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Set your "Home" location to the police station nearest your house.LAYGO wrote:The smart thing to do is map to a location NEAR the house, major intersection, some place you still know how to get home, but that will still give the GPS best route path. My "home" is about a mile away from the house.Keith B wrote:However, if you have a GPS in the vehicle and you have the 'Home' location set, they can get your garage remote and will have a map straight to your house by using YOUR GPS.
My son's garage is old-school. That's why he was parking outside. Pure laziness, which he himself admits. He just didn't want to have to raise the door by hand. Not anymore. Raising the door by hand now seems a lot easier than paying to fix his window, and saving up the money again for another radar detector. His was stolen during the night, and he discovered it when he went out to his car to go to work in the morning, only to be told when he got there that he had been laid off. Sucky day, hard lesson. Thankfully, he's got a decent job now, and he is locking his car up in the garage at night.Pawpaw wrote:This brings up another point about "layered security". Don't EVER leave your garage door remote outside in your car at night. Even worse would be to leave it in the car while there's no one home.The Annoyed Man wrote:A few weeks ago, a thief broke into my son's car in his driveway and stole his radar detector. Thankfully, the thief didn't check his trunk, were a custom built very nice AR15 was stored. He brings it in at night now and parks his car inside his garage......where he should have been parking it all along.
Even leaving it in your car elsewhere is a risk. If a thief breaks into your vehicle, he probably has easy access to your garage door remote and your Texas insurance card. Now he has your address too.