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Would you approach a thief with his mothers undies on his head and a screwdriver in hand just to prevent some soccer mums bmw 4wd being stolen?

Theives tend to try blend in, go unnoticed. Any smoke coming out would send em running...

People would come up and ask if everythings ok regardless

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If you think so.....

I had a little neat Nissan Pulsar Reebok a number of years ago, parked it at my local westfields at 9pm on a thursday night in the first parking spot directly opposite the main entrace/exit door it was the first thing you would see when exiting the place (10m from the door) which was 2m from the zebra crossing and would have had atleast 500 people walk directly past it and my car was there only 5mins (long enuff for me to walk 100m to hoyts and buy a ticket) and I had my sister ring me to say it had been broken into (she walked past it as she exits that door).

They took a sub box from the boot (parcel tray with 7x10's an xbox, broke my drivers side door lock and busted the ignition trying to start it and obviously nobody tried to stop them.

I had a little neat Nissan Pulsar Reebok a number of years ago, parked it at my local westfields at 9pm on a thursday night

That my friend is asking for a car to be broken into. Im guessing u never go late night shopping in your skyline?

If u had smoke pouring from your car it would be different.

lol thats not very practical... could you imagine Vange himself, removing his steering wheel on hindley street, then going to meet some chicks with his steering wheel in his pocket? I dont think hed enjoy that one.

ummm....you can hide it in your car, just like the dizzy button in old cars

Would you approach a thief with his mothers undies on his head and a screwdriver in hand just to prevent some soccer mums bmw 4wd being stolen?

i would, probably holding some 2x4 =P

the point made by Jeremy Clarkson from top gear: you can "defend" yourself if someone breaks into your house, but whats in your house thats worth money, a TV perhaps woth about $2000 at best??, however someone breaking into your car, they can be worth $15,000+ easy (lots more for some of us). why cant we be allowd to protect that investment with as much force as neccesary??

sure would stop lots of car theft if you could frack up some tool breaking into your car, paging systems would be worth their weight in gold =)

but i guess its an age old argument... one that we'll never win =(

Not going to stop someone trailoring your car if they really want it. Put a GPS in it along with a device that pages you if its gone off. Easy done, if you find out within an hour of it being stolen chances are police will have it back in one piece with the aid of the GPS.

I've heard of a full blown 24/7 monitoring system/alarm is about $1300 + couple hundred a year for a company to monitor it and call the cops if its moved outside of a specified time, they make claims of 95% of cars are found undamaged. You can get cheaper ones that you set up yourself with a spare mobile. You can then msg the mobile and it returns the longitude and latitude of the car. Pretty primitive. They are fairly expensive and you wouldn't use unless you really had a commonly stolen expensive car.

In America you can use a mobile and enable tracking on it and use the mobile network to track it via the internet which is much cheaper.

Edited by Rolls

I actually just did some research and if you have a spare GPRS phone (basically every phone these days) and have it set up for internet you can download a tracking application for it. Chuck it under your backseat and you can track it via google earth/maps. I uses about 5kb/hour bandwidth so the $5 5mb a month gprs plans will suffice. If I can find a way to get just GPRS on a phone and have calls disabled on it it will be a very cheap security system.

Could get a phone and wire it up to the cars power supply for under $100 + $80 for a gps then ~$100 a year on the mob costs. Not much when you are already paying $1k for insurance.

Here's a link to the free tracking application and website http://free.3dtracking.net/downloads.aspx

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^^ good idea but i dont think anyone does such low plans anymore

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wouldnt pre-paid work also but just never recharge it you dont need money on pre-paid to accept calls?

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Time for most car thieves is maxed out at 4 mins. It took me 5 years to get Coplock right.

Coplock Model (1) fits most car manual or automatic on either the brake or clutch pedal.

The boot fits over the brake pedal and also seceures the pedal arm. The shaft to the firewall locks it up.

The lock is made from high quality hardened steel.

Tests carried out by a person with full practical knowledge of car theft. The testers job was to get it off.

Tools used those readily available or probably in the car.

Hitting was to force the rachett shaft back. (Unsuccessful.)

The spanner was to bend the front of the boot out away from the pedal so the lock would fall off. The ribs prevent this. (Unsuccessful.)

The screwdriverw was to turn, w/out a key the lock, in the housing operating the cam to release the shaft.

Other tests not on video ( due to time limit) were hitting with a 4 kg hammer

Using a hacksaw on all parts.

Attempting to hack saw brake pedal arms on several cars. ALL were unsuccessful.

I would hope no one would be silly enough to use an angle grinder in a similar space. Apart from self burns, it would probably start a fire. By the time you had finished guess who would be there?

I have two Classics a 86 VL Commodore and Ford 77 302 V8. Both have had prototype Coplocks. They are highly visible,s/wheel cover and 2 decals.

Please have another look at my website and contact me with any queries [email protected]

I would hope no one would be silly enough to use an angle grinder in a similar space. Apart from self burns, it would probably start a fire. By the time you had finished guess who would be there?

Dewalt 18v angle grinder + thin stainless steel blade? I find it seems to cut through almost anything pretty quick.

I'd be keen to see how it goes on the Coplock. :D

Realistically its rather unlikely to have a thief so well prepared. lol

Some time ago I bought a club lock. Stuffed the leather on my steering wheel. :P

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