Use a club! Fact is, when a dirt bag (DB) needs a ride for transportation, he will avoid a vehicle with a club, and find another vehicle easier to steel. Many cars are stolen simply because the DB just needs a ride somewhere.
Those of you who think having a beat-up car makes them exempt should understand that some DB's will steel a beat up car over a really nice one just so they don't look out of place in it.
Cars are stolen for many different reasons. Friday night/ Saturday night just to have wheels to go party and or joy ride. During the week to make a drug run, do a drive-by, or go see the GF. And some are stolen for parts, or to VIN switch/ sub plate and sell.
My recommendation:
1. Use the Club.
2. Fuel kill switch.
3. And if ya are really worried about it being stolen in the driveway in front of your house, you can try this:
4. Cut a hole in the concrete driveway 12” X 12" X 18” deep. Then Weld up some metal dowels to the bottom of some ¾” plate that will extend down into the hole from the plate, and weld some cross pieces to it. You can be creative here. On top of the plate, weld some schedule 80 pipe length wise large enough to fit a Kryptonite Cobra links STD lock through.
http://www.epinions.com/auto-Motorsports-Accessories-All-Kryptonite_Cobralinks_STD_Lock
Place your chain anchor in the hole so the top of the schedule metal 80 pipe is flush with the top of your driveway. Modify some plastic PVC 45 degree pipe connecters to each end of the Schedule 80 metal pipe to act as a guide for your Cobra chain to fit through after you have cemented it all in, and to keep the cement out of the pipe tube while it hardens. Make sure the chain will fit through your anchore before you cement it in.
When it is all done, you will have two small holes in your drive way flush with the rest of your drive. Then all you do is run the Cobra chain through the hole in the driveway, and up and around the axle on your Jeep. The lock on the Cobra chain is very hard to pick, even for a professional lock smith. I did this for my Harley back in 1991; only the same set up was done in my garage.
If you have any questions, let me know. I plan on doing this again for my XJ, and when I do, I will do a right up with pics.
-Gar
Those of you who think having a beat-up car makes them exempt should understand that some DB's will steel a beat up car over a really nice one just so they don't look out of place in it.
Cars are stolen for many different reasons. Friday night/ Saturday night just to have wheels to go party and or joy ride. During the week to make a drug run, do a drive-by, or go see the GF. And some are stolen for parts, or to VIN switch/ sub plate and sell.
My recommendation:
1. Use the Club.
2. Fuel kill switch.
3. And if ya are really worried about it being stolen in the driveway in front of your house, you can try this:
4. Cut a hole in the concrete driveway 12” X 12" X 18” deep. Then Weld up some metal dowels to the bottom of some ¾” plate that will extend down into the hole from the plate, and weld some cross pieces to it. You can be creative here. On top of the plate, weld some schedule 80 pipe length wise large enough to fit a Kryptonite Cobra links STD lock through.
http://www.epinions.com/auto-Motorsports-Accessories-All-Kryptonite_Cobralinks_STD_Lock
Place your chain anchor in the hole so the top of the schedule metal 80 pipe is flush with the top of your driveway. Modify some plastic PVC 45 degree pipe connecters to each end of the Schedule 80 metal pipe to act as a guide for your Cobra chain to fit through after you have cemented it all in, and to keep the cement out of the pipe tube while it hardens. Make sure the chain will fit through your anchore before you cement it in.
When it is all done, you will have two small holes in your drive way flush with the rest of your drive. Then all you do is run the Cobra chain through the hole in the driveway, and up and around the axle on your Jeep. The lock on the Cobra chain is very hard to pick, even for a professional lock smith. I did this for my Harley back in 1991; only the same set up was done in my garage.
If you have any questions, let me know. I plan on doing this again for my XJ, and when I do, I will do a right up with pics.
-Gar
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