other than built in alarm/immobilizer?
I find that some people still use steering lock, gear lock etc. Is it necessary even when you have immobilizer?
How easy for a determined (and professional) thieves to break those devices?
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The logic behind the additional devices is that they'll just walk past your car to the next one.
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I rarely even bother to lock my car, I am too scared the only working lock will seize up :D.
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If your car is a Ford, that is only too likely Rattle. It happened to me.
Ford dealers sell sets of new keys and barrels, model-specific, and fairly cheap.
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I believe a pro car thief, properly prepared, can steal anything in fairly short order.
As car owners we must all feel a bit vengeful and punitive towards car thieves, even when our cars aren't really worth stealing. I have always thought a ship's foghorn - I suppose one of those lorry horns would do in practice - mounted under the driver's seat and timed to go off as soon as the ignition was turned on might cause great distress and with a bit of luck even injury to an opportunist car thief, tee hee.
You wouldn't want it to go off when you had lent the car to a friend or put it in for servicing though. The system would have to be failsafe and have a master switch.
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In the 80's I had a Scimitar GTE and it was always being broken into so in the end I just left it open (secret battery cut off switch enabled) so someone could look and see there was nothing in it to steal and left it alone.
Saved me a fortune in glass
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The steering wheel bar devices not only delay the car from being stolen, it also helps delay your airbag from getting nicked. For every extra minute a thief takes, that's a minute longer for him to get caught in the act.
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I sware by my "Disklok". It covers the whole steering wheel and has a strong lock. The device is reasonably heavy. It has been voted no.1 in the UK many times. It just delays a thief, so hopefully they move on to some easier poor sucker instead. I am actually very sorry for anyone who gets their car stolen. A most dreadful feeling. Really nail the thief!!!!!
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>failsafe and have a master switch. <
.. which someone would have to remember to set and cancel ...
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Just one question DD,takes the thief an extra minute to get caught in the act? Who by.
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The owner of the car, an innocent passer by, etc
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I find a rottwieler in the car always helps
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I don'tv bother with our two good cars as they have chipped keys. I have a 94 HCS Escort used as a family pool car for emergencies. I use a stout chain padlocked under the seat and long enough to wrap round the rim of the steering wheel and padlock to itself.. I leave the doors unlocked to stop them breaking the glass. Leave a whiskey bottle which is half full after being used as an emergency loo in the glove box, that might just punish any intruder !
Ted
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We used to keep a half full child's potty on the pasenger seat of our XR3i in the 1980's. Don't know if it had any effect, but the car was never stolen or broken in to.
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I have the best security device money can buy attached to my cars.
It's called a Nissan/Daewoo badge.
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My wife keeps a photo of Barry Manilow on the dashboard - she rarely locks her car and she's never had any thefts!!
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I had a Nissan badge on my last car, someone stole it.... The badge that is, not the car.
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I keep a Honda F1 badge on the dashboard. People don`t break in, they only dream they have. Honda, the power in dreams....(allegedly)
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The badge !
A succession of so called "desirable" cars I have had ( BMW 3 & 5 series, a Volvo T5, a brace of Golf GTis ) were all variously stolen or broken into or vandalised.
The last three have been Mondeo diesel estates. Never been touched. Insurance groups are probably quite a good clue.
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I have a mate with a Toyota Yaris - no one`s ever broken in but he found a set of false teeth on the roof - and someone had salivated over the badge..
(maybe;);)
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A Glock 21 in the glovebox does it for me.
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I find a rottwieler in the car always helps
Cue the 'can he put out fires as well?' joke.
There's a pick up truck I see round my neighbourhood occasionally, which has a custom-built canopy, and tows a large trailer, both made of of that steel/aluminium 'treadplate' sheeting.
The pick up AND trailer, both carry large stickers "SOUTH AFRICAN SNAKE RESEARCH FACILITY" (with pics of cobras for the illiterate).
Looks damn impressive.
Now, I don't KNOW if this is a real herpetologist, or if there's something else he keeps in the truck/trailer which he doesn't want nicked.
However, it isn't one of those theories I'd like to put to the test by having a look!
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Driving a young TWOC-er to Court in the early 90`s in my Maestro Clubman D.
" we nicked one of these last week" (pause) "we didn`t know it was a diesel until it started- we dumped it after 100 yards"
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