Date:         Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:31:58 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Kill Switch Delay - any electronics experts?
Comments: To: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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Well you could install a card reader on your dash and just swipe a magnetic
coded card to start your car.
Almost anybody servicing automatic security gates could furnish the
necessary parts.
A better solution would be to install the card reader, a satellite uplink
and charge the crooks rental for the car on the credit card they use to
start the car. You might find a high roller car thief and just charge him
twice retail on his card for the car.


Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Bange" <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Kill Switch Delay - any electronics experts?


Probably it would end up being cheaper and easier to wire up a simple
prox-card reader to the underside of the driver's seat and keep the
prox card in your wallet. Only problem is that it would probably kill
the engine if you put it in park at a red light and jumped to the back
seat to grab your CD folder or something. Perhaps one of those small
keytag sized HID prox "cards" on the ring with the Vanagon key, and a
small mullion reader in the dash that powers up when you turn the key
to ON and triggers a latching relay feeding the fuel pump relay.
Starting to sound like those transponder keys that give locksmiths
like me fits...

> Slight modification of that kind of unit to put the locking solenoids in
> different positions shouldnąt be to hard either.  The only trick would be
to
> find a complete one with the key (assuming the key is the trigger).
> jimt
>
>
> > I'm sure there are enough corvettes rotting in the junkyard that you
> > can steal their proximity sensor security system (the one that auto
> > locks/unlocks the doors)