This was the third time the woman said her Kia was stolen from outside her home since 2019.

MILWAUKEE (CNN) - A woman in Milwaukee says her Kia has been stolen three times, even after she installed a free security upgrade meant to prevent this crime from happening.

    • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
      22·
      10 months ago

      No immobiliser.

      So you can hotwire it like a vintage car.

      Most cars are much more difficult to start.

      Most countries made immobilisers mandatory in the 90s, the US doesn’t like regulations that corporations have to follow.

      • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        So you can hotwire it like a vintage car.

        Its almost like a replaceable sheer pin could be installed so when they break the steering lock, it brakes the steering post into two pieces that require special tools to replace and would waste more time than steeling and repairing it would be worth.

            • skulblaka@startrek.website
              1·
              10 months ago

              Half an hour labor for replacing a steering column?

              Yeah I’m gonna need you to point me towards your mechanic, because I’ve got a rear main seal that needs replacing, and according to those numbers I should be able to get my transmission dropped down for about a buck fifty.

              Unless I’m severely misunderstanding what you’re talking about.

                • skulblaka@startrek.website
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  I’m really not being dramatic, I want to know how you expect to pull and replace this pin in half an hour if it’s a part of the steering column assembly. Steering column R&R is minimum 3 hours almost no matter what car it’s on, source being I literally do this for a living every day.

                  Also it’s called a shear pin, not a “sheer” pin. I do know what they are, and I know how to spell it too. Sure, the pin is five bucks. How do you expect to access it? That’s where your cost and labor comes in. If the column needs to come out - which it usually does, in 99% of all cases where it’s being worked on - whoever told you they can do it in a half hour told you a big fat stankin’ lie right to your face.

    • EpeeGnome@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Joy ride and running drugs are common reasons to steal any old car. Whoever has been stealing it clearly isn’t doing so to keep it since the same car keeps getting stolen again.

      • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
        7·
        10 months ago

        Whoever has been stealing it clearly isn’t doing so to keep it since the same car keeps getting stolen again.

        It seems like it has to do more with her neighborhood than the model itself.

        Old and boring story to share

        I bought my ex a brand new 2008 Kia Spectra. It had a decent 2.2 liter DOHC and was very good in the snow.

        However, it had an annoying alarm that would go off seemingly if a fly landed on it but if someone bumped into it, it would work when it felt like it.

        The last straw: We had just settled down on a crowded beach and it went off. By the time I got to the car

        It was surrounded by people arguing whether to smash a window or force open the hood all in a matter of 1-2 minutes

        The beach entranceway was a long ass stair case btw. These people disbursed as I apologized to them all individually.

        This beach is in a State camp ground so all these people are there to get away from noise and traffic.

        That was the day we pulled the fuse.