Theft-proofing (was Re: Chinese Audi connection)

["scott miller" <macatawa@hotmail.com>]

> Anyone for a thread on how to keep your car from being stolen?

For six years I've stayed at a hotel north of Detroit up to 20 days a 
month, lots of auto break ins there.  I have a genuine wool, embroidered 
State Police baseball cap in my back window, as well as a State Police 
Airborne Surveillance cap, and military stickers in the back window, and 
military plates.  It seems to have worked so far, definitely saved me 
from some tickets.  My VW stereo ate a tape once and I gave up getting 
it all out, leaving a mass of tape and shell hanging for a week, a sure 
car stereo deterrent.  I considered making a fake tangled mass to keep 
under the seat, even with a CD player it might look like a bad tape 
deck.  Now that I have an Audi I may just put my whole dash on 
quick-releases for ease of maintenance, I could just carry it up to my 
room like the removeable-face stereos!

Scott Miller
Holland, Michigan
'90 200tqw (pearl)

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