No kidding.
Here at DIA, there are always vehicles and catalytic converters being stolen. Its insane.
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No kidding.
Here at DIA, there are always vehicles and catalytic converters being stolen. Its insane.
Never had an issue until the TJ was parked there.
Every other time, haven't had a singular issue!
I prefer to drive, because most of my flights I like to take during what I call 'crackhead hours'.
1-2am departures, everyone on the plane is asleep, and the airports are damn near empty.
(however, uber also likes to charge about triple the rates during those times)
But still, I refuse to park in the garages.
Parking lot only, due to the amount of cameras that cover the lots.
On top of that, the only way into the lot is to walk/drive past the vehicle gates, which are covered in cameras.
Funnily, the idiots who broke into it PAID to get in the lot, drove past the gates/cameras, hit about 14 vehicles, then drove back out the same gates.
There was about 30 minutes of video footage of them rummaging the lot.
Police imaged the airport footage, traced the vehicle along the CO roadways/intersections via traffic cameras, and tracked them all the way home.
Kind of freaky to think about.
I've only seen that stuff done in movies/TV.
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Or the dents and scratches.
If we have to drive, we take Mrs Apps car. I don't like ubering to the airport from home if we both go because the uber people don't need to know there's nobody home.
TJ is my DD. I don't think twice about taking or leaving it. Top up or down, doors on or off. I built it to drive it not worry about it.
Soft top full time.
Doors are unlocked but have the door pin locks on them so the doors don't take a walk.
Glove box has nothing I would care about other the original owners manual that candidly I have never opened and should just take out.
Center console.. has some protein bars, a few packets of ketchup, napkins, a cheap AutoZone flashlight, a few of those sticks you plug up the hole in the lids on take out coffee and that's it.
Radio has a removable face plate. If they want to bust up my dash for the cheap JVC head unit, take it. I never use it.
Five Gorilla Locks small diameter locking nuts on all five wheels. It won't stop anyone, but it will slow them down to a crawl.
Tailgate has a Bestop InstaTrunk.
Tuffy concealed carry locking drawer under the drivers seat.
Kill switch(s).. that's all I'll say about that.
In the end.. if they want, they will take it.
Soft top full time.
Doors are unlocked but have the door pin locks on them so the doors don't take a walk.
Glove box has nothing I would care about other the original owners manual that candidly I have never opened and should just take out.
Center console.. has some protein bars, a few packets of ketchup, napkins, a cheap AutoZone flashlight, a few of those sticks you plug up the hole in the lids on take out coffee and that's it.
Radio has a removable face plate. If they want to bust up my dash for the cheap JVC head unit, take it. I never use it.
Five Gorilla Locks small diameter locking nuts on all five wheels. It won't stop anyone, but it will slow them down to a crawl.
Tailgate has a Bestop InstaTrunk.
Tuffy concealed carry locking drawer under the drivers seat.
Kill switch(s).. that's all I'll say about that.
In the end.. if they want, they will take it.
ChasUGC
TJ Enthusiast
Keep it in your house. That's more of value as a collectible than of use in your Jeep - You can look up on your phone any fluids you can't remember (that's about all I use owners manuals for...). Or download a digital copy on your phone.
You can even get a couple bucks for it if it's in decent condition.
Plus then you have more room for a phone mount (if you don't keep it up all the time), fuses, couple wrenches or screwdrivers for emergency use, flashlight, etc. I found my glovebox breathed so much better by removing the manual with the useful crap I was trying to keep in it.
I picked up a hitchhiker once. When my buddy crawled out from under his seat, he screamed "WTF is that!", opened the door and tried to jump out before I could stop. I'm sure it would work on carjackers too.
I haven't opened it even once. I have a digital copy of just about everything I need.
I picked up a hitchhiker once. When my buddy crawled out from under his seat, he screamed "WTF is that!", opened the door and tried to jump out before I could stop. I'm sure it would work on carjackers too.
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Keep it in your house. That's more of value as a collectible than of use in your Jeep - You can look up on your phone any fluids you can't remember (that's about all I use owners manuals for...). Or download a digital copy on your phone.
You can even get a couple bucks for it if it's in decent condition.
Plus then you have more room for a phone mount (if you don't keep it up all the time), fuses, couple wrenches or screwdrivers for emergency use, flashlight, etc. I found my glovebox breathed so much better by removing the manual with the useful crap I was trying to keep in it.
Its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!!!
Well not entirely. The phone pulls the data from the cloud which sync's with the desktop, which talks to the two iPads as well as the MacBook. And the watches.
I have a hidden momentary switch that needs to be held down to start, an alarm and a steering wheel club. I also try to be careful where I park, and whenever possible like at a restaurant I get seated where I can see whatever I am driving thru the window. At night it's locked in my yard behind steel gates.
Haven't thought too much about carjacking but let's say I am carjacked after I've started the engine, I could shut it off and jump out, the carjacker would be stopped/delayed by the hidden switch, and mine is hidden pretty good, and awkward to reach. Another way to avoid a carjacking, the kind where they hold you up for your keys, is to keep the steering wheel club key on your second keychain, then hand over the keys and boogie. By the time they realize the club key is not there you'll be gone.
The firearm idea is good but it comes with other problems, like what do you do with it when you are parked, how can you get to it fast enough etc. You almost need to carry concealed all the time and that's not for everyone.
Haven't thought too much about carjacking but let's say I am carjacked after I've started the engine, I could shut it off and jump out, the carjacker would be stopped/delayed by the hidden switch, and mine is hidden pretty good, and awkward to reach. Another way to avoid a carjacking, the kind where they hold you up for your keys, is to keep the steering wheel club key on your second keychain, then hand over the keys and boogie. By the time they realize the club key is not there you'll be gone.
The firearm idea is good but it comes with other problems, like what do you do with it when you are parked, how can you get to it fast enough etc. You almost need to carry concealed all the time and that's not for everyone.
Come and take it.
Most of our crackheads do not know how to drive a manual.
Most of our crackheads do not know how to drive a manual.
I feel naked without my firearm. I don't check the mail without it.
No it's not a issue here in the Cle Elum area (YET) but this state period has become a typical west coast shithole.
Have you visited the gravesite of Douglas Munro in Laurel Hill Memorial Park Cemetery? Douglas Munro is the only Coast Guardsman awarded the CMOH for action on Guadalcanal in 1942. He deserves to be remembered.
ChasUGC
TJ Enthusiast
That's awesome. If I lived in South Africa, I would definitely consider that car jacking protection device. On the menu today, roasted carjacker.