prevent your car from being stolen

How to Prevent Your Car and Items in Your Car from Getting Stolen

We know that the feeling of losing a car is one of our nightmares. The feeling of being able to park your car one day, go home or to an event and find your vehicle in place when you turn around is seriously frightening. We have brought together The 5 Tips to Prevent You From Being Stolen Car.

If you haven’t read our previous blog post before moving on to these five tips, you can read it by clicking here. In the article published by BlogTO, BlogTO stated that nearly 6000 vehicles were stolen, and this number increased by 10% compared to the previous year. You can click here to read the article.

The 5 Tips to Prevent Your Car From Being Stolen

1-) Anti-theft devices that will prevent theft of the interface

Car insurance sometimes covers the loss of personal belongings in your car or if your car is stolen. To prevent these situations, you may want to use devices that will prevent your car from being stolen. We leave you a list of these devices below and move on to our second item.

1) GPS Trackers
2) Hidden Kill Switch
3) Brake Lock
4) Steering Wheel Lock
5) Audible Alarm

2-) Park your car in a safe place.

Some areas, streets or neighbourhoods may be notorious for car theft. Park your car in as safe a place as possible. Make sure the place where you park is illuminated and uninhabited.

3-) Install Vehicle Immobilizer System

Thieves can bypass your ignition by “hotwiring” your car, but you can help this by using a vehicle immobilizer system. According to the NICB, immobilizer systems may include smart keys, kill switches, and wireless ignition authentication. They basically disable the tool so that a pincher can’t get away with it. You may need a master or technician familiar with the vehicle’s wiring and computer systems to install an immobilizer in your vehicle.

4-) Set up a tracking system

You might consider installing a shadowing system, which may also be referred to as a vehicle recovery system. (As with other alerts, you may need to have the device professionally installed.) When your vehicle is stolen, this shadowing system uses wireless and/or GPS technology to send a signal to the police or your vehicle’s location tracking service. This can help the police recover your vehicle quickly.

5-) Lock your door and windows.

We know it sounds illogical to say lock your car doors and windows. If you want to prevent your car from being stolen, remember to lock your car doors and windows. You don’t want to make things easy for thieves.

 
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