If you can’t flog a nicked car to an Eastern European, African of Middle Eastern buyer then it’s very unlikely to be nicked. Ageing cars such as ours aren’t even blips under the radar, never mind targets. A chap I know in the village hasn’t locked his car since he bought it, he probably leaves the keys in.
It’s a Mazda 3 of 2019 vintage & certainly not a dog by any means, who would look twice when there’s an older high spec Merc SUV next door, all locked up , tracked & alarmed.
Gone, never to be seen again. The tracker was disabled within half an hour of being nicked, apparently.
In comparison with “modern” alarm systems ours are crude, they were designed for car theft in the late 1990s, that’s an unimaginable time ago in terms of “car theft technology”.
A tyre leaver under your coat plays a microprocessor equipped gizmo & a laptop; car theft starts at home these days.
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