Sat Navs are Easy Pickings

Sat Nav

Many companies with fleet vehicles are insisting that their drivers make a conscious effort to remove all valuables from view when parking to help lower the number of fleet insurance claims they have to make, which in turn may help to lower their insurance premiums.

Cunning opportunist thieves are also wising up to the fact that most people put their Sat Nav out of sight in the glove box! Thieves are now not simply looking for valuables left inside a car but are consciously targeting vehicles which have the tell tale signs that a Sat Nav is used by looking for the circular mark left on the windscreen and breaking into the vehicles to search the glove box to find the equipment, easy pickings for those who leave a mark on their screens.

What is even more frightening is that the thieves are not just selling the Sav Nav to make a fast buck, but are turning them on and using the ‘take me home’ option to let their ‘colleagues’ know that there is an potentially empty house waiting to be burgled. Scary stuff, not only is your car damaged but your home ransacked all in the same day.

A word of advice, remove the mark from your screen with a tissue, making sure you don’t just leave a smudgy mark before you walk away from your vehicle, lock the glove box or take the Sat Nav with you and remove the ‘take me home’ or last destination option from your equipment. All a bit of a pain to do I know, but for the few moments it takes it is well worth it.