Every defence has one job. Here's what each one actually stops.

£15–£35

The pouch only works if everyone remembers. A box by the door works because nobody has to.

A signal-blocking box that lives where keys already land, so protection stops depending on discipline.

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£8–£25

A tracker only helps if the thief does not find it. That is a question about where, not which.

Where a hidden tracker actually survives a search, and why the best hiding places are not the hardest to reach.

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£15–£45

The deterrent is the label on the window, not the chemistry underneath.

What forensic marking actually does, what it does not, and why the honest version is more useful than the sales pitch.

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£9–£25

Keyless car theft takes under 60 seconds. A £9 pouch ends it.

Relay theft is the fastest-growing way cars are stolen in Britain — and it is completely defeated by a signal-blocking pouch on your hallway table. The catch nobody mentions: pouches wear out silently, so we show you how to check yours still works.

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£40–£70

Thieves choose the easiest car on the street. Make sure it isn't yours.

A visible, Sold Secure-rated bar turns a 60-second theft into a noisy, tool-heavy job — so the thief moves on.

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£25–£50

Thieves can program a blank key to your car in minutes. This blocks the socket they use.

Key-cloning theft runs through your car's diagnostic port. A steel lock over it closes the route.

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£100–£300

If they take it anyway, this is how you get it back.

Deterrents lower the odds; a Thatcham-approved tracker changes the outcome when the odds lose.

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£50–£150

After a crash it's your word against theirs. Footage ends the argument.

A dashcam with parking mode is a witness that never blinks — for collisions, car-park hits and theft attempts alike.

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£60–£200

A catalytic converter is cut out in under two minutes. Replacing it costs four figures.

Cat theft targets the rhodium and palladium inside — hybrids worst of all. A bolted guard turns a two-minute cut into a job thieves abandon.

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£20–£40

Four alloys can come off a parked car in minutes. £25 of locking nuts keeps them on.

Wheel theft leaves cars on bricks and owners with a four-figure bill. One keyed nut per wheel removes your car from the shopping list.

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£30–£150

Diamond, Gold, Silver — the rating everyone quotes and almost nobody explains.

What the Sold Secure grades actually test, why a Gold for bicycles is not a Gold for motorcycles, and which one your insurer means.

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£20–£50

Most stolen bikes are simply lifted away in silence. 110 decibels changes that.

A pocket-sized lock that pins the brake disc and screams the moment the bike moves — the rider's first, best £30.

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£60–£150

At home is where bikes are stolen with power tools. Give them a problem measured in minutes, not seconds.

A Sold Secure Diamond chain through the frame into a concrete-bolted anchor is the difference between a theft and an abandoned attempt.

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£100–£300

Bikes vanish into vans. A hidden tracker turns 'gone forever' into a recovery.

When deterrents lose, location wins — and insurers often discount premiums for approved units.

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£50–£200

'Sorry mate, I didn't see you' — the five words that leave riders' accounts unproven. Film everything.

SMIDSY collisions are rarely the rider's fault and constantly disputed. A helmet camera ends the dispute before it starts.

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£25–£60

Thieves shop with their eyes. A £30 cover takes your bike off the shelf.

What can't be identified from the street doesn't get targeted — the cheapest layer in the home-security stack.

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