Just like the 'Topic Title' states, what is: "The Most Successful Theft Protection Technique To-Date? What Works Best?"...

I'm interested in buying an R, but I don't want to fall victim the the massive amounts of theft amongst the Type R drivers community. Seems that every day another R becomes a victim of such a crime ring.

Would a AutoStar alarm (I think that's what they are), with the little pager on your keychain, and a fuel cut-off line be enough to protect it?

 

1. RS Door Handles
2. Cover your VIN
3. Autolock
4. Club
5. Alarm
6. Watch where you park.
7. Advid Prayer!


[Modified by RaVAGE00, 3:17 PM 2/12/2003]

 

8. Personal Garage
9. Don't draw un-needed attetion to your car/self
10. Take out ECU so they can't drive away with your car. (won't help if they flatbed it)
11. Angry Dog
12. Hire mercenary with good aim to camp out and watch your kaa at all times.

 

Layering is the key...

I like the fuel kill switch and the Clifford BlackJax on top of a well-installed alarm...and common sense.

 

Layers, layers, layers

Layers of security are best.

 

garage

 

pitbull with aids...

shotgun...

those are a couple of my favorites

 

i wouldnt steal a car that had a 120lb angry looking Shepard sitting next to it......

 

my new method is simple ... linelock with 2nd battery and relay between cyk wire betwene distro and ecu ...

 

1. never clean the car
2. no interior helps
3. body damage helps the most.

 

1.remove wing
2.paint red
3.4 lug conversion
4.LS interior swap
In other words: This is not the car to buy unless you like living with extreme paranioa.
Oh yeah,DIE THIEVES

 

This sounds <u>very</u> interesting!.... This is with a hood lock I assume? So if they can't get the hood open they'd have absolutely no way to start the car from the interior?!?

This sounds like the best solution I've ever heard; I'd ask for details, but....

 

1.park next to a wall or sidewalk and turn the wheels to the left so if they flatbed it . The car will hit the wall.
2. Club...(it help)
3.Autolock
4.Fuel pump kill switch wired in the loom to the trunk
5.No ECu
6 Make friends with a rattle snake and keep it in your glove compartment
7. Lo JACK

 

I was thinking, and came up with this. Possibly, installing a huge skid plate under the motor, so that no wires can be accessed, and it protect the oil pan at the same time. Then, installing hood pins, (the flat ones) with locks in it. I'm sure you can find them somewhere. That way, you could install a nice battery kill switch, and the theive would have no access into the engine compartment withough actually prying open the hood, and breaking the locks???

You think that would work at all?

 

Ahh, 2 out of 3 ain't bad....

 

Don't buy a Type R if you think it's going to get stolen. Stressin' over a car is pointless...it's just a caR.

 

nicely put dave
couldnt agree more

 

A garage and a beater for daily driving.

 

Its just not a car its a TYPE R. Its part of someones family

 

i wouldn't steal a car... PERIOD.

 

Or weld a sheet of metal over it.

So far, the only time I heard of a avoided theft was been with lojac or a alarm with a pager.

 

buying a GS pretty much garenties low theft rate.

 

Light your hood on fire.

 

this is not true at all. Any tow truck operator will have go jacks with him that eliminate this problem. This worked back when go jakcs didn't exist, but then go jacks were made to remove this problem for tow truck operators. And do you really think a thief would care if the car hit the wall anyways?

 

A not to distant future anti theft idea would be to take a GPS unit, seal it in a plastic box, and hook it onto the inside of the oil pan.


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