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How to Stop your Car from Becoming a Target of Car Thieves
Not Getting Your Car Stolen Even Once, Now That’s a Flex With the increased sophistication of cars these days, particularly the greater emphasis on security, many people think their car is less likely to be stolen. That’s not true, however, because thieves have become correspondingly more sophisticated and use a variety of techniques and equipment…
Car Security: Tips to Make Your Car Less Attractive to Thieves
Is Your Car Meant for the Car Thieft-gaze? Many thieves looking to steal a car will focus on high end, high value and recent models that are in demand for resale or for spare parts. Clearly, a car that doesn’t fit into this category is less likely to be attractive to thieves although you really…
Best Anti-theft Devices in 2024
Here are our top 6 Best Anti-theft Devices Car theft is on the increase and is a serious problem, with 61,106 cars stolen in the UK in 2022, an increase of 26% over the previous year. If you don’t want to be added to these numbers, you need to take action, and quickly. Some things…
What is the Real Cost of a Stolen Vehicle for the Victim?
Victims of Car Theft Suffer More than Just Car Loss Having your car stolen can be a traumatic experience and can result in a very time-consuming and frustrating process. You need to inform your insurer and the police immediately after the theft occurs. Once you provide sufficient information to the police, you will be provided…
Contactless car key delivery
Is it just coincidence that Wuhan is famous not only for the first covid cases … but also for being home to so many of China’s vehicle manufacturing facilities? Wuhan is soon, we’re told, to be hosting another production plant within the next year – this time for Geely Auto. However, thanks to Wuhan’s well-known…
Foiled again? Absolutely!
There’s no denying it – that handsfree keyless fob can be a lifesaver, especially when there’s one in your pocket and your hands are full of shopping so as soon as you get within range of your car it automatically unlocks its doors and boot for you. But all good things come at a price.…
Tracking systems
Stolen vehicles can be traced Sadly, it’s easier than ever these days for a determined thief to make off with a car, a van or even a much larger vehicle. That means heartache for the private owner, potential loss of equipment and earnings for the van driver and reduced efficiency for fleet managers. Whether it’s…
You’ve already got an immobiliser. Now you need a car alarm.
It could never happen to me – could it? It’s disturbing to note that even though thousands of cars are stolen every year (according to Thisismoney.co.uk, there were 48,492 vehicle thefts in 2021) not even half the UK’s drivers have any kind of additional security devices installed. Perhaps they think it’ll never happen to them,…
Missing key? We deal directly with insurers
If you lose your car key or it gets stolen, we’re here to create and program a replacement for you – quickly and economically. Not only that, we also deal directly with your insurers, saving you the hassle of having to deal with them yourself. Lost key facts A company selling Bluetooth devices to help…
Ignition problems?
Of course we’re well known as Car Keys Solutions, all thanks to the thousands of positive reviews left from happy and grateful customers who we’ve helped out when they’ve had car key problems. After all, when you’re stuck by an unfamiliar roadside with a damaged or otherwise non-functioning key it’s comforting to know that one…
Key to your heart? Key to your car!
Valentine’s Day is coming up! and we all know what that means: so many keys to the heart being given and offered in so many shapes and sizes, all around the world. And if one of those keys unlocks a heart and marks the start of a long journey down the road of life together…
Keeping Your Vehicle Safe
You might not know that as well as trading under the name of Car Keys Solutions – your one-stop solution to any car key problem you might ever have – we are also OGS Mechanics. OGS Mechanics also provide solutions, concentrating on security for both domestic and commercial vehicles of all shapes and sizes. And…