Now that's truly funny, but what is truly stupid is to state an electrical fuel pump will "burn out" if you remove all electrical power to it.

Arm chair mechanics at their very best!

***** the fuel pump wont burn out but your starter might if the would be thief cranks the engine over to long.

nirvana896 The battery would drain way before that would happen. The starter sucks a lot of juice in a short amount of time. But yeah, there is always a possibility of that.

I'll just put a bunch of freaking rice stickers onto the car. No one would want to steal a vehicle with rice stickers.

Ahaha Curtis could buy us all cars

@@christianfiguroa7147 he won't be able to for long. The fool voted for Sloppy Joe Biden.

This comment for Teh Win!

Yes sir. I agree!

Thank you

@@carquestions agreed, thanks for the post. My dad was a cop for 37 years and specialized in auto-theft. Any good thief can get your car if they want, but making it more difficult and time-consuming will more likely lead the average thief in going to an easier target.

That's a very good idea if you're not going to use your car at all takes a minute for a thief to stole your car takes more than a minute for you to stop by and pick up a coffee or a soda drink I don't think you going to be switching blowing fuses every time you stop by and pick up a coffee there's better ways to stop the thieves from stealing your car but if you going to make a video and post it here in KZfaq and show them thieves how you did it it's not going to work that is the problem with everybody every time they come up with a good idea they make a video and post it on KZfaq right away

@@JavierLopez-gv7kt If it's a professional thief maybe. But the average numb nuts punk thief joy rider most likely wouldn't have a clue and not likely to have the fuse he needs in his pocket anyway. You really only need to do this after you park the car in the driveway for the night. Most cars stolen right out of the driveway at night. Plus, use a club. Bright yellow one. Deterrence is the name of the game.

The obvious solution

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This comment is still funny in 2020

That's what I do.

Yes sir this guy he's totally crazy he has the car locked inside the garage and to top it off he blown the fuse so nobody can steal it and he made a video and posted on here to give the idea to the world as soon as they legalize the Mary Jane I knew a bunch of smokers they were going to come with this hell of a good ideas 💡💡💡

Hey I'm Canadian eh. He was born and raised not far from me. Don't know him but I get the point

wheel barrow Abuse. You just broke the law.

Pat TheHombre the thief would sue you and definitely win, that's just beyond immoral.

+ThisIsNotAGame how would thief win its not his car he shouldn't be in it if anything he would go to jail for atepted auto theft

Brandon Martinez You don't get it, do you?

+John Wilkinson He's assuming that the potential thief will do some rudimentary troubleshooting and a missing fuse is pretty obvious.

+John Cochran So now we're looking at a thief who does some troubleshooting before stealing a car and goes around with a a few spare parts just in case the car he's going to steal is missing a spark plug?

Nope. A missing fuse is pretty obvious and generally there's more than a few "non-critical" fuses in the fusebox that are the same size or larger than the "critical" fuses. So if you see the fuel pump fuse slot is empty, pull the fuse for the radio or some other non-critical circuit and plug it into the fuel pump slot. And you're now ready to go. But to be honest, his method is rather silly and unlikely to be used since how many people do you know of who would be willing to open the hood and fuse box each time they park? Much easier is to conceal a switch inside the cabin that would disconnect power to the fuel pump.

+John Cochran This is a good idea if you're leaving your car to sit for a while though say while on vacation or whatever.

+John Cochran I doubt that a thief will spend any amount of time doing diagnostics on a car that isn't turning over. Most security systems can be defeated but the good news is car thieves will not spend a lot of time trying to steal your car, they will most likely move on to the next vehicle. I've always used the yellow wheel locks because they are very visible and serve a a good deterrent for thieves.

good one!

i think if people are stealing cars theyre more than likely able to drive a stick...

+Gravelord Nito you would be surprised. I'm sure half of all car thieves can't drive a manual

Woo

woohunter1 then thats a 50% chance my car could get stolen then

They need to roll their joints-so manual is too annoying!

so true, i was thinking why would you blow the fuse when most thieves are too stupid or lazy to think about something like this, not only that if they are limited on time then this makes it perfect.

Most professional theives pride themselves on accepting challenges and they come prepared. This will stop a casual thief, but not the pros. If they are looking for a specific kind of car, they WILL know all the tricks. Putting a fake fuse in there is brilliant because they will spot a missing fuse, but they may miss a blown one that is still in place.

