Is it silly to worry about..
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Is it silly to worry about being burgled for your car keys, and for that to affect your car buying decision? I think I'm a born worrier - reminds me of that thread on here "are you a worrier". I'm after a Bimmer, only a lowish end one (325i M Sport 2006), but I know some cars are targetted by criminals "to order" and they might be a bit more nasty than your average car theif just trying their luck.
If I lived somewhere a bit nicer I probably wouldn't worry, but this is Leicester city center ;-)
On the one hand I think I'm being a prat, on the other maybe it's just good to be cautious and should just get a flippin Mondeo or standard A3.
What's the world coming to when you have to worry about stuff like this!
If I lived somewhere a bit nicer I probably wouldn't worry, but this is Leicester city center ;-)
On the one hand I think I'm being a prat, on the other maybe it's just good to be cautious and should just get a flippin Mondeo or standard A3.
What's the world coming to when you have to worry about stuff like this!
jay140285 said:
It will be insured.
Buy it and get on with life.
I'm not worried about the car being stolen so much as them breaking in to get the keys, not being able to find them, and waking up to someone standing over my bed with some kind of weapon demanding I hand over the keys. Though it's not exactly an expensive car these days so maybe that's silly.Buy it and get on with life.
In my experience of law enforcement (not perpetration), criminals generally look for easy targets. They don't like night time occupied burgling as it carries a hefty sentence so open doors are always going to be preferred and they are probably more likely to chase handbags containing keys or stuff like that. It's not as common as people make out.
If you're worried about it being stolen, get something like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracker-Vehicle-Theft-Prot...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracker-Vehicle-Theft-Prot...
alienmuppet said:
I'm not worried about the car being stolen so much as them breaking in to get the keys, not being able to find them, and waking up to someone standing over my bed with some kind of weapon demanding I hand over the keys. Though it's not exactly an expensive car these days so maybe that's silly.
There's your answer then.No-one going to state the obvious? It's a BMW, they don't need to burgle you for the keys in order to take the car 
But no, you shouldn't let what potential scummers could do to potentially get a hold of your car, life's to short to be thinking like that, and letting people grind you down.
But no, you shouldn't let what potential scummers could do to potentially get a hold of your car, life's to short to be thinking like that, and letting people grind you down.
Jasandjules said:
Get two large dogs. Give them the keys.
Haha, I would love to. I used to have an Alsation while I was growing up, and she'd show her teeth to anyone who came to the door that seemed a bit dodgy. She was soft as anything but I'm sure she'd bite someones balls off if she had to. Unfortunately I'm not at home enough to be able to keep a dog at the moment.I'm sandwiched between 2 Aston Martin owners. Both houses have been broken into a couple of times for the keys. They've never found the keys or gone upstairs to harm the owners, but the hassle of replacement doors/windows and the mess as they rummaged thru the house. Getting the police round, house insurance claim. A right load of hassle.
No one has broken into my place for the keys to my Seat Leon Ecomotive.
No one has broken into my place for the keys to my Seat Leon Ecomotive.
I know someone who got rid of an Audi S4 Avant after being mugged for the keys the second time. He didn't think his family would be impressed by him being killed for his car.
Car jacking of RangeRovers and X5's was quite bad in Manchester a few years ago, but I haven't heard of any cases recently.
Car jacking of RangeRovers and X5's was quite bad in Manchester a few years ago, but I haven't heard of any cases recently.
Edited by Deva Link on Monday 10th December 15:48
alienmuppet said:
I'm after a Bimmer, only a lowish end one (325i M Sport 2006), but I know some cars are targetted by criminals "to order" and they might be a bit more nasty than your average car theif just trying their luck.
I don't mean to be rude, but if you were going to "order" a stolen car that was going to be pinched by breaking into a house to get the keys (ie the security level of the car was irrelevant), would you honestly say "oh, get me one that is six years old"? 
I don't think you have anything to worry about with a car of that age, why would anyone break into your house to nick that when they could do exactly the same to another house with a one year old car on the drive?
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I'm sandwiched between 2 Aston Martin owners. Both houses have been broken into a couple of times for the keys. They've never found the keys or gone upstairs to harm the owners, but the hassle of replacement doors/windows and the mess as they rummaged thru the house. getting the policy round, house insurance claim. A right load of hassle.
No one has broken into my place for the keys to my Seat Leon Ecomotive.
Hopefully a 6 year old bimmer/beemer/beamer/whatever isn't very tempting either!No one has broken into my place for the keys to my Seat Leon Ecomotive.
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