The passenger rear window was smashed during the 5 minutes I was in safeway buying a birthday cake mix for my son. The alarm didn't go off, I thought there was an alarm with this car???
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Tesla Model 3 Alarm? My car was broken into and the alarm didn't go off...
- Thread starter shauna
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It does not have an alarm for the windows. If the door was opened, then it would go off
jdcollins5
Member
Yes there is an alarm. It only goes off if a door/trunk/frunk is opened. There is no glass breakage detection (at the moment).
Oakland, CA, I'm sorry. Yes the windows smash & grab has become an epidemic in and around the Bay area. It has made national news, everybody knows about it. But it happens every day because it takes less than a second for people to do it and grab whatever they see inside. And there's little risks involved, whether your car has alarm or not, they don't care.
Best way to protect yourself right now is to not leave anything that resembles value in your car. Even a gym bag would trigger someone to break your window and grab it. Also don't leave valuables in the trunk either, it's not safe. If you want to go a step further, pull the backseats down so they can peek inside your trunk without smashing the window.
Anyways, sorry for your troubles. But if you live in or around Bay area, you should take extra precautions where you park and what you leave inside your car.
Best way to protect yourself right now is to not leave anything that resembles value in your car. Even a gym bag would trigger someone to break your window and grab it. Also don't leave valuables in the trunk either, it's not safe. If you want to go a step further, pull the backseats down so they can peek inside your trunk without smashing the window.
Anyways, sorry for your troubles. But if you live in or around Bay area, you should take extra precautions where you park and what you leave inside your car.
Where in Oakland? See map here https://electrek.co/2019/01/16/tesla-vehicles-target-break-ins-solutions/
Glamisduner
Active Member
If punishment was losing your hand instead of a simple citation and your on your way home I bet we would see allot less of these break-ins.
Epidemic of Model 3 small window break-ins
Oakland (and tourist spots in San Francisco) are apparently "ground zero" for this sort of thing.
Apparently much of this is done by gangs based out of Oakland.
Oakland (and tourist spots in San Francisco) are apparently "ground zero" for this sort of thing.
Apparently much of this is done by gangs based out of Oakland.
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
I think the thinking is the little window lets them flip down the rear seat and see what's in the trunk to judge if it's worth breaking in any further (which is why there's several threads of people upset you can't lock the fold down seats)
voip-ninja
Give me some sugar baby
They pull down the folding seat and if they see something they want then they smash the side window, crawl into the car and get it out. They never open the door so the alarm never goes off.
Elon proposes playing loud music at them when they do this, where-as I think some buckshot to the face from a built-in sentry gun would be a better prophylactic.
Watch the video report on this article to see how easy it is for them to break the car window, and how even on busy streets nobody cares.
Inside the Wave of 'Smash-and-Grab' Car Robberies Plaguing San Francisco
They setup a car with cameras to see how it's done, and they got hit twice in one day on the same street.
Inside the Wave of 'Smash-and-Grab' Car Robberies Plaguing San Francisco
They setup a car with cameras to see how it's done, and they got hit twice in one day on the same street.
They can also trigger the trunk open from the inside using a stick to push the safety release. When the trunk is opened from the inside it does not trigger the alarm. We just figured this out on our Model3 after our second small window break in one week.
I in NO WAY endorse this but a several years ago I borrowed a truck from a friends Dad and he made a point of telling me not to drink the Vodka in the center console because he had swapped it out for methanol to punish anyone who broke in and stole it and decided to drink it.
I’ve had several work trucks broken into over the years. These days all my guys are instructed to leave the doors unlocked on all our trucks. There has been no increase in theft but we have had fewer break-ins. What really irritates me is when som knucklehead breaks the window on an unlocked truck.
My worry at that point would be some scumbag hanging out in my car, pissing and crapping and smoking and whatever else awful human beings do in other peoples' cars.
Our work trucks get rinsed out with a hose when they get really dirty. In general though, I think unlocked doors are the best plan. Just week my neighbor had no damage to his three cars while others had broken windows because he left his cars unlocked. Happily, they did catch the idiots with backpacks full of loot.
I'd much rather have a broken window than some dirtbag using my car as a toilet or for smoke breaks. On the other hand, I also park in my garage at night, unlike 98% of people who have garages and park in the driveway for some reason.