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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: Chad on April 25, 2007, 12:44:52 AM
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Well after reading JeepManMarc's post about having his jeep broken into and my own experience with security in a softtop (robbed of sub, amp, and face/ CD book <---- "/" separate incidents) I was wondering if you guys locked your jeep?
I've decided to just not lock my doors. No matter what there will be theives, so i try to park in safe places, but if they are gonna steal i would prefer they not destroy my ride in the process so i just don't ever lock it up
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Well after reading JeepManMarc's post about having his jeep broken into and my own experience with security in a softtop (robbed of sub, amp, and face/ CD book <---- "/" separate incidents) I was wondering if you guys locked your jeep? If any of the moderators can turn this into a poll question that would be great--feel free to delete this bit once poll questioning edits are completed so message does not self destruct.
Anyways I've decided to just not lock my doors. No matter what there will be theives, so i try to park in safe places, but if they are gonna steal i would prefer they not destroy my ride in the process so i just don't ever lock it up
Yeah don't lock your doors to keep people from getting in (unless hardtop). Course, a lot of times a thief seem to go like this: "Ok I brought my knife, I slashed the window, I'm reaching my hand in to unlock the door...hey, wow the door was unlocked anyway, ha guess I didn't need to slash that window after all!"
I use those hinge locks to "lock" doors to the body.
Everything I have on it I have locked down - ton of keys to keep track of and have backups of.
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with hardtop yes when soft top is on nope rather have to replace what ever gets taken than replace asoft top
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most of the time i leave my jeep unlocked.. but after a resent event when my friend had to get my tow rope out of my jeep when i was stuck in snow with my s10 i now lock up my jeep when its at home so word doesn't get around that it open.
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I do not lock mine, but have a fairly elaborate alarm. I would rather them pull the handle to set it off than cut the top first. Usually the the large EL alarm flasher is enough for them to find something else to do.
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Yes with hard top and always make sure nothing is in sight inside.
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Cant lock her.. no doors or top to speak of.
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I probably don't have to because of where I live, but it's a force of habit.
Of course, I run no doors and a safari top almost all summer....have the Tuffy center console and glove box locked for the stereo face, iPod, garage door openers, etc.
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I lock everything out of habit, the one time someone broke into my jeep was last summer while I was at work. They jsut unzipped the window and stole my old crappy cell phone because it was the only thing in there. I never leave anything worth stealing in it anyway. Oh, and I also had a $5 winning scratch off ticket stolen when the top and doors were off.
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I have one of those fancy alarm thingers too. It's peculiar though, i can jump on the back bumper without it going off but if i touch the hood it goes off. I also found out that thunder sets it off. I usually don't have the top on and i learned to not leave anything in the jeep. I had cds stolen but that was kind of my fault, i left them sitting in the back with the top off. :asshat:
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I lock my doors unless I leave the top down, don't have uppers or full doors on. Many people don't lock there Jeeps but those people usually don't leave anything worth stealing inside. If they do it's probably a 50% chance it will be gone when they get back. The casual thief will grab your stuff since it's such an easy target. Locked or unlocked, with a softtop, it's easy enough to get in. Although, unless they are a bit more skilled/knowledgeable, they may slash your windows anyway. There have been account where a Jeep was broken into (doors unlocked) and the robber slashed the windows and seats.
This all really depend on the condition of your Jeep and where you're parking it. If your Jeep looks like a POS, you won't have anything worth anything inside so there probably is little need to lock anything up. Even if it doesn't look that great but has been modified enough to where the parts are worth something, they might just steel the whole thing. This has happened in the San Diego area many times over. Sometimes it's someone looking to cash in. Other times it might be another Jeeper looking to grab parts for their own project.
I've had four different alarms in mine so far. From high dollar Alpines to low end DEI's (Clifford/DEI/Viper). The last one was a DEI Rattler. Half the features on the high-end alarm, I never used. It was a waste of money. The only thing I do is park in areas where it's less likely to get broken into. With no top I end up taking most of the stuff out of the back of the Jeep and lock up everything else. Glove box is emptied too.
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Never lock it, set the alarm sometimes, depending on where i am parking it or how long im leaving it
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I don't lock the doors but I do have the steel locking glovebox and console.
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now that i think of it my dad got our gps stolen from his jeep last summer.. at work... which is weird cuz there aren't very many people their to be steeling things... but in the end we did get a better gps.
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now that i think of it my dad got our gps stolen from his jeep last summer.. at work... which is weird cuz there aren't very many people their to be steeling things... but in the end we did get a better gps.
That's just my problem. I really would like a gps because I have the world's worse sense of direction, but what am I going to do, take it out every time I get out of my jeep? Sucks because I grew up in the #2 safest city in the country. I could leave my purse sitting on the hood of my jeep in a parking lot and no one would take it, but now I live on my own and get $5 lotto tickets stolen. Oh well.
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I keep my gps in my jeep. I have a mount on the dash and i put the gps in the glove box. Worked so far (knock on wood).
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People probably won't agree with me but I have a soft top and I still lock my doors.
I believe in a thing called discouraging theft. Sure there is a chance they'll just slash my window, but there is also a chance that if they can't open the doors they'll just walk away rather than going further. Plus, it looks a lot more obvious slashing up a soft top as opposed to opening the door and being perceived as the owner of the vehicle to everyone around you.
