LT1powered89

The pictures make me feel really bad. The first thing that is going on my car after the motor swap is an alarm.

Difflock

PEOPLE SUCK!!

The one thing worrying me about any car is some ****** chucking a rock through the glass just for the hell of it, let alone knicking your stuff..

You guys have the right to arm bears, or is it bear arms? LOL
As well as the motion lights how about an M16 on a motion tracker activated gimbal mount?

Mark.

urbanhunter44

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That's why we have flood lights, and I have my 12 guage right next to my bed

I'm sorry about this man, hope you find out who did it.

crazy3rdgen

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thanks, i've gotten alittle further in finding out who did this But i don't think I want to put it on the net. Like you guys said.. people on the net may see that could have been part of it.

Difflock

Good call.

jack_sparrow

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My favorite line is from Mark Twain and it applies here: " the more I get to know people, the more I like my dog!"

Brett

Skull88

that sucks

crazy3rdgen

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yes it sure does, still to this day. Dunno who exactly it was.

1989karr

were you able to get everything all reapired??....thieves suck!!!

crazy3rdgen

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Got the passenger window in , but havent really worried about it too much lately. My center console is still empty, I'm just hangin back pretending like it didnt happen and continuing on this motor i'm building .

BlueZee28

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what a trooper. if i was in your shoes, i'd have someone's head on a stick looking at me while i'm working on that engine...

Crayz9000

I'd be willing to bet it's someone from your neighborhood. Might want to start asking around...

82knightrider

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Man ,what the heck are ppl thinking ...stealing radios and stuff...what a bunch of crack heads!

White93z34

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when i got my car it had a decent alpine MP3 head unit in it, it sottd out like a sore thumb in the car, one of the first things i did was install a delco deck from a 95-up GM car, no one in their right mind will steal that or give it a second look for that matter, and that counts for alot.

however in your case since you want a large system a stock deck really isant an option, i've seen setups where if they remove the headunit, it will short itself out and fry itself, might want to consider building a setup like that.

slammed_z

the only way to stop a theft is gettin an alarms like i think europe has where the hole car is electrified so the minute you touch it you get shocked.they say its illegal which is dumb but now adays you need something that crazy to stop these idiots


like the other night i went to a club d/t and i usually park in a beer store parkin lot when its closed,but since it was still open i parked at my friends house.i've never had a problem there before..so i come back from the bar..and theres some white ice cream or **** pudding stuff all over my hood..like im ready to call this a strickly show car and drive around in a tempo or firefly all day so i dont have to worry or care if it happends

roc city f body

well i know how you feel . i two years 6k+ worth of dammage in my driveway. id suggest bolt the box right to the back seat when you fold it dow i did that used 6 different size bolts in side the box.... now you need a tow truck to get it out. sorry to hear about your luck

Raiderfan

Dam bro sorry to hear about this.
I hope those punk mother f'ers get what they have coming to them.

Draven

That really pisses me off, how could someone do that.

I would love to beat the **** out of the punk or punks

crazy3rdgen

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same here, i hope in the end of my life or when i die, i find out who all cheated me . Cause i've had numerous stuff stolen during my life. n it sucks. I just wish i knew who it was. I would love to just have the video of everyone in action that stole my ****. Dirtbike, broke into my car, one night in pa 300$ worth of cds and cd player. N little stuff. i hate this. Hopefully i find out some day atleast who did this to my car. damn me and some buddies would love to have some fun and revenge.

thirdgenbird

sorry to hear this, your car was comming along very nicely. i cant realate to this at all, i leave my bird with the windows down and t-tops out all the time in the town i live. i dont have much for a system (alpine head+ipod in the console) and i have never had anything happen.

ScottyRS

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Have you ever considered getting a car cover? It certainly won't stop anyone from breaking into your car, but it will keep people guessing as to what's under there.

crazy3rdgen

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just got a call from a buddy, he has someone thats going to put my alarm in!. so now i can leave my car out with no cover and just tease people, cause if they touch it, It wont only go off but it will page me on the pager remote alarm thing. From autopage. I'll have to get a bat next to my bed or a stun gun.

