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Kill Switch
So my car got broken into a few months ago, and then last week my dads truck got stolen...with the crime against cars going up in this once nice neighborhood, I think its high time I install some kind of anti-theft device.
I'd like an alarm, but thats out of my price range, so I'm opting for a simple kill switch since it worked great on my AE86. I'm not exactly sure what to "kill" though. My first idea was the starter, but that still allows for pop starting, the fuel pump would be good, but the connector makes it impossible to make a harness so I don't have to cut into the stock harness. My last idea that was I working on was the igniters, but I'm getting a cross connection trying to hook up the 4 leads from both igniters since they are different electrical outputs.
Does anyone have any good ideas for a kill switch that would also prevent pop starting? (Not cutting into the stock harness is also highly preferred, i rather just make an adapter harness)
I'd like an alarm, but thats out of my price range, so I'm opting for a simple kill switch since it worked great on my AE86. I'm not exactly sure what to "kill" though. My first idea was the starter, but that still allows for pop starting, the fuel pump would be good, but the connector makes it impossible to make a harness so I don't have to cut into the stock harness. My last idea that was I working on was the igniters, but I'm getting a cross connection trying to hook up the 4 leads from both igniters since they are different electrical outputs.
Does anyone have any good ideas for a kill switch that would also prevent pop starting? (Not cutting into the stock harness is also highly preferred, i rather just make an adapter harness)
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Make sure it is well hidden. Wire it close to the fuel pump, and use a relay.
If you wire it up near the actual fuel pump relay under the dash, it will be found very quickly and circumvented.
My suggestion would be to hide it in one of the storage bins, or the glove box and lock the glove box with your key.
If you wire it up near the actual fuel pump relay under the dash, it will be found very quickly and circumvented.
My suggestion would be to hide it in one of the storage bins, or the glove box and lock the glove box with your key.
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Even when I installed my Pioneer AVIC-D3 I made a harness for it and rewired every speaker so I could do it the right way and not cut into any stock harness. My FC isn't a beater, its pristine, so I don't want to deface that now.
Make sure it is well hidden. Wire it close to the fuel pump, and use a relay.
If you wire it up near the actual fuel pump relay under the dash, it will be found very quickly and circumvented.
My suggestion would be to hide it in one of the storage bins, or the glove box and lock the glove box with your key.
If you wire it up near the actual fuel pump relay under the dash, it will be found very quickly and circumvented.
My suggestion would be to hide it in one of the storage bins, or the glove box and lock the glove box with your key.
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Oh, and to AGreen...A H&K P30 in .40 S&W would make a great kill switch, but I'd have to see the R-tard trying to steal my car, in which case I rather just use my Yugoslavian SKS at that point lol
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As far as the switch goes, I have the perfect place for it. I got a semi-flush on-off button and I plan on mounting it in the storage bin fiberglass, then re-covering it with the carpet, so a simple tap on the carpet in the right spot will kill or enable whatever it is I finally decide to attach it to.
That's similar to how you get a police cruiser out of park. No I can't tell you how to do it. :p
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I have actually done this. Long story.
Funny thing is, it was with my Yugoslav SKS!
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No offense or anything, but thats a really bootleg way of doing it. I just hate buying cars and then when I go rummaging though electrical systems finding that some jackass spliced the stock harness to save time/money/effort to do something that easily could have been done properly.
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I read that in most cases the victim of a robbery knew the suspect. so you should put the switch somewhere that only you know where it is and when you have a passenger he/she will not see you flip the kill switch. the glove box is a good idea but it will be right in front of the passenger. the storage bin will be hard to reach from the driver seat. a good place may be inside the arm rest. to the passenger it will look like you are putting something away and his/her view will be blocked by the arm rest door. and to the average car thieve when your old car don't start he will just assume it don't run.
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I wouldn't want to know how to get a cop car out of park, it wouldn't do much good anyway, those things have like 98435 GPS's on them, you'd get rolled real fast swooping a cruiser. Though the knowledge alone would be kinda nice.
Haha you got an SKS too? they are nice weapons.
I read that in most cases the victim of a robbery knew the suspect. so you should put the switch somewhere that only you know where it is and when you have a passenger he/she will not see you flip the kill switch. the glove box is a good idea but it will be right in front of the passenger. the storage bin will be hard to reach from the driver seat. a good place may be inside the arm rest. to the passenger it will look like you are putting something away and his/her view will be blocked by the arm rest door. and to the average car thieve when your old car don't start he will just assume it don't run.
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I wouldn't want to know how to get a cop car out of park, it wouldn't do much good anyway, those things have like 98435 GPS's on them, you'd get rolled real fast swooping a cruiser. Though the knowledge alone would be kinda nice.
Haha you got an SKS too? they are nice weapons.
Haha you got an SKS too? they are nice weapons.
I have to know how to get a police cruiser moving or...well I couldn't work on it.
I have also installed thier GPS/GSM locators too.
Yeah, I like my Yugo SKS. I got it in mint condition still in its commie box mummified in cosmoline. Never shot it.
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or...
He plans to run on end back to the switch and back up to the igniter. I think plan 2, if that's what he is doing is a bad idea.
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I am an Autotech, and do automotive electrical for a living.
I have to know how to get a police cruiser moving or...well I couldn't work on it.
I have also installed thier GPS/GSM locators too.
Yeah, I like my Yugo SKS. I got it in mint condition still in its commie box mummified in cosmoline. Never shot it.
I have to know how to get a police cruiser moving or...well I couldn't work on it.
I have also installed thier GPS/GSM locators too.
Yeah, I like my Yugo SKS. I got it in mint condition still in its commie box mummified in cosmoline. Never shot it.
/Ain't skurd.
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i am too, do you feel as if your job is on the line if you were to tell them that theres an air diaphram that clicks a relay when you press on the air "pump" i'm not sure about the location of all of them, but most of them are were the clutch would be. that was the case on two 02 victorias we had come thru the shop.
/Ain't skurd.
/Ain't skurd.
The cruisers I have worked on are different than you describe.
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are you wanting a system to eliminate the possibility of the car getting stolen or just broken into? or both? what i would do if i were you is go to the junkyard and get a horn from an old Cadillac and wire it up to a vibration deterrent system as the alarm.
now, for the anti-stolen car, there is a wire with a black connector right underneath the engine bay fuse panel. wire up a two-way toggle switch through that wire. make sure you use a nice sized wire though or else the circuit wont have enough continuity to complete the circuit. this wire controls the ignition system and the car cant even try to start without it.
there you go, homemade theft system that works like a charm!!
now, for the anti-stolen car, there is a wire with a black connector right underneath the engine bay fuse panel. wire up a two-way toggle switch through that wire. make sure you use a nice sized wire though or else the circuit wont have enough continuity to complete the circuit. this wire controls the ignition system and the car cant even try to start without it.
there you go, homemade theft system that works like a charm!!
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