I've not heard of many problems w/ headlight theft around here, but I'll quickly acknowledge something everyone here already knows: there's a huge difference between NE Ohio and, say, southern California. I can see how a team of 2 or 3 guys who've scoped out areas ripe for the picking could do very well in a few hours. There's like a gazillion more Porsches in California than Ohio.
Back to the original question...I may have to re-think my security protocol. Drove the Box today (finally no rain after, literally, 2 weeks of precip) and played around with things after I got home, parked and locked, top down. May or may not be true for others, but this is what I observed:
The good:
Reaching in and trying to open either trunk w/ the electronic lever was unsuccessful.
The bad:
The action of reaching in and trying to unlock the trunks did not set off the alarm system. I swung my arm/hand around over the driver's seat with no alarm response. I did the same thing below the mirror (ie close to where I believe the motion sensor is located) and eventually (after maybe 10 sec) the alarm was triggered.
As was suggested earlier, I tried simply reaching in and pulling the red clip...nothing happened! (Nor when I re-inserted it!)
In the interests of establishing repeatability, I'll try these again soon and post any changes in results. But, from what I'm seeing I'm not inclined to leave anything worth more than an inexpensive pair of shades in the car if the top's down, w/ or w/o the red clip.
Hey Coffin! If you're in LE you
really need to get this right: Indict. INDICT!