Thanks this is the advice I was looking for. I was going to ask that question and needed the second answer as well

Yes sir

Just imagine if you use your car 10 times a day or more it takes a thief one minute to take your car you go in side circle k for 2 minutes that's it bye-bye car unless you take the 10 minutes to change the fuse before you go inside circle k or any convenience store there is much much better ways to stop a thief from stealing your car you don't have to be a genius to make a hell of a good killing switch

+dekoldrick A very good idea - just hide it well - like a push button inside the headrest under the leather at the back

+carquestions Thanks for telling me , I owe you one. Ha!

dekoldrick best comment

dekoldrick exactly. a kill switch

dekoldrick ☆ my truck has a key operated switch, to disable the passenger air bag. Just wire your kill switch through there. If they break in, and if they disable the alarm, they will never figure that that switch has to be on for the fuel pump to get power.

Seems like it, yeah. I just lock it and then unhook my negative terminal and take the locking bolt with me. The magnets on the door locks don't have a mechanical connection so you can't even open the doors or trunk anymore. Even if they break the window and try to hotwire it, the engine won't even turn over, let alone anything else.

vtr0104 So your deck is always in demo mode and your computer is always in re-learn mode... uh, no.

That would be an issue, yes :P. However, the car is an '03 SAAB 9-3 petrol with a 5 speed manual. I don't have an aftermarket unit in it, just its normal CD player. It has forward play and shuffle, but has no graphics or anything fancy, so no demo mode either. And the radio is BIOS wired in the car with some strange fiber optic network. It doesn't forget stations even when the car is left with no power for a long time (I've had the battery out of it for 3 months). And the computer is just a basic ECU with preset map for the throttle, it doesn't learn anything other than re-calculating the fuel consumption for every 100 Km's traveled and the clock which I either reset manually or tell it to pick up the time signal via RDS from one of the radio stations. For me, this system works, but yes, as you mentioned, it will have some drawbacks on newer models. I also have a Renault 12 based Dacia 1310, built in '96 but with technology from 1969. Iron block, pushrods, carb, mechanical distributor, 5 speed manual with synchors only on gears 2 to 5, you know.. In that one (not that I'm generally worried about anyone stealing it) I just pop off the distributor cap which takes the plug wires with it and the one from the voltage induction coil. Fuel pump is mechanical so unless it fires it won't even get fuel, let alone any spark, and thieves around here don't tend to carry a full set of wiring with them.

@@pleco101 It's probably got a similar system, I'll wager the Japanese have got it figured out better than some early 2000s GM experimental wiring loom (from the car's manual, they were praising this CAN-BUS system as some revolutionary thing, but all it did was piss people off because every electronic component needed to be added via Tech II encoding if it was replaced: column lock module, ECU / ECM, even adding aux-in to the radio needed to be added into the network). The Nav settings, I wouldn't be able to tell you, I'm like an old man, I read maps before trips and just follow signs and landmarks. My car doesn't have one and I don't even use my phone for that stuff. However, if it's 2007, I'm willing to bet it has some kind of flash memory that would allow it to remember things once power goes out. Easy way to check, just disconnect the battery and leave it overnight. Hook it back up in the morning and see what's different. My bet is you'll also mess your clock up, but not much else. And don't freak out if the transponder key doesn't work right away, mine takes a couple of tries before it and the car get "re-acquainted" :) As for uses, never tampered with them. I'm the 5th owner of this thing and never touched the fuse box. I've had the car 7 years now and as far as I can tell by the grime around the fuse-box hatch, no one's touched it in almost 20 years. GM Quality™ right there :))

I thought the same thing. I guess it just depends on the circumstances where you are parking your car and what you are doing that night. Like if I am on a dinner date I certainly wouldn't be doing all that. What's the weather like? Below zero, snow, thunder storms.....? Where am I parking it and for how long. Airport parking for days whilst I am gone.....? Keep a spar fuse hidden in the trunk of your car just in case you damage or loose the one you took with you from the engine compartment. Instead of removing a fuse, consider taking out the fuel injector module or the ignition module. Even if a would be thief discovered what you had done, what are the odds he would have the exact same module that would work with your car? As with the fuse, keep a spare module in the trunk of your car just in case you loose or damage the one you took with you.

I'm pretty sure there's something I don't know but I always thought the thief could just learn how to drive a manual.

in austria its better to drive atomatic then the thief wouldnt steal the car, cause automatic is for loosers.

burnsoaker that made no sense at all...... please get off the internet

oh sorry you probably didn't know you have to learn how to drive manual to get a license in austria...

burnsoaker dam, Guess i can live in Australia since I drive manual XD, try again next time put some insult in an insult... if your're trying to hurt feelings...

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I think the idea of replacing with a blown fuse is so that if the thief opens the bonnet to check for missing fuse then he will see none are missing and may think the car has mechanical issues

@@vergecryptocurrency4552 true but taking the fuse will just be effective because usually people just hot wire it and run not waste time popping the hood and check fuses and stuff and figure why it wont start.

