My car just got keyed pretty bad. ~$2000 for a new paint job to fix it, so I was thinking about upgrading my security system

I was thinking. since those tiny cameras are getting kinda inexpensive (I've seen them for as low as $70 each), Would it be possible to wire a few of those cameras in my car so that when the outside motion detectors went off to warn people away it would turn on the cameras and record for like 10 minutes or soething like that?

I'm still not sure what it would record to. maybe a laptop with a huge hard drive or soemthing like that.

Think something liek this is even possible?

 

I feel for you man, is your insurance covering it? I don't understand why some ******** can't respect other people's things. It's terrible. Some f#$%head slammed their door into the fender above my right rear wheel well yesterday. HARD. There is a dent about an 1-inch by 3/4-inch right on the edge of the wheel well. Chipped some paint off too. (Pics of my unmolested car are on 3rd gen now.) I parked at the end of the row and as far over in my spot as I could and some dick STILL hit my car. Didn't catch them either. Oh well, sorry about the rant.

I'm sure it would definitely be possible to rig cameras to turn on but what to store the footage on would be tougher. You'd have to wire the laptop or whatever into the cars electrical system because the FD's cig lighter does not receive a steady power supply when the car is off (or on for that matter).

Good luck with your new paint job. Hope it turns out.

 

some of the X-10 remote cameras could be wired to work with a laptop as a visual recording device.

But if I was doing the install, I would charge you almost as much as the new paint job, and that still wouldn't prevent the car from being key'd.

A car cover would though.

 

damn, that much? Is there another way to record, I'm tihnking something similar to those tivo devices.

Even if it wouldn't stop the car from being keyed, I could find you who did it, then I could key there car (except with their face instead of keys)

I thought about the car cover, but thne that would just make people curious and then they try to take it off.

 

Well off the top of my head I was looking at $1000 or so in parts and about $600-$800 labor to make it all work.

If you lock the car cover on they would have a hard time getting it off, plus you have added advantage of additional theft resistance (including resistance to towing).

 

They maek car covers that lock? Potin me in the direciton and I'm there.

 

hey icemark, do they make covers that have more then one lock on them?

I looked around at some on the net and all the ones I've found only accomidate one lock which has one metal cable going accross the bottom of your car. It seems like with only one lock someone can still just lift off the cover form the fornt or back of your car.