A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by idiotsecant on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:42PM (#36760464)

I did similar, except wired into the ignition circuit and with the control being a little cheap ebay RFID thing with the sensor on the underside of the dash. I kept a little RFID tag on my keys, chuck my keys up onto the dash when i'm ready to go and the truck is started with a pushbutton. I also put a cheater switch in the glove box in case i forgot my RFID tags.

In my case it was motivated more by maintenance headache - the mechanical linkage that went from the ignition switch to the ignition control device at the base of the steering column was busted and I was too cheap to buy another one and it was a pain to replace.

Project trucks that nobody can drive but you are the best trucks, IMO.

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by Scoundreller on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:42PM (#36761406)

I guess this works if you don’t have immobilizers. In Canada they’re mandated, so the ECU is expecting some kind of digital signal from the key before turning on (but sometimes you can just shuck the rf chip inside they key and glue it in the right spot, or uncode it from the écu).

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by idiotsecant on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:24PM (#36762767)

1996 ford pickups have about the simplest ignition wiring you could possibly imagine. I wouldn't even dream of doing this on anything new enough to have an immobilizer.

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by rootusrootus on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:06PM (#36765316)

> I wouldn't even dream of doing this on anything new enough to have an immobilizer.

It would work great on many Hyundais built as recently as last year!

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by TylerE on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:32PM (#36766635)

Welcome to the south.

No snow means no salt which means no rust.

Not unusual around here to see farm trucks from the 80s or earlier (sometimes MUCH earlier) still kicking around.

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by Karellen on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:57PM (#36760701)

Hey! How do you know how to do that? Nobody can start this car but me, butthead!

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by hammock on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:01PM (#36760769)

Watched this movie last night :)

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