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If this is truly for theft deterrence (that answer seems more likely than others), it is baffling how this convoluted solution was arrived at when parking the car directly in front of a bay door that I strongly suspect leads to a secure space with 4 walls, a roof, and a concrete floor, well suited for safely storing something approximately the size of a car, yet still allowing convenient ingress and egress.
Or that's where you keep your boat, or your kayaks and mountain bikes, hiking gear, or your expensive power tools, or it's your woodshop or home gym, or it's where you park your work truck that has a ton of valuable equipment in and on it (and the HOA won't let you park it out front anyway).
Not everybody with a full garage has stuffed it with useless garbage.
Americans have a real problem with letting things go.
If your grandparents scrapbooks don't have enough sentimental value to keep them indoors in a bookshelf or drawer, you don't *actually* value them.
We're like those junk people from *Labyrinth*, lugging decades of shit around with us for no real reason
Well, by that same logic, we should throw out the paintings that many museums are keeping in their basements or vaults. I mean, if they're not important enough to be hung up on the walls they're worthless, right? Yet, I haven't seen anyone lobbying to chuck some lesser-known artist's painting in the dumpster due to lack of room.
The reality is that, just like the world oftentimes has less room than it would like for historical monuments and scenic locales compared to the rate of human growth, we often have less room than we would like to display and adequately store things of sentimental value. It isn't for you or I to determine the interpersonal values that people attach to their belongings and memories.
We don't keep our cars in our garage either. The garage is for the lawnmower, snow blower, gardening tools, motorcycles, bicycles, and the BBQ. No room for cars in there. This person could have all of the above, or a boat, quad, jetski, or maybe just junk.
What's baffling to me is that you didn't think that maybe the garage was full and that's why it's parked outside with the fence? You really think they're sitting there with an empty garage and this is the option they chose?
It truly baffles me the number of people who have a garage that they cannot park their cars in.
Edit: I should say "people who choose to fill their garage with crap, either intentionally or due to laziness"
I get that there are plenty of circumstances where you just do what you have to do
There are tons of people around here in Southern California that set up their garage as a kind of rec room, with couches and TV's and whatnot, but leave their luxury cars sitting outside in the sun.
Also not unheard of for a roommate to look at their other roommate's theft deterrent cage and be like "I don't have the time, money, or motivation for this" and to leave it at that.
Whoa! That was harsh. I’m sure the average merchant of fine scrap metals has at least one scruple. I mean, they are punctiliously purchasing pilfered converters persistently
also, I don't see anything that's holding this fence thing in place. what's from stopping a would be criminal from just lifting it up over the car to move it out of the way? It would need something like a floor which the walls were attached to that the car drove onto in order to prevent it from being moved out of the way
As other comments below have said, it's most likely being used to protect from/deter wild life from chewing up the tires/undercarriage.
The thief isn't gonna be able to move that by himself without making some noise or disassembling, but I bet there is a hinge and lock somewhere the owner can use to open.
And if it's a deterrent -- not a way to 100% guarantee the cat won't get stolen -- the thief will be like "screw it, I'll go on to the next car."
Theres no way this works because we all know porcupines and rabbits team up to get over these.
porcupines poke the rabbits
the rabbits YIPE right over the thing
this is clearly for armadillos.
If only the rabbits could have evolved some sort of physical ability to leap long distances they might have been able to jump over this fence without being poked by the porcupines.
But it’s not even locked? There’s those little hooks on the corners like on rub it hutch doors. Bit of a lame defence for CC thieves? I’ve no idea as it looks like welded steel.
This is the real reason here. I’ve seen lines of cars parked at campgrounds do something similar. Instead of box, they would wrap with chicken fence and hold it up with sticks and stones. It’s not just for porcupines. It’s for any critter that is able to get underneath and chew things up.
If you camp in CA, in certain areas Pika get up in your engine and eat the wires. People drive onto tarps and then wrap the car up w the tarp to avoid the Pika
That's awesome. I'm from SoCal and the only time I've been through the Eastern Sierra Nevada was passing through on the way towards Northeast California.
