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STOLEN?!? - EP.80
About this episode
Episode 80 dives into the alarming reality of car thefts, particularly focusing on JDM vehicles. Hosts Bobby and Aaron share personal stories and discuss recent theft incidents, including a shocking tale of a friend's stolen Integra Type R. They explore the evolution of car security, the methods thieves use, and provide valuable tips on how to protect your pride and joy from being stolen. The episode also touches on the international aspect of car theft, including insights from Japan, making it a comprehensive discussion on a topic that resonates with many car enthusiasts.
Topics:
car theft stories
JDM vehicles
anti-theft measures
personal experiences
international theft trends
car security evolution
theft deterrents
flatbed towing
GPS tracking
community awareness
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Hey, and welcome back to the right hand drive guys podcast the podcast for guys and girls who like right hand drive carsI'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Yeah, and we are here today with episode 80
Episode 80 lady we are we're really getting there, you know like just from joking around saying we should do a podcast toI don't know going to Japan and literally recording live from there andYeah multiple times and having you know a lot of different guests at this point whoCome from kind of all walks of life and I've from across across the globe really soBut today we wanted to just chat a little bit about
Stolen cars. Yeah, don't don't down
It's what everybody fears right you get thisBeautiful beautiful car, right? I mean whether it's USDM JDM whatever but you get your pride and joy right and this thing
It means everything to you you keep it in the garage you shine it up you don't let your kids touch itYou know and then no food nothing do that one that one speck of dirt on the floor matIt's gone immediately right right? Yeah, so
It's kind of jealous about how you treat it. Yeah
Like he's been in so much time with that thing what about me right and soYou know and of course and I know many of you guys can relate your worst nightmare isComing back out to the parking lot having it gone coming out to the garage having it gone, you knowJust that like man that feeling right of just likeinstant despair like I'm fuckedlike that's literally how it feels right yeah andso
Recently there has been some events inThe United States ofJDM cars being stolen andWe'll get into that we also kind of have some personal stories andSome stories that friends of ours gave us permission to useJust about how these things happen and then at the end we'll just kind of chat aboutOur personal knowledge on how you can kind of deter people from stealing your car hopefully yeah
But we do know that it's 2024 andThe more that we get kind of like electronicallyProgress there's just more ways to do these things and kind of gives you easier access, right?
So yeah, and especially with these 90s cars. Yeah, like if you've ever done any type of wiring work on these things like
You probably know how simple it would be to cross a few wires andAlmost like the almost like Nicholas CageExactly almost like that, you know with these 90 car 90s car things you know even easier problem. Yeah
Because the it wasn't as much like that right aTechnology wasn't as progress, but be the thefts weren't as common so it wasn't as much of a worry soAnd we've all yeah, I mean let's start here. We've all heard right like
back in the early 2000sThe hottest car to steal was what IJust want to see if you know I want to say it was a Honda Ford or HondaYeah, Honda's Acre, you know that thing and in the type RThose were stolen left and right the Acre integrity bars those were justBeing lifted constantly because it was so easy like you're saying to steal I mean it was in some pointsIt was a screwdriver in the ignition right right, you know you give it the old tap tap
Rome and that's where the screwdriver key blank came fromIt's actually pays homageThose guys who were stealing those integrity bars, right andThat really became a thing in the early 2000s, you know andObviouslyAcre of Honda all of these manufacturers took notice and started equipping them with a lot betterFactory yeah, anti thefts just in the mobilizer and the key really stopped a lot of that like
Hot wiring right it's good say because it had to read the chip rightIt was like almost like two step off an occasion right rightIt wasn't just the key in there. It was the chip matching on right right but like, you know those eG and eK civics
Oh, yeah, or you know the integrals. Yeah, much any integrity dude all day
Yeah, and in that really ruined a lot of guys likeExperience right and then probably you know you think about it right you have thisWhatever let's just say it's number055 right your pride and joy that thing gets stolen stripped yeah, dude that ruined your experience in the car culture and can you come back from thatBeing one of those guys who lost their pride and joyThat's hard right because it's a discouragement so
If you're if you were one of those car thieves and you're listening to this likeYou knowMaybe maybe you gotta I don't know earn it back somehow maybe you need to give a car awayMultiple you gotta come back to info, I guess, but I mean till then middle finger to those guys. Yeah, yeah for sure
So okay, we'll we'll start here so since we are on theIntegrity par topic right because those were very hot carsI will tell the story of a good friend of mine. He's an OG in the car scene where I'm from
He was always in the Nissan's he was he had like a 2G clips that was just you know ridiculous power like really cool guy, right?
