Stolen 2024 Tacoma Houston TX

[Brent@ANParts]

That's horrible, I had a collector car stolen a few years back and I don't wish that upon anyone. I know it's no help now but after that experience I started putting AirTags in all of my vehicles, somewhere discreet.

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[TX-BluStreak]

Wow, I'm so sorry for your lost. I believe @tacorancher also got his 3G truck stolen right in front of his house in broad daylight. Perhaps he might have some pointers or insights on how you could get another vehicle (another 4G) via insurance $$$. Thieves in Houston are becoming bolder, craftier and more ruthless.

It’s not much but perhaps y’all should invest in getting a faraday pouch bag for your key fobs. It’s a RFID signal blocker that keeps thieves from hacking into the signal that operates your truck.

I was skeptical at first until a tech from Toyota Lift of Houston came out to the job site to replace the key for one of our forklifts. I asked if his equipment can copy the signal from my key to make another and to my surprise, he was.

So now I keep my key stashed in the faraday pouch at home or at the office and I have an RFID card that I keep in my wallet (to keep unwanted guests from stealing my bank cards).

 

[ArnoldN.]

Yeah wow that’s crazy. Thank you for sharing I’ve been considering getting those pouches to put my key fobs in. I hear you can pick them up with a scanner if the keys are relatively near. I had a steering wheel lock on my truck as well but guess if they really want something they’ll manage to get it.

 

[trailhunger]

When you get it back/replaced definitely buy a movement sensor, get an OB2 lock. The AirTags are good too / not sure if they can wake your ass up at 3am when your air tag truck leaves range, but for redundancy tracking a no brainer.

None of these can prevent a tow-away but they will buy you & law enforcement time in pursuit.

A movement sensor, exploding pepper spray gun, 911 and that would be my best defense at 3am to try to prevent a theft like this. I’m guessing grand theft auto on vehicles at this price those thieves are packing heat too.

Surprising that the truck's alarm won't trigger when they're trying to tow it away..

Always stash fobs in faraday bags like mentioned above

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