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Mechknight73
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 Posted - 09 Jul 2010 : 7:42:35 PM
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What kind of "unconventional" car security have you seen? My two favourites have had almost the same effect as Tasers; doesn't kill or necessarily immobilise, but after setting it off, they don't want to touch it again.
A friend had an old FC Ford LTD with a 351 and a C4 auto. When he bought it, it had a button under the dash; if you didn't press that button within 30 seconds of turning on the ignition, power is diverted from the coil to a "hot wire" in the seat. End result: 50,000 volt kick up the bum.
"Pitbull" door handles: a plastic plate is siliconed down to the underside of the door handles. attached to them are two brass contacts. These two contacts are the "switch points" for a high voltage coil. The mad bugger whom had this system said he was sick of juvenile yobs breaking in to his car, and reasoned that if they were stealing the car or something out of it, sooner or later they would touch the door handles.........and wish they hadn't.
No doubt there's "legal" issues with fitting something like this, but short of driving around with your blue heeler in the passenger seat, a determined crim will try.
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Mr Persistant
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Posted - 10 Jul 2010 : 4:19:46 PM
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Here's a thought. What about wheel-clamping your own car? It's the only way to stop someone really determined - completely imobilise the car, so they can't even remove that wheel, or even load it on a flat-bed?
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Mechknight73
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Posted - 11 Jul 2010 : 09:54:06 AM
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| Although with a lot of us laziness sets in after a while. What happened to the old days when you took the rotor button out of the distributor? Would work on V8s, but suspect the V6 version of that would be to pull the fuel pump relay. Come to think of it, that's actually EASIER than pulling the rotor button on a 308 lol |
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Mr Persistant
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Posted - 27 Jul 2010 : 8:30:15 PM
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The relay is a good idea if you're in a tight spot...but all those tricks should surely be emergency only these days? They were the days before relatively cheap immobilisers. Since I installed my immobiliser, I'm so lazy I now resent the extra second it takes to manually lock the drivers door with a key, although I am simultaneously glad that I don't ever have to mess around with any maddening, intermittent central locking gremlins.  |
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voodoo92
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Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 09:44:00 AM
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| my first vn came with its own lo-teck security already. a nice thick chain under the seat the wraps around the steering wheel with a few dirt great padlocks on it. should work just fine, but theres really no fun there for getting back at the buggers who try in the first place. |
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Mechknight73
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Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 11:22:05 AM
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| I did hear of a funny one Clint Eastwood allegedly had rigged up to his Jeep Cherokee. If someone succeeds in breaking in, the doors will automatically lock, the car will refuse to start, and the punk hears "thankyou punk, you just made my day!" in Clint's own voice. Shortly after that, the alarm will go off until someone comes to disarm it. |
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