My car got broken into. Thieves not too bright...
 

You'll get a kick out of this one. Cops called my girlfriend at 2am saying they have reason to believe that her car was broken into. So we rush outside and the cops come(Real quick too, like 1-2 minutes tops, Props to Boston PD) and we look at our cars, windows aren't smashed, seems like everything's there. Cop shows up and says they found some kids with a GPS with our address in it. I look over at my window and notice that in fact my GPS was missing.

Here's the kicker. I have an old, badly beaten Garmin Nuvi 200. With maps so out of date that it's really not too useful anymore. Along side that, I had my 180 dollar Dash cam, 450 dollar Escort 9500ix, a 150 dollar Boluva Watch, about 40 bucks worth of cash, 150 dollar pair of ray bans, and a trunk FULL of tools... and they take the GPS(Without any cables or anything because its hardwired) which is worth probably about 5 dollars on the street, and an empty pack of cigs I had in the glove box. :bonk: Let's clap it up to the street savy kids that stole my stuff. I'm considering myself very lucky to have had such, uhm, intelligent, criminals break into my car. Fortunately(or unfortunately, depends how far they were willing to go) I don't have a smashed window as I accidentally left my car unlocked after bringing the groceries in. Lesson learned. Lock your cars out there everybody.:thumbsup:

Glad everything turned out alright for you. And luckily they didn't damage the car. :D

Yep, it sure was your luck day ....:thumbsup:

humfrz

Where in Boston was this?

Great story! You are very lucky!

Lucky. Need to bring valuables in and keep things out of sight

Waltham.

I used to hide everything. It gets annoying though. Usually as soon as criminals see the blue LED from the alarm they don't bother. Why rob my car with an alarm when chances are there's another up the block without one. I just so happen to leave it unlocked so the LED was never on. My fault.

^ what (LazyZed) he said. Don't keep a pawn shop's display case in your car and maybe next time they move on to the next..

Which dash cam? and are you happy with it?

car alarms are a false sense of security and a waste of money.. the only time it would pay off is if a cop just happened to be in ear shot to notice the person breaking into your vehicle to do anything about it

most thieves that break in to steal something of value will smash your window, grab what they want and be gone in 10 seconds.. just long enough for you to realize your car has been broken into and see nobody in sight by the time you check

nobody gives any attention to a car alarm going off in this day and age.. in fact your more likely to annoy the general public with it

moral of the story, don't leave anything of value in your car and your windows won't get smashed unless it just happens to be a random act of vanalism

Seems like the price dropped since I bought it or I misremembered what I payed for it.

http://www.chinavasion.com/china/who...VR_Dual_Camera

I have that. I like it quite a bit. The quality is not HD but it seems like it should be good enough if I ever need it. The mount that it comes with is... well trash imo. I just took the sticky snaps that come with the EZpass and glued the thing to my windshield. haven't had any problems. I have it hardwired, it turns on and records automatically as soon as I turn my car on. Every once in a while I get a weird "Sensor Error" screen on start up, but a quick restart fixes the issue. Other then that, I have no complaints about it. It does what I need it to, and fortunately I havent had to use it yet. If you would like, Ill go ahead and upload some driving footage to youtube to show you how it looks.

Edit: It seems like they have a new HD model. Might be good to look into:
http://www.chinavasion.com/china/who...utput_4x_Zoom/

:iono: FR-S automatically locks itself after about 2-3 minutes... At least mine does

If you unlock it and open the door, it shouldn't relock itself. If you unlock it and don't open a door I believe it will relock itself in 45 seconds or so.

yeah, doesnt the car self lock??