Thought of the day-Innovative car repairs

[mikephillips]

One thing that seems to be more and more a reason to break into a car is young folks looking for guns. I've wondered if I should get one of those cases I could leave open and empty on the passenger seat in some places to try to signal no gun present to avoid potential damage. And no, I don't carry a gun, never have.

 

[waltesefalcon]

We have very little crime in our town, so we don't even lock our house when we are gone.
I have run out of storage space in my garage and house.
I have to store some tools in the Toyota Highlander.
It has over 500,000 miles on it, so not a treasured vehicle.
More of a bother if they broke the windows to get the goods.

I changed my door knobs once and didn't even realize for six months or so that I hadn't put the new key on my key chain.

 

[waltesefalcon]

One thing that seems to be more and more a reason to break into a car is young folks looking for guns. I've wondered if I should get one of those cases I could leave open and empty on the passenger seat in some places to try to signal no gun present to avoid potential damage. And no, I don't carry a gun, never have.

Mine stays in the trunk when I am going in someplace where I can't carry. I have also disabled the cab release for the trunk so it can only be opened with a key.

 

[equiprx]

I changed my door knobs once and didn't even realize for six months or so that I hadn't put the new key on my key chain.

Shortly after moving into our house, I re-keyed all the locks to use one key.
For some reason, after that, we just stopped locking our doors.
That was around 1995 and never had any thefts, but we don't have anything worth stealing.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Shortly after moving into our house, I re-keyed all the locks to use one key.
For some reason, after that, we just stopped locking our doors.
That was around 1995 and never had any thefts, but we don't have anything worth stealing.

The only things I have worth stealing don't look like they are worth stealing.

 

[John Turney]

True story, I used to lock my convertible. I once dated a girl who lived in Richardson (a Dallas suburb). When the Lord of the Rings (movie) came out she didn't want to see it with me but her mom did. So, we went to one of the big theaters with 10 screens in Dallas to see it. I locked the doors on my Spitfire (because I was young and dumb and in Dallas) and when we came out someone had cut my top to get inside.

Looking back on it with twenty something years it's kinda funny, but back then I was furious.

When I was stationed in Hawaii, the first lesson I received when I bought my TR-4A was to never lock a convertible. I still don't, but someone did steal the hood ornament.

 

[AngliaGT]

One thing that seems to be more and more a reason to break into a car is young folks looking for guns. I've wondered if I should get one of those cases I could leave open and empty on the passenger seat in some places to try to signal no gun present to avoid potential damage. And no, I don't carry a gun, never have.

And you could draw a chalk outline of a body on the sidewalk
next to your car.

 

[GregW]

Mine stays in the trunk when I am going in someplace where I can't carry. I have also disabled the cab release for the trunk so it can only be opened with a key.

I think it was some time in the 80's, there were so many trunks broken into they referred to the crime as a DC keyhole. This was happening in Washington where someone would screw a slide hammer into the key-way. One or two whacks and you're in.