These Shorts show where people leave things in a parked car and what a car safe changes: the center console, the glove box, the trailhead lot and the gym.
Boosted Safe is a steel car safe that clips to your car's LATCH anchors (ISOFIX outside the US), the steel bars welded to the car's body to hold a child seat. Firearms are stored unloaded. Each clip has its words written out below it.
With enough time and tools nothing is secure. The job is to raise the time and the tool count. It is not fireproof or waterproof. For more on the habits, read how thieves pick a car and the page for purses, laptops and passports.
The Shorts and their words
Secure Your Laptop While at the Gym
All right, so a real-world scenario, you're pulling up to the gym, you park, you don't want to bring your laptop into the gym because that's not secure. So, grab your shoes, get your laptop out of your bag, toss it in your Boosted Safe, grab your bag and go.
Why Trailhead Parking Lots Are Easy Targets for Thieves
All right, just about to start this beautiful hike, this trailhead right here, and I saw this sign that says danger, high-crime area. Take valuables with you. So anytime you're at a trailhead, people know that you're likely going to be gone for hours, and most of the time you don't want to take your wallet with you. Sometimes you don't even want to take your phone or your keys with you. Criminals notice, they know you're not coming back, they wait, they watch, they look for you, and go to break into your car as soon as you've left the area. The Boosted Safe is a car safe that disguises as a booster seat, which means you can put your valuables, you can put the things you don't want to lose on a hike, like a wallet, inside the Boosted Safe, and it snaps into the back seat of your vehicle so that nobody can remove your stuff without first opening the safe, which would take a lot of power tools and a lot of energy, something that they're not going to do on the side of a trail. Boosted Safe.
Your Glove Box Is Plastic. We Built Something Better.
[...] We're taking on the glove box, which is a low bar. Plastic. We identified an underserved market. People leave expensive stuff in cars, phones, wallets, camera gear, personal protection, laptops. And we developed an innovative solution. A car safe that actually attaches to the car. Watch. Same anchors you'd clip a child seat into. The releases are inside the locked safe. Did I do the announcement? Oh, you were. I'm just helping. Meet the Boosted Safe. Apparently, people wanted a better way to secure the valuables in their car. And still room for napkins in the console. So you're welcome. Get the Boosted Safe today.
Your Center Console Is a Plastic Treasure Chest
How much money did you just put in that plastic box? It's a center console. Ah, right. The plastic treasure chest. Don't start. Nice sunglasses. How much were those? I'm leaving. And the phone? The car locks, right. Because nobody's ever smashed a window. Fine. Steel car safe? Clipped into the child seat anchors? Locked. Happy? Well, look at us. Progress.
The Unsolved Mystery: “I Was Only Gone Five Minutes”
You put your wallet in the glove box. Excellent. The compartment everyone knows about. Oh, under the seat? Sorry. Didn't realize we were dealing with a professional. We spend all this money on stuff, then protect it by putting a sweater on it. This is Boosted Safe. It's a car safe that clips into your car's child seat anchors. The releases are inside, so you have to open it to unclip it. Put your stuff in, lock it, go do literally anything more interesting than worrying about your stuff, and your sweater can go back to being a sweater. Better safe than sorry. Better get Boosted Safe.
Vehicle Security Hidden in Plain Sight
Even with a bit of window tint, even if I come in here and I look inside the car, the Boosted Safe blends in so well that it could just be part of the vehicle. If someone's at night, or if you have anything other than stock tint, no one's going to be able to tell that there's anything on your seat. And especially if I'm walking away or walking by, there's no chance. So that's one of the best things about the Boosted Safe, is that it disguises in plain sight.
The safes in these Shorts
- Boosted Safe Elite: 16-gauge steel. Opens with fingerprint, keypad or key.
- Boosted Safe Basic: 16-gauge steel. Code and key, no batteries.
- Shop car safes: All six safes in one place.
- Will it fit my car: US passenger vehicles from model year 2003 have the anchors. Check yours.
- Compare the models: Every model side by side.
- The pull test: The written results from this filmed test.
- Car safe rip-out test video: Seven safes, one mock seat, the full film.
- Setup and how-to Shorts: Short clips on anchors, locks and fingerprints.
- Boosted Safe founder story video: Why Skyler Baird built it.
