Jimmi' Jammers?

[vwteleman]

Originally Posted by Viejo

WTF's a "fancy-pants HU" ?

Head unit.

[photographix]

Originally Posted by vwteleman

Head unit.

With fancy pants.

A Kenwood DNX690HD, to be exact.

[Dango]

Kill switch.
http://www.killswitchcentral.com/

Or better yet:
http://ravelco.com/

[MadScience]

Originally Posted by carringb

Fastest way in any car is a rock.

To ignore your point and split hairs: If you try a rock, you'll likely find that you want something harder. Around SF folks would typically pull a spark plug from a motorcycle (leaving its owner stranded) the window of a car to get something like $2 in change.

To get back a little closer to your point, we used to not leave anything in the convertible and leave it unlocked. After watching (from a couple stories up in no real position to do anything about it) how quickly someone could smash windows and rummage through cars, I'm not even sure they would have realized the car was unlocked until after the window was smashed.

[jage]

Originally Posted by MadScience

I'm not even sure they would have realized the car was unlocked until after the window was smashed.

The soft-top Jeep nightmare is all too common- you leave your doors unlocked so your windows don't get slashed (and nothing of value in the Jeep) but the windows get slashed anyway, even though the door was unlocked.

And I've actually seen a person diving through the top of a convertible car, ostensibly through a knife cut... upside down, legs flailing. It looked a lot like a homeless person, and I imagine they got away with it since it was in my pre-cell days and too long before I could report it.

[twogone]

I'm wondering if it might be best to put puck locks INSIDE all doors except rear cargo, especially if you (like me) have to undo some stuff to even get to the rear doors. Then, exit out the rear and all is locked inside by pucks... kinda hard to open a puck if you can't even see it. I would assume most crackheads would fatigue with trying to open the first four doors and move on to easier "pickin's".

'Course, that won't stop a towtruck-theft...

[jage]

Plus you lose the visual deterrent.

[Ford_6L_E350]

I thought the rear cargo doors were the easiest to open and the ones you would most need to protect.

Mike

[twogone]

My rear doors are covered about 15 inches deep with various n' sundry pipes, tires, boxes, racks, trays, coolers(wheeeeeze)...trasharoo, firewood, locks, cables ,bungees and straps... et al, so those windows are not quite as vulnerable as the other half-dozen in the van.

Now, to get through all that stuff to the doors, your friendly neighborhood crackhead (fnc) has to cut a pretty tough cable (or lock), unscrew a big@ss threaded rod (after finding and removing the cotter pin in that special way... so as not to knock a square inch of meat off them scrawny knuckles), swing all that stuff out and then, and only then, address the rear doors...sooooooo, I'm hoping they seek other pickins.

[twogone]

Originally Posted by jage

Plus you lose the visual deterrent.

Well, you also lose the vandal-attraction... I new a kid once who might have been tempted to introduce a variety of foreign matter into the keyhole of a puck, and maybe even the door lock while I'm.. oops, while HE was at it.


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