Maximum Security
Submitted By: Maximo A
Favorite Comment: Fixer gamingkitty says, “OK, I’m taking “15 minutes” in the betting pool on when this guy will lose his padlock/Club keys.”
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I’m impressed the Club matches the dashboard
The latest in vehicle theft prevention…..No-Jack!
Can you just slide the chain up the shifter?
a) is the chain just tied in a knot at the middle?
b) is the idea to deter thieves with a good dose of crazy?
c) WHY???
Ten seconds with a hacksaw on the steering wheel and you can cut a slice that both of those will slide through. Or you can cut two slices, take a chunk of the wheel out, and they’ll both just fall off.
Shoulda used duct tape. Not sure how, but it couldn’t be more useless than this.
This guy wears a belt with his suspenders.
haha nice
See, the car owner got behind on the payments… then when the repo guy came to get the car, he forgot the tow truck… to make sure the deadbeat didn’t drive off, repo rigged this up.
That’s obviously a luxury car, what with that faux-wood console bezel.
When the owner sees this picture taken of his car he is going to get suspicious and take it to the next level.
If the owner of this car reads this website then I need to reassess how I spend my free time.
Might it be cheaper to move to a better neighborhood?
What you can’t see is that he’s also removed the battery, drained the fuel, and flattened three of the tires. Plus, he’s parked in his own driveway in a gated community.
@dono1
LOL. dono1, I don’t know what I look forward to more, the pictures or your responses!
That guy must have one serious case of sleepdriving to go through all that trouble to make sure he doesn’t get anywhere.
Paranoid much???
@dono1
What a reckless daredevil. He should have emptied all four tires plus the spare.
@dono – but he leaves the key in it just as a taunt. na na na na nana
I think someone did this to their own car just to take the picture.
You think with how serious this guy seems about security, he’d have done more to secure his radio.
This is the coolest cruise control system ever: now you can shift your gear AND steer automatically, without having to use both hands!
this isn’t an anti-theft device…. the poor guy was just tired of losing his steering wheel.
I think he should be more worried about someone stealing his tape deck.
HA! try to steal my car now SUCKER!!!
He’s just trying to prevent the gearshift and airbag from being stolen… do you have any IDEA how hard it is to find replacement parts???
This is the gold standard in security.
@K
Yellow equals performance. But in this case, I’m not worried.
The seat covers look really tacky, though. Some thieves could saw through the club and the chain in less than two minutes, or one minute with two guys, a hacksaw and some bolt cutters.
@Anna Rexia
Er, not the club but the steering wheel. Sorry. Thirty seconds at most.
Crap. I should have read down further. Apologies to all for saying the same thing as Thomas Westgard. I wish there was a delete link on here.
Upon closer inspection… isn’t it in drive right now?
@halosixx
He has a right to be… someone took that picture, after all.
But the signs say “chains required”…
I like how overkill this is, especially since the car has one of those microchipped-key/ignition systems (you can tell by looking closely at the ignition).
@ Badgirl – No the key’s not in there. I zoomed in to check.
I see the dashboard and wonder why someone would bother to steal it in the first place…
it’s not security, it’s his bling!!!
OK, I’m taking “15 minutes” in the betting pool on when this guy will lose his padlock/Club keys.
He’s never been in a hurry to get somewhere, to be sure…
Some dude in New York chained the axle of his car to a storm grate, and when he got back, all he found was a note saying, “Thanks for the challenge!”
@dono1: and then he’ll get back and find someone’s stolen the air out of the fourth tire.
Yep, this will work because no thief would ever think to unscrew the shift knob.
Doesn’t he know The gear shift knob just screws right off?
The real screw-up here is that the bottom of the chain goes around his shifter; you can usually get the knob off the shifter in about 30 seconds, slip off the chain, and away you go.
When I was a penniless student, I had a very similar set-up to protect my ~18 y.o. car from joy riders, but the bottom of the chain went around the brake pedal. (Big problem where I lived because my digs where at the end of a long bridge that lead from the nightclub district through to a more residential area. People who drank all their cab money and tried to walk home would get off the bridge and be thinking “damn it’s a long way to walk” just as they got to my place.)
Anyway, the secret sauce on my version was that one link of the chain was twisted so that it pushed, with not quite enough pressure, onto the horn button. Any attempt to cut the wheel, cut the chain, or generally mess about with it in any way, would sound the horn (and quite tricky to twist it back out of the way to stop it.) I caught two thieves this way (both of ‘em juveniles.)
there is no kill like overkill