quote:Originally posted by jakebeez: Step # 4 be the hardest motha ****a on the block, let it be known your not a person to be messed with, if you find out someone steals your stuff they will get dealt with properly. lol, step 4 is the "just incase" step.
Got that down. WOuld having your room look like a firearms shop do the job? How about firing chunks of pipe through the air? Blowing things up in your yard? Or what about going outside and just beating the hell out of a failed sub box with a 40 lbs sledge hammer?
quote:Originally posted by jakebeez: Step # 4 be the hardest motha ****a on the block, let it be known your not a person to be messed with, if you find out someone steals your stuff they will get dealt with properly. lol, step 4 is the "just incase" step.
Got that down. WOuld having your room look like a firearms shop do the job? How about firing chunks of pipe through the air? Blowing things up in your yard? Or what about going outside and just beating the hell out of a failed sub box with a 40 lbs sledge hammer?
quote:Originally posted by bignick31985: I have a new way to mount my woofers so they are IMPOSSIBLE to remove from the box.
Say you have 1 15 inch sub and you want to mount it so nobody can get it. Well, go ahead and cut out the 14 inch mounting hole. But instead of mounting on top of the mdf, mount it under the mdf. So you have to screw it in backwards! But even if the person taking it unscrews the sub, they wont be able to get a 15 inch sub out of a 14 inch hole! And remeber to mount the sub before you put the front face on the box. I may trye this b/c all they could do was damage it!
Two cnc cut steel rings, 50 or so bolts and nuts, 20’ or so of 1/8” C channel, a bunch of weather striping, several toggle bolts, 30 or so self tapping sheet metal screws and washers, a bunch of lost hair and time ... Equals one pain in the rear to get at pair of subs. You can remove the lid (over and over and over lol), but it isn’t easy or quick. Not the reason it was done that way, but I guess that’s an okay side effect as far as theft goes.
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My truck was broken into in late March. They stole my Pioneer CD player, 2 Alpine amps and Audiovox Sub. It was parked in front of my friends house where I pretty much live. They have a row of pine trees along the road between the cars and the house and I was parked next to the shed on the side of the house. I took a friend to get clothes from his house and got back, threw the head unit face into the glove box, but I grabbed all of my about 150 CD's because I was going to make copys and locked the doors went inside and fell asleep, fast forward to noon the next day. I was up and getting ready for work and I asked my friend if he could go start my truck. He comes back in a minute later and was like, "Someone stole your radio!" I said Nuh uh, but then I saw the crazy look in his eyes and then I felt sick to my stomach. So I walk outside and see a hole as big as someones head in the pass. door glass. I opened the door and my dash trim was peeled back. I opened my glove box and the face was gone, but THANK GOD that my checkbook and my girlfriends ring was still there. I checked behind the seat to see nothing but my various stereo wires. I slid the seat forward and saw that they didn't see my old small Alpine amp that is currently powering my doors. I have since gotten an alarm and I am currently working on making that better. I just bought 2 extra sirens and a mini piezo siren that sounds like a VERY loud bird yesterday and a relay to run them. I am eventually going to have 2 sirens under the hood and 4 under the bed. Since I don't have dash speakers eventually I am going to mount either 5 of the mini sirens per hole OR 1 regular siren per hole. I'm pretty sure they would fit. Could you imagine all of that noise bouncing off of the glass and into your face?! I could also relocate the alarm into one of those speaker holes. That's all I can think of for now.
