Well, it isn’t an easy choice. But I’m counting on the likelihood that with the early warning feature I would get the car back before any stripping can be done to it. As for joyriding, I can deal with that. After all, I now loan it to my 25 year old son periodically whom I suspect may drive it that way.

As for the loss, yes, I took that loss when I drove it off the lot. But as I said before, I’m neither interested in forking up another $10K just after 2-1/2 years for a new one, nor do I want to drive someone else’s used car that I know nothing about.

 

Moral of this thread: Lojack is right for some people... Not others.

Everyone makes feasible arguments here.

 

Well sure, but the point is that at the moment you have a fully-functional car in your possession. With a lojack system, when it gets stolen the *hope* is to get the car returned to you before any serious harm has befallen it. Or at least you get it back it can be restored to it's previous condition via insurance.

If you don't have such a service, instead you probably get an insurance payment and no returned car. That check is certainly not going to buy you a brand new G without you contributing the difference.

Okay, so you didn't have a brand new G to begin with, so that makes sense. I guess the idea is you may be able to replace it with another G with similar mileage in similar condition. But then there's always the crapshoot you take in obtaining such a vehicle, i.e. you never really know how it has been treated by the previous owner. And you lose some warranty coverage. And so on and so forth.

Or you just bite the bullet and buy a new car. That's entirely different than the "on-paper" 2-3K your car depreciates when you drive it off the lot. It's actual money out of your pocket.

So it seems it's just a choice between which risk you'd rather take.

 

I'd say look around for insurance. I'm pretty sure you can get plans that will give you replacement cost for a new/newer car.

 

But replacement cost is what we’re talking about. If your ’08 is stolen they will replace it with another ’08 or the current value of an ’08 at the time of the loss, less your deductible. If you can find an insurance company that will give you a brand new car for the three or more year-old one that was stolen, let us know.

With that kind of insurance some owners would just park their old G in some bad neighborhood with the windows open and the fob left on the dash. After the car is gone in a few hours we could call our insurance company and pick out a 2010 model.

 

^^^ What he said.

 

There's always The Club. Deters the "path of least resistance" crooks.

 

I'm not sure how easy it is to do this but the Cobb AP has an anti-theft map you can flash to the car that prevents the car from moving even if the thief does have the key. I just don't think flashing the ECU like this is a quick process or a good idea since the ECU can only be flashed a certain number of times before failing.

I'm trying to see if I can get one of these from UpRev since its really easy to change the maps from the cruise control buttons and doesn't require constant ECU flashing or a fancy control device plugged into your car.

 

Lol. I imagine the door locks and factory alarm are sufficient for those guys.