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·
    9 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·
      9 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·
            9 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·
                9 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.