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Comprehensive coverage on your insurance should cover the window and any tint anyway. Someone tried to cut my glass a while back, and the insurance paid for everything but retinting the rear doors to exactly match the front ones.

I think they saw the passive anti-theft light and thought I had an alarm, and ran.

I personally don't believe in car alarms, as nobody pays any attention to them anyway, and most thieves will tear the hell out of your car trying to shut the damn thing off. I'd rather just have them take what they want, and leave the car relatively undamaged, once it's broken into anyway.

The best security system for your car is a garage, and unfortunately not all of us have these or access to these. The one night in about three months that I leave my car doors unlocked someone goes on a crime spree burglarizing about half a dozen cars and stealing one withing a few block radius. The only reason my doors were unlocked is because I thought I was only going to be in for a short bit and it was still cold out and I had used about three cans of lock-deicer in order to get into my car the last time after I washed it. That time after the second can I managed to get the trunk unlocked couldn't get any of the other locks and I managed to crawl through. Total loss on the car $1700 between theft / damage. After insurance deductible of about $500 I'm expecting to get about $200. The assholes that did it left my digital camera which was on the back seat but took a $3 razor knife. I'm surprised I still have my floor mats. Assholes couldn't get my stereo so they destroyed it instead. I think that next time I'm going to find a way to put a dye bomb in the car. I don't care if the interior is purple and I have to replace it, but I think a cop is going to want to know why someone is purple. I'm probably going to try to get an eye prescription in order to justify limo tint. Anything that I keep in the car ususally is in the trunk, or it goes inside with me. Anyone tried lojack or had good / bad experiences with it?

Thanks,

Brian Deloria
'99 ATX 4cyl, 53k
'96 Impala SS, 4k