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How do you prevent wheel/ tire theft?

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Re: How do you prevent wheel/ tire theft?

Post by abscate »

For what it's worth, a former colleague left his house one morning to find four lug nuts removed and a wheel lock alone holding a wheel to his Honda Fit.
Those were the only parts worth stealing?

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In LA, but that colleague was in Chicago.
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There's a lot of features I like on Teslas, but a really slick one is "sentry mode". Some or all of its many cameras are always recording and save the video when there's motion or the car gets jostled when parked. What a great idea, and I hope dash cams start doing that.





And is there a car alarm that simply texts the owner yet? That would really solve a lot of problems.
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Volvos don't come with that one yet, but some Teslas do:

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wrybread wrote: 23 May 2019, 01:43 There's a lot of features I like on Teslas, but a really slick one is "sentry mode". Some or all of its many cameras are always recording and save the video when there's motion or the car gets jostled when parked. What a great idea, and I hope dash cams start doing that.
Already a feature on a lot of them.
wrybread wrote: 23 May 2019, 01:43 And is there a car alarm that simply texts the owner yet? That would really solve a lot of problems.
As long as you don’t mind buying another cell line for it, there are options.
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