Stolen car recovered
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I’ve seen the one that goes from the brake to the steering wheel, but not sure how good it is.
Opie Knievel
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Those column cover locks look pretty tough. The only way I could think of to get through one of those in a quick way would be a grinder.
Put an IR camera (real or fake) on the house, aimed at the car. Helps keep the honest people, well you know, honest.
On my uncle's Regal...
Column lock, viper alarm with window break sensor, tilt sensor, and proximity sensor, aftermarket GPS from amazon hard wired to secondary battery. The GPS works with a sim card. You text the GPS module and it gives the location and speed. It was set up to text you if the car moved out of a certain radius. We tested that a few times and it took a minute or two after it was out of range for it to text the phone(s). He also put a wireless wifi cam inside the car, back window, pointing forward.
Alarms DO matter, it just depends on your neighborhood or more specifically, your direct neighbors.
If you get an alarm, make sure you have a two way pager. I don't care who ignores your alarm...YOU SHOULDN'T.
Column lock, viper alarm with window break sensor, tilt sensor, and proximity sensor, aftermarket GPS from amazon hard wired to secondary battery. The GPS works with a sim card. You text the GPS module and it gives the location and speed. It was set up to text you if the car moved out of a certain radius. We tested that a few times and it took a minute or two after it was out of range for it to text the phone(s). He also put a wireless wifi cam inside the car, back window, pointing forward.
Alarms DO matter, it just depends on your neighborhood or more specifically, your direct neighbors.
If you get an alarm, make sure you have a two way pager. I don't care who ignores your alarm...YOU SHOULDN'T.
There's 3 kinds of car thieves - no, not scum, scum, and scum.
1) Amateurs: often opportunists, they want to joy ride, might even steal performance parts off.
You might scare them off with an alarm, the club, or a column guard, or even the simplest pop a blown fuse into the ignition circuit.
2) Semi-pro: these guys will case you out. Tougher to stop, they check the car 2 or 3 times over, look what deterrents you run, and come back with what it takes to steal it. First thing they may even do is cut battery power so your alarm is worthless. Maybe then use tow rollers to move it into the street quiet then hook and roll off.
You might get the car back, minus some damage, with sat tracking hidden somewhere inside, but you probably aren't going to stop them in the driveway.
Your best security mix here is 2 companies worth of satellite tracking and a silent alarm that pages you if motion is sensed when armed. You get the page, you activate that tracking. (Used that on the CLK AMG I had about 15 years ago now)
3) true professional. You aren't stopping them. Car is moved somewhere with jamming signal to interfere with satellite up link within minutes. You aren't getting this one back, it was probably a high end or collector with VALUE and is already in a shipping container headed overseas. Too bad you left that GnX outside.
1) Amateurs: often opportunists, they want to joy ride, might even steal performance parts off.
You might scare them off with an alarm, the club, or a column guard, or even the simplest pop a blown fuse into the ignition circuit.
2) Semi-pro: these guys will case you out. Tougher to stop, they check the car 2 or 3 times over, look what deterrents you run, and come back with what it takes to steal it. First thing they may even do is cut battery power so your alarm is worthless. Maybe then use tow rollers to move it into the street quiet then hook and roll off.
You might get the car back, minus some damage, with sat tracking hidden somewhere inside, but you probably aren't going to stop them in the driveway.
Your best security mix here is 2 companies worth of satellite tracking and a silent alarm that pages you if motion is sensed when armed. You get the page, you activate that tracking. (Used that on the CLK AMG I had about 15 years ago now)
3) true professional. You aren't stopping them. Car is moved somewhere with jamming signal to interfere with satellite up link within minutes. You aren't getting this one back, it was probably a high end or collector with VALUE and is already in a shipping container headed overseas. Too bad you left that GnX outside.
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