BlueZee28

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dude from hearing all these stories, i'm suprised nothing has happend to my car...i live in a neighborhood with 2 meth labs...not joking one bit. i must be lucky or something

Camaroguy18

so nice that your neighborhood is knowingly aware of them, yet doesnt report them???

BlueZee28

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oh they have been busted...

we've seen i think 2 different people inhabit one of them, the first person got busted, now we're pretty sure that the second inhabitant is onto something suspicious.....meth maybe....he looks like he's a crack addict...

crazy3rdgen

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lolol

PhLaXuS

I had jury Duty yesterday and the trial revolved around a crack house.

parks911

Why is it always the passenger window that gets busted out? It was the same with mine last winter.

They tried to picked the driver's door lock & trashed it like yours. Then they tried to pry the driver's door open, all it did was ripped my door skin, then they finally broke the passenger window.

I'm still trying to recover from the damage & items stolen. Probally another 11K and it would look good again.

crazy3rdgen

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still can't believe this happened.

jimp2001

That really really sucks, I've had it happen to me on my 1st car. I had 4 12" JL W6 subs powered by 2 Alpine 1507 Amps... I blew my alternator out cruising the strip, car was toed home and the driver left it in the street. I guess someone follwed the truck home.

I just installed my 2-way alarm remote start with shock and microwave sensors, fuel/spark/starter kill, window roll up/down, and added a relay to activate the rear defroster upon remote start.

I install alarms for a living, BTW

crazy3rdgen

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sweet, its a shame your not closer cause i bet your awesome at it. The guy that did my autopage set up after this happend couldnt even get my remote start to work. Locks pop when moving wires. And hes supposed to be real good. I dunno, the shock sensor and everything works. Its a pretty nice alarm too.

jimp2001

I would say about 80% of "installers" hack the crap out of every car they touch... including their own.

Psycho_91Camaro

damn that sucks man, Cars like that in Los Angeles get broken into alot.. especially yours it looks like a magnet for gangsters, sorry about the loss... I had something similar happend to me I seen some guy at some parking lot opening my camaro and looking inside (I left it unlocked) and I went up to him and grabbed his *** and threw him down and started kicking him and he got up and punched me... then my brother came and we both knocked him out and left him in the parking lot like the dog he is...

Al Hasse

Happened to me too a few years ago. Driver's side for me. They pulled the windo away from the seal and unlocked the door from the inside with a long tool or something. Whoever did it knew how my alarm was installed too because they disabled it by pulling the fuse at the battery in the back of the car. They took my sub box, amps, crosovers, head unit, XM remote (not the receiver which was under the head unit!).

I was able to recoop everything with insurance. I got upgraded equivelents for peices that were outdated.

Hope the SOB that did this to you gets what he deserves.

GarageToys

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Since they stole the whole custom-fit sub box and not just the subs, you might assume the theif had a thirdgen. If I were you, I'd look in the backseat of every parked thirdgen I see.

That's a pretty unique looking sub-box, and you'd recognize it if you saw it again. People suck.

crazy3rdgen

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yeah that box took me forever to get it all right. I could have filled a pool with all of the sweat making that. I had to make jigs for each side it was very well done. I just dont kno anymore. People dont care , I'd like to leave my car in an alley one night, blown subs in a box, like solo baric L7 15's, but the metal baskets hooked up to about 200,000 volts of electricity and pile up every mother fcker that is into stealing **** out of other people's car. I'd like to find out who is stealin **** around the area for sure!.

sunbitz

Sorry to hear about the loss of not only your equipment.... but the damage to the car as they were trying to get in.

Some poeple just don't have respect for another persons property and their hard earned dollar. My guess as to who did it... kids or crack heads.

Guess I've been lucky to this point....
I live in a apartment complex which has covered (lighted) parking and I own a rag top. The past year I've been living here.... I've left the top down during the summer months which I will say is 8 months out of the year.