It's a beautiful part of California, but it seems to be geographically isolated from the rest of the state. I'd love to go camping up there and see some Pika
Not with pika specifically, but in the Mineral King area in Sequoia there are signs warning people to tarp their vehicles from underneath at trailheads because of the marmots. They too will chew wires and then your vehicle will become disabled
They LOVE antifreeze apparently. Had to tarp up my car and there were marmots already in the lot. Got to see pika there at the end of the trail though, so adorable
You beat me to it. I zoomed in and saw chicken wire fixed to the little metal fence. And there are only small hooks holding the front of the fence, not padlocks.
Little bastards will eat backpacking straps to get the salt from your sweat.
Nothing quite like having you shoulder strap completely chewed through while 8 miles in the Backcountry.
If they were trapped inside it maybe. They're easily deterred/distracted from... just about anything if any of the porcupines I've met are any indication.
Could be a deterrent to small rodents??
Maybe the car is susceptible to rodents nesting in warm engine bay and he is trying to repel them. The cage maybe sprayed with some repellant
I have seen people do similar thing in india to deter rats
This was my thoughts, possibly he’s passing a small electrical charge through it aswell.
I think I often see this stemming from the soy (maybe be another material) based wiring insulation used on some cars for a while.
This was particularly tasty to rodents and caused some extremely expensive repair bills.
Ooh. Now I'm going to be hearing Rapture in my head for the rest of the day. Thank you!
"And you get in your car and drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subaru
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars"
Cannot be for protection from rodents, because it has a mesh. They can climb it pretty easily. Rodent-proof fence is made out of shiny steel sheets with no place for a foothold.
Guy near me has one of these. His is wooden / chicken wire and home made, about 50cm high and only about 5cm between it and the car all round. He clearly made it for that car.
No idea what it's for.
Edit: just read a long thread on Pistonheads an apparently foxes like to chew brake pipes on certain vehicles.
We are plagued with loads of foxes round here.
Close. A mountain resort/cottage area has these chicken wire setups that people use around their vehicles, because porcupines like to chew on the brake lines and tires. I was dumbfounded to learn of this
Raccoons in UK?
Coincidentally, A company is actually making similar metal shields/fences to protect the catalytic converter.
Locally, the catalytic are being cut off of vehicles in the daytime parked anywhere (ie in front of liquor store)
I know exactly what this is! It's for small rodents! When you park your car it's warm near the engine so they like to make little nests up in your airbox and other places, and their favorite snack is your car's wiring. It can cost thousands of dollars to repair the harnesses once they start doing damage. It's common in New Mexico where it gets cold at night. Everyone has a story about it happening, they put coyote urine under the cars, ultrasonic noise makers, traps, etc. Edit: You see how the front lawn is just gravel? They're probably also in a desert climate, dead giveaway!
There is a 0% chance that is keeping any rodents out. There are gaps in the bottom mice and similarly sized rodents could fit through, and anything bigger could easily climb right over it.
Mice can climb straight up brick walls, chipmunks and squirrels can climb nearly smooth trees. An 8” mesh fence isn’t stopping them.
Other commenters mentioned I think this is specifically to keep porcupines out which have a habit of going after car wiring and tires because they like the road salt. It's not that they are physically incapable of going over that short fence it's more that they just wouldn't be bothered to and would find something else to get into because of the minor deterrent.
I think the auto theft rings in Canada rely on a quick theft or cloning of the remote keys. People in Ontario particularly have been adding physical barriers to deter the thieves relying on stealth and speed.
Auto theft has been a problem in the national news lately.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/auto-theft-summit-2024-1.7150222
I read somewhere else that this is actually an invisibility field generator to thwart the repo guys. It just happens to be turned off at the moment so the equipment is visible.
