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Well, this was intended to be in addition to the alarm/immobiliser.

I have other plans too, but I'm reluctant to post them on a public forum, but they involve immobilising crazy things that you wouldn't normally think of.

Sadly they are even more likely to be stolen, because the 14 year old joyrider can open and start it with his flick knife.

Like the toe rags breaking in to the car..

Out of curiousity what make/model of car is it that has their attention so badly?

At the end of the day if they are coming balaclavas and attacking your family if disturbed then surely its not too big a step to knocking your door and asking politely (with weapons) for the keys/codes for immobilisers etc

If I was in this situation i'd hope to see the bigger picture and either remove the target car or perhaps use rogers immobilisation ideas

Risking the safety of myself/family is not really worth it for the sake of some metal and plastic.

A twin turbo Subaru Legacy. They make great getaway cars for the same reason that the Impreza does, only they don't stick out like a sore thumb.



Fortunately they don't know which flat is mine, and I do intend to get rid of it, just it's going to be difficult as there is only a small market and it's winter.

Is it possible to find a garrage for hire nearby to hide it?

If you want to keep it long term, what about covering it all over with stickers so it looks awful and difficult for a theif to sell on?

To rice up a Q-car would be a crime against humanity. Leave that crap for the Imprezas

I am going to try and get a garage for it. There's a block at the end of my road but I have been unable to trace the owner, and the land registry claim they do not exist. Probably going to go down the route of adverse posession. I figure if I claim the one that has currently been used for flytipping then no-one can accuse me of criminal damage as I have improved the property.

Well, my shiny new autotaser got it's first testing the other day.

My GF was driving my new Mk2 Golf to work when the rear tyre came off whilst parking. This was on the 23rd
I picked her up in my hire car and stuck the taser on the golf, figuring no-one would nick it due to the missing tyre and all, it would be safe to leave it there until the local tyre places re-open.

We go with a jack and tools to take the wheel off this morning and the golf is gone. There are also lots of tyre tracks on the nearby grass embankment, looks like they had a lot of fun in it.

So legal? maybe, worth it? probably not.

You don't have much luck do you!

Hopefully the tyre tracks was them losing control as their nuts were fried..

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It's a lovely idea, but I think you may be on shaky ground...
A bloke in Colchester was done in the 80's for connecting a cattle-fence generator to the chassis of his Sierra Cossie. A normal cattle fence discharges to earth via the stakes and contact with it sets up a 'potential divider' between earth and the victim. As a result, the poor bloody Traffic Warden that leant on the non-earthed car to write a parking ticket copped a full capacitative discharge that blew him into a nearby shop doorway! Terrible shame!

If you take the working voltage of the taser in volts and multiply it by the discharge current in amps, then divide that by the period of the discharge in seconds, you will end up with the amount of energy in joules that the taser provides; f'rinstance 10000V x 1 microamp (1 millionth of an amp) = 0.01 watts, 0.01 watts divided by 1 millisecond (one thousandth of a second) = 10 joules.

Any weapon dispersing more than 25 joules is considered a firearm and, by law must be registered. Also the display of warning notices can be challenged if the scrote is not fluent in English or illiterate...

Good innit?

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really?. so taser could not hurt? i thought it could kill a person. hmmmm.

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Lum, I can't contribute anything of practical use here, but I'm SO sorry to hear about the hassle you're having! That's unbelieveable! I grew up in Liverpool and even there it wasn't that bad! (OK, and my cars were never that appealing to scrotes)! I know it's probably futile, but this has gone well beyond attempted car theft with the attack on your girlfriend. I think I'd be making a regular nuisance of myself down at the police station AND (when I failed to elicit any response) would probably be writing to my MP! Anti-social behaviour seems to be in the political spotlight now, with politicians telling police forces to concentrate on it a bit more, so a good rattle of your MP's cage might achieve something!

Other than that, I agree with you - "home made" anti-theft devices have the advantage that the scumbags don't know what they're up against. Especially if they're mechanical. Sure, they're simpler than electronic devices, but they're also physically harder to bypass.

Wheel clamp !

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56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

This is a 4 year old thread. I have since moved to a much nicer part of the country and had no further problems with the Subaru, though I did eventually get rid of it for an AWD performance car from Nissan instead.

So in conclusion, don't buy that taser, and don't live in Aylesbury, it is a shithole.

That is unlikely to help. I can pick the lock of the wheel clamps in use by private clampers in around 10 seconds, and have the clamp off in about 30 secs. I am sure the scrotes who nick cars would also be able to do this.

Buy a van.
Non turbo diesel.
Only have a few gallons in the tank and do not have the filler cap key on the same keyring.

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

At the risk of slight drift. I have always wondererd what the legal position is for an owner who parks "On road" (all documentation in order) who knowingly has a vehicle temporerrily unroadworthy (Say, leaking brake cylinders) who is not using the car and awaiting repair but whos vehicle is stolen before the fault is fixed and is subsequently invoved in an accident because of the fault .

This is not a particularly unlikly scenarion for the millions of people who do not have off road parking.

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