My FL5 was broken into

[Shingo Shoji]

Yep, last night four teenagers in hoodies and masks broke my drivers side door to get in and went through the glovebox. Didn't steal the car (maybe having a manual is a detterent) I know I'm lucky they didn't take it or get into the house but I'm so angry . Work had at a tough job, buy your dream car and some little rat tries to take it.

We have a carport so any recommendations on beefing up security would be greatly appreciated.

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[nawfoo]

House with a garage first then dream car.

 

[TW00Si]

Removable steering wheel

 

[Shingo Shoji]

House with a garage first then dream car.

Unfortunately only boomers own houses with garages in our country

 

[DeVo]

Unfortunately, a garage is all you can do. Here, we have apartments that allow you to have a personal garage.

 

[TchnoZ33]

Ugh! I’m so sorry man. That’s so stressful and really makes you feel uncomfortable in your own car for a while :/.

 

[007]

PPF

 

[Zpeedster M]

If you don't have a motion light in carport install one. A loud aftermarket car alarm too will scare away the petty thieves.

 

[MooMoo]

As above get a camera that has a motion light. I have an arlo, wireless battery light, light is crazy bright, 2 spotlights. Not only will light shit up but you get some good footage

 

[fordsucks]

Hard to beat a weenie dog, mine will bark if a leaf too big rolls by

 

[chopsuey34]

New house, new dog.

Keep your car 100% empty of everything and keep the glove box open. If a thief sees nothing in the car, no point in breaking in.

 

[MYK20C1]

Yep, last night four teenagers in hoodies and masks broke my drivers side door to get in and went through the glovebox. Didn't steal the car (maybe having a manual is a detterent) I know I'm lucky they didn't take it or get into the house but I'm so angry . Work had at a tough job, buy your dream car and some little rat tries to take it.

We have a carport so any recommendations on beefing up security would be greatly appreciated.

Shot gun trap. Kidding but must be tempting!

 

[Shingo Shoji]

Ugh! I’m so sorry man. That’s so stressful and really makes you feel uncomfortable in your own car for a while :/.

Thanks. Yeah it sucks that you look after your car. Be really careful with maintenance and looking after the paint and then some random trashes it.

 

[Shingo Shoji]

As above get a camera that has a motion light. I have an arlo, wireless battery light, light is crazy bright, 2 spotlights. Not only will light shit up but you get some good footage

Thanks. Great minds. I bought a few cameras with lights and a massive baseball bat.

 

[walnut]

Man sorry that happened, those people that broke into your car are some real garbage and no one deserves to have their car treated like that. I got this obd lockout from Vargas after watching a tommyg youtube video that demonstrated how easy it could be for someone to start almost any car just with access to the obd port: https://vargasturbo.com/product/vtt-obd-lock-odb-port-locking-tool/
I'm sure it's not infallible but the layer of security gives me a little extra comfort.

Edit: Other obd port lockouts would work too, I chose this one to hopefully make it less likely that thieves would have some common key type that they might just find off of amazon or something

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