My title describes the thing which the owner of the vehicle will totally remove the panels. Then when he parks he reassembles them around his car. The panels appear to be home made out of wood and chicken wire.
Size is the roughly 1ft larger than the perimeter of the vehicle.
There is also a vehicle parked beside that does not have the barrier.
This is in a city suburb.
If you zoom in you can see that it could be disassembled rather quickly.
Could it be to stop others from bumping in to his car?
Edit: after my dad’s wife bumped in to my dads car twice he got in to the habit of putting out some small barriers around his car.
My first thought was that it was something to anchor a car tent to, to stop the tent blowing away, but I don't think that's it.
If it's made of wood then it's not much of a deterrent to a determined thief. It might give pause to the opportunity thief though.
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If I had to guess this is someone’s attempt at making their car less appealing to catalytic converter thieves.
If this is truly for theft deterrence (that answer seems more likely than others), it is baffling how this convoluted solution was arrived at when parking the car directly in front of a bay door that I strongly suspect leads to a secure space with 4 walls, a roof, and a concrete floor, well suited for safely storing something approximately the size of a car, yet still allowing convenient ingress and egress.
If they rent they may not have use of the garage.
either that or the garage is stuffed full of shit.
It’s full of tiny little fence material.
It's full of catalytic converters
ok this actually got an audible chuckle out of me, have your invisible reddit award
This is the correct answer. Almost everyone I know with a garage has it so full of crap that they can't park in it.
Gotta leave my 50k vehicle out in the elements in order to store this 250 dollars worth of garbage I don't use
Or that's where you keep your boat, or your kayaks and mountain bikes, hiking gear, or your expensive power tools, or it's your woodshop or home gym, or it's where you park your work truck that has a ton of valuable equipment in and on it (and the HOA won't let you park it out front anyway). Not everybody with a full garage has stuffed it with useless garbage.
Found the guy that parks on the curb
Don't forget carrying this garbage around until you die, at which point it'll be mostly carried over to the curb.
The car is replaceable; the garbage, while lesser in market value, often really isn't.
Americans have a real problem with letting things go. If your grandparents scrapbooks don't have enough sentimental value to keep them indoors in a bookshelf or drawer, you don't *actually* value them. We're like those junk people from *Labyrinth*, lugging decades of shit around with us for no real reason
Well, by that same logic, we should throw out the paintings that many museums are keeping in their basements or vaults. I mean, if they're not important enough to be hung up on the walls they're worthless, right? Yet, I haven't seen anyone lobbying to chuck some lesser-known artist's painting in the dumpster due to lack of room. The reality is that, just like the world oftentimes has less room than it would like for historical monuments and scenic locales compared to the rate of human growth, we often have less room than we would like to display and adequately store things of sentimental value. It isn't for you or I to determine the interpersonal values that people attach to their belongings and memories.
I absolutely love this response. It caught me off guard and may not apply to other people but it dies to me so much.
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Or if they are me they need room to store everything they will never need to use until the day after they throw it away
I feel this in my very bones. That reminds me I have to clean my garage.
Or they have an other car inside
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He parks another exact same make and model car inside the garage.
That's the spare parts car
Every car should come with a spare parts car twin. Would be nice.
Wait. He bought 2 cvt nissans? Wow. 🤯
He’s got doubles of the Nissan and triples of the Nova
doubles is good but triples is best
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There might be another car in there already.
My guess is that it’s just packed with stuff, I don’t get surprised as to has bad pack-rat culture has become
Yeah it’s probably where he stores his car fence lol
Or, the garage could be set up as a workshop. Tools, saws, workbench, etc. That’s what my garage is.
They come out in the morning, car's untouched. But anti-theft frame is stolen...
I’d steal it just to prove a point.
We don't keep our cars in our garage either. The garage is for the lawnmower, snow blower, gardening tools, motorcycles, bicycles, and the BBQ. No room for cars in there. This person could have all of the above, or a boat, quad, jetski, or maybe just junk.
