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| ![]() Dippy- what an awesome write up, keep up the good work. Spike |
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I think a car should have minimum 2 deterrants atleast apart from the car's own ignition and door key. Last edited by sumeethaldankar : 12th January 2010 at 23:04. | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() our house has 3 cars parked inside - the i10 with audible alarm, the wagon r with immobilizer, and the M800...well... with nothing! But all are parked inside our compound behind a 4 fold steel gate which makes a LOT of noise when opened, plus we have a light glowing all night long - courtesy our neighbor's narrow passage. I guess as dippy mentioned - light is a big deterrent. I read somewhere here that people have installed DVRs with multiple camera and motion assisted recording(though stray cats/dogs are an impediment to motion assisted anything). Love to get hold of something like that and do a bit of tinkering around. I was thinking of getting steering to pedal locks for all of our cars - and sumeethaldankar posted his car's pic! Last edited by blackasta : 13th January 2010 at 01:02. |
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| ![]() Good thread dippy, deserves a 5 star rating, Bangalore tbhpians, any idea where one can get number etching on the glass done. would really help me & other bhpians in bangalore |
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| ![]() This is amazing thread. I have always wondered that a community so big as this didnt have an article summarizing the key points in Car Security. The most imporatnt part in any induced theft (I say induced becuse of the favourable conditions created around the "Theft magnets" - Cars) is the absence of light. Even if we have smallest bulb glowing in the place where we park our beauties, it will make the modern day "Tomb Raiders" to think twice before even thinking about stealing that car. As far as the motion sensors are concerned, with the amount of stray dogs on the indian roads once might never sleep in his entire Life!! |
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Hardly a deterrent. In fact, he could well steal your stereo / work on the ignition in full privacy with a cover! | |
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If the thief gets under the cover and forces open the door locks open and gets in the car while the covers are on, then he can work through the ignition as he pleases w/o anyone noticing. This can be done even in the day if his luck doesn't run out and is desperate enough. And I've reached the pinnacle of my imagination. Last edited by prince_pervez : 13th January 2010 at 13:02. | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() An essential thread when we hear of stolen cars and bikes every other day. Ideally my vehicles cant be stolen. I park below my house and the only to the road is an incline where the vehicle needs to be started. My two friends and their local friends take refuge under my vehicles. The slightest of noise wakes me up. So I guess I am safe. Whilst at Bangalore I used to park the Palio on the road. That was scary. Yet I am glad that the Palio is a dud and does not interest these thieves. The parking attendant in me used to sandwich the car clinically between the neighbors rides. This way they loose their cars first. ![]() Etching on glass is a very good idea. Guess I should get the same done. Any idea where this is done? I remember reading an article here where one member got his Scorp back after a cop noticed that the etched number did not match with the plates. |
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Nice move by the Bombay cops. How much do they charge? Now this is on my priority list to be done for the Xylo. | |
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Could you please suggest something, and one point that if the car is stolen, how does the insurance company treats one? i mean will it be covered in insurance? | |
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| ![]() It might be a good idea to keep the car covered as well, with a cover that does not announce loudly what it is concealing. It just might provide that much more deterrent for the thief to look under the cover to see what car it is; he might prefer the one nearby that is left uncovered and leave your car alone! |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() @DippyInteresting and informative thread - Very good.Parking the car in ones own house parking area or garage. If the house is facing a road, it is better to park the car against the gate(reverse position). This way it will be bit difficult for thief/theives to push (tow)the car and take out to the road. Instead if the car is parked focusing front of the car towards the gate, it is easy to tow away the car by just releasing the handbrake. And once they manage to take the car on the roadand thier job will be more easy.It happened to my friend who then just bought a maruti zen and parked the car in hishouse garage. The house is in side of the national highway. As said, he reversed the car in the night itself parked the car in such a way that car is positioned towards the gate (easy for him to drive away next morning).He woke up in the morning to see the car disappeared from the garage? |
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