The missus needs to go shopping in a lower-crime area, to be honest.
In your situation, someone stole the entire vehicle. There isn't a lot you can do about that. If you're concerned about
JUST the audio pieces, stealth & secure is the ticket. Hide the pieces and make them difficult to remove.
That's about the best you can do to protect your equipment. A car alarm
might help, but a thief that knows what they are doing can defeat that.
Besides, most people ignore a car alarm that's going off, especially if there doesn't appear to be anything going on with the vehicle. Now, if a car alarm is going off and there's someone leaning into a broken window, it
might draw some attention.
Even then, it's iffy.
Stealth means that your pieces are hidden to the casual observer. There's nothing that a casual thief can see that they might want to steal.
Difficult to remove means that if a casual thief does see something they want, getting it will be difficult and time-consuming.
Notice I said
casual thief. Most thieves are casual, and choose to steal stuff that is opportunistic. That means the target is plainly visible and can be retrieved with little effort. A TomTom sitting on the dash or a poorly-installed high-end headunit fit these criteria. Break a window or jimmy a door, remove the unit and be gone in seconds.
Now, you strap that same headunit to the chassis and it's harder to remove. The thief might break your dash apart and even damage your equipment, but your goods are still there. Your car insurance should cover any damage as a result of the break-in.
You
do have full coverage, don't you?
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