And so back in2003 2004 he hooked up with somebody I and we want to have him on the podcast and truly tell this storyBut this story hurts him so much. He is the guy. I'm talking about that hit the theft of his car
Took him out of the game totally like the theft of his carDisguerged him and messed with his life so much that he never got back thereWhich is like sad because he was one of the most hardcoreyou knowLoyalist import guys that I knew right and so okay heOrders and R33 GTR what years this was right this is in 2004. So this was gray market. Oh four. Yes
He's already R33 barely 10 years old probably barely 10 years oldI can't tell you who he was working with yes, but that's what he was told right he's getting it's a it was supposed to be aQM1 a white33 GTRSo he gets the the call from the broker. It's landed in port. Yeah, I imagine dude in 2004, dude
He is probably on high dude seriously shows up at the portGoes to collect the car, you know, you show up the port, you know, they tell you you know the guy walks you to your carYeahThey walk him to this car and he's like no that ain't it and they're like yeah, no look on the paperwork. This is yours
on the paperwork it saysAccurate and take or sorry Honda and Tiger type R and he's like no, no, no, like I think you guys got the paperwork mixed up and likeIs this your name and he's like yeah, and they're like well, this is your carHe shows up. They didn't send over the 33 GTR. They threw a
Honda and Tiger type R on the boat like a 98 spec or something, you know andHe imagined so at this point like you have a decision. I'm either going to be happy with this car
Or I'm gonna be super depressed and try to like throw a fit nowHe knew the value in the sense of likeIntegra type bars are still sweet. Yeah, and they at least did a misalid and they sent him a
Mugen billIntegra type R. Oh, that kind of changes things every part on it had every part in the Mugen catalog
Including motorwork done by Mugen. It had the authentic Mugen valve cover, you know, Mugen exhaust Mugen headers
Mugen Mugen, you know everything including the stripe down the side the MugenYeah, so in the thing was meant the thing rev to overtake K like INever been so I'd never been in the car like that and that's his car actually got me in love with Honda's at that timeBecause I was like wow this thing doesn't have a turbo it revs to 10k and it like it hammers, you knowIt's V-TEC and it actually puts you back in your seatSo he embraced it. He was like, you know what I wanted in R33 GTR
He literally had a garage full of parts for R33 GTRVolks like exhaust like everything turbos. He had everything ready to bolt on to this
Now he has to flip the script and embrace this entire type bar, right? Which sounds like it's already built though
Yeah, it is so he can't really do much to it and so in his headHe's like well, I'm still gonna get the 33 GTR eventually he kept all those partsEventually 20 years later still has a bunch of the parts and passes them on to me when I get my 33 GTRBecause he doesn't want them sitting around because at this point he's obviously giving up soAnyways long story short he embraces the Integra he brings it around brings it to shows like everybody obviously loves itIt's a right hand drive, you know, it's it's an awesome car and especially in 2004
It's like back then. Yeah, it's like whoa what the what he is even going on people weren't even doing conversions
There's stuff much like that either so it's like so heHe ends up, you know with some buddies. They're heading down to like this car event, right and the entry to be inside of the event closes at 9 am
They left materially whateverBuddy and of course an SRT 4 runs out of gas on the highwaySo they all have to pull over they got to go get gas bring it backThis puts them at the event at 915 the gates are closedSo he's got a park and you knowAnd it was a big event and so he has to park it out in the parking lotsoWhatever right, you know, we don't get to be in the show nobody dealWell
Somebody else had other plans for this car and this is the craziest story of somebody stealing a car that I've heardThey pulled up with a flatbed tow truck and theyThey hooked on to his back tow hook dragged the car up onto the tow truck and bouncedThey they literally within four to five minutes andAnd of course this is like him telling me this the story almost 20 years agoSo like trying to get as good as I can but so
They take it it's gone right like so now this guy got screwed out of a 33Yeah, he got his muted integrity part and now it just got loaded up onto it a flatbed and they drove offSo I remember like he called and like dude was mad upset and I'm like do they'll find it, you know, whatever and IWasn't wrong. They found it
Huh all of it. No, they found literally the frame like and when I say the frame
