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| Author: | Zizzle [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:31 pm ] |
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I'm deliberately leaving out car alarm here. The one that I had in my mini was a royal PITA. |
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| Author: | CPOCSM [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:41 pm ] |
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I take the rotor button with me. I also have a kill switch to the fuel pump that is external and would never find it in a fit - even the wiring is concealed to the pump. Rotor button is good though - cant go anywhere Hooroo |
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| Author: | Zizzle [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:47 pm ] |
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I didn't list the fuel pump kill switch since knowing my luck, me or someone else would forget it and pull out in front of a truck just as the bowl emptied. Stuffing around under the bonnet in the dark for the rotor button could be fun. But hey it's a mini, your likely to have to be under there soon anyway 
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| Author: | CPOCSM [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:50 pm ] |
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It is a piece of piss - the cp can only go on one way - as too the rotor button It is a knack but you will get used to it - the other thing is a internal release latch for the bonnet - dtops people lifting the bonnet Hooroo |
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| Author: | awdmoke [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:58 pm ] |
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It's not a deterrent if you can't see it, therefore the clublock wins 
They are an annoying POS, and can be overcome by most experienced theives so the battery isolator would get my vote as the most effective theft prevention device, but only with a locked boot. |
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:51 am ] |
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awdmoke wrote: It's not a deterrent if you can't see it,
therefore the clublock wins They are an annoying POS, and can be overcome by most experienced theives so the battery isolator would get my vote as the most effective theft prevention device, but only with a locked boot. Agreed, it's the the best- add Clublock, Stayput brake pedal lock, fuel and ign kill switches for good measure. 
I had a Rhino car alarm, vibration killed it somehow and it started going off at 110KMH so I flung it in the bin. 
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| Author: | doogie [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:58 am ] |
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A big snake wrapped around the steering wheel!!  I remember a courie in Sydney back in the early nineties who used to have a big arsed & harmless carpet snake on his dashboard in his express van, he used to leave the keys in it all the time, no one would go near it, not even to brown bombers, classic
Doogie |
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| Author: | Lillee [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:17 am ] |
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Do all of the above! |
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| Author: | mad-mk1 [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:19 am ] |
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i would say the kill switch hidden, or a mixture of a couple |
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| Author: | slinkey inc [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:32 am ] |
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Properly done immobiliser works fine. I used to take the isolater switch with me but after too many removals it went dodgy and i'm sacred if I take it out again I'll have to go a buy a new switch! So I went immobiliser and my insurance said it was a must with a car of my desirability to steal (minis disirable to steal??) Immoboliser works graet, it stops ignition and fuel pump, and is hidden behind the dashbard amongst so many wires it would take the thief days to figure it out! Also has a flashing red LED to scare people. But IMHO If someone wants to steal your car they will. Real theives will no matter what you do, or if they can't they will have done so much damge in the process that you wish it was stolen. BUt of course to stop non-pro theives lock car and immobiliser.
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| Author: | Mini Mike [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:39 am ] |
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Chain a dirty big efen dog to your car.... Honestly you cant stop thiefs, If they are that determined to have your car they wont even brakke into them these days... They just get a tilt tray and tow it... It happens all the time. I know a guy who had possibly the nicest VH commo ever seens (ST8ASS) Sunday after summernats he had it parked outside his bedroom window on the back of a tilt tray... Some how they released the airbrakes on the truck rolled it out the front and tool the tilt tray with the car... Never seen again. |
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| Author: | Spaceboy [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:01 am ] |
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i think the only person to seriously steal a mini would be someone who is into/ knows about minis and thats why commodores are the most stolen car.... |
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| Author: | mattywood [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:19 am ] |
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Stalag 19. The machine guns towers, razor wire and Shultz should do it. |
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| Author: | _666_ [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:54 am ] |
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i know Nutzink !
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| Author: | DOZ [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:48 am ] |
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Take off the steering wheel and take it with you. As a bonus, you can pick up easily, it's a good conversation starter. I live in good ol Ctown NSW. Car thefts are either joyrides or for bits to sell but break in's are more common for things like gauges, phones etc. Since i had no radio, the wood rimmed steering wheel was the only other bit easily sold on the "pub" market so I took it with me. I put centre punch marks on the column and hub so I put it back on the right spline. I already carried a breaker bar & extension/socket for the wheel nuts so I just added the extra socket and stored tools in a leather-ish bag in the drivers door. On my old RX-7 (carby not EFI) I had a fuel pump cutout. My Dad bought it off me and one day parked it at the railway station without turning the alarm on. Thieves broke in and drove it 100m down the road before it stopped, this is where Dad found it. He had to buy a new door lock and column but luckily nothing else was damaged. Daniel |
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