Relocating hood release (anti-theft)

[Hocus]

Some f***ers smashed my window and took $800 worth of sounds, and my camera. I didn't have an alarm, but that was the next thing on my list. I was just waiting to get paid. But i know that Alarms don't do s**t since they can just open the hood and cut the siren wire. So i thought it would be a good idea to relocate the hood release to somewhere hidden. That way, after pulling the hood release with nothing happening, they might give up and run away.

Of course, i'm gonna make my sounds harder to steal when i buy new stuff. I'm gonna bolt it to the car. Not too sure what to do to keep the deck in there though.

So, any good ideas of where to relocate the release, or how to? Or any ideas of how to make it harder to steal sounds? I'm f***ing pissed!! blah!

 

[Leitnin]

to keep the deck in there, use allen head bolts or torx or something rediculously annoying to get at (star drives are the least common, they are like torks with the dot in the middle) allens piss people off becasue you have to get the right one and they are annoying to sort through. that would take some time and frustration. you'll see when you put them on how annoying it would be to take them off.

 

[Defiant]

If you get an alarm, find the loudest horn/siren you can and mount it inside the passenger compartment.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Originally posted by Defiant
If you get an alarm, find the loudest horn/siren you can and mount it inside the passenger compartment.

Not a bad idea!

 

[Addict]

That sucks man. I hate theives.

Originally posted by Defiant
If you get an alarm, find the loudest horn/siren you can and mount it inside the passenger compartment.

Yep. Make their ears bleed. You can find some relatively small & loud ones.

 

[Hocus]

where would you mount that though? Sirens seem to be pretty large from what i remember, even the smallest ones.

 

[Defiant]

Inside the driver's headrest would be nice... although not as nice as a Claymore. Instead of an airbag, I prefer a handful of roofing nails, too. It's a personal issue.

I had a Supra stolen and burned for the $200 worth of Dunlops that were on it. They even swapped-out the factory mags in the deal. Not that I'm fu(king bitter or anything. No, not hardly at all.

Skinning is too kind for car thieves.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

I once had a Nissan Sentra that I had an awesome system in. The car just came out of the shop 2 weeks before the incident, because I got it painted a fresh coat of black. I even washed and waxed it the day before the incident. Anyway, that night some mofos popped the locks and took my sh*t. Of course the paint all around the locks was scratched away. They popped all 3 locks (driver, passanger, and trunk). They even keyed it! I was sooo pissed. My insurance company wouldn't let me take it to the place I got it painted before, so it never looked right. I sold the car to a friend, and it has gotten broken into 2 times since then! Damn car theives.

 

[Streetbeat]

relocatin your hood latch will help but most thieves know the car that their gonna hit, well atleast the smart thieves...i like the roofin nails idea

 

[Hocus]

what do you mean "know the car" they're gonna hit. THey're gonna know where the stock hood release place is, but how in the hell are they gonna know where you relocated it to? You just can't be a dumb@$$ and tell people where you relocated it to.

I've heard that some shops eye out your car and then tell theives what you got under the hood, what sounds you got, etc.. Which is why i never take my car to a shop unless i absolutely have to.

 

[TurBoGs-T]

You just answered you own question. Sooner or later people will somehow find out where it is.

 

[Coldandafraid]

I have an idea... but it will cost some money. Take a solenoid that you would normally use to pull the door handle if you were to shave your external handles... and attach it to the trunk release wire and bolt it up somewhere. Then, voila, you have remote only hood release... just make sure it has enough wire showing that you can grab, in case your battery dies.