Cheap Vs Expensive Steering Locks TESTED 

i just couldn't stop laughing anymore!

@@mistermistero652 see when u laugh so much so much ur cheek bones hurt.

Exactly, mate, i felt like an airmattress, on the last pew pounds before being flat: there's some air left, but you can't squeeze hard-enough..

These blokes are proper twits, they are.....right loonies !!! All the times sounding that horn must have impacted their judgement (to use the term loosely)

Same

Yup. A planned theft would just have the car on the back of a loader and gone. But these stop or at least hinder opportunistic scum. I heard with the disklock the scum fill the back in with spray foam. No more spinny in seconds.

Well in the end, if they want it, you'll loose it at some point. But exactly as you say, it's about making them think it'll take to long for them to steal your car (in this case) and have them go for any other car instead. About 10 years ago i had a car stolen from me, it wasn't a very special car, not worth a lot of money and i never thought someone would nick it. I was very suprised when i got back to te place i parked my car and discovered another car was on the spot i parked mine. It was an old cheap shitbox i used as a sort of work van (Alex probably knows what i mean now) but someone saw my old '97 Astra Wagon and figured they needed it more than i did. I was happy my tools weren't in there. Never got it back, turned out i had insured the car for damage by fire or theft, didn't give it much thought and bought another shitbox/workvan daily driver.

@@destructionnl8165 the vast majority of car thefts are spur of the moment anyway, so this protects against the vast majority!

@@destructionnl8165 People will steal anything, years back I had a 1.0L Nova(...) which got nicked when we were out clubbing, my turn to drive. I guess someone just didn't want to pay for a cab home. It was a karma moment though, it had feck all petrol and it was found abandoned out of fuel halfway between Middlesbrough and Guisborough. The thieves will have had some walk even to go nick another car lol

@@destructionnl8165 On the other hand, at this rate I'm at risk of them nicking my bike just to weigh in the scrap value of the locks 😂

The term is "vertically challenged". 😅

Vertically challenged 🤣

He's just short for his height.

Neither does his missus

Best thing I’ve heard all year so far.

It worked that way in the 80's as well.

So basically what you're saying is, thieves in the '80s and '90s wandered around with a Stoplock handy just to fit them on the cars they wanted to steal ?

Yep, they should've just used the hacksaw on the actual steering wheel!

@@douglaspalmer4794 exactly

@Matt Hargreaves That makes me sad.

right okay may as well ask. on a datsun 120y-sounding situation, whats the likelihood ill get nicked

No 1st we use the stoplock to break the steering lock then use a hacksaw to cut the steering wheel the stop lock actually helps to steal a car back in the day mk1-2 astras were know as 10 second cars that's how long it took to steal them An old metro can be stollen with just a coin in under 10 seconds

Surely the key for the lock would have been on his keys

@@lukecowell7516 If you do things properly the keys should be kept separate.

abc news did a special on car theft years ago. thieves simple did exactly what you said and had the lock off in less than a minute.

Yup. Anything other than a disc lock is a total waste of time and money for that very reason

Your not exactly a criminal mastermind

I think I'll stick to my immobiliser than to bother with a clamp every time! Got it linked to the clutch pedal switch, car won't start without it, dashboard shows key icon so it's not obvious what the issue is. Switch is hidden, although I have a second one activated by GPRS.

@@hippopotamus86 the factory immobiliser in my car is perfectly fine at preventing my car from being started

Or battery isolating switch on battery terminal - even easier!

​@@benbrisbourne8592 I think that would be easier to find and fix than a fuel cutoff.

The quick release works... until the theives come with a pair of mole grips...

a magnetic swicht for ignition or fuel pump is the best , you can hide it behind a panel

@@NikoMoraKamu A magnetic switch is smart. Just make sure no weird magnetic fields can make it go off while driving... Would be bad if it goes off when you place your phone somewhere and your ignition cuts out suddenly.

Its only a vectra im still surprised its even still around.

​@@chrishart8548 1.9 diesel Vectra are good cars, they're just the peak of dullness. Respond well to tuning though, the ex police 1.9 especially are pretty quick

@@mrcaboosevg6089 but where have they all gone it's very rare to see one now.

@@chrishart8548 Scrapped i would imagine, i scrapped mine even though there was nothing wrong with it. They're just worthless, it's not like they rust either since mine didn't have a spec of rust on it

There very underrated cars. Shame its reputation was demonotised by top gear. Seen plenty of ones exceed 200,000 miles

If you attempt to use a saw to steal a car in residential neighborhood..good luck making it to your next birthday....nobody is playing games with criminals anymore.

Yep. I stopped my car being stolen with a hidden switch for the fuel pump. Simple

@@robtt997 I had an escort mk5 if you open the glove box there is a gap along the top edge I hid a switch in there. And ran some hidden black wires down to the drivers footwear there was some box in there that controlled the fuel pump. At first I started taking the whole unit out. It was only the size of a cassette tape. But I was worried if I ever lost it it could be an expensive part and also I wouldn't be able to use the car.

@@chrishart8548 I wonder if the next owner of my Cav SRi ever found the switch ! Just hope he wasn’t giving it the beans at the time lol

How about a none hidden labelled kill switch that is wired to something that kills the thief, technically if youve labelled it its their own fault for pressing the switch.

Got to think of the desperate nature of criminals, I'd rather wake up to find the car gone, than be woken up by the ba£%ards to start it for them! Especially now that the police don't count car theft as an emergency. I'd wire a capacitor to the house door and windows too.

This is what I'm thinking too. My hyundai was stolen and recovered with $2100 of damage. Geico victimized me again by only paying 1/3 the cost to repair. PD said get the Club but that looks easy to break. So disabling the vehicle makes the most sense.

Is it still going strong

The steering wheel isnt moving the disklok spins around the wheel

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