Jere Hawn wrote: > > Larry, > > If a crook wants in, he can get in, locks keep the honest people out. I > forgot to mention the best two ways in 1. use the key 2. break a window. > Other ways use a crow bar, use a metal saw, use a chain tied to a truck and > jerk the back door off, use a screw driver and a pair of pliers. There are > countless ways in. > > I look at the van the same way I look at the stereo installed. I didn't use > all the hardware to put it in, nor the safety stuff. I figure if they want > it, they'll get it, so why make the dashboard and wiring the sacrificial > lamb for a $200 stereo. Don't destroy the van for a part. And I don't > carry the Hope Diamond around in it. I had a break-in on my 83 westy - via breaking the driver wing window - on a busy street in San Francisco, with my alarm on. The thief was able to take the radio pull-out (useless) and the ashtray full of coins while the alarm was sounding. When I got back to my van, in the rain, a waiter in the restaurant I was parked next to said: "Hey, get that alarm fixed - the noise is p*ssing off my customers!" The worst part was the loss of the keys for the H2O inlet that was sitting in the ashtray - are those universal keys? Dave Richoux |
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