just wanted to know if anyone knew what this was looks like it came with the car my car is a 1995 gxe 5 speed

 

Does that piece go in that slot? If so, maybe some kind of security device??? I don't know, it's not stock.

 

its a old style kill switch, cuts off the fuel pump.

 

yeah the key goes in that slot i dont think its hooked up i remember taking that panel off and wires were taped to the back of it

 

Those things are worthless. If someone wants your car they'll just get a tow truck and take it away. Plus, all you have to do is follow the wires, cut, twist, and done...how hard is that to bypass for a thief?

 

damn i haven't seen one of those in a long time, yeah its a kill switch.

 

you selling the cut off and key

 

I know the most commonly stolen cars are cars like ours, but nobody's towing them out, they're hot-wiring them. It isn't worth the high-dollar, high-risk effort to bust out a tow truck if the other 4th gen Maxima across the street will start when you touch the wires together.

I've just bought a bicycle for city commuting, and the most common locking advice given on the interweb is to make your bike less convenient to steal than the next one. As long as yours isn't a thousand-dollar carbon-fiber beast, a thief will always go after the one that's more poorly locked. Same applies to our cars. One mid-'90s Japanese midsize sedan won't fire? No worries, there's another within spitting distance.

 

That is a common dealer installed starter kill, not fuel pump cutoff as stated above.
They were commonly used in the early to mid 90s.

 

Any thief who is smart enough to hot wire a car is plenty smart enough to bypass that little starter kill device. And real life isn't like Hollywood...you can't just break into a car, reach under the dash, pull a bundle of wires out, touch them together, and bam...the car starts. To get a pre '99 4th gen to start you need to light up the ignition and accessory wires and then there are TWO starter wires that need to be powered to crank. This isn't exactly easy for a thief, especially when time is a concern. I don't know how someone would steal a car easily but I'm assuming there are some tricks of the trade.

In the end the best protection for car theft is good insurance because if the thief wants your car bad enough then nothing will stop him.

 

You're right that the little key under the dash isn't exactly Fort Knox. But a little hidden and unlabeled fuel pump relay kill switch could do the trick.

My point, was that nobody wants a '95-'98 Maxima enough to go through a lot of trouble to get it, and certainly not enough to get out a tow truck, unless they suspect there's something worthwhile under the hood or speaker grilles. If you're riding on two-foot rims with a touchscreen nav system in the dash and an intercooler poking out from the bumper, then yeah, someone might consider it worth the trouble. But for most of our cars, a thief who can't get the car started quickly and inconspicuously isn't calling out the truck - and all its associated noise, spectacle, and risk - for what might yield $1000 in parts.

So yeah, a determined thief will get my '97 no matter what I do. But how many determined thieves are after my particular car, and won't settle for the exact same thing three cars down? A steering wheel lock, a fuel cut switch, whatever. It's not foolproof, but with common, older cars, the best defense is the one that's better than the next guy's.

 

Old school Interlock device. Better off with a fuel pump kill switch, simple and easy to hide. But the others are right if someone wants the car bad enough nothing will stop them.

 

i plan on removing it so anyone who wants to buy it let me know its not hooked up right now previous owner disconected it not sure anyone would want it but rather see before i throw it out

 

YUP!

Yo lukeman, I thought u went back to all stock.

 

stock wheels still have all the other stuff just took the chrome off