Within 15 minutes, a car thief will destroy your C6 joyriding it.

If my car gets stolen, I hope the dirtbags that stole it kill themselves in it and total it out. I don't want to give them any benefit of the doubt by catching them too early to accomplish this end goal.

 

Whompus:

Does your fella have a brother who needs work?

 

Good one

 

:

 

I can understand that, but rather than just let someone take my car and buy another one on the insurance company, I'd rather fight back. Remember that a lot of those LoJack recoveries result in capture of the thieves too, and sometimes even bust entire theft rings and other cars at the same time. It'll give me some peace of mind to know that the thief/thieves have someone on their ***!

Besides, I suspect that if someone goes to the trouble of stealing your C6, they will fall into two major categories: (1) Too dumb to park it somewhere and let it "cool off" and they'll probably get caught or (2) Smart enough to park it for a while and the cops find it with little or no damage.

I think very few wreckless teens are going to "sniff" your FOB or carjack you and take it just to get in it and trash it for fun. Most C6's that get stolen are going to be stolen on a rollback and if they are going to go to that trouble, they probably aren't going to trash it. If it's just minor stuff like broken glass, busted steering wheel, minor body damage, etc. I'd actually like to have my car back. I've spent a lot of time doing things like installing mods, Lloyd's mats, wiring my detector, and have personal items in there too. If it's really torn up so bad that you wouldn't want it back, you could probably talk the insurance company into totalling it.

Mike

 

i, myself, have found that browsing the forums does go MUCH faster.. if i don't take the time to actually read the threads.

 

I had LoJack installed on my 2001 Convertable in 2001 by Lojack , in my driveway........at a special rate of $350 bucks by AAA Auto club for members.... suggest anyone continplating Lojack to contact AAA & ask if any special offers exist...........just the Dogs 2 cents.....woof

 

You should probably check with your local police agency and see if they even have the tracking device for LoJack. Not every PD car is set up with it. What would happen if the assigned officer to that veh. is on his days off & your veh. gets stolen? Your SOL.

 

How much for the midget ?

 

Here's an interesting article from the Orange County Register on a starter motor device. I'd rather they not be able to move the car period, can't stop the flatbed though.

Monday, January 24, 2005

Irvine company's gizmo short-circuits hot-wires


By DIANA McCABE
The Orange County Register


James Cooper's company makes a nifty anti-theft device.

Called Power Lock, it prevents a thief from hot-wiring your vehicle and driving off with it.

But Cooper, chief executive of Ultimate Security Systems in Irvine, doesn't have one on his car.

"It's a Saab," he says. "No one wants to steal it."

Instead, Cooper sells the device to "people with a mainstream car," he says. Toyota, Honda, Ford.

Those models are popular targets of thieves - even here in car-trendy Orange County, where more expensive or exotic cars might seem a bigger deal.

But demand for auto parts for mainstream vehicles is high, says Skip Davidson, a retired Los Angeles detective who used to work the auto-theft detail.

"You've got someone saying, 'We need parts for a 1984 Honda, and we aren't willing to pay retail,'" he said. Thieves know they can easily steal these cars, take them apart and sell the parts.

Cooper thinks Power Lock is a "cool product" that is totally different from the alarms and tracking devices on the market now.

Those devices won't stop a thief from driving off in your car. If the tracking system remains intact, the car might be recovered, but there "won't be much left on it" once the thief picks off all of the parts, he said.

Power Lock is attached to the vehicle's starter motor and can't be bypassed or circumvented, Cooper says. The only way it can be disabled is by destroying or replacing the starter motor.

The device has been on the market since mid-2000, but Cooper says the company has a "very, very long way to go" with its sales. "We're only at about 20 percent (of the way) toward making our numbers," he says.

But Cooper, 53, thinks the product has what it takes to make it.

Ten years ago, Cooper, then a consultant who helped small companies increase sales, was working with Power Lock's inventor to get the company going.

He was so impressed with the product that he left the consulting firm for Power Lock.

His biggest problem: Getting retailers to adopt a new product.

"You can't just go anywhere to get it installed," Cooper says.

Retailers need to have mechanics who know how to attach the product. Some businesses that install security systems might not be equipped to handle Power Lock.

Cooper's biggest markets are in California and Florida, but he also has distributors in Arizona, New York and New Jersey. Power Lock is also sold in Canada, Japan and Malaysia.

Davidson, the former detective who lives in Anaheim and now works as a private investigator specializing in auto theft, swears by the device. He has one on his PT Cruiser.

"I can't find a way for the bad guys to tamper with it," he says.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

In Massachusetts the State police have the tracking device statewide, a friend is a state trooper & advised the state police love lojack as they catch auto thiefs within 1-2 hours & quite a few chop shops..works for me the Dog.