Certain Hyundai and Kia models saw a 10-fold increase in thefts in just the past three years, a wildly dramatic increase in the wake of a series of social media posts showing people how to steal the vehicles.
Nope, not exactly. Installing an immobilizer won’t stop my car from being a target. Even if they fail to steal it, I’ll still end up with a broken window and steering column. There are people who had their car broken into, fixed, and broken into again a few weeks later. Not to mention insurance rates being expensive because of it, and some insurance companies just straight up dropping you if you own an affected vehicle. I’ve been dropped/declined by 3 of the major insurers just because I own one, even though I had the security update installed.
Is that enough of an excuse to just buy a different car?
But then there’d be no excuse to buy a new car
Nope, not exactly. Installing an immobilizer won’t stop my car from being a target. Even if they fail to steal it, I’ll still end up with a broken window and steering column. There are people who had their car broken into, fixed, and broken into again a few weeks later. Not to mention insurance rates being expensive because of it, and some insurance companies just straight up dropping you if you own an affected vehicle. I’ve been dropped/declined by 3 of the major insurers just because I own one, even though I had the security update installed.
Is that enough of an excuse to just buy a different car?