Questions and Answers

Persistant Car Thief Q. Please tell me if you have heard of a device which would stop my car from starting on the third or fourth time. I live in a condo which has been robbed with a person with a key and over the past nine months something has been draining my battery dead, where it needs to be recharged.

The person who works on my car has kept saying it was my alarm, I've had the kill switch taken out, and just Aug. 1, the alarm itself was disconnected, but again today after seeing this person we believed robbed our condo, we went shopping all day, but right after seeing him we went to a store and the radio started fade and which the car seems to still run, but once turned off it's dead, I have a new battery, alternator and starter, and I truly don't believe it is a short.

The reason I don't believe it is a short is because, this man has found something out there that made the alarm not sound and has gone in my car, first we found the window completely down and the back door open and every time he has used this device, my alarm did not disalarm right it had to be press three or four times before it then worked right.

We are trying to move from this rotten place, but this person is screwing with the car which my mechanic can not find anything wrong with my car and the tows and each time he charges the battery and checks it ends up costing me $78.00 plus another $40.00 in cab fare getting home and then back to pick the car.

Since July 22 to last night this man has done this three times.

Pease help I truly don't know what to do, the cops won't do anything since I have no proof.

Linda

A. Linda, five years ago I would have had a definite answer for you. And that answer would have been no. There is no such device that will disarm a anti-theft alarm in an automobile.

But with today's technology, who knows? There could be something that somebody invented to bypass an alarm. Car thieves are a very adaptable lot. When someone comes out with a way to prevent a car from being stolen, they come up with a way to get around it and steal it anyway.

If your car has a key fob transmitter then I don't see why someone couldn't come up with something to broadcast a rotating frequency until it finds one that will open your car.

When I was 10 I worked in a Shell station in Massapequa, NY sweeping floors after school. They had the perfect alarm system there. It had four legs, big teeth and growled.