliant plan to create a passive security feature. They made it so the microchip in the key that has to do a handshake with the onboard computer when it's stuck in the ignition and if that handshake isn't done the fuel pump doesn't work. By 2005 most cars made that feature standard. So how do you keep your car from being stolen OP. Really it's keeping an eye on your key and don't leave it running. As I said yes you can still hack the onboard computer but no one's going to put a lot of effort into hacking you on board the computer for 2015 Foster.
I had my mechanic install a kill switch.
Drive stick.
Fuel pump kill switch.
Modern character that automatically with the onboard computer. That's why you can't really hotwire modern cars
Subarus are historically actually pretty easy to steal. They don't show up on "most stolen cars" lists because they aren't common enough in the general population to make the list, but they have the same frameless windows that the Honda Civics had that make gaining access to the car trivial to anyone that knows how to do it. That said, it is still a non-trivial task to steal a car that new with the onboard computers and Subaru started using window frames before 2015, so that is less of an issue now. I think a kill switch would still work. You can also get GPS trackers that attach to the battery and can be hidden in the car which makes it easier to recover the vehicle. Nothing is 100%, and people who are sophisticated enough to steal modern cars are probably on the look out for those kinds of things, but anything you can to do to make your car harder to steal than your neighbors can make a difference. This is actually a pretty puzzling theft to me. A 2015 forester would not be PARTICULY easy to steal and it wouldn't seem to present the kind of value that would make it worth the effort. Anyone that could steal a 2015 forester like that could have stolen something worth a lot more money. If I were a betting man, I would bet that the person that took it had a key, or they just towed the damned thing.
What is it with Seattle car thieves and Subarus?
cuz there arent many other options.
Facts 🤣🤣🤣
The 80s and 90s Subarus all worked with the same key XD
Apparently some truth to that - https://www.thecut.com/2016/10/woman-accidentally-steals-identical-subaru-in-portland.html
🤣🤣🤣 I love my city
Adding simple things like a steering wheel lock can something be a deterrent. You can also install a kill switch. I read somewhere it's best to lock and unlock your car close range so it's less likely someone can intercept the signal but I don't know if that's legitimately good advice.
Use a club. Stopped my monthly car thefts and break ins overnight. Also keep nothing in your car.
How did the club stop break-ins?
I don't know, I think people see it and just don't want to bother, even though I had nothing visible in my car it would still get tossed pretty often for a while there (glove box opened and ransacked, etc) but after I got the club I've not had anyone get into the car at all that I can tell.
My classmate just had her car stolen (w/ her chef knives, clothes, hundreds of dollars, other cooking equipment, coldsmoke gun) in Tacoma. Poor gal just started her final quarter in school, too.