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Old Sep 13, 2006 | 10:25 PM
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oops, dont wanna forget those . this plan of mine first came to me the day i first saw an FD in person
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Old Sep 13, 2006 | 10:31 PM
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just get that thing that was in men in black II, the inflateble dolll, who's gonna go near a car when it looks like someone's in there?

dress him up like normal, pretending to sleep

and on the plus side if you'll never be alone while driving =D
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Old Sep 13, 2006 | 10:48 PM
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it cant be a black guy though, caus eotherwise he'll get questioned
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 05:29 AM
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if someone really..really wanted your car they wouldnt bother with bypassing an alarm....what a waste of time. if you're going to steal a car u just wait behind a bush for the owner to come out..walk out behind em, knock em out..take the keys...

then, buy a same year model make from a junk yard, get a salvage title, switch over the vin tags, etch the junk cars vin in the engine compartment.wait six months and tell the bmv you restored the car, and get a title for it. home free
There's no way to swap out the VIN stamped on the upper firewall. You would have to cut and weld.
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 09:46 AM
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i said swap the tag, under the windshield. cut, weld, resurface,paint
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 11:02 AM
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i have never seen anyone check a vin plate other than the one in the windsheild
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 12:00 PM
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im just going to put a large, violent animal in the back of mine.

Reese Bobby: There's nothing more frightening then driving with a live goddamn cougar next to you.

talledega nights
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 12:29 PM
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Well im not sure what type of GPS they put in those cars but I can tell you I can sit right here in my house on this computer and a GPS the size of a remote is giving me accuracy to 18ft. Thats with an old handheld unit, recently my dad bought a new touchscreen one again made by garmin, it dosent even have an antenna and it gets better reception than this one. As the owner of 3 GPS systems and user of many more, all I can say is that if you go under a tree and lose signal you got ripped. I dont think GPS in a car for alarm reasons is in any way useful, Im just defending the technology
No worries, I wasn't saying that GPS technology is useless.

Much of a GPS unit's accuracy and ability to gain a triangulation is dependent upon its antenna (all GPS units require an antenna; your dad's touchscreen Garmin simply doesn't have an antenna that folds out or extends), its receiver, and its software. Most of the later GPS units can utilize ground-based augmentation systems to help with triangulation when a decent view of the sky isn't available, but that affects the accuracy. GPS needs at least some view of the sky; if you were to shut your Garmin off, travel 5 miles to a house somewhere, and then turn it back on while sitting in the middle of a house with very little view of the sky, you will not gain any triangulation (and thus positioning). The unit I tested obviously had a very primitive GPS setup, which was pretty disappointing.
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 12:43 PM
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except then the cougar will tear up your interior, or you'll just have a blood trail where you keep the meat for the cougar
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 01:00 PM
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details, details.
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 11:15 PM
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... its like more than a week later, and I still can't believe how easy it was to "break" into my FD.

No tools required.

jeez, a 12 year old could do it. Probably easier than me..

if you are really worried about someone towing away your FD, well, wow. I think there are about 10,000 better/more expensive/etc cars than FD's around here, I just don't see why anyone would bother with one, sure they're no toyota but in the parts resale market they're no ferarri either.
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Old Sep 15, 2006 | 08:50 AM
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ECU harness adapter inline between ECU and engine harness. User-specific wiring pattern coming into this adapter harness which duplicates the standard pin in<>pin out to ECU pattern - but the user modifies the engine side of harness by pushing pins out and rerouting. Add a set of 8 relays and/or simple dipswitches on key leads + a couple of less key leads and they've got about 256 patterns to try. Thief pulls the entire inline harness out and goes straight ECU to engine harness and it won't work worth a damn (custom routing on engine harness entry side will not map correctly to ECU side anymore).
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