Today I was lounging at home and caught a news special they had on CBC Newsworld about Grand Theft Auto (the crime, not the game ) definitely an interesting program.
So anyways, they had like this professional thief actually try to break into 5 cars that they picked out and it took about 1 minute to break into most of the cars.
I guess like many people have said that if a thief wants your car bad enough, nothing will stop him. (this is what that professional car thief said too)
However, CBC did say that car immobilizers pretty much stop the thieves from taking the car period (unfortunately they could probably break up your car pretty bad if they got ticked off )
Is a car immobilizer that good of a deterrent? there must be ways around it.
They also mentioned after-market immobilizers too - which run like $400.. something about that didn't ring too well with me..
so basically the question is.... are car immobilizers (anti-theft deterrent devices) the be all and end all of conventional car theft-deterrent devices?