Steve's plight with Molly sparked my question...how do you guys keep your buses from getting stolen? THe club clearly doesn't work, my friend got his bus stolen, they just swapped the steering wheel. I used to take the rotor out of the distributor, that's not foolproof either. SHifter lock? Alarm? Theft is a big problem here too, all of my buses are in an alarmed warehouse behind a fence with razor wire. I don't take them anywhere I can't keep an eye on them, but would really like to. My crewcab is almost ready, fitting a new twin port engine this weekend and would love to be able to park it on the street! If you have some super secret foolproof method that you want to keep that way, PM me please as I genuinely need the help. I had a 62 beetle and a couple bicycles stolen, I was gutted. Now if I had lost Molly after the first trip of the spring that would be worse than all of my thefts combined. If they get caught, I say chop a hand off.

move house to an area with less vehicle crime

Have a bus that looks as shit as mine does?

A mate made a clamp that locked all the pedals together against the column so none of the pedals could be used. I had a similar home made device that also connected to the steering wheel to stop it being turned.

Theres also,

Hidden cut off switch

Rotor arm out

Fake HT lead

Immobiliser

Wheel clamp

etc etc etc

Nothing is fool proof but may be enough to put them off...

Smart water or fit a tracker at least that way the cops might catch the bastard if it does get nicked, as said before nothing is total fool proof but at least a tracker may put them off.

Unfortunately doesn't work out here, they'll steal it in front of a mansion.

I like the immobiliser idea, but I'm crap with electrics. I thought only the parking cops had wheel clamps?!? I like that idea! Pedal clamps sound good too, do you have a picture of your friend's? THanks!

Hidden cut off switch is a quick and easy one. Just add a switch in your ignition wire and hide the switch up underneath the dash.

how about the horn thing that the po done to mine Eric

rich

I have a fuel cut off valve hidden out of sight on my bus, it was installed by the previous owner. We had the same set up on a Toyota Pick up truck and some thiefs tried to steal it , they rolled it out of the driveway and tried to start it until they killed the battery, they then tried to push start it and finally a neighbor called my house to let me know that some scumbacks were pushing my truck down the street, when I came out they ran away, it worked so I recommend it.

Fuel cut-off solenoid with hidden switch.

I have a chain looped round my clutch with a padlock, wrapped around my brake pedal and padlocked to my steering wheel. It's 2 padlocks but hey who cares???

I remove the rotor arm too.

It's quiet round here anyway

Or...

The invader 2000


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTDDlWtnvSE

leave it open with the keys in....they`ll think somethings wrong with it seriously though that may work in rural sa but here in blighty i always remove the coil lead or rotor arm or both. Have a nasty habit of not tightening battery terminal too due to a fire on my beetle many years ago so i always take the positive off no matter what...

i know someone who leaves theirs unlocked in London, no ones ever tried to nick it.. But then again it is a late bay

It's only a matter of time...

It reminds me of a guy locally that wanted to get rid of his old fridge freezer, he left it outside his garage with a sign that read 'Free to a good home' for two weeks - no takers. He changed the sign to 'fully working, £25' and it disappeared within 24 hours!!

When I'm off for a while, I take my electric fuel pump fuse with me.

That was fantastic, but wiring is not my forte!

I walked too close to a car in a car park with a similar system, it said "Please step away from the car." Then said it again in Spanish!