Do you have some sort of anti-theft device on your car?  You don’t?  You know that you should, especially since one car is stolen every 25 seconds.  Last year, more than $6.5 billion worth of vehicles were stolen in America.  That’s an awful lot of money.  “It’s too expensive to get a good anti-theft system, and the cheap ones aren’t all that effective, so why bother?” you claim.  You’re kind of right, and you’re kind of wrong.

The fact is a good anti-theft device may be expensive, but you have to understand that if you have a good system, your car insurance may offset the cost of it.  Intrigued?  You should be.  Depending on where in the country you live, your state insurance regulator may require, by law, that the insurer to give you a discount, sometimes up to 35% of your car insurance premium.  And even if its not decreed by law, shopping around for a different insurer may net you the discount that will allow you to put in that expensive car tracking or anti-theft system.

Even if you don’t have the expensive kind, most anti-theft devices should get you an insurance discount.  The only exception may be those types of devices which you have to manually set - insurers just can’t rely on your say-so that you remembered to put on or activate your anti-theft device.  Generally, the more high tech your anti-theft gadgetry, the higher your discount.

For maximum discounts on your car insurance, layer those “cheap” anti-theft devices like the Club, keyless remotes and VIN etching.  When it comes to protecting your car, there’s no such thing as over-kill.

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