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I've got one of the older Garmin GPS V handhelds and I guess I've been using that (sheesh!) since 2002. I keep the thing plugged in to the multiport 12volt at all times. I use the stock power cord.
What I do is when I reach my destination, I detach the GPS from the little mount on the dash, still keep the GPS plugged in, but put the GPS in my lockably tuffy center console. Fortunately, the Tuffy has just enough room between the door and the side to allow one to snake a power cord up and lock the door on top of the cord without causing any wear to the power cord. I've been using the same power cord for 5 years - no cord wear and no theft. All fairly convenient and no messing with batteries for GPS, either
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now that i think of it my dad got our gps stolen from his jeep last summer.. at work... which is weird cuz there aren't very many people their to be steeling things... but in the end we did get a better gps.
That's just my problem. I really would like a gps because I have the world's worse sense of direction, but what am I going to do, take it out every time I get out of my jeep? Sucks because I grew up in the #2 safest city in the country. I could leave my purse sitting on the hood of my jeep in a parking lot and no one would take it, but now I live on my own and get $5 lotto tickets stolen. Oh well.
I got the Garmin Vista CX....added the chip with all of the streets, restaurants, etc. Handheld...small enough to be locked in my Tuffy center console...I do leave the window bracket on the windshield though....hmmmm...that would suck if that got stolen. :'(
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Had my $100 head unit stolen in my front yard but not my $200 door speakers. :roflol: I still don't lock my doors, my top is worth more to me than anything in the Jeep.
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I got the Garmin Vista CX....added the chip with all of the streets, restaurants, etc. Handheld...small enough to be locked in my Tuffy center console...I do leave the window bracket on the windshield though....hmmmm...that would suck if that got stolen. :'(
Hmm, my Garmin Legend CX sits in my Jeep 24/7. It's been in there so long that the batteries have died. When not in use, I drop it in my lockbox next to my 2M Yaesu FT-1500 and CB. Since I've got a hardtop I usually leave my tools in the back with my amp and sub. It's far enough back that it can't really be seen. Although if I have more bulky stuff to out back there, I throw a beach mat over them. I've never had the stereo, amp or sub stolen as of yet though. The stereo is an older model that probably isn't worth stealing anymore. Speakers are in the stock location which are a PITA to remove and aren't worth it. No door speakers or rear speakers.
I even lock up my garage door opener when the top is done. The last thing I need is someone finding my address on something and then stealing my opener...
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Since i only have a soft top, i typically dont lock my doors (mainly because the top is rarely up). I'm not to worried about anyone steeling my whole jeep because unless they have privledged information they will never understand why the jeep will crank all day long and not start :twofingers: Although since i will soon have a/c i plan to get a hardtop and full doors to replace my soft-top and then i will lock my jeep.
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I thought about installing a secret button you have to push to start the jeep (If that's what you're talking about) and decided it would be more annoying than helpful.
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I thought about installing a secret button you have to push to start the jeep (If that's what you're talking about) and decided it would be more annoying than helpful.
You'd be better off adding a remote kill switch for the fuel pump. Maybe put one in for the starter, but that's a common one that might be easy to find.
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I thought about installing a secret button you have to push to start the jeep (If that's what you're talking about) and decided it would be more annoying than helpful.
You'd be better off adding a remote kill switch for the fuel pump. Maybe put one in for the starter, but that's a common one that might be easy to find.
You could do something waky, like wire the starter wire through the wiper switch so you have to turn the wipers on for the engine to start :bandit:
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You could do something waky, like wire the starter wire through the wiper switch so you have to turn the wipers on for the engine to start :bandit:
So your wiper has to stay on while you drive? Or are you going to move your wipers to something else like the seat belt switch? :fish:
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i think he means that for the starter to work the wipers would have to be on.. not for anything to work :fish:
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i think he means that for the starter to work the wipers would have to be on.. not for anything to work :fish:
Read the second sentence. Now think about it... If his wipers are going to act as the starter, what happens when he wants to use the wipers... :twofingers:
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haha... owned.
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Since i have megasquirt controlling my fuel, it is wired seperate so i have to turn it on/off everytime. (i orignally had it wired with the ignition but decided to use it as a theft deterant). When it is off, you turn the ignition everythign seems fine (dash lights up, fuel pump primes), then when you go to start it... the starter just goes and goes and goes... no fuel haha.
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About the only thing in mine is a cheap CD player that was a left over from when I upgraded vehicles, I just keep copies of my cd's in the jeep, the originals are at the house. I also have a alarm with hood pins, kill switch, and perimeter sensors ... think it's a viper or rattler.
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Does it have have an automatic self destruct in case a hummer owner steals it?
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Even if I wanted to lock my doors I couldn't. None of my locks work, and I have a soft top so whats the point. Everything is either locked from the inside or bolted down. I take my chances.
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3 words Ultimate Locking Console. Works great and affordable. Unless my wife and I take the Jeep shopping with the top down. Then we have to either take carry the items we bought or stuff it behind the seat under the folded down soft top. Other than that i dont keep any valuables in ther unless its locked or want it replaced anyway.