how hard or how easy is it to get rx8 stolen?

say that all doors are locked and alarm is on

 

I think it would be hard to steal an 8 ,but yet mine hasn't ever been stolen

 

Pretty easy, I am going to steal one in Lake Jackson Texas later today I will post pics.

 

Why do you want to know?

 

I steal mine all the time...
Or rather drive it like it is stolen

 

If someone wants a vehicle, they'll find a way to get it.

However, consider supply and demand. Your average everyday thief/car chopper is going to go after something that they can part out and sell. I don't see rotaries that high on the list.

 

its easy if you have access to the right tools.

 

no one wants to steal a car they are going to have to keep putting gas in every few blocks...lol

Well the car has an imobilizer, a factory honk/light alarm to get attention, and a chip key to start it.

I would says its not the hardest to steal, but not the easyest, maby 8 out of 10.

 

And mine's a manual and a bunch of people can't drive manuals. :D

Remember that story a few weeks back about the car jacker who tried to car jack someone with a manual transmission and then gave up? Hehe. And maybe the engine will flood on them and they'll be SOL.

 

They're VERY hard to steal. Imagine you wanted to steal an RX-8. You pull out the checklist of things you have to do, and the very first thing on the list is extremely daunting:

1) Find an RX-8...

 

he'll realize how slow the car is and abandone it... =(

 

the pros just flatbed them, takes 30 seconds... it's pretty hard to break in and hotwire one unless your dealer is dirty.

 

yup...with the right tools its easy.

 

 

About a month after I got my RX8 there was a report that an (identical to mine) RX8 was stolen by a couple of guys and a huge manhunt went down. I thought I was going to get pulled over a million times but I think they were caught pretty quickly. No idea how they got past all the crap on that car, but I guess if you really want something...

 

I wonder how many people try and then flood it.

 

By the time they figure out how to open my doors (they are vertical) and turn on the E-Manage (it acts as an ignition inhibitor if you wire it off), they will be wearing internal lead jewelery.

Flatbed is the only practical way and it requires *****.

 

[QUOTE=MazdaManiac]By the time they figure out how to open my doors (they are vertical)...QUOTE]

never thought of a door mod being anti-theft, nice!

 

They're thieves. They'll just yank and bend the crap out of your door and post. If they can't get in they walk away leaving you the mess.

 

True.

 

my last car got stolen so I added lojack early warning to try and help mine from getting jacked

 

lol

 

After they get in the car and start her up, they still can't do a fast get-away. They're going to have to wait a couple of minutes for the 8 to warm up first!

 

My car was broken into right in my driveway....

Since there was no damage around the locks, nor scratches on paint or windows, I would have to assume that it must be fairly easy to jimmy the locks and get into the car, maybe with a slim-jim. This is a good thing. You don't want a car that is so difficult to get into that they damage the car getting in. Let's face it, it a thief wants in, he/she will get in.

Hard to tell if they tried to start it. I have to assume that the ignition cutoff did it's job. But more likely, they probably didn't try.

However, they did take my owner's manual. My immediate thought was that they were probably trying to locate the keycodes to obtain a new set of keys and come back for the car at a later date.

I phone Mazda, and they informed me that in order to obtain a new key from Mazda, you need to have the keycode AND car registration before they issue a key. The only way for non-authorized key duplication is if the Mazda dealer did not follow established protocol.

Lesson 1: Never leave your car registration in the car.
Lesson 2: Keep the key tag with the key code at home in a safe place.
Lesson 3: Don't every leave anything valuable in your car (obvious).
Lesson 4: Don't even leave your insurance papers in the car (it has your home address and serial number, etc).
Lesson 5: I don't fill in the owner information in the owner's manual nor in the warranty booklet (same reason as lesson 4).
Lesson 6: Hide the locknut key. Don't just leave it lying around in the trunk.
Lesson 7: I don't lock the glovebox. I figure best to let them look through it, find nothing, rather than them forcing it open and damaging the interior.
Lesson 8: The back armrest/ storage is very inconspicuous. I had left some electronic gizmos there and they missed it.

Basically, there was no physical damage to the car. But in jimmy-ing the locks, it messed up the remote door locking/alarm arming mechanism. It would only work sporadically after that. The dealer fixed it up nicely.

The only thing missing of value were my driving gloves (damn, they were nice too).

But here's the funny part. A couple of days later, I find the owner's manual placed neatly on the windshield of the car (a concientious thief?).

Door lock repair : $0
Driving gloves: $70
Lessons learned: Priceless

 

#1 - Required by law
#2 - It won't help you there if you need a new key
#4 - Required by law