Experts have called the most popular methods of car theft

5 October 2018

Can I protect my "Swallow"?

As the statistics of the Ministry of interior, in October recorded the highest number of car hijackings. Is there a way to protect your car? What methods the hijackers used most often? This tried to deal "Izvestia".

How to steal cars?

There are many ways to steal a car. The most popular is a simple penetration machine, that is, the breaking door locks and ignition lock so-called cranking and banal knocking out Windows.

a More elegant way is hacking the electronic protection: this is required to trick the alarm system of the vehicle. Criminals often prescribe new keys: it uses a special device that substitutes for the original electronic key at a fake.

As before, sometimes used grabbers: they scan the frequency of the transmitter keyfob alarm at the time the vehicle is on the alarm and recreate it. To this end, the hijackers need to be near the victim at the time, the last time she leaves her car.

Can I protect myself against theft?

according to the expert, "the Hijacking.no" Alexey Kurchanov, up to 80% of stolen cars were not even equipped with additional safety systems, but a simple factory alarm intruders are willing to crack a couple of seconds. We can say that the owners of these cars themselves, invited the hijackers.

the Problem, at least for the security of the complex is now considered not only one hundred percent protection from the actions of the hijacker, how to "stretch time" to make the theft difficult and unprofitable.

this security complex still need to choose the right. Its key objective is, if not 100 percent protection, then at least the creation of the maximum number of headaches for criminals. Well, if it will be equipped with secure electronic system with electro-mechanical components. Even better, if the location of the machine can be tracked by satellite.

What cars are often stolen?

overall, the leaders in popularity among the hijackers do not change for many years. According to statistics of the Ministry of interior the five most stolen brands in the first six months of 2018 became "Lada" (about 3 thousand cars), Toyota (about 1,5 thousand cars), Hyundai (about a thousand cars), Kia (about a thousand cars) and Nissan (about 550 cars).

At the same time on the "specific postamente" (that is, the ratio of the number of stolen cars to the total number) are the leaders proved to be completely different brand and model. So, first place went to the sports car Nissan GT-R, the second is a sedan Brilliance H530, the third — the classic "Volga" GAZ-21. Here is an unusual list of the most "dangerous" machines.