What kinds of security or anti-theft devices do you have on your car?

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  • CDSmith
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • May 2001
    • 51460

    #1

    What kinds of security or anti-theft devices do you have on your car?

    If any. I know some people use nothing and hope for the best. A few people I know can't say with any certainty whether or not they even lock their car doors every time.

    Me, I've had a 3-point electronic immobilizer installed in the vehicles I've owned in the past 4 years. These are not factory immobilizers that are mostly 2-point. The 3-point ones are apparently much harder to circumvent.

    But that's pretty much it. The device prevents theft but it does nothing against break-ins, theft, damage, etc.

    Anyone still using The Club or other steering wheel lock?

    Locking gas cap?

    Why do you use what you use, specifically what features if you're using a car alarm?
    Last edited by CDSmith; 04-28-2009, 04:19 AM.
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  • TisMe
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2008
    • 1719

    #2
    I build a shut off between battery and starter with a relay that is up under the dash with a low volt bypass for system memory.

    Not obviously visible from under hood or inside car and because its home made not something standard that someone would know to look for.

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    • NyLoS
      Confirmed User
      • Apr 2001
      • 724

      #3
      None, I mostly don't even lock my cars

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      • seeandsee
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        • Mar 2006
        • 50945

        #4
        NONE , i am sick fucker
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        • Spunky
          I need a beer
          • Jun 2002
          • 133978

          #5
          The good ole club..

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          • idtapdat
            Confirmed User
            • Mar 2008
            • 1161

            #6
            good luck with what ever you have if they want your car consider it gone
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            • TurboAngel
              H.B.I.C.
              • Jun 2003
              • 30122

              #7
              I have no clue what kind it is but I know I have one. I didn't know when I first got the car till one day it went off when I tried to start it! LMFAO I'm soooooo blonde.


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              • Bike
                Confirmed User
                • Jul 2004
                • 1363

                #8
                All my expensive cars are in my secured garage with alarm and security will be automatically called if the alarm goes off. And all my cars have class 4 alarm which means it has a GPS locator in it. I can see where my car is online so if it gets stolen and transported to East-Europe, I can follow it I also get a call from the car-alarm company if something happens with my cars (alarm goes off, dead battery etc). The membership of the car-alarm is like 30 bucks per car per month but it's worth it in my opinion.

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                • Rochard
                  Jägermeister Test Pilot
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 75733

                  #9
                  None. My car is insured. If they snag it, I'll just get a new one.

                  My house on the other hand has two different alarm systems, both tweaked by myself. And a dog.

                  I'm not concerned about material things. My daughter, well, that's another story. No one is sneaking in while I'm sleeping and snatching her. Hell no.
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                  • stickyfingerz
                    Doin fine
                    • Oct 2005
                    • 24984

                    #10
                    I sign in the back window that says "steal me (please) Im insured"

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                    • Vendzilla
                      Biker Gnome
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 23200

                      #11
                      Originally posted by stickyfingerz
                      I sign in the back window that says "steal me (please) Im insured"
                      I need that sign, I hate my car and it's insured
                      Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
                      think about that

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                      • justinsain
                        Confirmed User
                        • Feb 2005
                        • 3374

                        #12
                        Can someone explain why the horn has to go off when you set it.

                        I hate it when my neighbors come home at three in the morning and the horn goes
                        off when they set the alarm or when I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot and the horn blows next to me as someone walks up to their car.

                        Does it really have to work like that?

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                        • paymeback
                          Confirmed User
                          • May 2005
                          • 1478

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Rochard
                          None. My car is insured. If they snag it, I'll just get a new one.

                          My house on the other hand has two different alarm systems, both tweaked by myself. And a dog.

                          I'm not concerned about material things. My daughter, well, that's another story. No one is sneaking in while I'm sleeping and snatching her. Hell no.
                          Aren't your premiums alot higher not having an alarm?
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                          • CDSmith
                            Too lazy to set a custom title
                            • May 2001
                            • 51460

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Spunky
                            The good ole club..
                            I watched a former car thief defeat one of those on TV in 11 seconds.

                            They're okay if they are coupled with one other form of anti-theft, but on their own well, like someone else said if someone wants your car bad enough it's gone.


                            The brand of immobilizer I have is pretty good though. Here in Manitoba if you have one installed you get a discount on your insurance premiums. From what I've heard about it not one vehicle with one of these installed has been stolen so far.


