Difficult times for car owners. According to a widespread rumor on the web, it is now possible to steal a car in a very ingenious way using trivial coins.
The taxes for buying a car are very complex, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the risk of accidents and collisions makes travel an unknown factor. Most importantly, car thieves are becoming more sophisticated and your car could be stolen without you being able to do anything to stop them. There is a new trick circulating on the web, but how true is it?
One more thing to worry about
According to official statistics released by the Government and the media, in 2021 in our country A total of 104,372 were stolen trucks, cars and motorcycles, noting that the criminal tendencies of many citizens have not stopped at all.
Unfortunately, not all stolen vehicles are found and returned to their owners: many are dismantled and resold abroad, used to commit crimes and destroyed, or resold to buyers who are in the dark and then get into trouble.
THE thieves never give up and they can steal your car by various means. Older cars can be broken into and modern cars with Smartkeys can be prone to radio frequency interception, allowing them to enter the car undisturbed as if they had the key.
A horrible system
However, according to many Italian and foreign newspapers, i methods of thieves are truly ferocious. They use simple coins of little value or size to carry out a theft without witnesses from which the owner could certainly not escape. Let’s see how this deception system works, a really horrible system.
The thieves will follow you and shove the coins into the gap between the handle and the door unnoticed. You will then move away from the car thinking that you have closed the vehicle, but the coin will block the handle, which will then remain open, effectively blocking the central locking systembe it modern or old. At that point, the thief just has to wait until there are no witnesses to sneak inside and take the car.
But is there anything true?
The story has spread like wildfire on the web, scaring motorists all over Italy… But is there any truth in all this? The US magazine Snopes.com he asked the New York mechanics who run the Caliber Collision Repair whether it is really possible to steal cars in this way, as the story has been circulating on the internet since 2015. The answers have been shocking.
The answer is no. Many modern cars don’t have a coin slot, and those that do would not be affected, because central locking works regardless of whether or not a coin is present. Not only that, but the US police have never recorded the theft of a car in this way.
The Italian press probably did not check their sources before panicking. However, you don’t have to relax too much. Car thieves are always on the lookout for new tricks, so always check your car for signs of tampering.
