A reminder to wire in an ignition kill switch

[Jezza]

I took a trip to Houston this week for a training class. We stayed at a nice Marriott near the training site. I parked my '21 GMC 2500 HD about 50 yards from the entrance of the hotel, and went to bed. Next morning it was gone. Apparently this is all to frequent in the Houston area. The cop was not surprised at all. He said the thieves have a computer they plug in and it unlocks, starts and drives. Usually takes them about 3 minutes. Being a Denali model he said they usually chop them up for parts. So, I'm on the hunt for a new one, and the new one will get some form of a kill switch. The Jeep will be getting the same treatment. It may not prevent theft, but should slow them down.

RIP GMC

 

[Apparition]

One of the guys that works for me had the cat cut off his rental in Dallas a couple weeks ago. Said he was parked right outside the hotel lobby.

Guess I can now consider him lucky.

 

[Jezza]

Bold thieves these days. You could see mine from the front doors of the hotel.

 

[2001slvrstntj]

That sucks but in 3 minutes likely nobody to see, figure out what is going on….by then they are gone. Seems like the technology did not help if the cop is right.

Thanks for reminding us and sorry it had to take this to do it.

 

[Apparition]

Bold thieves these days. You could see mine from the front doors of the hotel.

Did they have cameras? No cameras on the exterior of my guys hotel.

 

[Jezza]

No cameras there either. Probably wouldn't have mattered much. Most likely it would just have been a blurry image of my truck driving away.

 

[TWiG01]

Sorry to hear this. That’s a beautiful truck. Good luck with finding a new one

 

[freedom_in_4low]

was the cop about as helpful as this guy?

 

[Claytone]

Man, I hate to hear that. Hopefully it ends well for you financially.
My XJ friend had a really clean low-mile 7.3 F350. It was broken into a couple of times then finally stolen. He eventually got it back and it was trashed. He let the insurance get it fixed and then sold it. Maybe you'll get yours back.

 

[B1Toad]

My newly acquired Jeep will have a kill switch and one of these: https://www.disklokusa.com/products...2Sae_A45y2bCFJLunTyQhovpcAXtg2c-bodDsTeFBPz6s maybe even a Ravelco. On my Superduty I use alarm, Cyclops and Club. A lot of us Ford guys use Cyclops but I think they make systems for every make: https://www.shop.cyclopsantitheft.com/

 

[freedom_in_4low]

Man, I hate to hear that. Hopefully it ends well for you financially.
My XJ friend had a really clean low-mile 7.3 F350. It was broken into a couple of times then finally stolen. He eventually got it back and it was trashed. He let the insurance get it fixed and then sold it. Maybe you'll get yours back.

When I was working in Pueblo I had a couple of coworkers get theirs stolen, and the story from police was that it was most often drug runners that would grab a vehicle, use it to run drugs, trash it in the process, and then abandon it.

From the OP it sounds like a different motivation for the theft....if the goal is to chop them then recovery is far less likely.

Sorry to be Debbie downer. 😔

 

[Zorba]

No cameras there either. Probably wouldn't have mattered much. Most likely it would just have been a blurry image of my truck driving away.

No cameras? The Clintons must have been staying there that nite...

Someone remind me what problem exactly does all this computer technology solve?

 

[tworley]

Thieves suck. Its pretty shocking that the newer vehicles can still drive away without the fob. I've seen a few reports around CO with Fords being stolen thru the use of a computer to basically rewrite the PCM in order for it to start. One was a Ford Raptor that ended up being found in CA.

 

[dvngdg]

This is why I have a $20 Tile tracker hidden on my TJ !

 

[freedom_in_4low]

Thieves suck. Its pretty shocking that the newer vehicles can still drive away without the fob. I've seen a few reports around CO with Fords being stolen thru the use of a computer to basically rewrite the PCM in order for it to start. One was a Ford Raptor that ended up being found in CA.

It's kinda spooky to think that somebody out there might have the tech knowledge to pull it off with a TJ, even with SKIS if you unplug the SKIM under the column and flash the PCM with a Chinese DRBIII emulator knockoff I'm pretty sure you could drive it away.

 

[Jezza]

I could shut your SKIM off with HP Tuners in about 5 minutes. You would still have to deal with the steering wheel lock however. SKIM is a joke.

 

[Jezza]

Sorry to hear this. That’s a beautiful truck. Good luck with finding a new one

I already have a line on a new '23. Same truck pretty much.

 

[Jezza]

was the cop about as helpful as this guy?

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Yeah, I asked him to shoot me strait. He nodded and said "yeah, it's gone".

 

[Jezza]

This is why I have a $20 Tile tracker hidden on my TJ !

Don't they have phone apps now that locate those? Pretty sure these guys with their computer skills probably check for those.

 

[Rickyd]

A kill tune was a nice feature back when you could get them. Set it and take the cts2 or dsp switch inside

Not that cracking an l5p ecu was cheap or easy