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Originally posted by Yamakasi
Hi All,

I got an SE-R about a year ago (2002 model).

And someone tried to steal mine last week and I can't beleive how easy it is to steal this car! If I were you, I'd take precautions in trying to add more security to the car.

If you look closely through the front grill, you can see your honk and the wire that leads to the honk. The guy just took a pair of clippers and cut the wire. What this does is disable the honk from the car, so the alarm that comes with the SE-Rs is completely useless since only the white lights start flashing when there's no honk, so in broad daylight, no one can tell something's wrong.

Then seems like unlocking the door is also a sinch, the guy took a screwdriver and just jammed it up the door handle to unlock the door!

He took his screwdriver, put it under the wiper thing and broke my driving column. I don't know what he did after that, I don't know if the anti-theft stopped him, but he took some of my CDs and ran.

So luckily I still have my car with about 400$ CDN worth of Damage, but when you see how easy and how cleanly this guy almost took off with my car, you start wondering why there weren't more safety precautions when building the car. At least hide the horn or the wire to the horn where it's not in such an easy location to cut!

I'm definitely going to be getting a second alarm or something from now on.

Picture of handle

Picture of handle with screwdriver

Picture of broken column (right side)

Picture of broken column (left side)

I didn't have time to take pictures of how easy it is to access the horn wire through the front grill, I didn't notice the broken wire till a few days ago.

But if you go to your car, just look in the front grill and you'll see it easily.

*sigh*

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