Those 10% you speak of, make up all the imports stolen probably. The cars stolen from this forum, and taken and stripped before anyone would find them. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the 90% that are recovered, are not stolen to be stripped.

 

Garage eliminates the need for a recovery rate of 90% or greater. At least 90% of the stolen car threads on here were cars parked outside.

 

Not everyone can afford a garage.

 

But they can afford to dump $10K onto a 10 + year old car? IMO, priorities are a bit misplaced.

 

The 10% of LoJack recovery systems installed on vehicles that weren't recovered to date (@20,000+ of 200,000+) most likely were not "imports" like what you see on Driven. The premise behind this thread is that the high majority of import owners would rather buy a turbo coversion over theft protection, therefore causing them to post their misfortunes in the hopes to receive compassion, when they blew off the opportunity to prevent the inevitable from happening.

As far as your last sentence, I haven't seen any documentation that supports your "bet". If I had to guess I'd say most thefts are "joyrides", but I'm only speculating.

 

Nailed it. That's my whole point...thank you.

 

you can make a gps tracker out of a cell phone for much cheaper than the price of lojack

 

I have a garage and I don't park my car in it?


I have said it before though... I have good insurance that I pay enough for every month.

Anyways, good post. I get sick of the stolen car threads. I am sure it sucks, but whatever.

 

It's funny because in every stolen thread, the question "what kind of security" is asked and the OP either dodges the question or answers with some run of the mill DEI alarm which we all know does nothing.

I'll say this over and over again but my $400 DEI alarm with shock sensor/proxy sensor /ignition cut off and backup battery did NOTHING at HIN. Only thing that stopped them was a $50 Autolock.

Wish EEK had one.

 

Half of MD is low jack dead zone, thats why all the cars end up there.


the best thing would be a GPS on the car thats built in. or have a childs GPS stashed somewhere. but there are also dead zones for GPS.

in the end. its a no win situation