How much would you pay to protect your car?

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:54 pm

*disclaimer: careful what you say about your security systems as remember this is an open forum, not everyone has good intentions

i'm getting my G40 soon and frankly i don't want it going walkabouts so i took a looky on the main sites e.g toad and clifford and theres sooooo many options and packages it's crazy, generally they seemed to be about Â£600 fitted which i'd be happy to pay if it means my car stays in my possession but would you or have you guys paid more or general opinions please...

other thing is has anyone used the toad text alert system? it's Â£170-ish and it'll text you if your car is tampered with and if you pay a yearly subscription of Â£30 it'll even work as a tracker.

any opinions or advice welcome

Biddle · Post by **Biddle** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:11 pm

That tracker sounds the best value to be honest. Because no matter what system you put in it, if some thieving little $h!t wants to steal it they will. No matter what security system they invent or design, people will not be much longer finding the way around it. At least with the tracker you can find it and get it back.

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:52 pm

Alarms are a waste imo... My mate paid over Â£400 for his cliford and if anything its annoying... It beeps when someone goes past... It goes off for the stupidest reasons..... when it goes off no-one pays any attention to it anyways...

How bad is your area...?

I can think of 101 better things to spend my money on rather than car security.... I mean, isn't insurance supposed to cover it in the even of theft?

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:30 pm

I have to agree there, nowadays if an alarm goes off people don't really bat an eyelid.

A Tracker would be worth it though IMO.

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:36 pm

that's why i liked the alarm which texts ur mobile coz then i can come running with a baseball bat

i live on a housing estate so that's why i'm a bit funny about leaving my new future classic car and pride and joy.....as i will honestly cry if something happened to it, i felt bad when i had my mk2's window smashed but at the end of the day it's only a car....

whereas my attitude will change with my G40 lol

Biddle · Post by **Biddle** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:59 pm

Yeah there is that but what if you have left your car somewhere where you cant get back to it e.g airport carpark. How gutting is that gonna be knowing someone is breaking into your car and you cant do nothing about it. But saying that it must be the worst feeling in the world get to where your car was and it not being there. Positives and negatives, same with everything.

poloscunny · Post by **poloscunny** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:28 am

To be honest, if car thieves want your car bad enough they will have it, my mate had his sierra cosworth stolen 3 weeks after he bought it. That had a top of the range alarm and tracker, pikeys picked it up using an hi-ab crane on a truck and 2 slings, they hoisted it on the back while he was football training. Whole thing took less than 3 mins apparently, with the alarms and lights going like mad. Police found the shell a couple of hours later totally stripped, engine and all.
I have a clifford concept fitted to my escort cabriolet, last year when it was on the roadside, thieving twats smashed my window and tried to nick it, i chased them. Couldnt catch them so returned and rang police. Less than 10 mins later they returned and side swiped my car with a stolen car, luckily causing minor damage to my door, that popped out.
If they cant steal it they will burn/trash it in frustration. Better off just getting an average alarm.

Nick

Polo Paul · Post by **Polo Paul** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:29 am

Special alarms are a waste, get a simple boggo one on and a damn good immobiliser. Visual deterrents are the best way in all honesty, keep the car looking standard, debadge it and get one of those whole wheel crook locks from halfords that are thatcham approved. Along with some armoured door locks and film on the windows.

As said trackers and alarms are useless in the cast majority of cases, someone hell bent on having your car will be prepared for this, I know of an Audi TT that got winched up onto a wheel clamping truck and towed away alarms screaming, but everyone thought it was legit, the car was never found.

There are ways round trackers to, theives can just cut their power sources, locate and smash them or by locking the car in a metal container screw up the signals.

The easiest way for them to steal your heavily protected car is to break into your house and get the keys to it and simply drive it away. But this also puts your family at risk, so you might not want it to be to unstealable after all!

jason11 · Post by **jason11** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:25 am

UMH, tracker probs cos u can track if the car gets stolen or wat u can afford mate