Autoexpert named easily stolen car brands

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Auto expert named easily stolen car brands
November 12, 2020

Every year, thousands of Russians turn to the police for help in finding a stolen car. Slovo I Delo, together with auto expert Sergey Aslanyan, understands which cars are considered the most stolen and how to find your own car later.

Statistics of stolen cars are based on the so-called law of large numbers. For a long time, the leader in hijacking was the brand "Zhiguli". Not because it is the best, but because there were the most such cars. That is, if there are a million "Zhiguli" in the country, then one way or another this brand will be the first in terms of theft, in terms of the number of accidents, in terms of spare parts, in terms of purchases. Therefore, in general, talking about statistics is useless, because it only reflects what cars are on the market the most: those who have a higher percentage share have a higher hijackability.

However, the number of stolen cars also indicates that someone needs them. In this case, the "Zhiguli" do not reflect the whole situation, because they began to form their own park in the Soviet era without any alternative. At the time when there was a reasonable, clear statistics, cars of the brand "Zhiguli"was the most.

Then other factories began to appear: German, Czech, Korean. The latter have become especially popular among Russians. So, sales of Hyundai Solaris alone are about 200 thousand units per year. The need for a car is exactly the same both in the case of purchase and in the case of car theft.
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A car is never stolen for nothing — just because it is beautiful or poorly locked. Only those cars that are in demand are stolen.
"If there is no sales, then no one will steal it. They only steal what is in demand. For example, in the primary market, the Hyundai Solaris is incredibly in demand, because it is taken in a taxi, under itself, under the wife. Purchase of Solaris in Russia — about 200 thousand a year. Most likely, this is a fairly honest figure. Because they steal it for the same purpose. Just someone takes it for a million, and someone steals it for free. After interrupting the VIN number, legalizing new documents for it, fraudsters implement it for the same purposes: to drive yourself, or to pay a taxi, or to sell it to a person who is not very knowledgeable, " the expert says.
Every time traffic police officers go on a raid, take up duty, they receive special tables with the brands of cars that are required to be checked: how many cars of this brand will pass, so much the employee is obliged to stop and check for theft.
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The most hijacked

The first in these lists are invariably Hyundai Solaris, Kia Rio, Toyota RAV4. They are usually followed by Ford Focus, Mazda3, Range Rover, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz. It doesn't matter how expensive the car is. Today, scammers can "hack" almost any security system.
They steal not so much by brand, but by demand — something that is easy to sell. The primary sales and hijacking figures are often the same. Today, the leaders are two "Koreans".
"They love to buy them, and tax them, and bomb them, and take them for spare parts," says the auto expert.
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How easy is it to steal a car

Car theft is a whole business. The stolen cars are being searched for by the officers of the operational search service — not the traffic cops. Technically, it's easy to find a car. However, the fraudulent network constantly hides the location of the car, its VIN number and other identification marks.
"How easy is it to steal a car? Elementary. And the most expensive, twisted, and repeatedly protected, too, can be. But it will be a little longer. For example, a person has bought a car and wants to install an alarm system. He asks for something reliable, so as not to be stolen. If they say to him: "Take this one, they won't steal it." So he was tricked. Because the criminogenic resistance of anti-theft systems differs not by the absolute (stolen or not stolen), but by the number of minutes spent on the theft. The best, most expensive, most sophisticated anti — theft systems are those that can last more than 15 minutes in case of theft, " the expert says.
At the same time, there are a huge number of businesses that accompany the theft by deception, using the trust of the client. It is believed that some systems make it easy to find a stolen car. However, the customer receives only monitoring, and the safety of the car is not guaranteed.
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"I have one criminal case. The man bought a BMW car. And official BMW dealers often behave extremely meanly. Without this particular popular system, they won't sell the car. That is, it is an outright imposition of services. This car was stolen from him. He contacted the company, and was told that when the car was stolen, there was a failure, so it was not displayed on the monitor. This is not a coincidence. The company removes the car ordered for theft from surveillance. There is every reason to believe that this is not a coincidence, but a business, " says the auto expert.
Fraudsters steal cars, interrupt the number by changing one or two digits in the VIN code and legalize it by selecting new documents. Stolen cars from Moscow, sold in the outback. Neither the alarm system nor the GPS system will save you from theft. "Jammers" for such systems cost from 500 to 1000 rubles on any radio market. We can only hope that your car will not "catch the eye" of the thief.
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Can I find a car

However, you can find the car if you want. An operative and private detective from the city of Togliatti-Igor Karasev-has developed a unique scheme to search for stolen cars. It's called the " Three-Base Conflict." Thanks to this method, you can find almost any car in the country, if it did not go for spare parts.
"We take a database on the manufacturer, for example, on AvtoVAZ, a database of VIN codes and a database of hijackings and registration. For example, they stole a Zhiguli, a red nine, and broke its VIN code. It is enough to change one digit in this code, and the car disappears from the theft database. But it appears in the registration database. Then you compare: you have just registered the red "nine". See its VIN code, compare it with the factory database. And you can see that behind this combination of numbers and letters was not a red "nine", but a green seven. It means that the car is stolen. And what this car was like in my girlhood before the theft. Look, the difference is one zero. Here it is, my dear! " - says the expert.
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No one is protected from theft, and it is unlikely that you will be able to protect yourself. However, you need to remember that the most popular brands for sale are also the most stolen ones. Don't show a red rag to a bull. Choose not the most common car brands. And still put a serious security system. Time plays into your hands. Maybe during these minutes, while the fraudster breaks into the car, someone will see him: either you, or the neighbors, or the security guard in the parking lot.