I mean these guys stripped it to the point of it wasAnything that could be taken off this thing was off of itCompletely it was found in Jamaica planes in Boston like down just like on a side road on blocksThe only way they could tell is because the bin was etched into the firewall andLike so now you can imagine okay this guy like yeah, he's how I'll take for them to find it three days three days. Yeah three days and so
This was in 2004 or whatever right and so like anti-theft systems were around of courseThey were the fiber of what they were that type of thing, you know, butYou're out in the parking lot with a thousand other cars a tow truck pulls up nobody really questions it right because that's not generally how people are stealing cars right this was like aChop shop they knew they were doing, you know, soYou know that's just kind of like one quick story of howYou can go somewhere just expect me to have a good day you leave your your right-hand drive car out in the parking lot and boom
It's gone and the next time you see it. It's unrecognizable. Yeah
Yeah, dude, yeah, I mean manI'm still lost for words right and so IRemember he had me and like there was a group of six or seven of usWe were just scouring eBay and anywhere we could for these parts never could see him come onYeah, like do that me you get an engine alone was worth so I do this day in age would be worth 30 grandYeah, like easy like a built-10k revving me you can motor dude. I wonder if like
The people who stole it probably didn't even know or realizeMaybe even how special it was or I don't like soI think they thought it was right hand drive and it was an integral type bar right and likeWe don't have those around here right right thenYeah, they're probably looking for the front-end swap right or something right so they probably sold some of that stuffYeah, like cheap money and people didn't even realize what it was yeah people had to come up and they didn't even realize where it's coming from rightWhich is like super sad so you know shout out to Dave
You know hopefully we can get him on here to like really tell the story isn't the group at me. Yeah, he is in the group and
You know, it's one of those things it's super sad and it did kind of take him out of the gameYeah, so how many other guys kind of got affected like that put their heart and soul into something and then have it ripped away, you knowBut but speaking of parts and whatnotI know you said you know of kind of a Japanese company that was kind of doing this type of thing right wellIt was a place in the states that got caughtselling do basically front front cuts of cars and
Front ends and engine swaps and stuff like thatThis happened to several years ago. I think of
2021 this place called J spec J specYeah, believe they were down in Virginiathey had posted an EK nineFront end for sale, you know like aEK nine type heart front end it had like a vented hood it hadYou know the fenders the whole front end was stock it had like a J's racing tow hookkind of you know special pieces like with the hood and the tow hook they posted it up for sale and it started making the rounds on Facebook and
people were sharing the post like crazy andsaying like look in the comments on this post sopeople were looking in the comments andBasically they were sharing a post from where an EK nine in Japan was stolen reported stolen not too long beforeThis post was made long enough for it to get shipped over yeah pretty much andYou know he was like this is my front end, you know from my carThis is the exact same tow hook. This is the exact exact same hood with the same hood pins like
This car was stolen and then likePeople started digging deeper dude and like just going through their inventory and checking off all these cars and finding themLike reported stolen in Japan like there was an STI like a newer STIImpraza like just a bunch of things and dude theyYeah, they ended up getting dragged they as they shouldYeah, dude. I couldn't man. I could not fathom how I would feel if like you know you're scrolling
You're scrolling on Facebook right you're looking for parts. You just had your car stolen whatever you're looking for a new car
Whatever the case might be you're just scrolling through or somebody sends it to you or someone sent it to you right you get this likeNotification you're like oh, you know what do you send to me? Yeah? Oh?
It's the front end of my car and it's in America right right right and likeYou know there's no going back from that like that car's never coming back right?
Yeah, you now can chalk that up as a full lossAbsolutely like 110% dude and like that is so lame when people likeTake something great right like the importation of parts and whatnot and they use it for like heinous likeReasons right like to make money off something that you didn't pay for like that's that's super lame and you knowI think it's probably been a common thing forSince back in the day dude when all those before these cars were legal all those front clips and front cuts and engine swathe
You always wonder like damn how do they have so many front clips like why is there so many rear-end accidents in Japan?
