It's just a visible deterrent to opportunist or joyriders. Hopefully they look for easier target. Useful for defense too in case of road rage.
mrfxit,
Sep 10, 2:34am
Correct. Even fancy state of the art alarm systems get bypassed, but the stickers etc make the casual thieves think twice about pinching it.
ozz1,
Sep 10, 8:39am
I leave the dog in the car. hes quite fond of ferals.
intrade,
Sep 10, 9:08am
Forget them you need to think like a thive not like a honest person. Somone told me this about these steering locks. you think you cant drive the car with that thing on right. True but. You did not think like a thive . A thive will hacksaw the steering wheel a part in 30 secounds push the lock out and drive off with your car in 1 minute with a cut in your steering wheel. Thats thinking like a thive . = that thing is absolute usless.
intrade,
Sep 10, 9:11am
Aftermarket alarm systems are only good to make your car brake down and not start sooner or later 1 minute to bypass any alarm system if you know the wiring diagramm . and trust me a thive will have it in there head plus have tools to bypass it. Only Good alarm is a silent one with tracker like a snitch so you can find your stolen car after again.
Hardened chain and old Abloy padlock that maybe 3 locksmiths in NZ could pick. Only weak spot is padlock shackle which could be cut with big bolt cutters.
I would not trust any SCA or Repo stuff as locks are crap.
bill1451,
Sep 10, 1:25pm
at the end of the day a lot of thievery is opportunistic and stickers and steering locks will hopefully make them move onto the next car. Unless u insist on driving a subby whatever model lol
billyfieldman,
Sep 10, 4:59pm
How about hidden kill switch?
tegretol,
Sep 11, 6:12pm
Or a battery grinder fitted with a 2mm cutting disk - say 8 seconds max.
In my view the best protection is a decent insurance policy.
mm12345,
Sep 13, 5:32pm
I now just use a supercheap steering wheel lock on my Safari. Yes- easy to cut through the wheel, but the scum usually work on foot, don't want to be caught wandering around with bolt-cutters or battery grinder, a small hack-saw takes too long. When mine got stolen we had video of them. The security camera panned in 30 second sweeps. One pan they were standing next to it - one guy working as "lookout" casually smoking a fag - 30 seconds later they were driving it out the carpark exit. Quick work I'd say - considering they'd have probably needed to glow it for 5 or 10 seconds to get it started. They only got about 1km and ditched it - my good luck it ran out of diesel - LOL. A basic hidden kill switch is easy to set up to cut power to the fuel-cut solenoid. Easy to bypass of course - they just need to run a wire from the battery - but to do that they have to open the bonnet and muck around.
ema671,
Sep 22, 9:06am
the easy way make power cut from the battery with a hidden button just you know about it.
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