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Hyundai to install anti-theft systems on preexisting cars at Guaranteed Rate Field this weekend

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Hyundai and Chicago police are working to ease fears for drivers plagued by ongoing car thefts by holding an event to install anti-theft technology to preexisting Hyundai vehicles.

Hyundai and Chicago police will host an event at Guaranteed Rate Field this weekend to install anti-theft software to cars at risk of being stolen.

Representatives with Hyundai said that majority of the cars stolen involve vehicles with a turn-key ignition. A new anti-theft lock system can be installed in just 20 minutes. The move comes after the City of Chicago filed a lawsuit in August against Kia and Hyundai, saying the automakers failed to install critical anti-theft technology which in a steep rise in vehicle thefts in the city.Darrell Brown's 2019 Hyundai Sonata still sits with major damage after it was stolen from outside his South Shore apartment in May and then later found abandoned by the thieves.

 

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