they work great for the unprepared, but I have seen them defeated relatively easy. They can use Co2 and quickly freeze the lock and break it, or they carry a small portion of a hacksaw blade and cut directly through the steering wheel.I wonder how the old-fashioned theft device "The Club" for the steering wheel would work in today's high-tech theft world?
Did not read through this whole 26 page thread, but do you the U connect software on your phone? tracks your Jeep location....I had a Jeep Gladiator Rubicon and have been in love for the past 1.5 years. Everything came to a sudden end this morning when I woke up and went outside to find that it was gone. From video surveillance I obtained from two of my neighbours, we can see two thieves walk up like they owned it, reached under the engine area (Assume they cut the horn wires, disabling it from sounding by the alarm) opened the hood, you can see quick car light flashing on/off, and they jump in it and drove away. Took under 4 mins from the time they walked onto my property at 4:50AM. Called the police and it was the second Jeep Gladiator reported for my area today. There have been several thefts of Jeep Gladiators reported in the past few days in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Please take precautions to protect your Jeep Gladiators, Wranglers, and other Jeep products as they are all susceptible to new theft measures.
Add a separate hood horn or other deterrent devices along with video security. Wish I had a garage big enough to park mine.
Be safe, protect yourselves and your very defenceless Jeep babies!
Had an appointment with them for Thursday install. $600. They called me today At 3. To cancel. I had already scheduled the day off for them. They stated “ it was. Not worth the money to came to San Diego to do one install.” This appointment has been set up since last week. I read that there customer service was not good. I do like to give the eveyone a chance. However it seems those people are correct. I canceled my order with them. It’s a shame, seems like a good product
Thieves actually target and prefer the club to many other security devices.
An installer screwed up. Yes the wires could be cut and then someone can work under the hood to reassemble the OEM wires as article stated (hello hood locks) but 99.9999% of car theives except professional ones are not going to do this. They are not going to spend 30 minutes doing electrical work on your car when they can move on to one and steal it in under 3 minutes. Having been a law enforcement officer I will say that almost every single car thief I ever saw, arrested or recovered a car from is one of opportunity and ease, such as cloning the fob etc.
Exactly this!
How easy is this with our current steering wheels? Anybody know of any specifics, actual experiences? Would thieves cut the Club instead?
