what would be a good way to do this to prevent theft? i know a lot of thieves probably know the electrical system in a vehicle well. so how do you defend against it?
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what would be a good way to do this to prevent theft? i know a lot of thieves probably know the electrical system in a vehicle well. so how do you defend against it?
There isn't much you can do to defend from a thief with a tow truck at his disposal. Turning the steering wheel fully to the right makes it difficult to tow backwards. A hidden fuel cutoff switch is good. A good alarm system with a paging system is nice to have. Some type of vehicle tracking device is suggested for recovery. Mount it somewhere they won't think to look. Simply breaking the OnStar antenna off or pulling its fuse/power supply disables it and then its worthless. I use this to protect mine... AccuTracking - Online Real-Time GPS Phone Tracking Service
like said, the kill switch. i did one on mine. If you pull the whole fuse cover off from under the hood, there will be a grey wire going into terminal C3F1?? GasGuzzler can help you with all that, he helped me with mine. but its just a switch wired up to the fuel pump power wire.
i think ill install fuel cut off switch, i wont need it when im at home but i just like to keep my stuff safe if i ever go places.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedHeartbeat
I like the accu tracking thing, im gonna look into that also.
The accutracking is great for finding out where your vehicle is if you loan it to friends, too. You can pitch it into someone's car to trace where they've been. Sneaky sneaky. :laugh:
Take any of the ignition wires that go to the pcm, and splice in a toggle switch.
The pcm needs those couple of ignitions to power up, so that's all you need.
Also, check out one of those remote control relays in place of a toggle switch. it's basically a wireless controlled relay, replace your ignition relay with one of these, just thought I'd mention this cause it's easy and saw it a while back.
One last thing, crank the boost up to 20psi, so when they try to take off they'll wreck it, haha jk.
I like the tracking device, could you imagine...
i pull the ecm fuse
I pull the ecm fuse on the 93. I gotta put together a theft prevention plan for the GMT900 now since I've started modding it. :thumb:
once u do that ,,post a how to red.
Top secret switch on the fuel pump, or the ignition into the PCM is probably the simplest. I've never put much thought into it, my truck doesn't really go anywhere where those shenanigans is a real threat, besides to a thief it's not too desireable anyway.
I want an empty syringe under the seat to pop up and give the would-be thief an air embolism in his arse.
That too would work
A true "kill switch" :laugh:
There are two major things one must do on a kill switch install....
1) Hide it well
2) Make it a key switch.
You can get electrical two pole key switches anywhere that sells electrical goodies but it it's accessible then it can be bypassed so hide it.
Get creative. Make it so that when the switch is off it doesn't just open a circuit that can be hotwired if found....make it so that when it's off it shorts a data wire to voltage (even better than ground) so that there is no Class2 data communications. This would prevent someone with HPT or EFIL from a theft relearn as well. Come on....think....
I have a paging alarm on my truck, seems to work good. though its never been "tested". A friend of mine has the same alarm, but he added a bunch of relays, so that when the alarm is tripped, the power seat slides all the way forward and up, the seat back tilts all the way forward, the steering coulumn tilts down and teliscopes out, then all the powerseat/columncontrols lock(its on a lincoln LS) the idea was that the would be theif wouldn't be able tothen access the area under the dash with the alarm and ecm
you are a sickly clever manQuote:
Originally Posted by RedHeartbeat
good lord, talk about creativity. i wanna do that nowQuote:
Originally Posted by straightaxle
Yeah, its a little over the top. He was the manager of the car stereo dept at best buy.
Oh another tip. If you have an alarm installed make sure they bypass the vats with a vats module thing. Not a resistor. A resistor will make it easier for the woulf be theif.
I don't remember what it was called, my buddy put it in