@Niall
Totally agree. Usually not a fan of more regulations, but something has to be done. Expensive vehicles should be way harder to steal.
Joe said:
@Niall
Totally agree. Usually not a fan of more regulations, but something has to be done. Expensive vehicles should be way harder to steal.
Yup, it’s ridiculous. Phones are way harder to steal than a car worth a hundred times as much.
Joe said:
@Niall
Totally agree. Usually not a fan of more regulations, but something has to be done. Expensive vehicles should be way harder to steal.
Or we could just make cars more affordable, like we did with TVs.
@Niall
We could go back to physical keys. Old-school keys don’t broadcast signals you can steal without being close. Plus, anyone trying to hotwire the ignition has a tougher time.
@Niall
Crazy how much a replacement key costs when the security is this flimsy.
@Niall
Maybe insurance companies should raise premiums for cars that are easy to steal. Would force manufacturers to do better.
I’ve even heard people suggest car companies like it because they sell more trucks that way. Probably not true, but makes you think.
@Rose
Raising premiums only hurts the customer, not the car maker. The real way to make them change is letting insurance companies sue for the losses. That would make the manufacturers improve quickly.
@Niall
In Canada, they just raised rates on popular stolen vehicles. It sucks because mine is now $1,200 more a year.
@Niall
True. If the insurance quote on a Ford ends up crazy high, people will stop buying them, and the company would notice.
@Niall
Yeah, if high insurance rates affected sales, they’d do something about it.
@Niall
Calling a vehicle defective for being stolen seems wrong. How about punishing the people stealing instead?
We spend tons on law enforcement. Why not make them actually deal with car thefts instead of pushing costs onto us?
@Fiona
Or we could just make the trucks more secure to begin with. It’s not hard; manufacturers are just lazy. Policing is stretched thin already, so let’s help them out.
Niall said:
@Fiona
Or we could just make the trucks more secure to begin with. It’s not hard; manufacturers are just lazy. Policing is stretched thin already, so let’s help them out.
Instead of being reactive, why not prevent it from happening in the first place?
In Texas, Raptors get stolen all the time. I know too many people who’ve had theirs taken. It’s mostly organized crime, like cartels, who know exactly what they’re doing. Sucks that we can’t have nice things anymore.
@Phoenix
Go ahead, you can admit it… you mean San Antonio, right?
FusionFrontier said:
@Phoenix
Go ahead, you can admit it… you mean San Antonio, right?
Haha, yeah, but I’m between Dallas and Houston, and I hear about it more in Dallas.
FusionFrontier said:
@Phoenix
Go ahead, you can admit it… you mean San Antonio, right?
Haha, yeah, but I’m between Dallas and Houston, and I hear about it more in Dallas.
Austin has a similar problem. Lots of thefts from airport parking.
FusionFrontier said:
@Phoenix
Go ahead, you can admit it… you mean San Antonio, right?
Do they target San Antonio more than El Paso? I figured El Paso was worse being right on the border.
@Eliot
Super Duty trucks are most stolen in San Antonio, hands down.
@Phoenix
I drive an electric vehicle as my daily. No one really wants to steal an EV.