anti theft

I thought that's what inverters were for ....;-}}}}}

Let some air into the fuel system...thieves won't have time to bleed the system...you will have to do it though when you get back from wherever...merry christmas

Mate,

Go for agreed value insurance.

My experience with the last 10 vehicles I have sold is that I got nothing near the insured value for them.

In the event that some scumbag steals your car, they will have done you a financial favour.

Sleep easy in the knowledge that if it's not there in the morning, you can replace it and bank the balance.

All the best,

Jim.

A couple of empty 303 shells on the dash might make them look at another 4wd instead

Hey Conman, A descent imobilizer should cost less than $250 fitted, and anyway, isn't it compulsory to have one of them fitted, or is that only in WA ?

Cheers,

Muzz

Mate, move to somewhere like.....Birdsville. We don't have to contend with problems like that out here !

Merry Christmas.

Hi Conman,

After the little darlings tried to steal my pride and joy, I decided to fit a "Hurst" line lock to it, with a check valve in parellel, just like I had on my drag car. If they tried to take the car, the first time they used the brakes, was where they stayed. It would cause the front brakes to lock up and stay on, so they won't hang around at the traffic lights to try and work it out. It would be just as easy to fit one to the rears also.
A cheap and simple thing to do, that works.

Merry Christmas

Chaz
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The best way is fuel, stop it getting to the motor on any vehicle and it won't go.
Relatively easy to fit even to diesel as most have a fuel cutoff to stop them which is electrically activated.
Take your time and hide the wiring and they won't hang around to find it.
Unfortunately if someone really wants your vehicle you will never stop them.
A tilt tray and away they go even with the alarm blaring.
I noticed a tilt tray backed up to and about to hook up to a fellow emplyees vehicle once. While the guy was hooking it up I rang the owner and then parked in front of the truck (I was in another truck).
When the owner turned up we fronted the towie who had a printed work order to pick up the vehicle, funny though he unloaded it very quickly when we started to ring the cops.
They duly turned up and arrested him, we never did here any more about it though, never went to court as we were never called as witnesses. Suspect the plods might have been in on it at the time and it was back in the 80's.

throw the kids in there at night. The crook won't stay in the car long. Heaven knows after 5 minutes of my child screaming I am ready to pull over and run away myself ;-)

Sparkie(IE not Y) ;-)

A simple (but not necessarily totally effective) thing to do is move the transfer case lever into neutral. Most drongos wouldn't know what the stumpy gear lever is for and would probably think the clutch was phubar if they managed to get the donk going and tried to drive off.
But I'd have to agree with the others who've said some sort of fuel cut-off would be ideal.

In WA imobalisers are compulsory and cost around $100 fitted. In no time it devastated car theft over here. It is the only thing we havnt had to Wait Awile for (daylight savings, sunday trading,after hours shopping etc etc)

Pitty it's not a petrol... You could put one of those stainless steering wheels on and hook it up to the coil through a kill switch.

Crank it over, grab the steering wheel, HOLY CRAP!