We have a college parking lot (you can look down because theres a hill you have to walk up to in order to get to the main street) and of course, there are other students parked there bunched up next to each other. But there is also a far area where its completely empty and NO ONE parks there except for my friend who drives a WRX STI right next to a lighting pole. I asked why he parks there by himself out in the open, and he told me "just as long as you have a good DEI setup, no one can take your car or even bother to come this far to the parking lot." I have to admit.. its a far walk (about half of a mile). So I decided to park next to him one day and watched my car from a far view. There were a few people that went around me and my friends car to stop to take a look then they leave. There were also a couple parking patrol and police officer cars that went by to check on our cars. And of course, theres those parking permit officers that had to walk all the way down there to check if we have current season parking stickers.

I also have noticed that some of the cars that are parked near the school have been broken into... unless they left something out in plain view. On rare cases, a tow truck would come up and chose a car randomly to tow away (last time I seen was some sort of scraper).

I wonder if this is a good method? Parking out in the open away from other cars?

 

Well parking under a light away from other cars will accomplish a few things, from lighting up the area around your car, make any activity around the car much more noticeable, make it easier to see it's your car alarm that is going off, and the bonus, less chance of door dings, or corner clips, but then you would never park at the end of a row in a parking lot, would you? 94

 

I usually park far as I can from any car, but everytime I get outside theres a big *** mini van or junky parked next to me

 

I try to park away from things as much as possible unless I'm in a hurry. But I see all the pros but to me the con to it would be also that everyone notices the outlier in a situation, so just persay a theif was crusin the lot, whether he had that car mapped out or not, it's going to catch his eye being away from everyone and everything and that also screams "this must be a valuable car because the owner thinks enough to keep it away from everything" and I in turn would think "if they think that much about their car, they probably have some good **** in it too" You're saving grace would be if they figure "if they're that **** about the car, they probably have an **** retentive alarm system on it too" and the fact as a previous poster stated, it's under a light they may stay away. I dunno, 50/50 chance I guess.