Skyline Theft?

[Guest INASNT]

Some prick broke one of my fibreglass eyelids for the front lights on sat night in glen waverley. Looks like they were trying to take em for their car but coz it taped down with 3m industrial double sided tape they ended up snappy half of one of em off and gave up on the other one!!

****ssss

[Igsta]

Yes. Sadly my skyline was stolen about 3 months ago. In front of my girlfriends house. Alarm, immobiliser and they still took it. Woke up to go to work and it was gone. That was the worst feeling in my life.

[jvs007]

dudez when i hear cars being stolen with alarm and immobiliser, it worries me coz i put the alarm in my car myself (i dont trust others) and it's a pain to get to things even wen u have time and space so how do ppl get inside and bypass things in the dark and remove panels and shit without opening doors and making it look obvious ???

until now i was pretty confident that even though my car gets breakin into atleast my ride is still there (unless towed away) caus of immobilisers and how i hav wired it. but starting to get worried now....

[P1E]

Yeah - maybe I should save another few thousand for insurance before I buy my car. Not that I can really afford it.

[pentae]

If you park your car on the street.. they just arrive in their tow truck and tow your car off to a mates workshop and deal with the alarm there.

[usuckpoo]

Rule of thumb:

If u drive a hot car watch where u park. Well that means all the skylines

Dont ever leave your car on the street overnight. I dont

It does help to live in a good neighbourhood.... upmarket areas always have significantly less theft rates.

If you are really worried abt the car getting stolen, remove the ecu(leave the kick panel open for these occasions) when u leave the car at high risk areas. Sounds extreme but it might actually save ur car one day.

No ecu means the car wont start no matter what. (unless the punks drive a skyline too)

[Guest INASNT]

Originally posted by usuckpoo

Rule of thumb:

If u drive a hot car watch where u park. Well that means all the skylines

Dont ever leave your car on the street overnight. I dont

It does help to live in a good neighbourhood.... upmarket areas always have significantly less theft rates.

If you are really worried abt the car getting stolen, remove the ecu(leave the kick panel open for these occasions) when u leave the car at high risk areas. Sounds extreme but it might actually save ur car one day.

No ecu means the car wont start no matter what. (unless the punks drive a skyline too)

even better just tow a engine rack behind you and take the engine out so they have nothing to start!! :bahaha:

but seriously its getting farkin stupid the lenghts you have to do these days when you drive a nice car!!

[chops]

If you can't afford to insure a car, you shouldn't buy it at all in my opinion.

I wouldn't even drive a car home from where I bought it without insurance - it takes all of ten minutes to arrange a cover note over the phone.

All it takes is some dickhead without insurance to hit you on the way home and your new purchase is a mangled wreck that is worthless, or that you have some big bill to repair.

In response to someone's query about third party, fire and theft - there are very few companies in Australia that will supply that cover any more - here in SA there were only 2 last I checked.

That cover CAN be adjusted to include stereo equipment - I used to drive a car with a stereo valued at more than the car! They just slap things like additional theft excesses and higher premiums on you.

[Snow White34]

Skylines seem to be a real target over in New Zealand at the moment. The first thing I did was get an alarm on mine as soon as I bought it.

[aybee]

im super paranoid about my car being stolen. i just dont take it when i know im gonna to have to park somewhere dodgy. and if im going to shopping centre, ill go straight to the front door and sit there until one golden spots is free.

i always take out the fuel pump fuse, and have even taken off the steering wheel on more than one ocassion. next thing is imobiliser(s), club lock and multiple sets of wheel lock nuts.

i guess the moral of the story is all you can do is minimise risk.

another good thing to get is a disabled sticker cause then you get good parks.

[P1E]

Originally posted by chops

If you can't afford to insure a car, you shouldn't buy it at all in my opinion.

I'm not willing to pay more than $4,000/year (with a ~$2,000 excess) to insure a $20,000 car, especially considering how carefully I plan to drive/park it.

If it was $1,000, I'd be there in a second. But as it stands, it's no insurance or no Skyline.

[xRHETTx]

There are no insurance companies in Vic that will cover a skyline for the full purchase price. Third party fire and theft will only pay out a maximum of about $5000, minus any excess.

So if you want to be covered for theft, you'll have to shell out for full comp.

[oh to dream]

what about ignition switches (maybe their called kill switches im not sure), but they prevented 3 thieves stealing a freinds car (mitsubishi 3000gt) after they demanded the keys off him. parents also used to have one on a calais and after searching extensively even the mechanics couldn't find it to get the car started. this was a few years ago though. are these devices inaffective nowadays does and anyone in here use one?

[shif_tea]

I say we just all barrack for the death penalty for all car thieves. Or in the very least have a hand cut off for each offense. I absolutely hate car thieves with a passion, after having my VL commodore (i know its the easiest car in the world to steal) broken into 8 times in a period of 18 months whilst parked in my appartmeny complex. I was hoping they wouldnt' even try with the skyline. Think i might just buy a rottweiler and leave him in the backseat every night unfed!! Too paranoid.

About insurance, the cheapest quote i've had for me is about 4700 bux so until something better comes up i'll live in fear like you dude!!

[gtst25]

I wouldn't own a good car if I didn't have a good place to keep it after previous experiences (dent in door 2 weeks after 7 grand paint)

I like kill switches and lots of them.

Never had one stolen though.

[typevu]

think the insurance be any cheaper if the car is under a parents' name and your name as a secondary driver?

[Hero_boy]

$3, 500+ for third party, fire & theft WHEN I turn 21 (a couple of months) here in WA (quoted for an R32 I plan to buy)... That is with a 20% no claims. Three years and I could afford to buy a new one! That is insane... If it doesn't get broken into I am still getting robbed blind...

I guess if the low lifes would stop stealing cars they can't afford because they don't have JOBS, then it wouldn't be so high. My car and my girlfriends were broken into last month in our car-port, less then 3 meter's from where we were sleeping!

I think pentae is pretty much on the ball. Get the best insurance you can afford, the best alarm system, park in the safest possible locations and try not to draw attention to yourself close to home and work, and you lower your risk of being broken into.

Rightly or wrongly though, if they want it, they'll take it. Its a sad situation.

[maxkhor]

How about Tasmania,Hobart? is it safe? I planning to own a R33 GTST.....but...listen to above....is quite scary...3rd party insurance only can cliam back $5000...for car stolen...but we have to pay $1280....so...we only take back $3720..=.="

[madcabbie]

Hey guys,

does anyone have or use a Kill Switch in there skyline?

I know this doesn't stop cars being towed, but can piss off thieve enought to leave the car there if they can't find where the Kill Switch is.

And how many use Quick Trac? This seems a great anti-thieft device.

[Duncan]

well, I've never trusted factory immobilisers since my 200sx went missing, so I got a qucik track out in.

but 2 problems with it....1 they only cover Sydney and Melbourne metro, which I don't think includes Wellington....and 2nd we recently got a letter from Quicktrack saying they were under administration, so they may not be a good bet.

there are other trackers that run off the gsm mobile phone network instead, they may be a better deal.