Most modern cars have engine immobilisers, making them very tricky to steal outright, and this has led to a massive reduction in the number of cars stolen for joyriding purposes. Professional car thieves have turned their attention away from stealing whole cars to stealing valuable, and easily accessible parts of cars, such as catalytic converters, sat nav systems, and number plates.
The precious metals that are used to make catalytic converters are worth a lot of money in their own right, and there is little you can do to prevent them from being stolen other than storing your car somewhere secure when you are not driving it, or hooking the unit up to a tamper-resistant alarm system.
If you do not have an immobiliser fitted, you should do so if at all possible, as this is easily the most effective anti theft device available. More than three quarters of cars on the road today are fitted with engine immobilisers, yet less than a third of those recovered by police after being stolen are fitted with such a device.
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