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    Think outside the square.

    There's a few bikies around the place, presumably out of work?
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    Quote Originally Posted by P4trol View Post
    Think outside the square.

    There's a few bikes around the place, presumably out of work?
    Huh......?

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    Employ one as security for the GU...

    (sorry, I realised the autocorrect made it not make sense - fixed)

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    Quote Originally Posted by P4trol View Post
    Employ one as security for the GU...

    (sorry, I realised the autocorrect made it not make sense - fixed)
    LOL.
    Now I see where you were going with that!
    Might need to upgrade the springs if your gonna take that option......

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    Quote Originally Posted by bamr33 View Post
    GPS tracking is good at least you see where it has last been taken.
    Thieves use GPS or mobile phone jammers. At least for expensive cars. They are of course illegal but so is stealing a car. The GPS tracking is not as reliable as one might think.
    I'll put one in anyway. Not everyone is highly sophisticated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flo-w View Post
    Thieves use GPS or mobile phone jammers. At least for expensive cars. They are of course illegal but so is stealing a car. The GPS tracking is not as reliable as one might think.
    I'll put one in anyway. Not everyone is highly sophisticated.
    Agreed.

    Make it hard for them to steal the car make it such a time consuming job getting to the immobilizer box and ignition wires. Run a continuous line of zip tie after zip tie and several layers of electrical tape. Exposing the wires would be a right pain in the ass and not something that you would do if you where in a hurry. Making the immobilizer box itself hard to get is more important as most immobilizers can be bi passed on the board itself, open it up fill it with sikaflex then seal it again zip tie it right up hi under the dash with shitloads of zip ties. The common car thief will pick off easy targets,not one where it will take literally an hour cutting thru tape and ties. When you park your car turn the wheel full lock makes it hell of alot hard to pull onto a truck.

    Think about where you store keys inside your house leave them lying around makes it pretty easy to drive your car out the driveway while your sleeping or not home. I lock my spare sets of keys in gun safe and hang main keys in a spot where you would have to spend considerable time trying to find.

    Professional car thieves are more interested in high end cars.

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