I'm getting my car back from the shop in a few weeks and it will be looking much much nicer than it has been in the past which worries me.

It had bling bling before it went into the body shop, but now it has BLING BLING. I never play the stereo full blast when I enter the complex, and my sub woofer is a infinity basslink unit stuffed in the spare tire holder. The only thing visisble is my Nakamichi head unit. Other than that everything looks stock or "stealth". Much more going on than what you can see from the eye.

I've been lucky to this point, but once it get out of the body shop.... this becomes my "toy" car and not my daily driver as it has been for the past year..... which worries me.

I like the idea of surveilance cameras on the car.
Is their anything out on the market reasonable we can buy as a kit?
Granted it won't keep anyone from stealing anything, but I was thinking of making a sign I can pop up in the window saying this car is being monitored with video surveilance which might make them think twice.
Perhaps take the cheap way out and just post a sign in the window since they won't know any better and buy a fake camera I can attach to my balcony aiming at the car.

PhLaXuS

You can buy a small CCD camera for like $80 and make a small infrared emitter light source for maybe $15. Hook it up in the car in an inconspicuous area (maybe inside a vent or behind the dash -- you'd only need about a 1/8" hole). You could place a small recorder in the car (converted video cam or one of those tiny new VHS recorders) or a video transmitter. The whole deal could be had for less than $200 if you do a little research.

stitchop

At least when the thief is done stealing your stuff, they run away, but when the jerks at the insurance office ripped me off, they just sit there and smile.

Dan8289gta

My Gta has been broken into 3 times, i feel for ya.

87CIZ

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i feel for ya also, i'm just now getting around to replacing the stuff that was stolen. they took all my cd's my custom box for 3 12's, 2 rockford fosgate amps, and the 3 JL w-0's that were in teh box. Good thing all my cd's were backups in my car. I keep all the originals in my house. But that's the first time anyone had broken into my car and it changed me. I used to give people benefit of the doubt but no longer, they have to earn my trust. As someone else said I have motion detectors out front, a paging alarm, and 12 ga. under my bed probably wont shoot anyone unless forced to but it'll make them **** their pants. Which will be great for when the cops show up

crazy3rdgen

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damn right 87, i feel the same way.

Crayz9000

Except that something like a VHS-C recorder only records about 6 hours in LP mode. I suppose you could with a bit of work rig it to the alarm system though.

If they weren't so damn big I would have suggested going with a time-lapse recorder.

PhLaXuS

Hmmm...could rig it to record only when the alarm goes off. Latch it so that even if the alarm is killed, the recorder still keeps going.

Crayz9000

That was what I was thinking... put the infrared LEDs, camera(s) and recorder on a separate gel cell battery, so even if the main battery is cut, they're still running. Have the alarm trigger a relay that turns the recorder on but doesn't turn it off. You'd probably have to hack up the recorder though to allow a second relay to activate the record button.

Other thing was that you could get hi-output infrared LEDs and place them throughout the car to give it even lighting in full darkness. You can get packs of 5 for about $3: http://www.sgbotic.com/product_info.php?products_id=65

robbob

Could always buy a big attack German Shepherd and
tie him up to the car .

87CIZ

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I got one of those big german shephards He's 6'2" when he stands up and puts his paws on my shoulders.

LUVmy92

I know what you need. Forget the alarms, dogs need to be fed and could pee on your car, and cameras just allow you to watch your ****e be stolen over and over again....................























Sentry Gun, automated can-o-*** whoop

PhLaXuS

Crikey! I'd like to walk in on someone stealing with that in my hand. I'd make them pee themselves. It'd be like a cheesy western:

Now...DANCE!
*bang bang*

@ZZKKER

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that is a wicked p-90 setup. i need a couple of those on my lamp poles in my yard. "say what again, i dare you, no i double dare you mother fu**er". that comes to mind when a car thief trips those into action.