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Sept 29, 2012 23:40:51 GMT
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In the past I had a couple of ideas for vehicle security that could have "injuried" any potential thief. I spoke to a mate (Police Officer) and he told me that a device that's purpose was to injury a thief was illegal and would get me into trouble. Seems it's OK for them to steal our property by any method they want but we are limited to none violent etc methods for trying to stop them.
A couple of my ideas were a frame that clipped and locked above the drivers seat base that had sharpened pieces of rod pointing upwards so no way of sitting down and another was using a high powered cattle electric fence generator connected to contacts in the car like door handle, handbrake lever, ignition barrel, seat adjuster etc - all obviously insulated.
Paul H
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Sept 30, 2012 8:17:27 GMT
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Think it depends on the car and the thief really . As stated previously if its a chav type then, andy visible devices may deter them, however if its a proffesional or stolen to order then they will have it regardless. Especially with MK1 escorts and most classic fords.
There was a mk1 RS2000 that was just pushed down the drive in daylight and loaded on to
a trailer , There was footage of it on trailer and even local and national papers run the story
about the car communities clubbing together, but I don't think it was ever found.
Also recently another well known mk1 was pinched off someones drive, Towed away by a white astra van and again facebook campaign and cctv footage of the van.
Cars like that will just get taken away regardless. Its a real shame and I have to say it does worry me wherever I take mine .
Id happily set up some booby trap that cuts their arms off or something , but british justice would say I'm wrong fro injuring them !!!
Soon it will be against the crims human rights not to be able to steal or damage cars !!!
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Last Edit: Sept 30, 2012 8:18:45 GMT by scootlife
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Sept 30, 2012 8:49:53 GMT
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I've got a bit of an odd plan in terms of immobilising my mini when it's done. Basically if all goes to plan it'll be running on a megasquirt 3 ECU, and will have a car PC built into the dash to save me shelling out £££ for loads of gauges (old notebook hidden and a touchscreen in the dash), so I'm planning on leaving the computer password protected, and never actually saving the maps onto the ECU. The engine will be a hybrid which wont work with any off the shelf ECU/map, so in order to even begin to run the car, you'd either need access to the car PC with the maps on it, or you'd need to map it from scratch, knowing all the sensor calibration values, coil dwell times etc.. If I was feeling very cautious I could even store the maps on an SD card/memory stick rather than the hard-drive and take them out of the car.
But yeah, even that wouldn't stop anyone hiabbing it away, I'm hoping it being a complete 1 off which would be virtually impossible to sell once people knew it was stolen would put off most professional thieves of that type, but it's still going to be a case of being careful where I leave it.
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stealthstylz
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Sept 30, 2012 11:56:37 GMT
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Pistol Holster on the seat has kept mine safe in dodgy areas for years. Closest any have got to being broken into was when I found a chavlar sparko next to the car and a bloody brick next to him. He'd tried putting the polycarbonate window through and it bounced off and smacked him in the face. I added a few more blows of my own then drove off lol.
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Sept 30, 2012 12:11:07 GMT
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Don't rely on a tracker to get your car back, parking it in a container will make the tracker almost useless. Mobile phones tend to work enough to send an SMS from the inside of a shipping container. I've seen a project on the web somewhere (which I can't find now) where they hooked up an old Nokia to a GPS receiver, send it a text message and it replies with its last known position. You just wire a car charger in permanently and hide it somewhere non-obvious. To give someone a non lethal shock, pencil coils with built in ignitors (e.g. 4-pin VAG ones from anything 2000 onwards) work well and are designed to be wired in to a permanent 12V feed without draining the battery. You need to rig up a switch to give it a pulse to make the sparks. Maybe hide one in the base of the seat? Don't think I'd be brave enough to get in and drive it  |
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Sept 30, 2012 17:26:49 GMT
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