Good Bad And Ugly of Car Security!

[DTR-DEVIL]

Hey, after reading about all this car crime,
Id like to find out the IN YOUR OPINION wat the best car security methords u have owned, or still own.
Ive heard of some unique ways of locking ur car down, Disc Locks, Wheel Clamps etc and would like an second opinion.

Any help Please? :thumb:

[just vaux trev]

de-lock
de-handle
take door pins off inside so they got nothing to pull up by bending the door back

[Stuart]

what car crime? lol
just move to a nice area.


When in swansea we worked out that it was mainly kids jsut breaking in to nick stuff and not so much the cars. So we resorted to NOT locking the car and NOT alarming the thing but immobilising and making sure nothing of any value was in the car. Atleast that way nothing actually got damaged when they had a look round lol.

Id rather someone got in had a look round, found nothing and flucked off than breaking a window and not taking anything etc.

[Jack]

If someone wants a car bad enough, they'll have it. There were pikeys round here not so long ago that had a van and trailer - in broad daylight they'd mosey up to someones house and attempt to load up their car and take it away.


take door pins off inside so they got nothing to pull up by bending the door back
Believe me thats not the easiest way to get into a Nova.

Best security method? Buy a crap car that nobody wants to steal lol

[paul james]

It doesn't matter how much security you have, stupid car thieves will break into it and try and take it anyway. I've never had a car stolen, but thieves have made a right mess of some trying to take them, despite it being obvious they had security - you'd think they would just move on to an easier target, but they don't have that much sense.

Basically you should do as much as you can, alarm/immobiliser, disklock, delock the doors, homemade cut off switches, take leads with you.

Oh and don't go telling anyone and everyone about what you've got under the bonnet or any other expensive items on the car, make out its a 1.0 piece of crap if some stranger asks about it.

[DTR-DEVIL]

Best security method? Buy a crap car that nobody wants to steal lol

lol Good Point!

[GRUNT 16V]

Or a watchful owner with a baseball bat!!

[Iain]

Believe me thats not the easiest way to get into a Nova.

This is true but it appears idiot thieves like the method, and no doubt it can royally f*ck your otherwise mint door up. So for a few minutes work it's well worth removing the door pins IMO. :thumb:

[goldengraham]

how do you remove them? do they just unscrew?

[NovaLad]

:thumb:Garage:thumb:

[L33 LEG]

if somebody wants your car theyl get it. the only way i feel safe about my cars is if they are locked up in a garage of somesort. mine are in my unit at the moment but is away from home so even then i dont feel 100%, well not until i move house next month and have my cars in the garage there with me all the time, with cctv and alarms.

[Iain]

how do you remove them? do they just unscrew?

You can just unscrew the black plastic visible pin, or remove/cut the whole metal rod going to the mechanism. Remove your doorcard and it'll be obvious.

[Clean 2.0 nova]

:thumb:Garage:thumb:

^^Best idea^^

Mine is in a alarmed garage with thick insulated electric door with no handle.
The nova is CAT1 immobilised and alarmed and driveway is blocked by 2 other vehicles that they would have to drive over.

Point is - if your doing up a nova it needs to be in a garage, stops prying eyes and is easy to alarm - oh and stops the thing turning to rust every time it rains.:thumb:

If it's on the road it only takes 2 seconds to smash the windows, and if you don't hear that they've got all night to get round the immobiliser / push it down the road. These people aren't bothered if you spot them as long as they can dart off quick enough.

[shy witness]

im happy enough with my big disk-lok

i had my 1st nova stolen.after spending a fortune on it

but since ive had the disclock ....i never had any bother with pwople even tryting to get in2 the car

and ive had a couple of nova's since.......and cavaliers aswell which were always a joyriders favourite


as someone else said..................dont leave anything valuable in yer car....or on show at least

and be carefull where you leave it aswell when your out places

[Philsutton]

I always remove my king lead an take it with me, it stopped my car from being stolen once which I think was a customer that saw it at the garage. Its like it would have gone far with out hitting the nearest tree as they were ****ing firing the nitrous while trying to turn it over. :roll: