my car got broken into.. is it easy to break in?

[bionictony]

i locked the doors. in the morning i came out and the pass. door was unlocked and all windows were in tact. did someone use a slim jim to unlock my door? is there a way to prevent that from happening again? they just took my head unit and backpack from the rear trunk. inside the backpack was my laptop and notebooks! nothing else from the car was stolen.. stuff under the hood wasn't messed with. i filed a police report. this sucks. when i install a new stereo, i'm thinking of welding or bolting the stereo down to the frame inside.. is that a good idea? i need to start using the club again.. i don't want to be left carless if someone could hotwire it.

[iVteC_PoWeR]

I think you should know that hondas are easily broken into even if you have your doors locked. Accords are the first most broken into car in America and I think civic comes next so yes the rex falls under civic.

[Twyztidmind]

civics are easy to brake into. I had to brake into mine when i lost my key and the only other spare was in the glove box. I used a coat hanger and stuck it down the side and lifted up on the locking bars.

So the best thing to do would be get an alarm system, a loud one. Because when the door is opened the alarm will go off.

That was one good thing about my 240sx, the locking bars went from side to side so it made it alot harder to brake into, unless they bashed out a window.

[1PhatCX]

if u use the club u will be carless anyways... all they do is cut the steering wheel and pull the club off, hell, we did it in autoshop one day cuz we were bored haha

[V-K]

What about spot welding a peice of sheet metal over the locking assemblies inside the door, as to prevent a slim-jim from being able to even come in contact with the locks?

[CivicSpoon]

http://members.cox.net/shaundrake/al...AlarmMods.html
Half way down on the right side.

[BiGwiLLswiLLy]

it takes only about 20 secounds to break into a civic...trust me...there is a simple way that seems so stupid to be true....i'd post it but i dont really think telling everyone how would be a good idea...

[g-ride-si]

ya i know a pretty quick way from when i worked at an auto auction. it was so damn easy i could be in a car(honda) and have it running in about 45 seconds with no keys. The way i got in was pretty brutal but it worked with no broken glass or anything else. As far as starting the car ANYONE who has worked on an ignition in a honda will know how to do it. get an alarm with the option that disables the ignition system.

maybe bolt the stereo in but dont weld it. mine was bolted in on the back.

Also like phatcx said clubs are useless. a better option is the clutch lock which still isnt great but better then the club. u can cut through a steering wheel in about 30 sec with a good hacksaw.

[FuLL BLown STD]

Originally Posted by BiGwiLLswiLLy

it takes only about 20 secounds to break into a civic...trust me...there is a simple way that seems so stupid to be true....i'd post it but i dont really think telling everyone how would be a good idea...

20 seconds to get in and get going with the car, if ur on the same page as me.

[vladlos]

my car got broken into two weeks ago... on my driveway! somebody went and pried open my rear right window and then broke the hinge that makes it pop open and then they went and ripped it out of that one window molding thing closer to the door. these people then went and unbolted my subs from my false floor and unbolted my amp from the false floor and proceeded to steal my headunit and headunit harness. they left all the wires that they didn't need in my car like the honda-to-aftermarket-stereo harness and the amp-to-subs wires.

i called the cops the next morning and they told me it was all done in less than 3 minutes. buttt.... these stealers were dumb and left fingerprints on my window when they pulled it off and the cop got fingerprints and it's going to be a matter of 2 months until i find out who did it. sucks!

[89ZCCivic]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/UnBrE...spagenameZWDVW

[FuLL BLown STD]

Originally Posted by vladlos

my car got broken into two weeks ago... on my driveway! somebody went and pried open my rear right window and then broke the hinge that makes it pop open and then they went and ripped it out of that one window molding thing closer to the door. these people then went and unbolted my subs from my false floor and unbolted my amp from the false floor and proceeded to steal my headunit and headunit harness. they left all the wires that they didn't need in my car like the honda-to-aftermarket-stereo harness and the amp-to-subs wires.

i called the cops the next morning and they told me it was all done in less than 3 minutes. buttt.... these stealers were dumb and left fingerprints on my window when they pulled it off and the cop got fingerprints and it's going to be a matter of 2 months until i find out who did it. sucks!

yeah dude but u only findout who did it if there finger prints are in the system, as in been finger printed b4 besides birth. but g/l with it dude

[crx2034]

getting your car broken into is the worst feeling. i am afraid to put anythinig of vaule in my crx. as soon as i do, it will be broken into. my wife just got lojack on her evo and i think i will do the same but if the car is not moved, i dont think lojack will matter. as everone has said, getting into a honda and taking what you want is pretty easy. ive heard of alarms that are put into your car and the horn is in the car. when the theif breaks in, it is so loud in the car that they dont want to fuck with it. has anyone heard of sometinh like this? it might be something to think about. (by the way, after driving my wifes EVO, i fell in love with turbo)

[ci5ic]

I'm no car thief, but it's easy as hell to break into our cars using a coathanger (or slimjim). Takes me maybe a minute to unlock a door like that.

Can't use a slimjim on my car anymore though (or punch the locks out). I put the rear door-handles from a sedan in my doors (no keyhole), and removed the lock pushrods. So now, they have to break a window to get in.

[skotman]

great links. i'm thinking of slim-jim proofing my car now.

i know firsthand how easy it is to break into my car.

first of all, i had my radio stolen when i went to school in new orleans. i have zero anti-theft devices as i didn't think i had anything worth anyone's effort to try and steal. later on i got brave and put some 6x9's in small trapezoid boxes in the back. some guy BROKE MY WINDOW and took my stereo. he broke the wire harness as he was taking it, so the joke's on him, unless he was only going to use it on three speakers. he didn't steal my 6x9's and their boxes which were worth twice as much as the radio and weren't bolted to anything. strange.

secondly, i locked my keys in my car in front of a bar in slidell, LA. a friend of a friend of a friend of mine happened to have loaned a friend of a friend of mine his slim jim. we used the slim jim to easily pop my driver's side lock. my passenger side is stubborn and won't unlock easily with the key much less the slim jim.

these days i keep my 10" sub and amp under the enclosure in the hatchback... and also my car (crx) still looks like a piece of crap dispite the improvements i've made, so there's still that as a deterrant.

maybe next year i'll get some body work, paint job, and alarm installed all in one swing...