2022 honda cr v wheel locks

The thing is that it inconvenieces you as well as thieves. Whenever you have to take your wheels off for maintenance or repairs, it's an extra thing you have to do to get them off and put them on.

It's worse if you're changing a flat tire, because not only is it more difficult, but you're going to be trying to fix it and get off the freeway before someone crashes into you and your stopped car. Having changed a couple of flats on the freeway, I can tell you anything that slows you down will become an infuriating annoyance.

On the theft prevention side, any deterrent helps. Bear in mind that any security system can be overcome by someone. The point of stuff like this is that you want it to be hard enough for them to give up before they get your wheels.

Visible deterrents also imply invisible deterrents. If your car is in good shape, clean and shiny, kept locked when parked, has wheel-locks, etc., it shows that you care for and about your car, and implies that you have more then deterrent features that they can't see. A hidden GPS tracker, for instance. The more theft resistant your car looks, the less likely someone will be to try, even if they are prepared. If the car next to yours looks easier to steal from than yours, thieves will probably go there instead.

Your trade-off is going to be security versus convenience. Since you bought a brand new CR-V, I'm going to assume you may not be doing your own repairs and maintenance, so convenience may not be a big deal, especially if you can have AAA change flat tires for you instead of wanting to do it for yourself.

Where you live will make a big difference. I have lived in Orange County suburbs most of my life, and in the mountains more recently. In those areas wheel theft is not a common thing, so there is no way somebody who works on their own car like I do would ever consider wheel locks, because they just get in the way and don't provide any benefit. If you live in a more urban area, like downtown Los Angeles or Portland Oregon, you will definitely want to get wheel locks because cars do get vandalized and stolen in those areas.

Unfortunately, I'm going to say this place, or any online forum, is not the best place to ask this question. To know if you should get wheel locks or not, you should ask local independent mechanics around where you live. If they are comfortable leaving cars outside overnight most of the time, you definitely don't need wheel locks. If local mechanics will tell you they commonly replace stolen wheels, or repair cars that have been broken into, you will definitely need wheel locks. The mechanics that work in the area where you live are going to be the best experts for you to ask this question.