Attempted Hot Wire Edinburgh

[jackherer 543]

Be wary as n doubt they will be on the look out for venerable vehicles again.

 

They wont look twice at a Volvo then

 

That's a brilliant autocorrect

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

I have to say my effort levels today are poor, severe man flu, but that did perk me up a little !

[DanteICE 72]

Yeah visual deterrents are what is needed. Wheel lock and gear lock is what I use, plus all the standard toad alarm/immobiliser and an immobiliser touch key hidden away with nice stickers telling people that they're installed. They'd need to really want it to give it a go. Anyone with a Toad alarm, get a auxiliary siren and wire it up inside the cabin; it'll sting their ears while they try and remove it, they'll get disoriented and leave with their tail between their legs.

[GLPoomobile 958]

In terms of visual deterents, I think my granddad gold with cat sick grey/brown interior V70 should be quite effective.

[Mac Crash 78 1 Cars]

Anyone with a Toad alarm, get a auxiliary siren and wire it up inside the cabin; it'll sting their ears while they try and remove it, they'll get disoriented and leave with their tail between their legs.

 

reminds me of my youth, my best pal and me stayed with our older mentor in an old victorian farmhouse, huge room each, the life of Riley, one morning he decided he'd had enough of us being lazy and late for work (we all worked for him at an old mill converted into Engineering workshops) and so he wired a WW2 air raid siren to the 240 mains (he was ex-RAF) and placed it at the top of the landing opposite our bedrooms, switched it on and left for work... after about 60 seconds you were forced to get out of bed and switch it off, it was nauseating and made you feel physically sick, how he must have laughed... would have made the perfect car alarm.

[Harni 6]

http://www.cts-direct.net/klaxon-master-blaster-12v-relay-master12v-klaxon?language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=CjgKEAjwoJ-dBRDbjfKN7IzN0FsSJAAP0G_DsAIBvA2fMXtFxmMnxZ_L2OVpq282moasOPPxD1lRhfD_BwE

 

Need one of these in the car. Ive installed one at work before and my god i don't think I've heard anything so loud before!

[feb 47]

Sorry to hear about this but glad you have the car with relatively "small" damage.

 

I know how you feel having had my Sorrento broken into in France years ago. Door lock damaged and driver's window smashed, not a nice sight to come back to.

 

I never leave any valuables in the car and for the first (and last) time put my wallet and watch in the glove box. Everything was gone of course and was rather pissed off about the watch as it had sentimental value being a gift from my dad.

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

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Edited June 24, 2014 by farmer

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

rotor arm is always a good one, ain't going nowhere without one -

 

 

 

Granted the engine will not start no matter what, but to me I don't think its a great idea- if the thieves have got to the point of trying to get it started and cannot, it means that they have already broken in by smashing a window or busting a door look open, so the damage is already done by that point. Worst case scenario they can't get it going so then they either beat the cr@p out of it, or set it on fire or whatever out of ftrustration/spite.

 

I prefer the big obvious disklok which hopefully means that they won't bother damaging it in the first place.

[Mac Crash 78 1 Cars]

Fully understand what your saying... and your right about visual deterrents being the best and foremost way to go, prevention is better etc... just dislike the idea of carrying stuff like that about.. to me a trolley jack in the boot is worth more than a disk-lock/gear lock etc... damn, thought stealing GTi's was an 80's thing, way back then the car I remember most being stolen was the Sierra Cosworth, guessing your in your mid to late 20's so you'll probably not remember but yip they'd be gone in 60 seconds, mostly bank robbers, serious/professional criminals etc, not "joy riders".... by the way, the original is much better than the modern film (gone in 60 seconds) if you haven't already seen it... much more car crime down your way due to population size so agree you have to do what you think is best, I'll stick with the CAT, battery cut-out and rotor arm method... and hope it never happens.