How do we keep our pride and joy safe without braking the bank

[charlie]

Suggestions please fellow v dubbers

[Booth11]

Get a big dog 

Cos cats are rubbish at guarding stuff 

[Mr GTD]

Lock it!!!

[Mr GTD]

Pacman I thort had a good idea that he posted in the other thread "collapsible bollards" they work for businesses so why not homeowners ect...

[pryda]

I read so many threads about homes being broken in to just for the car keys, so I always keep my keys in the bedroom.

at the end of the day there's nothing you can do to protect your car against theft of vandalism. just make sure you have protected no claims bonus.

[Ginge 35Edition]

Protected no claims, GAP and then a big dog!

[The rock]

i have a bollard but its in the garage as my car catches it as my drive s slightly up hill . if they come in the house for the keys the house is seriously belled up . i no lads who have had there cars taken just by them knocking on the door . a guy i work with had a new s3 . 4 blokes with bally s on were banging on his door in middle of night with bats . he looked out window and they told him to throw keys down or they were coming in . he had 2 little kids and police wouldnt have been there in time . he did as he was told . i also no someone who had a mk4 r32  he went out to get in his car for work one morning and 2 lads ran at him and took his keys off him , give him a crack and off they went . if someone seriouse enough wants it they ll find a way

[andyr]

I would NEVER keep my keys in the bedroom..... After our Bora was stolen whilst we were asleep in bed it was used in an armed robbery some 50miles away - and we live in an ordinary suburban street - .... I am sooooo glad that we weren't woken up in the middle of the night with that gun pointed at our heads... It could possibly have pushed 'just having our car stolen' right up to 'attempted murder'!!!
If the scum want the car then let them take it..............
REMEMBER...        THEY DO IT FOR A LIVING....
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU 'THINK' YOU'D DO IN A SIMILAR SITUATION, THEY'VE PROBABLY GOT IT COVERED!!!

By all means have the house alarmed (so they'd go on to the next house with a desirable car) and possibly have some kind of remotely operated fuel pump switch so they only get down the road until the car conks out..... But to think you'd be able to confront them and just function in a 'normal' manner having just woken up... I'm afraid you've been watching too much James Bond 

[The rock]

I would NEVER keep my keys in the bedroom..... After our Bora was stolen whilst we were asleep in bed it was used in an armed robbery some 50miles away - and we live in an ordinary suburban street - .... I am sooooo glad that we weren't woken up in the middle of the night with that gun pointed at our heads... It could possibly have pushed 'just having our car stolen' right up to 'attempted murder'!!!
If the scum want the car then let them take it..............
REMEMBER...        THEY DO IT FOR A LIVING....
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU 'THINK' YOU'D DO IN A SIMILAR SITUATION, THEY'VE PROBABLY GOT IT COVERED!!!

By all means have the house alarmed (so they'd go on to the next house with a desirable car) and possibly have some kind of remotely operated fuel pump switch so they only get down the road until the car conks out..... But to think you'd be able to confront them and just function in a 'normal' manner having just woken up... I'm afraid you've been watching too much James Bond 

correct

[Booth11]

i have a bollard but its in the garage as my car catches it as my drive s slightly up hill . if they come in the house for the keys the house is seriously belled up . i no lads who have had there cars taken just by them knocking on the door . a guy i work with had a new s3 . 4 blokes with bally s on were banging on his door in middle of night with bats . he looked out window and they told him to throw keys down or they were coming in . he had 2 little kids and police wouldnt have been there in time . he did as he was told . i also no someone who had a mk4 r32  he went out to get in his car for work one morning and 2 lads ran at him and took his keys off him , give him a crack and off they went . if someone seriouse enough wants it they ll find a way

Agree.  As part of my job I look after allotment sites which are broken into every other week - mainly for metal/ mowers etc.   They have been known to use metal burners to cut into steel shipping containers, dismantle concrete stores, remove the roof or ease out breeze blocks, unravel whole sections of metal fencing - to get to the stuff.

At the end of the day, take as many sensible precautions as you can but it is only a car and for me my family's safety is most important.