Car stolen off my drive, again

My Ford Fiesta was stolen from the driveway a few years ago.
The engine turned up a year later in a shipping container that was being shipped to Lithuania. Coincidentally, a Lithuanian mechanic was renting a house across the road and down a few doors from me and my brother had had his car fixed by him within the previous year.

The locks which lock the pedals together are very good as it’s very hard to remove them.

What a horrible and thoughtless thing to say.

She now has to deal with the insurance, search for a new car, pay increased premiums, possible without transport for a while.

It doesn't matter if you like the car or not. It's the OP's property and she did not deserve to have it stolen.

@chasegirl I'm really sorry. I'm in a similar situation because some cunt reversed into my car in a large van and it's been written off. It's an absolute ball ache to deal with.

How have they done her a favour by stealing her car?

Second (third?) the advice of getting a bollard. No tech, very visible deterrent.

Sorry to hear that OP, so frustrating and inconvenient. I would suggest more anti-theft measures, some of which you probably have as it's happened before:
Good crook-lok and ensure it's always used.
Park facing your house (then they have to reverse first), even better if you can park side on and not make it an easy getaway (e.g. partially block with another car or something else).
Cameras with recording if you don't have them.
A bright floodlight which is sensitive to people is a good deterrent because they don't want to be lit up brightly.
Car alarm.
Can you put fence and gates up and lock the gates?
Always ensure the car is locked and use a faraday box for the keys so they can't spoof the signal.

I thought you were going to say a porche or something. Fiat 500, I can only assume they are easy to break into then as I don't think they are desirable in the slightest. This happened with my shitty old ford fiesta but that was 20 years ago in a council estate and back then you could just bend the door back, it happened twice. I thought cars were harder to break into now though and to do it in a driveway is brazen.

Edit to say get a camera. We have one, only today the police knocked on the door asking for footage for another incident (someone got knocked over in highstreet and they wanted to see if the culprit had come down our road). They are very handy and a preventative measure.

Sorry OP.
Wonder how they'd like their car stolen.

Fucking scumbags. Obviously it's up to you to research what car you should buy so it does get stolen!. The police don't have time to find out who's responsible they're far to busy dealing with Women asking questions at Women's Day events and those who's feelings have been hurt by words. Absolute bullshit of our country.

There's no point getting cameras because they won't be identifiable and the police probably don't care
A locked gate/penguin bollards at the end of the drive would make it a lot.more difficult to get it off the drive. yes it's an.expense for you but better than having another car nicked

They're easy to steal and are popular for parts for amateur racing or tuning projects. It would only have taken them a matter of seconds for they to break in by tampering with the OBD port to start the car or using a relay attack for a keyless entry model. Trackers, steering locks and cameras etc are no real deterrent to such lowlife and will simply be removed. Such cars too tend to be stolen to order.

If you were to get another car I would get a bollard fitted beforehand.

Get a steering lock and use it.
Cameras are a deterent but your neighbour having one didn't put them off. Prevention is your best defence, make it hard for them.

I'm back to using one again. Keyless locking makes it easier for burglars so I have a faraday pouch and a steering wheel lock. I know a determined thief can get round this but it takes a little longer to steal a car with one.

At home I keep the car in the garage.

Sorry op but I think they did you a favour

Big commisserations. They dismantled the Crookloc? what type, so can avoid.

Really? Why? I cannot see anything appealing about them. My friend had one - had to put my daughter (in car seat) in her car through the boot. On the motorway, it was like sitting in a tin can with no suspension. Felt like it would be smashed to smithereens in a crash.

Sorry OP - don’t have it back - get a nice new car.

The op does say they removed the crook lock in the op.

Move house!

DH has gone back to using a good, old-fashioned steering lock after someone tried (unsuccessfully) to steal our Ford Focus from his work's car park.

It's shit isn't it?
Husband's Focus ST was lifted off our drive in the early hours a few years ago with very expensive roof bars & 2 car seats. Got a flat rate of £100 for contents of the car which was no where near the value and his premiums rocketed, so unfair.
Interestingly I had an Abarth 500 for 8 years and never had any attempts on it despite it apparently being a target car.

I had a 22 year old shit box was stolen off my drive, there’s no way to avoid it. It was worth about £200 and the battery was in the hall while I got a new one. They backed a tow truck onto the driveway!

Why do you think that? I would think the opposite.

You can get faraday boxes pretty cheaply. Worth doing alongside a camera as a camera signal can be temporarily jammed by thieves.

Plenty of other small cars available I honestly couldn't be bothered with the hassle. Yes you can get cameras, trackers, bollards, crook locks etc but is driving a Fiat 500 over another small car worth the effort?

How nasty for you & maybe DD witnessing the crime, v sorry💐
Get a crap old car like mine, it’s a bugger to get into gear, makes me laugh every time I leave it unlocked somewhere, thinking about some1 attempting to drive the horrid thing. (& it has alarms for all sorts of non-existent problems!)

Yes, they would know exactly where a dealer tracker would be fitted. They wouldn’t bother to steal the car if they weren’t confident of being able to remove it.