securing my car

[dave a]

thanks for all your ideas. the gear lock could be a good visual deterant. combined with a simple alarm. i might put the siren in the cab to deafen any one sitting in it. i think parking it in a visable, busy area is also a good idea.

[MyEKisdriven]

Loop a chain from the brake peddle up and around the steering wheel and padlock it

This advice was given to me by an old police sarge 28yrs ago when I'd purchaced my 1st EK as a daily. As for the bonnet, with these cars now over 50yrs old the only people that know how to open the bonnet are either dead or on this forum !!!

I've got one of those posh plastic covered chains so it doesn't scratch anything inside the car, it's "case hardend" or something so it's quite strong. I brought it for my Harley yrs ago.
I remember once when the chain was on my bike in the gararge I lost the keys for the padlock so I tried to use bolt cutters on one of the links.... I ended up using a 9in grinder to cut the link... Wife found the keys 6mths later in the kids toy box.

I use my ute most days and I chain it up when parking in a public place.

[Mick]

there is a problem with locks that involve the steering wheel most thieves could care less about it (the steering wheel) , do you know how long it takes to cut through a steering wheel not long at all and even less time to brake it

[EK JAY]

Pull the coil lead off and put it in your pocket

or the obvious one stick a F O R D badge on it

[gpi]

Mine is booby trapped with 14" wheels, bucket seats, blue 202 and an aussie 4spd.
Just enough theft deterrent devices to keep it safe...

[Mai Ki-Ki]

No badges to steal, no door locks, so the junkies just get confused.
Ran my club lock till recently, when the locking cylinder broke and slid out at 2am...when I was about to head to the airport. Took me 10 minutes to grab tools, pull steering wheel off, and cut off club lock with angle grinder...sorry neighbours.

New lock ready to go.

[choppedfan]

Empty gun holster left laying on front seat in clear view.

[Mick]

Pull the coil lead off and put it in your pocket

sorry jay another easy fix for the thieves they don't mind driving a car with a miss 1 spark plug lead replaces the coil lead

rotor button isn't a bad one, a mate once had a dud dizzy cap with leads, he'de swap them out and hide the good one out of site in the boot, that wasn't a bad one as all looked normal
another if you have a floor shift car fit auto collum with electricals/inhibitor switch smooth collum off to look like a blank collum, when leaving car twist collum where shift used to be thus moving the inhibitor into a gear position and not park position car has no power

[browny]

hey
dont think putting a f ord badge on it will fix the problem ek jay last night my xb was broken into they were unsuccesful of starting it they attempted to break the igntion barrel by the looks of it just waitin on the coppers now

[EK JAY]

hey
dont think putting a f ord badge on it will fix the problem ek jay last night my xb was broken into they were unsuccesful of starting it they attempted to break the igntion barrel by the looks of it just waitin on the coppers now

Looks like they were a blind car theif

but seriously thats not good at least they didnt get it though