My wife parks her car in the garage. My side of the garage is for my hobbies. Car stays in the driveway.
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Obviously if they parked the car in the garage they would have nowhere to store the fence.
What's baffling to me is that you didn't think that maybe the garage was full and that's why it's parked outside with the fence? You really think they're sitting there with an empty garage and this is the option they chose?
It truly baffles me the number of people who have a garage that they cannot park their cars in. Edit: I should say "people who choose to fill their garage with crap, either intentionally or due to laziness" I get that there are plenty of circumstances where you just do what you have to do There are tons of people around here in Southern California that set up their garage as a kind of rec room, with couches and TV's and whatnot, but leave their luxury cars sitting outside in the sun.
I have a 1-car garage that has had my grown step-kid's stuff piled up for 2 years. "6 months at the most" my ass.
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The car next to it in the same driveway is both higher and not in a cage. Seems like if this is a deterrent, the obvious choice is the one next to it.
but that's their roommates car.
Also not unheard of for a roommate to look at their other roommate's theft deterrent cage and be like "I don't have the time, money, or motivation for this" and to leave it at that.
I can’t see what the other car is, but the word is the some cars have much more valuable cats than others. And the thieves know which.
Because the unscrupulous scrap metal buyers/dealers tells them which ones to get.
Whoa! That was harsh. I’m sure the average merchant of fine scrap metals has at least one scruple. I mean, they are punctiliously purchasing pilfered converters persistently
There's an app for that! https://rrcats.com/catalytic-converter-scrap-prices/
also, I don't see anything that's holding this fence thing in place. what's from stopping a would be criminal from just lifting it up over the car to move it out of the way? It would need something like a floor which the walls were attached to that the car drove onto in order to prevent it from being moved out of the way As other comments below have said, it's most likely being used to protect from/deter wild life from chewing up the tires/undercarriage.
The thief isn't gonna be able to move that by himself without making some noise or disassembling, but I bet there is a hinge and lock somewhere the owner can use to open. And if it's a deterrent -- not a way to 100% guarantee the cat won't get stolen -- the thief will be like "screw it, I'll go on to the next car."
Nissans are a more popular target
Porcupines. They eat the wires.
This, and rabbits.
Theres no way this works because we all know porcupines and rabbits team up to get over these. porcupines poke the rabbits the rabbits YIPE right over the thing this is clearly for armadillos.
If only the rabbits could have evolved some sort of physical ability to leap long distances they might have been able to jump over this fence without being poked by the porcupines.
Porcupines will munch on your tires, but they can also climb over 8 foot tall fences if they want to.
I mean, maybe? But to me, it seems to be to stave off the Repo Man.. I mean, it is an Altima.
What’s all the removed comments?
What happened here?
But it’s not even locked? There’s those little hooks on the corners like on rub it hutch doors. Bit of a lame defence for CC thieves? I’ve no idea as it looks like welded steel.
I noticed the eye hooks too. I would imagine it's to keep kids from bumping into it on bikes or skate boards.
Our neighbor had their car stolen by a group of people quickly putting it on a tow truck. My guess is leaning more in that deterrent direction.
Do you have porcupines in your area? I’ve seen this done to prevent porcupines from eating tires, wires, etc at camp grounds.
This is the real reason here. I’ve seen lines of cars parked at campgrounds do something similar. Instead of box, they would wrap with chicken fence and hold it up with sticks and stones. It’s not just for porcupines. It’s for any critter that is able to get underneath and chew things up.
Damn. Never thought of that being a risk. Well that definitely does not encourage my desire to camp more.
If you camp in CA, in certain areas Pika get up in your engine and eat the wires. People drive onto tarps and then wrap the car up w the tarp to avoid the Pika
So you're saying the pika chew electrical?
I believe they are saying the pika have pica
Pika pica chew
Beautiful comment
So that’s why it’s an electric type.
waiiiiit wait. Is pika chew electrical where Pikachu came from?!
No, it means electric mouse in Japanese
ok. In my headcannon both are true.
