FYI! Over the past two months, two cars parked on my street have had all four wheels and the tires were taken/stolen! My neighbor right beside me two months ago came out in the morning and found that his car was up in the air and sitting on bricks with all four aluminum wheels and the tires GONE!
Then, last week, this happened again to another car just a half block down from my house! Car up in the air and sitting on bricks and wheels and tires GONE!
Then two night ago one of the Houston news channels stated that two different used car lots in Houston were hit and both had all their cars up in rows - -in the air on bricks with all wheels/ tires gone. Total for both lots was thirty-three cars all in a row!
So, be prepared for new types of criminal theft! (and a hint, buying wheel lock nuts my neighbor said he started to buy, won't work because the crooks will probably already gone to auto parts stores and have all the typical brands - I have no clue how to protect my cars!)
We were robbed recently. They kicked in the front door and took what they wanted. Dropped our brand new HDTV in the driveway, probably after the alarm kicked on. Fortunately my wife wasn’t home alone, which she normally is at that time.
There’s not a whole lot you can do to prevent theft if you aren’t home. All you can do it make your house harder than the neighbors. I fully expect it to get worse.
This happened just around the corner from us also, several months ago. The small truck was in the driveway, in a corner house, on a fairly busy residential street. I was shocked. We have clubs and alarms (AZ is one of the highest for stolen vehicles), but I had never thought someone would take all the tires. And, like you said, how do you prepare.