TRUTH ^^^ YOLO!

 

Park in the garage, don't own a S2000 it you don't have a garage...

Don't like that idea? OK, be paranoid about your car getting messed with.

I've left my house and car for weeks at a time to go overseas and never had an issue.

When you're gone from your house for extended periods of time, lock you garage door manually with the opener still engaged and wrap the track release cord around the track. Not going to spell if out but if you've ever had your garage broken in to you'll understand

 

I had a 93 Integra with a b16 swap that was stolen from the front of my house. What's bizarre is that I live in a gated community with security driving around the whole night. The battery was dead on the car and I had even taken out the pcm so there wouldn't be a way for the thieves to fire it up, and guess what, the mofos towed the car onto something and took it. Before going to bed that night around midnight, I looked out the window to make sure the car is there, and it was. I happened to wake up around 2am and not sure what made me look out the window again, and the car was gone. The police found the car stripped the following day a couple of miles from my house. Thieves are people just like us who know how folks are securing their cars and they have the knowledge to ways around things.

Best bet, get a decent alarm, keep the car locked at all times, garaged at all times and most importantly, have "full coverage". Lesson learned.

r.i.p

 

More times than none they also know you as well.. Or know someone that knows you.

 

Agree ^

 

I have an alarm system, and I also take my steering wheel with me. Next investment is a hard top. I'm hoping I won't have to worry about it with those three things.

 

I wasn't asking people to tell me their security setups, I was wondering if the people who had them stolen or broken into DIDN'T have an alarm or left it in a really bad neighborhood overnight. I wouldn't make this thread for thieves to learn more methods of stealing a car.

I guess I do worry too much about it, but that's just generally something I do when it comes to something that is very special to me. I'm absolutely positive I'm not the only one on the board who feels that way too, especially since it is become more and more challenging to find a decent example as a replacement.

 

Sophistication can be quite daunting. They see your car and follow you home. They make a few notes as to address, color, make and model. They then sell the parts on e-bay and other outlets and when sales are complete, they come and get your car. i.e- they have sold your car parts before they have stolen your car.

 

Because not everyone shares your preferences -- same as any other topic out there. Car alarms go off all the time. Even with pager alarms not everyone is willing to risk their personal safety and well being for their car. Sure, you can approach the thief (or thieves) well armed and experienced with the use of your preferred weapon but there's still a good amount of risk involved.

Those are common assumptions that people tend to make but you can look through the theft threads on this site alone and see that it isn't the case in all situations. In the end you have to layer as may security measures as you're willing to deal with. The options that any one person is willing to use are going to vary. Theft isn't exclusive to "bad neighborhoods".

Generally speaking, it is but a deterrent is just a deterrent. Things get stolen from garages as well.

Those aren't the only options. They might be the only options that you see but that's your perception. As indicated by this thread, one can use a number of precautions and still be paranoid as well.

 

I wasn't aware of mass theft of S2000s. I know the old ITRs were/are common thefts, but not the S2000.