Possible HID Theft Deterrent??
07-01-2003, 04:20 PM
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Possible HID Theft Deterrent??
While stumbling thru the forums at sounddomain trying to educate myself about car audio I found this tip on how to prevent (or how to make more difficult) stereo theft when my fellow max owners came to mind. I copied this parargraph directly from the site.
posted 04-13-2003 06:20 PM
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This post is regarding alarm systems and how to best protect your equipment from being stolen.
Here are some common features that are included with most decent quality alarm units:
115dB Siren
Impact Sensor
Keyless Entry
Starter Kill
Horn Honk
Parking Light Flash
Headlight Flash (Low and Hi)
Hood and Trunk Pins0
Door Pins
Although those features will stop most timid thieves out there, they probably aren't going to stop veteran thieves, crack heads, and thieves with a lot of guts. So here are some ideas on how to go one step further in preventing these people from stealing our hard-earned belongings. Pay close attention to paragraph 2.
1) This is the major problem: A thief can simply bust out your driver's side window, reach in without opening the door, pop your hood, cut the battery cable, and now the car alarm is totally disabled. For a skilled thief this process would literally take about 15 seconds.
There are two things I would recommend you do to prevent a thief from disabling your alarm in this manner. The most recommended method is for you to invent in a steel cable hood lock. The cable runs from under the dash of your car, through the firewall, and mounts itself underneath the hood. It is locked and unlocked using a key from the inside of the vehicle. Without this key, the hood cannot be popped open.
This will prevent easy access to your battery. At this point the thief can either run away, try to grab and dash, or try to access the battery by crawling under the car. Although I highly doubt a thief would go through the trouble of crawling under your car to cut the battery cable, it has happened before. Mount your multi-tone siren next to the battery pointed downward. Mount a peizo siren next to it, also pointing downward. We want to make it very uncomfortable for our thief to stick his head under the car with those sirens blazing right in his ear.
If the hood is prevented from being opened to protect the battery, would this not also prevent tampering with the HIDs from the inside? I hope someone can work with this and save their HIDS, especially you New York and Jersey guys. Bare in mind this is just friendly noobish advice. If it doesnt or wont work, please dont shoot the messenger.
posted 04-13-2003 06:20 PM
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This post is regarding alarm systems and how to best protect your equipment from being stolen.
Here are some common features that are included with most decent quality alarm units:
115dB Siren
Impact Sensor
Keyless Entry
Starter Kill
Horn Honk
Parking Light Flash
Headlight Flash (Low and Hi)
Hood and Trunk Pins0
Door Pins
Although those features will stop most timid thieves out there, they probably aren't going to stop veteran thieves, crack heads, and thieves with a lot of guts. So here are some ideas on how to go one step further in preventing these people from stealing our hard-earned belongings. Pay close attention to paragraph 2.
1) This is the major problem: A thief can simply bust out your driver's side window, reach in without opening the door, pop your hood, cut the battery cable, and now the car alarm is totally disabled. For a skilled thief this process would literally take about 15 seconds.
There are two things I would recommend you do to prevent a thief from disabling your alarm in this manner. The most recommended method is for you to invent in a steel cable hood lock. The cable runs from under the dash of your car, through the firewall, and mounts itself underneath the hood. It is locked and unlocked using a key from the inside of the vehicle. Without this key, the hood cannot be popped open.
This will prevent easy access to your battery. At this point the thief can either run away, try to grab and dash, or try to access the battery by crawling under the car. Although I highly doubt a thief would go through the trouble of crawling under your car to cut the battery cable, it has happened before. Mount your multi-tone siren next to the battery pointed downward. Mount a peizo siren next to it, also pointing downward. We want to make it very uncomfortable for our thief to stick his head under the car with those sirens blazing right in his ear.
If the hood is prevented from being opened to protect the battery, would this not also prevent tampering with the HIDs from the inside? I hope someone can work with this and save their HIDS, especially you New York and Jersey guys. Bare in mind this is just friendly noobish advice. If it doesnt or wont work, please dont shoot the messenger.
07-02-2003, 08:54 AM
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I was under the impression that the lights needed to be removed from the inside so as not to damage the lights housing. I guess not. Still this seems like a better alternative than the crappy ant-theft kit Nissan sells.
07-02-2003, 09:05 AM
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Originally posted by CrownofThorns
I was under the impression that the lights needed to be removed from the inside so as not to damage the lights housing. I guess not. Still this seems like a better alternative than the crappy ant-theft kit Nissan sells.
I was under the impression that the lights needed to be removed from the inside so as not to damage the lights housing. I guess not. Still this seems like a better alternative than the crappy ant-theft kit Nissan sells.
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