WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:01.9510000" NOTE recognizability:0.860 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.884 The rate of hyundais and Kias NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:01.884 --> 00:00:03.554 getting stolen in the Saint NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:03.554 --> 00:00:05.299 Louis area is getting worse. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:05.300 --> 00:00:06.612 Nationwide, it's no different. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:06.612 --> 00:00:08.870 This could be bad news for you, NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:08.870 --> 00:00:09.516 the consumers, NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:09.516 --> 00:00:11.777 even if your car is safe tonight. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:11.780 --> 00:00:13.936 The I team's Christine Byers tells us NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:13.936 --> 00:00:15.923 how the growing theft problem could NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:15.923 --> 00:00:17.933 hit insurance rates and even car NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:17.940 --> 00:00:20.492 values. Even if you don't own a Hyundai NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:20.492 --> 00:00:23.100 or a Kia, chances are the explosion of NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:24.700 thefts affecting those vehicles could NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:24.750 --> 00:00:27.008 hit your pocketbook, too. Just a few NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:27.010 --> 00:00:28.720 hours ago, the Saint Louis NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:30.088 Police Department told me. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:30.090 --> 00:00:32.512 The number of Hyundais and Kias stolen NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:32.512 --> 00:00:35.348 so far this year is approaching 2000. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:35.350 --> 00:00:36.854 That's more than 1000% NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:36.854 --> 00:00:38.358 increase over last year's. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:38.360 --> 00:00:40.475 Cities across the country are NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:40.475 --> 00:00:42.590 reporting similar surges as thieves NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:42.658 --> 00:00:44.494 share ways to steal the cars NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:44.494 --> 00:00:46.629 using USB cords on social media. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:46.630 --> 00:00:49.038 Many of the cars aren't equipped with NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:49.038 --> 00:00:50.770 engine and mobilizing technology, NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:50.770 --> 00:00:52.650 so they're easy to steal. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:52.650 --> 00:00:55.044 Now the ripple effects of the surging NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:55.044 --> 00:00:57.538 thefts are hitting the insurance industry. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:00:57.540 --> 00:01:00.277 Roy Bent Junior is a certified vehicle. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:02.120 Praiser and auto insurance expert. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:01:02.120 --> 00:01:03.584 He's based in Houston. NOTE Confidence: 0.8627883 00:01:03.584 --> 00:01:03.950 Are NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:05.810 there any insurance companies that NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:05.810 --> 00:01:08.349 you know of that are just flat NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:08.350 --> 00:01:10.560 out refusing to insure them all NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.488 together? They have every right to do so. NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:13.490 --> 00:01:16.200 OK, they have to protect. NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.366 Themselves as well as their policyholders, NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:18.370 --> 00:01:20.918 OK, you don't want an insurance company NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:20.918 --> 00:01:23.014 to start increasing your premiums because NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:23.014 --> 00:01:25.675 of a set of vehicles that are continuously NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:25.675 --> 00:01:28.039 being stolen and everybody is under NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:28.039 --> 00:01:30.602 the blanket and their premiums go up. NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:30.602 --> 00:01:33.938 You do not want that and neither do they. NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:33.940 --> 00:01:35.914 So they have every right to NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:35.914 --> 00:01:37.920 reject those type of vehicles. NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:39.006 It's their prerogative. NOTE Confidence: 0.8504183 00:01:39.006 --> 00:01:39.730 Bents advice NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:39.730 --> 00:01:41.802 for people who are thinking of getting NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:41.802 --> 00:01:44.440 rid of their Hyundai zirconias altogether? NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:46.340 Don't do it, he says. NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:46.340 --> 00:01:48.296 The trade in values of these NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:48.296 --> 00:01:50.000 cars is also weighed down, NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.981 so the best thing to do is NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:51.981 --> 00:01:54.078 equip your vehicle with as many NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:54.078 --> 00:01:55.658 anti-theft devices as possible. NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:55.660 --> 00:01:57.325 He recommends steering wheel locks NOTE Confidence: 0.8683826 00:01:57.325 --> 00:01:59.536 like the club. 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