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dang can we say over kill??????doesnt matter how many sirens you got as long as youve got one mounted to where they cannt get to it and cut the wire. only thing you can do to help from geting your ride stolen. mount the alarm high in the dash and i say MOUNTED! not just stuck up thier or taped up thier! and a main thing is VISABLE DETERANT. forget those cheap little blinking leds and get one of varads scanners. those things are about 1,000times beter/brighter/ and a WHOLE lots more visable and would catch peoples eyes, basicaly yellen at them saying ive got a alarm dont mess with me! most thiefs are smash & grabers. basicaly hores that are pussies and if its not bolted down they take it and run like hell!!!!!!!! and with a siren blasten that will scare them so much they will piss thier pants and run like hell with NOTHING!
but if its a real thief theyll just hook a winch to your ride and drag it up in a trailer and thier gone. 30seconds or less and your whole ride is gone! nothing you can realy do thier exept you beter have insurance!!!!!
best options for a car alarm are additional shock sensors (properly set) so no false alarms! and a glass breakage sensor, and my favorite led scanners, and paging remote control is the best invention since the alarm!
DONT CHEAP OUT ON A ALARM THINKING YOULL BE OK WITHOUT IT! YOU JUST SPENT SO MUCH TIME AND MONEY GETING YOUR STEREO SYSTEM WHATS ANOTHER 200 BUCKS TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT! ONLY SECOND TO FULL COVERAGE AUTO INSURANCE!
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How i have my system the only thing you can see is my cd player and if the theif knows anything the will not steal an eclipse deck, becuase if the owner was smart enough to use the CDKEY option, the deck is completly useless. An if they are dumb enough to do it eclipse will replace it so im not out anything.
My eq is hidden in my center console under lock and key, my sub box is going under my back seat and will be down firing and strapped down in the back. You will have to take my entire back seat out to get my subs and my amps are behind the back seat (extended cab truck). And i really do not think someone is going to take off my door planels in hopes of finding aftermarket speakers.
I dont have and alarm, but i did make sure my insurance covers my system. If someone wants what you have they will get it, just get the insurance to cover your stuff and an alarm is nice, but if there appears to be nothing to steal in your truck a theif will just go to the next easy car and take there stuff.
I have been jacked once. They took my cd player and 1 amp. They left the subs, high amp, and my Quarts which were in the kickpanels. At the time my sub amp wasnt bolted down and the cd player was easy to get out in the type of car i used to have. Everything elses was bolted down and not easy to remove. They wanted quick easy grab.
I didnt have insurance to cover my stuff. Now i do, if they want it they will take it, and Stickers are a big no-no. A theif goes into a parking lot and sees a hige JL sticker on the back of your ride. Guess what he knows excalty where to go now. Stay away from being flashy, make it appear you dont have much. Stealth is key. If they pear through your tinted windows and cant see anything to steal why would they want in?
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You really need relays for extra layers of protection & airbags or hydro's for tow trucks.
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Hey TCSIMMONS. You really should look into getting a $100 dollar alarm. You do have the added security, plus a 5% total discount if you have full coverage insurance. Besides you can get remote start and power door locks, trunk popper and I think even remote windows. Obviously if you want some or all of those features, then it will be over $100, but it is money well spent.
BTW I know the group of individuals who jacked me, but there really isn't anything I can do legally and I can't fight anyway. They are a bunch of pot smoking 40 oz drinking dumb ****s who can't get a job because they stay up late at night ****ing with peoples ****. Get this: Two days after my truck got broken into, suddenly their 80s Oldsmobile had just about as much bass as my truck did. About a month later, the cops came to their house one night and I went over and talked to a cop about it and he said there really wasn't anything I could do without serial numbers, because the only way that I could have proved that it was mine was because I when they yanked out the cd player, my phoenix gold rcas were taped to the output wires and they tore the output wire so one plug would be missing off of the cd player. After that their car suddenly had a lot more bass, so my guess is that they knew that I knew and they traded or got rid of my stuff. They've sold that and got a late 80's Crown Vic with beats.
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Hey TCSIMMONS. You really should look into getting a $100 dollar alarm. You do have the added security, plus a 5% total discount if you have full coverage insurance. Besides you can get remote start and power door locks, trunk popper and I think even remote windows. Obviously if you want some or all of those features, then it will be over $100, but it is money well spent.
