Working in Auto-theft for many years told me Air tags dont work well. If they have a Iphone they can detect there are AirTags present. If a thief has an Iphone it will just alert him an Airtag is there and make sounds.
The AirTag can't connect to the internet on it's own so the location will only get updated periodically when someone's iPhone detects it and after that the location will be updated. They will know the car is being tracked and find it or just burn ur car! Yea, thats what animals do!
AirTags are NOT anti-theft recovery. They're not marketed or sold that way and they're not intended for people to recover items that have been stolen from wherever. AirTags are marketed for "lost and found" NOT theft recovery.
Are Airtags useless? Probably not. There has been cases where they have helped locate a stolen car but considering half the planet has IPhones its unlikely they will be useful. At least take the speaker out of the Airtag so it doesnt alert to where it is smh.
Honestly, ive never recieved a Police report where the owner states he has found his stolen car via AirTag. Has it happened? Yea...... but not in my 25 yr. career and we had 125 stolen cars a MONTH. Yea, a MONTH! Bridgeport, CT.
For $15 fukn dollars a month one can get a GPS tracker and hide it where it cant be found. The battery life on most is good for a couple of months usually. All u gotta do is recharge it. So far I have found the Tury to be the best simple anti-theft on the market that ANYONE here can install on their own plus u get a throttle accelerator with it which these cars desperately need. U can buy the extended battery pack and get an even longer charge on ur GPS tracker as well.
The Tury is $300. It locks out the pedal accelerator from working. They can make a new key with the VIN # or steal ur current fob info wont matter cant go anywhere without the throttle working. I just hit LOCK on my IPhone when I exit my car. When I return to my car all I have to do is open the app and it returns the pedal back to normal.
I went a little overboard maybe but I had my buddy fab up a small metal box (Thick ass metal box) with security screws and placed it around the Tury device up under my dash. No way ur just unplugging and putting it back to factory. Its hidden WAY up under there along with some dummy wires it would be REALLY hard to even locate it under there but if they did they are still screwed! Ud have to cut the wires and that would completely disable the car! Better than being stolen!
I have (3) kill switches on both my Mopars plus GPS and Lojack. Over kill? Maybe, but never had anything stolen. Its a very small investment to make knowing ur shit will likely never get stolen unless its towed and if it i'll find it immediately and if I cant i'll activate my LoJack which is RADIO based not GPS based so there is no hiding in parking garages or shipping containers! I know how these little assholes operate trust me!
I have over a $100k into my Daily Trackhawk. $250k in my race Trackhawk that I street often. No fukn way am I leaving that anywhere without MULTIBLE anti-thefts and recovery! Insurance isnt giving me my money back!
These cars to most of us are MUCH more than cars they are part of our lives! I worked hard my whole life to be able to afford these and I love my Trackhawk more than life itself! We modiffy them, detail them, love and take pride in owning them and give us all a great hobby to love plus its quite an investment and I know u guys work hard for ur shit dont let these ANIMALS take what uve worked ur whole life for!
The Hellcat is the most stolen car in America! How much more evidence does one need to see before they get their own kill switch or two? Scats are stolen daily as well! Especially if uve modified ur shit cause ur getting none of that back with an insurance claim. Cmon guys at least get the Tury. Is it full proof? No. But it would have stopped Speedys car from being stolen! Install on it was like (5) minutes literally!
This one simple trick will prevent them from starting the car. Pull fuel pump and starter relay. Yeah annoying but I know my car will be sitting out there whenever I get doing doing what I need to do. I just throw em in my pocket.
In the chance that they do grab it. Good luck finding the three airtags and some other things in there that you'll never know because chances are by the time you find them, I've found you and well shovels are cheap.