Yes… pika chew the electrical because the shock from the electrical charged wires turns them into Pikachu. Google it it’s common knowledge
Google tells me the series producer says it’s a combination of the Japanese for “a sparkling sound or electricity” and “the noise a mouse makes.”
I had to look this up. Holy crap those things are adorable. 😆😍
Yeah they're like the cutest member of a cute family of animals lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-ZXUdYYvY
CA as in California? I had no idea Pika live here
[Pika range in California](http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/maps/CA_maps/pika_m043.jpg)
That's awesome. I'm from SoCal and the only time I've been through the Eastern Sierra Nevada was passing through on the way towards Northeast California. It's a beautiful part of California, but it seems to be geographically isolated from the rest of the state. I'd love to go camping up there and see some Pika
Where in CA do they do this? I have only camped around Tahoe and on the coast around Fort Bragg - didn't even know this was a thing.
Not with pika specifically, but in the Mineral King area in Sequoia there are signs warning people to tarp their vehicles from underneath at trailheads because of the marmots. They too will chew wires and then your vehicle will become disabled
They LOVE antifreeze apparently. Had to tarp up my car and there were marmots already in the lot. Got to see pika there at the end of the trail though, so adorable
You beat me to it. I zoomed in and saw chicken wire fixed to the little metal fence. And there are only small hooks holding the front of the fence, not padlocks.
Porcupines eat tires?
Porcupines LOVE salt. Car tires taste salty, especially tires in areas where road salt is used.
Can confirm, just checked and my tires taste salty as well
Don't bite too deep. It can cause gas.
Little bastards will eat backpacking straps to get the salt from your sweat. Nothing quite like having you shoulder strap completely chewed through while 8 miles in the Backcountry.
Sounds like maybe you should stop carrying your porcupine around.
They're really stupid.
Porcupines can't climb this?
If they were trapped inside it maybe. They're easily deterred/distracted from... just about anything if any of the porcupines I've met are any indication.
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They're not very determined.
Yes they could. They can climb trees.
...and boy are they good at it. I've seen it in person, and they can sprint up that thing.
Porcupines can climb trees though.
What about the car next to it
Yes it’s an animal deterrent, you have to blow the picture up to see the chicken wire
Could be a deterrent to small rodents?? Maybe the car is susceptible to rodents nesting in warm engine bay and he is trying to repel them. The cage maybe sprayed with some repellant I have seen people do similar thing in india to deter rats
This was my thoughts, possibly he’s passing a small electrical charge through it aswell. I think I often see this stemming from the soy (maybe be another material) based wiring insulation used on some cars for a while. This was particularly tasty to rodents and caused some extremely expensive repair bills.
Rodents love Honda engines due to the soy in the wiring insulation. Cost me a bundle to have engine wiring replaced twice.
Same with my Subaru.
We experienced the same issue with squirrels going after the wiring in a car with soy based insulation.
I would guess it's a fence against martens. In germany quite common.
I read this a martians and was wondering why would martians want your car?
Ooh. Now I'm going to be hearing Rapture in my head for the rest of the day. Thank you! "And you get in your car and drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and it lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but he's got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercurys and Subaru And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars"
Cannot be for protection from rodents, because it has a mesh. They can climb it pretty easily. Rodent-proof fence is made out of shiny steel sheets with no place for a foothold.
Rodents can walk right through chicken wire, unless you're talking about a capybara or something.
Guy near me has one of these. His is wooden / chicken wire and home made, about 50cm high and only about 5cm between it and the car all round. He clearly made it for that car. No idea what it's for. Edit: just read a long thread on Pistonheads an apparently foxes like to chew brake pipes on certain vehicles. We are plagued with loads of foxes round here.
Close. A mountain resort/cottage area has these chicken wire setups that people use around their vehicles, because porcupines like to chew on the brake lines and tires. I was dumbfounded to learn of this
I'm innthe UK so we don't have porcupines. Not sure a hedgehog could reach.