Like why would they be you know and now that you go and think about it like damn like how many of these cars were stolenYeah, or even if they weren't stolen but literally just cut up because that's the only way that money could be made off them at the timeYeah, it's kind of sad to think like how many civic type ours were cut the front end was cut off right just to send over here when it was a perfectly fine carThat could have been imported. Yeah, yeah, it sucks man. It's like I remember the the first RB 20 swap ever bought it was back in like
0809 08 I believe and IRemember when it came into my buddy shop likeWas like literally sitting in the front clip and everything was still thereYou know like what the hell yeah, yeah, and like he was like yeah, you knowGuy just picked it up in Japan. He said he drove the car to the shop
To have it cut up to ship you know to ship the front clip over to ship the engine and everything you like drive it overYeah, he was like dude. It was a ripper. Yeah, he was like yeah, this is a very good running engine
Chopped the front end off this car. Let's get it out like so you know r32 gtst back in the day
Like who knows how much nothing to them right right? I think that whole front clip to that r32 was like
1600 bucks like landed stateside like at the importer right so likeWhat was the whole car worth?
You know, yeah for sure over thereYeah, I mean it is it is kind of crazy and so you know on the topic ofLike Japan and thefts there so I talked to our buddy Trevor just got kind of some insight on like you knowHow does it happen over there? Is it a lot? You know what not and
When we are there in Osaka, I'm sure you remember he had at one pointBecause I'm not gonna lie right like I'm a dipshit all right. I am like yeah
We all are if you're listening to this I'm a dipshit, you know, and so I leave my keys in my car likeAll the time like I'm just saying this right nowYeah, so now I used to leave my keys in my car all the time right like and so you know I get to Japan andHonestly, I'm a creature of habit. I just leave my car. Everyone's so friendly
Yeah, and so I'm not worried about nothing and so I think we walked back over in my carAnd I'm showing Trevor my car and he notices a keys in the in the ignition. He's like
What are you doing and I'm like?
What do you mean? And I explained to him like
Hey, I'm from Maine like I leave my keys in my car like it don't matter, you know likeAnd that's just like ignorance on my behalf, but regardless he's like yeah, no you can't do that you can't do that likeI'm like, but do this is Japan. He's like yeah, but not everyone here is Japanese. Yeah, and I'm like yeah
That's an R34 GTR. Yeah, he's like, you know, and I can't remember the exact words
But it was basically like you know the Sri Lankans will have that in a container before you canrealize it's gone, you know, and and so Aaron and I are likeSri Lankans, right? What the heck what are you even talking about, you know, and and so you know, he just kind of said like
That you know, they will come over and they'll scout cars and then they steal them load them up and get them out of thereSo quickly that the Japanese police can't even really like follow the trail. Yeah, because it's already gone, right?
You know, and so um, you know, I asked him and he saidYou know, I was like, hey, what what's up with the Sri Lankans, you know, and he's likeYou know, he's like the exact examples that I can only really give you one right now and he saidumThere's a guy with aBathurst Rx7 and it was stolen right outside the guys apartment and the guy heard it start upOh, I bet he did yeah, he heard it start up and so he's on like the fourth or fifth story hanging over his balcony like yelling like trying to get people's attention as the dudes are stealing his car
um andAnd the guy was recording them stealing his car. Yeah, and uh
It ended up all over the news and they were identified as Sri Lankans and then they had to ditch the car becauseWhen they were taking it to port they were seeingTheir video of them taking it all over the news and they had to ditch it. Wow dude. Yeah, so he said that uh
He's never had anything get stolen from him, but he also lives out in the countryside and like you know has like a newer carYou know, he did have a 34 and all that but um he said yeah that that seems to be a trend right now is the the Sri Lankans areAre taking them exporting them and then you know, you kind of don't see him again to wherever they go. I don't know
AfricaThey're not sending him to the US. No, no, no, no, no, I'm not a profile. Yeah, it's like always to the US
You sent you send it over toTo Africa or something like thatThat's like maybe a little less tracked and and that type of things a little less plentifulYou can definitely get away with it, right? Yeah, you know the guy at the port of
I don't know wherever Egypt or why I don't know wherever they're taking on right like but yeah, I meanSo this does happen in Japan too, but it's not the Japanese people stealing the cars right?
