Even the most modern anti-theft systems are not able to fully protect the motorist from vehicle theft. The sad reality is that only the implementation of all kinds of protective measures in the complex can provide at least some significant effect. Including the use of a guarded parking lot. The knowledge of which methods for theft are most often used by criminals will also allow you to save your car.
1. Pry bar and elbow
It's hard to believe, but some hijackers use such “old-fashioned” ways to steal a car from the beginning of the 20th century. Worst of all, they still work. This also applies to vehicles equipped with alarms and other protection systems. However, more often bandits breaking glass in a car do not steal it, but simply rob it, trying to find something valuable.
2. Lockpicks
There are still intruders who prefer to pick car locks with conventional master keys. This approach most often triggers the alarm, after which the criminals cut it out in the most barbaric way, once inside the car. Most often, such a primitive method is used where there is complete confidence that no one will appear at the alarm sound for several minutes.
3. Electronic autopsy
A high-tech way of stealing, the meaning of which is to connect special equipment to the car and turn off its alarm by “deceiving” the system. The method is not used as often as hacking with the help of code grabbers due to the fact that electronic master keys are most often suitable only for some specific type (model) of the security system. In addition, the connection and the hacking procedure take a lot of time, which means that they significantly increase the risk of being caught for the hacker.
4. Code grabber
Perhaps the most modern way to steal a vehicle. It is implemented using high technologies, namely with the help of special devices capable of intercepting the signal from the alarm key fob to the car. The essence of the method is to copy and then repeat the security code. Having received the cipher from the signal, criminals can open the car in the same way as the motorist himself does. Today it is this method that is most often used by bandits.
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