BTW I know the group of individuals who jacked me, but there really isn't anything I can do legally and I can't fight anyway. They are a bunch of pot smoking 40 oz drinking dumb ****s who can't get a job because they stay up late at night ****ing with peoples ****. Get this: Two days after my truck got broken into, suddenly their 80s Oldsmobile had just about as much bass as my truck did. About a month later, the cops came to their house one night and I went over and talked to a cop about it and he said there really wasn't anything I could do without serial numbers, because the only way that I could have proved that it was mine was because I when they yanked out the cd player, my phoenix gold rcas were taped to the output wires and they tore the output wire so one plug would be missing off of the cd player. After that night, their car suddenly had a lot more bass, so my guess is that they knew that I knew and they traded or got rid of my stuff. They've sold that and got a late 80's Crown Vic with beats. I hate those stupid idiots.
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ya for my next equipment im gonna get a ingraver and ingrave my name & phone number inside the amp and on the botom of the amp! so even if they scratch off the botom name thiers still the one inside the amp. #s dont mean to much since they can easily be rubbed out alot easier!!!!!!! but i hope to have my next system for at least 2 years or until it blows up.LOL and then ill just have it repaired!!!!!!!!!!
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quote:Originally posted by jakebeez: Step # 4 be the hardest motha ****a on the block, let it be known your not a person to be messed with, if you find out someone steals your stuff they will get dealt with properly. lol, step 4 is the "just incase" step.
Got that down. WOuld having your room look like a firearms shop do the job? How about firing chunks of pipe through the air? Blowing things up in your yard? Or what about going outside and just beating the hell out of a failed sub box with a 40 lbs sledge hammer?
quote:Originally posted by tucked65: Got that down. WOuld having your room look like a firearms shop do the job? How about firing chunks of pipe through the air? Blowing things up in your yard? Or what about going outside and just beating the hell out of a failed sub box with a 40 lbs sledge hammer? [/QB]
quote:Originally posted by darkside515xx: I wonder if it's possible to put a video camera in your car and whenever you leave it you have a watch that's like a monitor that fits on your wrist so you can watch your car at all times...???
well, actually, if you get a bed big enough, you can have it right by your side all nite long...
quote:Originally posted by tucked65: Well, its not the neighbors you have to worry about, it is the people who live with you that are rotten.
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It is posts like these that make me want to park my cars permanently and just take a fu@king bus instead... Useful info? Most likely, some real good points... but I would be frigging miserable to live this way and the bottom line is that there is always an ahole out there who will just fu@k your car up if they cannot take what they want... not sure which way is worse? (had it happen both ways... more than once, even after taking all possible precautions outside of locking my cars up and not driving at all)... Pretty f'ed up world...
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park next to nicer cars than yours. i always try to park next to more visable or more expensive cars than mine. i figure that the theives will be more interested in the mercedes or lexus, or bmw than my dirty honda.
i know it probably doesn't work, but it at least makes me feel better. plus you can't see inside my car even in the daytime.
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howabout say an electrical discharge system...or even flame throwers under the car...i've acutally seen/heard of those flame throwers...brings a new definition to owned.
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quote:Originally posted by southbanner: howabout say an electrical discharge system...or even flame throwers under the car...i've acutally seen/heard of those flame throwers...brings a new definition to owned.
The flamethrowers are for protection against carjacking, not from "normal" theft where you aren't in the car I doubt they are legal in the US, though...
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I have heard about hunters having cameras that take pictures by a motion sensor. I have thought about mounting one on my roof and aiming it at my truck. I park my truck in my backyard, and there would rarely be anything to set the camera off, except anyone trying break into my stuff. I haven't done it yet but I thought it would be a good idea.
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quote:Originally posted by scro1234: I have heard about hunters having cameras that take pictures by a motion sensor. I have thought about mounting one on my roof and aiming it at my truck. I park my truck in my backyard, and there would rarely be anything to set the camera off, except anyone trying break into my stuff. I haven't done it yet but I thought it would be a good idea.
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Bumping this so everyone can read. VERY good info for us all!
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