It’s a bummer that humans bent on stealing things from others roam this Earth. It’s a pretty basic concept instilled in us from birth: don’t take what isn’t yours. Alas, thieves still have a thing for stealing the third-row seats from General Motors SUVs like the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon.
Jalopnik reported last Thursday and rounded up the most recent bout of thefts. According to its report, a reader wrote in and said a friend had his or her third-row seats stolen from a hotel parking lot, and a handful of local news reports peg the same crime.
Apparently, it’s pretty easy to break into the SUVs to grab the seats. If the thief can pop the rear window hatch open, the alarm won’t sound. After that, the rear seats are fair game and can be unhooked rather easily. Hopefully, this is something GM can address itself via added security in the future.
In a somewhat ironic manner, a Texas police media manager believes the spike in third-row seat thefts come from the utter demand for the seats themselves after owners have theirs stolen. So, buyers could very well be purchasing their stolen seats back for hundreds of dollars.
Quit stealing third-row seats, human race. And while you’re at it, don’t touch unlockable charging cables, either.
Comments
Here’s a thought on this subject. Make a third row seat an option so people like me, who find this an absolutely useless feature, not have to be worried, unnecessarily, about the possibility of a theft. If soccer moms need this feature so desperately, they should be burdened with the cost of this feature as an option, as it was by most manufacturers when it was originally offered.
They could have mine if they want it. They stay folded down all the time because we have no need for the third row. We haul cargo not people and we like most others have enough seats to take care of the human cargo.
I like John wish they would make the third seat an option and if we skip it give us under floor cargo where the seats are stored.
The media makes it out like everyone want the third seat. Well that is not true.
Yep got mine a couple months ago.
Most people don’t want the third row.. It needs to be an option and if not on all SUVs quickly the bad guys will stop targeting cause they have to pick and choose
I may consider putting them back in, then maybe I could get some insurance money for them since they are worthless.