Dylan's Clubby wrote:
cmohr wrote:
I used to actually remove my steering wheel and take it with me.
all i can think of is that mr bean pisode where he goes on the picnic, and is pulling his lunch out of his suitcase and he pulls out the steering whel

then it cuts to the guy trying to nick his car, he gets it running and everything then goes for the steering wheel and...nothing
i know were all sick of bean anecdotes but i thought it was worth a giggle. sorry

its a good isea though, if you dont mind lugging it around with out. you'd have to turn to lock so the car wouldnt be able to be pushed on a trailer
lol I never thought of that, although I did it before Mr Bean was even around (was in the mid 80's).
It wasn't a long walk to work, 100m or so, so a little steering wheel wasn't a burden and No it wasn't a quick release wheel, but , I had one of those pipe sockets with a screwdriver though it, so it only took 20 secs or so to pop the centre horn button, unscrew the locknut and I was on my way.
It worked...what more can I say.
Few other ones I heard of was a fuel line tap. All the electrics run, but NO feul can get thru to the carb, Theives are so often looking for electrical devices and cutoffs that they wouldn't even think of a simple mechanical tap. Didn't do that myself, but a mate with a "dunnydore" did it to his. Funny watching him start it up and rev it and go to take off, then stalling it, only to remember he hadn't turned on the fuel..
I also used to earth my tacho wire as well, that works a treat. and simple, I had a simple two pin connector setup. The power from the coil would come to the base of the steering column, there I had a two piont connector that I could plug in either way. One wire continued, as it should up to the tacko (mounted up on the steering column) the other wire was to ground. When I was locking up the car, I simply unpluged the connector and plugged it in the other way. Everything "LOOKED OK" , but the curcuit was broken. I liked the idea of no "switches" so even the most inquisitive of thief wpildn't be able to find one.