Quote Originally Posted by monkeyboymorton View Post
LOL!! I like the .380!! Guns are not allowed as part of any anti theft strategy here. Well, not allowed at all.

I did wonder because I have noticed there's not much anti theft on US vehicles. We have a lot. As I have no garage I had to have a tracker fitted to get theft cover on my insurance. All UK vehicles have alarms/immobilisors as standard and the more exotic stuuf has to have higher spec units to be covered by insurers.

We had a real problem with theft for joy riding in the 90s and that led the push to standard fit immobilisors. Insurance for some performance cars here in the 90s could be more than the value of the car. It was a mad time. Not nearly as bad now.

So this DESS key thing is normal here. What isn't normal however, is all the problems. It's rare to have issues with keys with chips in them on any other vehicle.

My insurance company offered me $7 off per year if I had a tracker. AND they only recognized 2 trackers. Both were over $400 installed.

So guess what? No tracker on my spyder.