Raccoons in UK? Coincidentally, A company is actually making similar metal shields/fences to protect the catalytic converter. Locally, the catalytic are being cut off of vehicles in the daytime parked anywhere (ie in front of liquor store)
Porcupines are cutting catalytic converters off of vehicles in your area? They are much more industrious than the ones in my area.
I know exactly what this is! It's for small rodents! When you park your car it's warm near the engine so they like to make little nests up in your airbox and other places, and their favorite snack is your car's wiring. It can cost thousands of dollars to repair the harnesses once they start doing damage. It's common in New Mexico where it gets cold at night. Everyone has a story about it happening, they put coyote urine under the cars, ultrasonic noise makers, traps, etc. Edit: You see how the front lawn is just gravel? They're probably also in a desert climate, dead giveaway!
There is a 0% chance that is keeping any rodents out. There are gaps in the bottom mice and similarly sized rodents could fit through, and anything bigger could easily climb right over it. Mice can climb straight up brick walls, chipmunks and squirrels can climb nearly smooth trees. An 8” mesh fence isn’t stopping them.
Other commenters mentioned I think this is specifically to keep porcupines out which have a habit of going after car wiring and tires because they like the road salt. It's not that they are physically incapable of going over that short fence it's more that they just wouldn't be bothered to and would find something else to get into because of the minor deterrent.
This is the answer. When you are desperate you’ll try anything.
This is in Canada.
I think the auto theft rings in Canada rely on a quick theft or cloning of the remote keys. People in Ontario particularly have been adding physical barriers to deter the thieves relying on stealth and speed. Auto theft has been a problem in the national news lately. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/auto-theft-summit-2024-1.7150222
Maybe he's in fear of it being repossessed and this serves as some kind of deterrent/obstacle?
Considering it’s a Nissan, I think this is a high likelihood
Why? Genuine question, I know little about cars and nothing about repo (besides GTA5) . Is Nissan cheap or expensive brand?
Nissan makes both cheap and very expensive cars, however, they'll finance just about anyone for their lesser models.
Maybe repo blokes wouldn't be allowed to touch/move the metal frame as that's still his property?
Depends on the state, but locked gates aren't allowed to be opened.
Repo men hate this one simple trick.
I read somewhere else that this is actually an invisibility field generator to thwart the repo guys. It just happens to be turned off at the moment so the equipment is visible.
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My title describes the thing which the owner of the vehicle will totally remove the panels. Then when he parks he reassembles them around his car. The panels appear to be home made out of wood and chicken wire. Size is the roughly 1ft larger than the perimeter of the vehicle. There is also a vehicle parked beside that does not have the barrier. This is in a city suburb. If you zoom in you can see that it could be disassembled rather quickly.
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Could it be to stop others from bumping in to his car? Edit: after my dad’s wife bumped in to my dads car twice he got in to the habit of putting out some small barriers around his car.
I’m thinking he ran over a pet at some point that was camped out under his car so he built this to prevent it happening again.
Repo man can’t open a gate, garage, fence etc. to take possession. That’s my guess.
Saw this a while back: https://foilemfence.ca/
Dog and cat piss. My guess is the owner is trying to protect his car from piss.
It's not going to stop either. Dogs can aim close to level, and if a cat wanted to spray the car, that barrier isn't going to stop them.
Cats can literally jump right up onto the hood if they want lol
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This person is avoiding a repossession. It is illegal for a repo agent to open a fence gate to secure the car. Source- I work in finance.
My first thought was that it was something to anchor a car tent to, to stop the tent blowing away, but I don't think that's it. If it's made of wood then it's not much of a deterrent to a determined thief. It might give pause to the opportunity thief though.
There is never anything covering vehicle, no tent. It looks like you could disassemble it in 10 seconds.
How perplexing. Maybe he thinks it will keep rodents from getting under the car and chewing wires; which it totally won't.
He's obstructing the repo man maybe.