I'm getting an integra soon and I'm already worried about it getting stolen. My friends told me a lot of stories about how their friends got their cars stolen and I want to make sure the same doesn't happen to me.

I'm planning on getting a gps tracker, viper alarm and a killswitch. Would there still be a way for people to steal the car, and is there anything else that i can do to prevent theft?

 

Take your wheels off before going to bed.

 

Never thought of that, good idea.

 

Lots of things to say on this subject. Well you should get a steering wheel quick release and not the same kind everyone else is using. A very good deterent.
You could also install a brake linelock on the front wheels. You would depress the pedal hard before you activate the linelock and turn the valve to lock the wheels up! This is not an electrical type as it would soon burn out and kill the battery, I mean a true stealthy type that you have mounted inside and even your friends don't know about. A small high pressure ball valve wil do the trick.
If you have airride you could disable the pumps and drop it where you park it with a sneaky switch or remote control reactivation. Those are just a few.

 

pull your fuel pump relay and unplug your ecu. and a kill switch on top of it..

 

I would take the door apart, and weld in a metal lip to keep it from getting broken into with a paint stirring stick. Then add a hidden momentary button by the throttle pedal that you can push with your foot that is wired inline with the clutch circuit.

 

Keep it in a garage, or better yet don't buy an integra in Mississauga, or an older honda in general. Mississauga is a sh*t hole.

 

buy some accessories for your viper alarm like a back up battery, back up siren, and other sensors. and hopefully you're buying a 2-way alarm.
have multiple kill switches also

 

run a kill switch to your battery, fuel pump, and ignition switch

 

Park it in the Garage clutch lock.. Put a sticker that says " LoJack"

 

Just got my Civic back! Was stolen in 'Mayberry' (San Leandro, CA) looks like a girl stole it (woman). With kids no less! Juice packs and 1st and 2nd grade school books littered the back seat. She left all her unopened mail in the front area floor. She's overdrawn by $115 dollars on her credit union account. Credit union!!! She works for Oakland Unified School District. Saw one of her bi-monthly pay checks, like $2400. That's not bad! Even for SF Bay Area! Ya know? Drugs are a terrible thang!!! So, keypad kill switch going in, hood locks, Club, that should keep the amateurs out anyway, because this bitch took my car with just a shaved key. Got it back in pretty good condition though. She couldn't get in trunk. Had it locked. Maybe she didn't try very hard. Took my crappy little Homemedics back massager, and phone charger. Oh we'll, she owes $362 to the cable company, she's in default of her car insurance. I saw that she has a '09 civic ex. Prolly just used her plates on my car because I found my plates under the seat. And, get this, another Honda civic was stolen right where they found my car. She's Rollin' again!!!

 

10. Park your vehicle with wheels turned toward the curb. Many car thieves use tow trucks to steal vehicles, so make your car tough to tow away. Wheels should also be turned to the side in driveways and parking lots so the vehicle can only be towed from the front.

 

Im half tempted to lock my car to the carport post with a huge chain and lock. Something that belongs to a ship lmfao.

Car covers, bungeed tight. If they dont see, they dont know

Take out main relay, ecu, clutch lock, etc

Rig up kill switches that operate in weird ways (like individually disconnecting ignition wires to the switch)

Get a damn boot on it

 

Rule #1 in my opinion, you simply shouldn't own a theft-prone car unless you have a garage to keep it in. It sucks but is generally true. Nine times out of ten they are going to try and get it from your home, it's the most predictable place to find you (especially at night) unless it's a total random grab... which is uncommon in our case. This kinda leads to the next one:

Rule #2, avoid patterns of behavior. Don't park your car on the same street corner every day when you go to work. If someone is eyeballing it you've just made it easier by allowing them to know exactly when and where to find it. It's not as likely that you'll get nabbed from the parking lot of a store that you go to four times a year as it is if you park on the same floor of the same garage at school every day. (Once again, leads me to the next)

Rule #3, when you do park somewhere, make sure it's out in the open where there is a lot of foot traffic (and probably more security, be it rent-a-cops or whatever). Thieves love dark corners in dark garages and back corners of parking lots where no one really goes.

Obviously a good security has a lot to do with it, but don't neglect the behavioral side of the equation.

Oh, go to the junkyard and pull the lock cylinders & keys from another car and swap them onto yours so that your keys don't match the VIN. That will keep someone with a shady friend at the dealer from just punching a key for your car and driving off.

There are others, but I would start giving away my secrets (one of which has definitely saved my car).

 

steering wheel club, foot club, car alarm with two-way paging system and backup battery and kill-switch, and if you're in an area that can't reach your alarm remote pull the ecu fuse. Really, the only way they're getting your car at that point is to tow it which is where lo-jack could come in handy but this is expensive.

 

tazer inside the seat with an actuator powered by the starter signal wire off the ignition switch. and run the actual starter wire to a hidden switch or something.
just keep in mind this idea is illegal in most states. but it is effective. and it's only illegal if you get caught. so what you do with the unconscious thief in your car is your decision, cuz he (or she like above) may rat you out.

 

Another good way:
Put a sticker on that signifies you're a police or state trooper family member.

 

In addition to all of the above, garage it. Find any place where it's not out in the street.

 

That's #1 rule, always.