                            Anyone have a car alarm with the "warn away" feature? (the non-horn one, there's one that just beeps loudly like a partial blurb of a cop siren)
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                            • CDSmith
                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                              • May 2001
                              • 51460

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Bike
                              All my expensive cars are in my secured garage with alarm and security will be automatically called if the alarm goes off. And all my cars have class 4 alarm which means it has a GPS locator in it. I can see where my car is online so if it gets stolen and transported to East-Europe, I can follow it I also get a call from the car-alarm company if something happens with my cars (alarm goes off, dead battery etc). The membership of the car-alarm is like 30 bucks per car per month but it's worth it in my opinion.
                              What company?
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                              • candyflip
                                Carpe Visio
                                • Jul 2002
                                • 43069

                                #16
                                I'm like Rochard. I don't give a shit about the vehicles, though they all have factory systems.

                                I'm more concerned with the house. Which now has video surveillance and an ADT system.

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                                • CDSmith
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • May 2001
                                  • 51460

                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by Rochard
                                  None. My car is insured. If they snag it, I'll just get a new one.

                                  My house on the other hand has two different alarm systems, both tweaked by myself. And a dog.

                                  I'm not concerned about material things. My daughter, well, that's another story. No one is sneaking in while I'm sleeping and snatching her. Hell no.
                                  Hopefully you never leave your daughter in your car while you run in the store for a pack of smokes.

                                  Saying "I just have insurance so who cares" is fine except for the fact that due to the overwhelming amounts of car thefts and insurance claims (largely by people who refuse to protect their vehicles properly) everyone's insurance rates keep going up and up.
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                                  • The Seduction of Art
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                                    #18
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                                    • Bike
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jul 2004
                                      • 1363

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by CDSmith
                                      What company?
                                      http://www.technocon.com/html/index.html

                                      I'm from the Netherlands so it's s dutch company and dutch website. Can't find an english version of the site unfortunately

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                                      • UFGators2007
                                        Confirmed User
                                        • Nov 2007
                                        • 1739

                                        #20
                                        I keep a midget with a big flashlight in my car. He keeps it safe...as long as I keep giving him beer and dog biscuits!
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                                        • beemk
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                                          • Jan 2002
                                          • 20829

                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by CDSmith
                                          Hopefully you never leave your daughter in your car while you run in the store for a pack of smokes.

                                          Saying "I just have insurance so who cares" is fine except for the fact that due to the overwhelming amounts of car thefts and insurance claims (largely by people who refuse to protect their vehicles properly) everyone's insurance rates keep going up and up.
                                          you think if someone wants to steal your car they cant do it? hell, if its a newer car with a computer chip in the key and they steal it they are probably going to just get a key made and your alarm system isnt going to do shit to stop them.
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                                          • CDSmith
                                            Too lazy to set a custom title
                                            • May 2001
                                            • 51460

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Bike
                                            http://www.technocon.com/html/index.html

                                            I'm from the Netherlands so it's s dutch company and dutch website. Can't find an english version of the site unfortunately
                                            Thanks, I think I can get the gist of it. If not my sister in law is dutch.

                                            I'll see if any local companies here offer anything as comprehensive as that.
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                                            • CDSmith
                                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                                              • May 2001
                                              • 51460

                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by beemk
                                              you think if someone wants to steal your car they cant do it? hell, if its a newer car with a computer chip in the key and they steal it they are probably going to just get a key made and your alarm system isnt going to do shit to stop them.
                                              It's not an alarm system as I've said already. I have an electronic immobilizer, and yes apparently no one that has one has had their vehicle stolen yet. This comes from MPIC, our government-run insurer here in Manitoba.

                                              I've had two attempts made on my car in the past 2 years, both failed. That is why I'm interested in adding an alarm to the vehicle, because theft attempts can leave small amounts of damage.


                                              You sound like you think it's better to just do nothing and let the theives steal it if they want because you think it's hopeless? I say different.
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                                              • CarlosTheGaucho
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                                                • Oct 2005
                                                • 9560

                                                #24
                                                Nothing, it's not exactly new and it also consumes too much gas to to attract any average EU thief.
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                                                • CDSmith
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                                                  • May 2001
                                                  • 51460

                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by CarlosTheGaucho
                                                  Nothing, it's not exactly new and it also consumes too much gas to to attract any average EU thief.
                                                  I don't know about EU thieves but here in Winnipeg most of the thieves steal cars just for kicks, for joy-riding, transportation, or to commit some other crime. This comes straight from the Wpg Police website: http://www.winnipeg.ca/police/TakeAction/auto_theft.stm
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                                                  • WarChild
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                                                    • Jan 2003
                                                    • 17263

                                                    #26
                                                    I don't live in the ghetto.
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                                                    • kowalsky
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                                                      • Oct 2003
                                                      • 2494

                                                      #27
                                                      None. That´s why I pay an ensure company.
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                                                      • CDSmith
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                                                        • May 2001
                                                        • 51460

                                                        #28
                                                        Originally posted by WarChild
                                                        I don't live in the ghetto.
                                                        Newsflash dude: They are stealing nice cars as well as cheaper models. People living in ghettos usually can't afford anything new much less nice.
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