thing is robbers are random.. my jeep was parked in the side yard near the road for 2 years with nothing but a soft top.. then 1 Saturday after i put the hard top on and i had the jeep parked in the driveway someone decided they would slash the soft upper door and try to steal the radio (cheapest one money can buy at best buy).. i was only gone for an hour and my brother was home... the slashed door cost me more than the radio they failed to steal.. i haven't locked my doors since.
take valuables out of jeep and leave it unlocked, if you have a radio beef up its mounting abit more than the standard radio and take the faceplate off and you should be good. although i like the huge chain around a telephone pole idea.
That same kind of thing happened to mine when I was staying out in Pico Rivera, Ca in '03. Now that I'm thinking about it, I remember I had pulled the fuse on the alarm and locked the pedals then also for some reason.
Anyway, I walk down in the early morning to a covered parking area where I left my Jeep the night before. Get to it and see that the somebody slashed the left rear, soft-top window. I get inside to look and see how else they f'ed with it. I had pulled the old radio a while back, so there was nothing for them to hit there.
I had the back seat out at the time. When I looked back there, I saw that a beat-up tackle box that belonged to my great grand-dad was gone. I had been using it as a tool box for years because I figured, "what self-respecting thief is going to waste time looking-twice at a rusty, POS, throw-away-looking unit like that?"
Of course, when it got ripped off, so did the $100-150 worth of tools I had in it. And, rusty or not, that tacklebox was also worth something to me
In the years since, I installed a Tuffy center console that also holds my current receiver. I also put in a Bestop trunk behind the back seat.
