It’s a widespread misconception that these are SUVs and glowing sports cars that stolen most often, but you believe it or not these are innocent Toyota and Honda sedans that become the victim of theft quite often.
According to the list issued by National Insurance Crime the following 10 vehicles mostly became the victim of theft quite frequently during the past some years.
- Honda Civic
- Toyota Camry
- Honda Accord
- Dodge Caravan
- Chevy C1500 Pickup
- Ford F-150
- Dodge Ram Pickup
- Acura Integra
- Toyota Pickup
- Nissan Sentra
Car theft gangs working in almost all parts of the world that have made car theft a really profitable business. Don’t reckon auto theft something like kids taking a car for joyriding, but contrarily you need to reckon it a big business operated by some evil minded people who first get orders for a particular vehicle and then the theft of that particular vehicle is made possible with the help of local thieves.
If you don’t want to be a victim of car theft, the following tips can be very handy to avoid car theft.
- First of all, you shouldn’t park your car at an area which you reckon unsafe and unguarded for your vehicle. So, always park your car in a secure and guarded parking area. People who steal cars want to hide their identity at any cost and they do not commit such things when some area is monitored with most of cameras.
- Your second step is always to take keys out of ignition and bring these keys with you when getting out of some car. Though you may reckon it a common sense sort of thing, yet some stats reveal that people who often stolen their vehicles when they were in some convenience store when there car was running.
- If some thief has eyes on your car, you must do something to discourage him and parallel parking in other tightly parked vehicles is one of your options, as it will be tough for the thief to get out your car from such places.
- Many of you may reckon car alarms ineffective, but in actual it is not so. You must make the most of offers from insurance companies that give special discount if some anti-theft device is installed in your car. These people are quite well aware of the fact that anti-theft devices prove quite effective against theft. There are two negative things for a car thief in an anti-theft device. The first one is that it takes considerable time to get disabled and secondly if it goes off, it would draw unwanted attention to their evil designs.
You believe it or not, but your car may be the next target of your theft. So, take as much care as you can and make the most of these tips to avoid car theft.