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When it topped the account of a lot of baseborn cars aggregate by the Highway Abstracts Loss Institute, abounding just affected that the Cadillac Escalade was a admired a part of car thieves for its acceptable looks. Turns out, that’s not the absolute story.

Jalopnik writes, “Like a lot of new cars, GM has attempted to abate thefts by application aegis codes on their keys, authoritative it about absurd to hot-wire the car. The botheration appears to be that in accomplishing so, GM larboard out a few added measures.”

To abduct an Escalade (and added ample GM SUVs, like the Tahoe and Yukon), thieves “break a window and clamber into the drivers seat. Then, the thieves force the accessory batten out of esplanade so the SUV can be pushed. Our able says that’s a aegis flaw. Addition botheration acicular out by our expert: some Escalades acquire no council caster lock, so if you can advance it, you can alarm it,” says Detroit’s WXYZ.

Pushing the Escalade to a buried abode and stripping it, says Jalopnik, “can yield beneath than 20 minutes.”

GM has responded to the aegis flaws. WXYZ writes “In 2010, GM put laminated bottle in the ancillary windows to apathetic the thieves down and they put locks aback on the council columns, but it hasn’t apparent the problem.” The above acumen the new measures haven’t formed is that the council lock is anemic and simple for thieves to break.

If you’ve acquire an Escalade, Tahoe or Yukon, it ability be acute to advance in some after-market aegis systems. And, be accurate area you esplanade it.

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