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Just give it a jolt with your hand. It trips easily. You may want to remove the plastic cover before wacking it. You can re-afix it using 3M dual lock so it's easily removable and replaceable.
I seem to recall that you had installed a battery cut switch on one of your cars, why not use it?
Then the cut out switch is in the locked boot with some protection. You would lose the alleged benefit of the car alarm, but they don't actually stop theft and are universally ignored by bystanders.
Audible car alarms do not have a significant effect on car theft.
The insurance data are unequivocal. In 1997, the non-profit Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) surveyed insurance-claims data from 73 million vehicles, to see which devices could prevent theft. Looking at cars from many different model years, across the country, the study concludes that cars with alarms "show no overall reduction in theft losses" compared to cars without alarms.
Paper: "Alarmingly Useless, The Case for Banning Car Alarms, in New York City", by Aaron Friedman, Aaron Naparstek & Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
If it's the early version, just take off the black plastic clip on cover and pull the plunger on top up. The later kind has a rubber cover over the plunger so you can't pull it up.
I once tripped it on a New Hampshire road loaded with frost heaves.
Personally I don't like it when batteries are connected, disconnected, connected, ... That will kill the electronics sometime. I'vergessen managed to kill a Bosch LH2.4 Jetronic ECU like that...
i wouldnt mess with the trip thingy. it may get a "taste" for tripping. ive got a couple of inline spade terminals from the fuel pump in the boot near the battery. When i was having the battery changed at the local exhaust centre when i first got the car, the plum that was fitting it pulled one of the terms, not fully out but enough to make me spend half an hour trying to get the bloody thing started again. just pull a terminal out, a thief will soon give up if he cant start it and zoom off quickly.
Gosh you guys are all talking about pulling fuse panels and getting into the trunk everytime you get in and out of the car.
I think he is dead on with using the fuel cutout switch. All you have to do it grab it and pull it up (it clearly shows red). Thats easy to do and most people would never know to mess with it if they tried to steal the car.
Man, I leave mine unlocked 95% of the time. Don't even stress about it.
i wouldnt mess with the trip thingy. it may get a "taste" for tripping. ive got a couple of inline spade terminals from the fuel pump in the boot near the battery. When i was having the battery changed at the local exhaust centre when i first got the car, the plum that was fitting it pulled one of the terms, not fully out but enough to make me spend half an hour trying to get the bloody thing started again. just pull a terminal out, a thief will soon give up if he cant start it and zoom off quickly.
That's not a bad idea leo, I'll have a look at the set up.
Gosh you guys are all talking about pulling fuse panels and getting into the trunk everytime you get in and out of the car.
I think he is dead on with using the fuel cutout switch. All you have to do it grab it and pull it up (it clearly shows red). Thats easy to do and most people would never know to mess with it if they tried to steal the car.
Man, I leave mine unlocked 95% of the time. Don't even stress about it.
Hi sidescrollin
I've gone off messing around with the Cut Out Switch, like leo says, the Car could get a bit of a taste for it and start tripping out on its own, if the mechanism starts to get worn.
You wouldn't leave anything laying around down my way, it would be Gone in 60 Seconds.
Would it just cut the Power or trip the switch or both?
It would prevent the fuel pump circuit getting power at all. The switch would not "know" about it and would not trip. Great plan and quite straightforward to do. Pull the switch cover, drop the shin trim and maybe the side trim on the A post bottom, and the wires will be easily accessed.
It would prevent the fuel pump circuit getting power at all. The switch would not "know" about it and would not trip. Great plan and quite straightforward to do. Pull the switch cover, drop the shin trim and maybe the side trim on the A post bottom, and the wires will be easily accessed.
Hi Greg
Cheers!
That sounds like a Plan! and I could hide the switch in the glove box.
Is there a way to (Deliberately) Trip the Fuel Pump Cut Out
