My neighborhood is being encroached upon by, um, people who absorb a large percentage of the local PD's time. Bangs in the night are either gunshots, firecrackers, or blowouts on Interstate 80. There are bangs every night. Some sound like tires. Once a month. Firecrackers? well, the explosions aren't quite a gunshot by my experience. But there are nightly explosions that are gunshots. Usually multiple in sequence.
Nothing I can do about that but vote in the coming election (turning out the nogrowth folks for a different set).
Anyway..
I've change my sig photo to show a "Denver boot" kind of thing I've taken to using. About $60 on Amazon instead of the $500+ for many of the alternatives. It is pretty simple to put on and take off.
Of course it is effective until someone finds a way to defeat it.
cutting it off would take a lot of work. Best done, I suspect, with a diamond flexible cable saw. Not many of the local element carry these, AFAIK.
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It's a shame that you have to deal with all that crap. That seems to work better then a crook lock (goes from your steering wheel to the clutch pedal). Those were common in England and also made great weapons when they were off the car.
alabbasi Wrote:
It's a shame that you have to deal with all that crap. That seems to work better then a crook lock (goes from your steering wheel to the clutch pedal). Those were common in England and also made great weapons when they were off the car.
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the steering wheel locks are worthless (except to people who see them as a barrier). A $30 bolt cutter cuts the steering wheel and removes the lock. quietly in 5 seconds.
I had designed and almost built a steering wheel cover (an upside down aluminum pot! cut away in areas) that locked to the wheel and covered the ignition lock when i changed the wheel diameter.
To me the biggest bullshit is the ripping out of the ignition wiring. It is so damn easy to hotwire an MG, but they insist on doing serious damage to all of it. A conventional "can';t start it" protection wont prevent them from ripping it ¨p to try. But a visual something might.
So...? we try.
Mac s your car stored outside overnight? Perhaps a "viper alarmed' recorded over and over might keep em away..
That's a bummer that you have to live with it..
sam66mgb Wrote:
Mac s your car stored outside overnight? Perhaps a "viper alarmed' recorded over and over might keep em away..
That's a bummer that you have to live with it..
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Yep outside. With a hard top. With softop I'd have to store it off site (paying $100 for storage!)
alarms are noisy and worthless. go off all the time. At 2 am who gives a shit? you just bitch at the person who owns the car!
I ripped it out of my Olds (changed battery, remote was dead, grab speaker and ruip!. problem solved!) . Not worth spending the $ on repairing the remotes.
I vividly recall 40+ years ago when i went downstate to visit Columbia University Library for a thesis research thing. I came out of the library and saw a VW convt with the top shredded and a student literally jumping up and down screaming. Second top that week. Nothing stolen, nothing to steal. But to get in and look they had to cut the top.
Never lock a car with a convertible top. Insurance companies are sometimes pretty stupid about that kind of thing. In which case, adjust your deductible or try to get a waiver.
if you have 21 in the link below under your dash above the sterring column, you can manually move the switch to cut off power to the fuel pump. car then will 'run ou of gas' very quickly if it even starts.
http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=29069#top
It is really a shame, but I think there are lots of areas that are going that way. I know I used to store my MG in a storage unit to keep the more unsavory people out of it. But even that did not work all the time. The unit was broken into twice. Luckily they didn't take anything important or mess with the car. Now I keep her safe in my garage, well, as safe as a garage can be.
Always try what I mate of mine did in an small Aussie country town - left his 10ft python in the car at night. He NEVER had a break despite several neighbours losing stuff from their cars..
We had 10 Bycicles stolen from us when my kids were younger. Actually caught, and beat the sh-t out of a Peeping Tom while waiting for the police to arrive. The bike thieves and the Tom were under age and never prosecuted. All though I was told by the police that if I had shot the Tom I wouldn't be in trouble. I've got so much light around my property now that no one can hide in the shadows. I haven't had a problem in a long time. It doesn't seem like that many years ago we didn't even lock our doors when we went to bed. Now they're checked and double checked.
Mick M.
I had a XM satellitle receiver stolen from my car in the driveway. My fault though, i left the doors open. Lots of neighbours have stuff disappear from their lawns.
The only real problem with intruders was a couple of weeks ago, this guy broke in through the kitchen window. 3 dogs in the house and none of them woke up...
Ken
I keep my MG in a locked garage...with my pit-bull and here in Alabama we are encouraged to own a firearm as recommended by the mayor and I do. I also keep my K-Bar knife under my matress (I kept it when I got out of the Marines) and I know how to use it ...and will.
Hurricane, you should post a sign that says "Intruders will be delt with harshly, before the Police arrive". Maybe with a picture of your Gun and K-Bar on it.
Mick M.
My MG is in an unlocked garage (tilt door lock broke a long time ago) but in my yard behind a locked wooden gate.
The thing is my red heeler is also behind that wooden gate and you would be a braver man than I to take on that dog... and no-one ever has in the eight years we have been here.
Oh yeah, I leave my back door unlocked a wedged open so the dog can protect the inside of the house, too, just in case someone breaks in through the front door. Once again, no-one has broken into my house, either.
Get a dog :)
ERic - not sure about. I recall one nigth during a gas shortage some guy trying to syphon dad's tank. While the Dingo stood infront snarling, growling and that parculiar yodel they do, the tom-cat had come up from behind and ham-strung the guy.
The police found him 15 minutes later, only two block away hobbling. seems he required 8 stiches and was still trying to work out how the dog had bitten him..
Remember - the red heeler is Dingo plus ... the can hassle (and ain't scared of) cattle!
The final word in auto security: MagnaVolt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyuKEK7wmsw
I like the idea of having a toggle switch in the wire serving the fuel pump. If the car won't start at all, the would be thief will tear up the wiring trying to get it going. By killing the fuel pump only, the thief can start the car, but it will only go as far as what the fuel in the float bowls will take it. The hapless thief will get about 1/4-1/2 a mile away before the car shuts off; he'll then want to get away from that broken down car ASAP.
You can then start looking for your car in a close radius.
Just to clear up a point Hurricane posted"and here in Alabama we are encouraged to own a firearm as recommended by the mayor "
Most of us in the rest of the state have little regard for what his mayor may say, and also have never been "encouraged" to own a firearm. The only thing ever stolen from my home was a huge bag of glue gun sticks. When the neighbors dog died , she cleaned out his house nd returned the glue sticks.
Just to clear up a post Hurricane made"and here in Alabama we are encouraged to own a firearm as recommended by the mayor ", most of us in the rest of Alabama have little regard for what his mayor may say, and have never been "encouraged" to own a firearm.
An oldie but a goodie - still my favourite!
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9812/11/flame.thrower.car/
Watch the video and imagine those windscreen washer guys coming up to your window to ask for money!
"My personal feeling is that it would definitely blind a person. He will never see again," he said
Firefighters, medical personnel and the police agree 100 percent "that it will never kill a person," Fourie asserted. "This is definitely non-lethal.... A person is not going to stand there for a minute while you roast him. It will fend off the attacker, and that's the end of it."
Simon Wrote:
Always try what I mate of mine did in an small Aussie country town - left his 10ft python in the car at night. He NEVER had a break despite several neighbours losing stuff from their cars..
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If anyone here remembers the original Mercury Couger ads with the real couger shown in various poses back in the 60s, we used to lve rather colse to the individual who owned the couger. We used to see him walking the couger on a leash in the evenings and would see the couger teathered in the back of his station waggon at the market. Funny - he was never mugged or had his car broken into.
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