It's the people coming there because they know the value of some of these cars, you knowEven let's just say in S15 there's value there right those are selling between you know first spec are between 30 and 45Thousand dollars. Yeah, that's that's money when all you got to do is just you know
Yeah, yeah exactly so um, but I mean, I've seen another story recently. It was a white R34 I believe that was stolen
In Japan and they caught it at port right before it was to be loaded on really yeah, so II feel like they do a decent job ofYou know check in the car. I feel like there's a lot caught at port. Yeah, I mean, I feel like they might be a little more thorough
On the exporting side of Japan. Yeah, but I mean, I guess if you got it in a container or whatever the case may be like
Yeah, they're cracking open every containerWell, you write exactly and then also, you know, so what are you know some of these instances they could beRemoving a lot of parts from the car and putting it in the separate container like there's all kinds of methods over the years rightThat's how you know, I had a 99 Civic Type R in 2008, you know what I meanHad that get here, right? I don't know, you know, so so that's one of those things right but
So what sparked us for this episode was a recent postIt made its rounds some of you guys hopefully have seen it and keeping your eye outBut I'll I'll kind of read the post and so this is about a white 99Skyline GTTWhich was upbatched to a GTR. Oh, yeah, and so did this come back to bite you
Were importing an upbatched GTT. Do you think someone thought they were gonna GTR? Yes, absolutely
Absolutely, I think so I think somebody thought that they were getting something they got swindled150 when they got something that was worth 38 or 50 or whatever right soHere it is it had 131,000 milesIt was stolen from the port of Tacoma the eb1 terminal in Washington stateBy a group of thieves who also stole a Porsche a Toyota Chaser and one other unnamed vehicle
and so it was stolen fromuh a company called Rare Garage Auto andPretty much they're asking for help that if you see the car or any of its partsGive them a text or hit them up on IG and so again, it was a 9934 GTT with avs model fivesYou know yet had the whole 34From bumper side skirts wing
Anismo intercooler like a you know some decent low parts nothing super crazyI know the Chaser they did post that it was a red one and it was pretty sick andKind of unique so I don't understand like they're kind of stealing unique ishIs it samples ofCars that are easy to spot. I guess you could say and I'm wondering if this is like all from
Rare garage auto like I wonder if all of them were owned by them rightBecause they seem to be putting it out there about all of the carsIf they're all owned by them either those were the only cars that came into port they were cool orSomebody there's some more connection here. There's more connection, you know like I'm no
Sleuth or whatever it's called, but you know to me if somebody steals that amount of your carsThen you probably have something going on internally. Maybe you need to figure no wonder how it happened like how
How can they get them out, you know like because as you know, yeah ports are pretty strict and with this happeningThe port is going to investigate and it's going to get more strict and it'll come out pretty quickly whether this was due toBeing involved with people that maybe they shouldn't have been but like how do you think they steal a car from port?
Yeah, I'm not sure like how do they steal you gotta have fakeCredential or it was someone that works at the port that has in or right open the gate for their buddyYeah, that's weird because that's usually a pretty secured area like and well there's for sure cameras. Yeah, that too
There they can'tThere's for sure video surveillance. Yeah, I mean
But like if you think about it at the port in New York, right? Yeah, dude. They're leaving the keys inside of all these
I know that is the keys kind of great are in there right so so our situation. Okay, when we go to port
You know, there's this bigGate and they he keeps it closed though. Yeah, that so that yeah, like and then there's like a man a
Mandor type fence gate soYou have to go in there you gotta talk to the security guyThen you gotta go in and get your paperwork and then you can go get the car and somebody walks you to the carYeah, so and then you come back and you have to wait at the gate and then he opens it for youSo how did they get that open? Yeah, like
Yeah, I would love to see that video surveillance, but yeah, I would love to know how that happened too. I mean, it's gotta be someone
Involved yeah some ways that there's no way that four guys just went in there and just like drove these cars through the fence fastAnd a furious style jumped 67 feet, you know what I mean now it's bridge. Yeah, that's not how it works, you know
So I'd be interested to hear that and and if you doYou know see any of these parts for sure hit upYou know this garage, butHow can so so to wrap this up kind of right?
