What my Insurance Provider told me...

My insurance provider is a friend of MadDog's. He came by last week with an important piece of information I will share with you.

He recently had a claim where it turned out the person who stole the car did so by writing down the vin number, calling the dealership and telling them that he had locked the keys in the car. The dealership used the vin number to make the proper key, and voila, thief makes off with a car without any problems.

So, take a business card, or one of those left over name tags they make you wear sometimes at conferences, and stick it over the vin number of your car which is in the front driver's side window. It is illegal to deface the vin, but not to cover it up.

Naturally, the dealership is supposed to run an ID check of the person requesting the key, but well, its easy, free and simple to protect yourself.