thieves attempting to brake in

[Guest]

early sunday morning

my car is parked in my drive way and i noticed that my bonnet wasnt closed properly i opened it and had a look and saw that the battery was un hooked and my alarm siren had been cut and its gone they also snipped my bonnet wire so the alarm wouldnt go off

i have a avs 5 star alarm. but they didnt take anything. they didnt even open my cars door and take anything. also they left there utensil on the ground for un hooking the bonnet,

what were they after? if they didnt even go in the inside of my car?

strange

[ODB]

Spooked man by a passer by sounds like

[Guest]

yeah i was thinking that, but last week i noticed my bonnet wouldn\'t shut properly, the latch was like caught, bt didnt think anything of it. think that could have been the same people

[Stoffa]

steering lock for the win!!

ive got one of these with built in alarm

[STiNGR]

Where in the country are you?

[ADIKT]

 jkwrx555 said:

early sunday morning

my car is parked in my drive way and i noticed that my bonnet wasnt closed properly i opened it and had a look and saw that the battery was un hooked and my alarm siren had been cut and its gone they also snipped my bonnet wire so the alarm wouldnt go off

i have a avs 5 star alarm. but they didnt take anything. they didnt even open my cars door and take anything. also they left there utensil on the ground for un hooking the bonnet,

what were they after? if they didnt even go in the inside of my car?

strange

start sleeping in your car bro

[Guest]

wellington, theres been heaps of stolen cars around lately

haha yeaah ive been thinking bout that might give them a little fright

[optmspotts]

Rudimentary short-term fix:

Wire car battery to car exterior so current travels through metal panels

Arm at night and enjoy frying the would-be thieves next time they try to gain entry

Think this moment from Batman Dark Knight movie...

[boon]

Which part of Welly? Eeeeeh

[MercuryFree]

Thank god for my garage.

My girlfriend thinks I\'m paranoid about driving it anywhere...which I am, justifiably so!

[Divine]

Jack the car up overnight lol. 1 on each corner

[94 Leone]

But then they can steal the exhaust. And other underside goodies.

What you do is have a few sirens for your alarm: not only in the engine bay.

[Divine]

Enough just so wheels cant grip properly haha

[bubblz]

my forester got taken on boxing night...fucking scum

[ODB]

 optmspotts said:

Rudimentary short-term fix:

Wire car battery to car exterior so current travels through metal panels

Arm at night and enjoy frying the would-be thieves next time they try to gain entry

Think this moment from Batman Dark Knight movie...

Been done in uk.

Owner got done for man slaughter

[boon]

Just gonna throw it out there that 12v hooked to your car\'s body ain\'t gonna do shit. Except for really, really f*ck the battery.

[ODB]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/guard-given-electric-shock-by-wired-car-drivers-antitheft-measure-went-too-far-1424714.html

Lol wasn\'t a 12v but I take ur point

[Guest]

Um maybe silly but how do you disarm it? Or arm it for that matter? With rubber gloves?

[D-Style]

If you want to Live up you Car body, use an electric fence transformer. These Pulse 7000VDC, enough to shock, but wont "hook" a person up and kill them. But I would say you would have to isolate evey thing electrical in your car from the chassis in order to stop things being fried.

Also, better get your alarm installed right, for somone just to pop the bonnet and cut wires to alarm, is pretty useless install, even if it is 5 star.

A 1star alarm installed right is better than 5 star installed half arsed.

[Codex]

Don\'t use any alarm with a key bypass on the siren, use a rolling code alarm without a disable feature siren like any cobra or auto watch alarm so you can actually hide the sirens. AVS is a good example or an alarm that is only as strong as the installer and even then, not that strong.

[Joker]

 Codex said:

Don\'t use any alarm with a key bypass on the siren

why not? more secure than you think

[sl8r]

My two cents

As stated above get the alarm installed properly ie my first alarm the brains were installed just under the plastic on the drivers side...

Next time round alarm was installed as close to the firewall as possible also had a piezo siren added into the cabin meaning if it goes off there is a100db screaming at you. Won\'t stop a thief but will make it pretty uncomfortable.

And lastly a kill switch that only you know about hidden real well that kills something like the fuel pump.

[Codex]

 JoKer said:

why not? more secure than you think

Because generally when installed people put them in an accessible place and they just get cut out, if you use an alarm without a key bypass you can hide the siren properly.

Also quite a few of the larger brands like avs, uniden, mongoose especially can have their key forced using another key o-o

[lachlan]

decent chain and box lock around the wheel and susp arm . make it look hard to steal