How can these things be avoided like how can how can youDetur some oneFrom this from stealing your car. How do you how do you eliminate that? Yeah, well, I mean the easiest way obviously is to
Park in a safe spot, you know, but that's not always always possible and well, I think you have a quick example of that rightlikeMaybe this doesn't have to do with JDM car, but this has to do with you know, maybeThis is something that that you know and and I would be a victim of this also is overconfidence andIn your situation right being overconfident in the fact that you're only you know, you're parking here and you're only going 10 or 15 feet away, right? Yeah
I mean and when I lived in NashvilleI took my G 35 to this taco truck at this market down the street mile from my houseOkay, I get out of the car turn the car off. I leave the keys in it cars not running though
So I'm literally 10 feet away. I'm parked right next to this taco truck. I make my order
Step down looking at my phone. I hear my car back up
Pill off. I'm like
What? Like what just happened? So I mean yeah, my car got stolen because
Obviously I left the keys in the ignition, but you know, I was just 10 feet awayA mile away from my house like right you say for a confidence. Yeah, overconfidence. Could it easily been avoided by
Having my keys right, so I mean, that's the first thing. I mean you just got to
You can't get too comfortable. You can't get too comfortable. You can't get too relaxed
You know, you got to think your car is going to get stolen everywhere you're goingBe and you got to have you got to use these things every single time because the first time you don't might be theTime that it gets stolen you know what I meanSo the first thing is obviously being smart parking where you can be safe if you don't have a garage and obviously likeKnow where you're parking on the street and be smart and yeah, take the moves to take your keys lock your doors like yeahYou know even just locking the doors, you know, it's like duh Bobby you lock the doors
But like that's one more layer of delay for them stealing your car, you know likeUm, just running into 7/11. Well, dude. You just running into 7/11 could be the last time you drove that car
Yeah, but locking your doors means they either got a Jimmy that or break the window and that that brings attention to themWhich they don't like yeah exactlyumBeyond that, you know having a car alarm can go a long way dude. I mean
Yeah, they can be annoying when they're going off and they're not yours, but it could easily saveRight, you know, I mean, it's annoying for a reason because it gets attention exactly right because think about it anytime you hear thatYou immediately look at that car. Yeah, you really do because you're like, oh who's the dink that set off?
In their Subaru outback, right, right? You know
It's just like who is this guy, but if that was let's just say a R32 GTSDJust blaring and you're like, oh, that's a nice car. Oh, what the hell's going on? What's that guy doing?
You know, why is he trying to get into that car? Yeah
Now that attention was annoying, but it brought attention to him and now he's probably boulding right and also another thing when doing a car alarmIf you're not having an installed by a professionalLike if you're doing it yourself, mm-hmm be sure that you'reTuck in the wires and kind of hiding the install of itSo they don't just pop the hood cut the power wire to the battery, right? You know what I mean?
It's not an easy disconnectSo you also find that loose wire that they can just cut and it disables it right right so and that moves me on to my other one kill switchesVery easy thing and you can be a simple. Yeah, they can be redundant too. Dude put one
Behind your you know seat up under put one under your dash pull one under the passenger seatThat you had to flip all three if you have to I mean whatever and have them controlYou know, you've definitely done that plenty like you see especiallyLike not to shit on the Honda boys, but again like on Honda tech back in the dayThat's what you would see right you would see two to three kill switches in random places and it's gonna disable the car to the point that by the timeThey find the two out of the three they feel so much anxiety because it's taking them so long, you know
Right, right and like what you're doing when you're doing that is you're slowing them downThat's like giving you more of a chance to catch them orGiving them more of a chance to think they're gonna get caught and get out of thereWhich is which is fine, you know you want to want it to take them as long as possibleTo to take your car and and so to touch on that you know likeGuys will be like oh kills. Who's y'all that's so you know whatever early 2000s. Oh, you know
But like some of these simple things, you know really do work. They really do same with yeah like a steering wheel lock
Yeah sounds lame right yeah club the club yeah sounds lameBut again, you're trying to slow them down and that's going to slow them down because now they have to break or disable that right in order to reach their goalWhich is taken off with your car exactly andAlso to speak on thatQuickly steering wheels also a pretty take that take put it in your backpack take it inside with you right right absolutely andI believe in our G even makesLocks like a lockout that you know has a key in everything on itself. So
