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[minivan2007]

how about http://shirefabrications.com/services

[Sorry officer!]

[Tamworthbay]

Brilliant! But if we are talking animals, then I would suggest a honey badger. The psycho of the animal world and will easily fit in a mini.

[JackF]

Ultimately I believe that all security devices are only deterrents, something to put a thief off or slow them down. You'll never stop them, there are ways round everything. All you can do is protect yourself as best as you feel necessary.

[Will16]

Sometime like this-

[Moggyton]

Ultimately I believe that all security devices are only deterrents, something to put a thief off or slow them down. You'll never stop them, there are ways round everything. All you can do is protect yourself as best as you feel necessary.

Oh you could stop them, it wouldnt be cheap though.

[surfblue63]

Swop it for one of these

 

 

The best security is keeping your car out of site, or at least blocked in by something else. Steering wheel locks are good for about 2 to 5 minutes or delay. Hidden battery switches, removing the odd piece of the ignition system, removable steering wheels will stop a thief who has to drive the car away. Nothing wil stop a theif with a trailer.

[mingy]

 

Brilliant! But if we are talking animals, then I would suggest a honey badger. The psycho of the animal world and will easily fit in a mini.

 

I beg to differ, Google " Tibetan Mastiff " one hell of a mutt and it may just squeeze into a clubby estate.

[govig]

rik_t, on 03 Jan 2014 - 09:09 AM, said:

I was considering something like this?
 
http://www.ebay.co.u...=item43b9b1289d

They are easy to get off, especially if the gearknob uncrews! One of the steering wheel type is better. 

 

They might be easy to get off but they are hard to put on as there's not enough room between the gear level and the handbrake.

[Tamworthbay]

Brilliant! But if we are talking animals, then I would suggest a honey badger. The psycho of the animal world and will easily fit in a mini.

I beg to differ, Google " Tibetan Mastiff " one hell of a mutt and it may just squeeze into a clubby estate.

You are having a laugh, against a honey badger? May as well bring a shih tzu

[Stu1961]

Probably impossible to stop a thief with a trailer, especially if he has lifting gear as well such as a Hiab. Used to fit marine engines for a living up until recently and we had the manually operated battery switch's that are seem so popular with Mini owners these days the other item we had which I haven't heard mentioned yet is a manually operated tap in the fuel system this would make good sense especially if you could tuck it away say between the fuel tank and boot bulkhead or somewhere similar.

 

Probably reasonable to assume people pinching Mini's are not opportunists they know what they want so it's very difficult to defend against them. One thing I used to do when out fishing in the middle of nowhere and I had too walk some distance from the car was to remove the HT lead between coil and distributor as mentioned in an earlier post, now that will stop an opportunist in his tracks.

 

Make your garage door secure so it cannot be opened from outside, even if they do move whatever car you have parked in front of it.

 

Stuart

['Chop']

If I wasn't so afraid of them myself.....

 

I'd say a BIG dog

[Twincam]

You want to give them a hard time. Visual deterrents are good as it makes them question whether or not it will be easy/worth their time but if they want your mini you're gonna have a hard time trying to keep her. Alarms are good, disklocks are good (ive heard of people removing the aftermarket steering wheel in the car and putting their own one on), removeable steering wheels (see previous comment) etc all help.

Once their in, a battery cut off/imobiliser will give them more headache. Hot wiring a mini isn't a tough job either, so you'd want to stop them from being able to start her.

[JacckKirk]

Mines blocked in by 2 cars , parked right next to the house & have a rather large dog that likes to bark if u step on the drive
Ooo and currently doesnt have an engine so stops them "joy riders"

[Cerberus]

 

Someone suggested buying a very cheap mobile phone and hiding it in the car with it switched on so that the SIM card can be tracked.

The problem with that is unless you get a contract then they shut off unused PAYG sims very quickly. A cheap eBay tracker is probably as cheap to buy but I haven't used one so don't know how good they are.

 

 

I've got a PAYG sim which dates back at least 6 years, and in the last 3-4 it hasn't been used much at all.  In the last two years it hasn't made or received any calls/texts, it's still going.  It has been in a phone though for that time, and been turned on an used as a backup phone when I don't want to risk my good phone.

 

I do have, now I come to think about it, a few sims which came with phones but weren't used, which now no longer work.  I'd assumed they'd just gone duff or were too old, but maybe they have been shut off as they've not been in a phone for at least 6 years and not used at all in that time.