If you don't have a steering wheel it would be very hard, but however, you know doesn't stop like in your buddy situationFlatbed come and take it up. So yeah, yeah, I mean in that I you know
That's not the way that you knowI'd assume at least 85% of the people stealing cars are not stealing with them with a flatbed. They're stealing them
With the methods we're talking about right right so but you know with the flatbeduhYou got to have a way to track your car I guess you could say yeah, that's 2024 2024. Do yeah, you can get GPS trackers for fairly cheap without
Without any kind of subscription or anything like that. Yeah, you can also get
Remote kill switches that will kill the car, but like obviously if they can toad offThat doesn't matter, but the GPS will track or yet and another thing install goes a long way on something like that because the thief is smartThey're gonna be looking for itSomething like that because that's a very common thing especially in newer cars. Yeah, and so
They make now they make GPS trackers that are like stickers and they're almost asAs thin as a sticker and everything is in that little bit in the sticker and soTake off your door panel put it on the inside of the door panel. Yeah, put it somewhere where this guy has to dig right
Yes, a really dig which takes him more time which gives you more time right uhthis s14 back hereWhen I got itYou know at the driver side window had a littleThe switch was broken that auto switch remember and and so we're replacing it and I take off the door panel and outfalls an air tagYeah, and I'm like what the hell yeah, and then I realized like oh, okay this air tag was you knowThis guy the previous owners attempt at at least trying to make sure that he might be able to track it in case somebody stole it and
You know, I don't necessarily recommend air tags simply because of the proximity that you need to be yeah in order to actually track itDon't they kind of warn you if you're being followed by an air tag like if you were a thief yeahYou have an iPhone and you just got this car loaded with air tagsYou're gonna get alerts that you're being followed by air tags, right? Yeah, and then so then that's gonna tip you off
Which didn't that that happened with Jesse Jesse he our buddy Jesse somebody threw an air tag on his 34 GTR in Japanand theyI don't know if they actually followed him but heBrought it over to space auto to change the oil or something like that and it was on his exhaust heat shield with a magnetAnd he found him was like dude what the hell like who why would they even want to track me like yeah, so I meanThere are definitely some ways that you can protect yourself. I mean plenty of ways. We didn't even necessarily mention
I mean dude they you can buy a boot for your own car. That's what I was gonna say when you were talking about the flatbed
I'm like like yeah, you can buy four wheels you can like you know depending on where you live and how worried you areYeah, I mean you can't be too safe when let's just say you bought a 34 GTR right you paid 120 plus for itI don't see how you could be too safe right right likeI pull chain it to the toe yeah, yeah, yeah, literally yeah get thePut a leash on that. Yeah, but at least on it. Yeah, I mean dude keep your baby safe
Yeah, don't be embarrassed because you're the one doing these things like because you're not gonna be embarrassed when the cars not stolenYou know, I meanBut we care so much about these cars and unfortunately they are from the 90s right and security wasn't up to parYou know there there weren't some of theseYou know different evenOur subscription not prescription subscription things like on star that can like you said cut the vehicle track the vehicleYou know there wasn't that stuff so you know we definitely wouldn't wish
This on anyone, you knowBecause again just like our buddy Dave that can cut you right down to the bone and like that can be the end of itI mean dude when I got my B3G 35 stolen it wasI was heartbroken. Yeah, no for sure like you feel sick to your stomach is just the worst feeling ever
Yeah, because it's like a violation that like doesn't really happen all the time right and so when it does it can definitely break you up butYeah, I mean if we we miss something that's super pertinent that you couldUse as a theft deterrent. Please hit us in the DMs
You know let us know so that we can just add this to our list and you know anyone else who talks to us aboutIt we can throw that at themBut we wish the guys over here at the garage where the cars get stolen pervageYeah rare garage we're hoping that they're able to recover these in good shapeUnfortunately in this type of thing every day is another day that you know these these have the opportunity toKind of part this out cut it up and it's gone. Yeah, you know
But for the big episode 80 we appreciate you listening along with us as alwaysMake sure to share the podcast with your mother your brother your buddies whatever it is we'd love to have themOh, yeah, follow us on the socials hit us in the DM with any questions suggestions whatever you got at our HDG U I S and we'll see you for episode 81 next week. I'm Bobby. This is Aaron. See ya. Peace
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