@@thegods2622 Not these days, hot wiring doesn't work with contemporary cars. There's just too much electronic & mechanical crap to by-pass or break. It's not just a matter of breaking the steering lock & hot wiring the ignition/starter solenoid, like the old days. That why both professional car thieves & joy riders these days invariably break into people homes now to look for the spare keys of the target car, or steal the handbag of the target car's driver, to get her keys. Just go have a chat with a cop or a mechanic, that's the way it's done now. Or if they know a friendly new car dealer or up to date locksmith one can have a key made up using the code on the plate under the bottom of the windscreen on the passenger side (well it works with GM cars, don't know about other brands though)

@@thegods2622 who knows how to hot wire a car??? Especially today's cars with a multitude of wires in and around the steering column.

charlietow last night some ass holes tried to break into my truck they jammed a screw driver into key lock on door lucky for me it's seized rock solid so they couldn't get in but a lot of chevs are being stolen because a little trick I will not say

@@deklyndenison2535 They tried to get my Tahoe last week. Same way! Idk about that trick until now. sad

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I took a dump on my front lawn... in da middle of the nite...someone stole the log they picked up dat piece of shit and put it in their pocket n ran off...ya gotta remember people these people who steal cars are the scum of the earth they would rather steal ur ride than just take one from a dealership...like i said scum of the earth destine for hell 😐

But what about the car? Has anyone stolen that yet?

Fake?

Thanks - no problem

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Hey - ....maybe you something there - thanks for the tip and sharing

Thank you.

Get your car towed here. All 4 need to be on the floor when parked outside.

I would but my truck tires are 100 lbs each. And no... Just no.

Yeah, but what if the thief walks around with 4 other tires...then what. You see, you have to think things through.

If they bothered to look in the fuse box - it would be the only one missing - so they could just swap out one from the cig lighter

Yes, so the average car thief knows that.

and if they knew that Then they would know to check the fuse to begin with..

carquestions What kinda theives you dealin wit in canada? No wonder crime is so low. I can jack your car in 10sec or less. I never need to touch it.

Obstructed terminal paper clip in terminals and your car is mine ... Yes car theives carry paper clips and jumper wires in a kit

how do you think they jump start car and have code reading scrambler and decoder.. they are pretty smart if you ask me

Monera96 I believe the "smart" ones only go after big ticket cars ie exotic or new models.

Thats why you take a colour picture of a new fuse, print it out and stick it to the outside of the busted fuse to make it look new. they will be scratching their head for days on that hum dinger

As cars have become smarter, thieves also became smarter. That's evolution....and good thieves are usually a step ahead of the latest technology.

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Nailed it Fabio!

Say what???

Are you kidding me

It is amazing to me that the majority of the common sense comments expressed on the web are posted by conservatives... God Bless Amnerica, thanks for caring enough about America to actually THINK!

All good ideas of course

Ryan Toomey or remove d driveshaft

popping the hood and removing FUSES is a crap method. Pulling fuses and reinserting them will wear out the fuse receptacles. Install a damn KILL switch for about 5 buck.

Exactly what I said too. Switch=easy and no B.S. or wear. Good point.

Even remove coil pack,spark plugs etc

cause if..and i mean if..the thief opens the fuse box and sees a missing fuel pump fuse he will bridge the gap and his on his way...but if u place one that's already blown for the working fuse(not blow one every time just have a blown fuse on hand) they he might rule out fuse problem and give up.

Rippyboy701 You think somebody trying to steal a car is really going to pop the hood and start troubleshooting a mechanical problem? Uh, no.

Milk Manson LOL..... my thoughts exactly... LMAO... just pull the f'n fuse out... who is gonna pop the fuse box cover and do a diagnostic??? LMAO

Milk Manson i fell out of my chair. some people in this world are not the sharpest tool in the shed. lmao

Milk Manson That is why i said "IF"..people "hot wire" cars right?..people don't steal cars just cause you leave the keys in the ignition. There are smart thieves out there there not all dumb. I recently watched a documentary about a man who stole high end cars BMW, Corvettes, Audi's.etc not Honda's and Toyota's..you need to be smart to steal those cars. So a fuse pulled out is a laughing matter for those type of thieves. And the only time i hope you pull a fuse from your car is if your leaving you car in the airport or garage for a considerable amount of time..not for day to day basis so the thief has all the time in the world to diagnose the problem and be on his way with you car.(cause he saw you hop on the plane ..etc). And if someone walks up on him he will just claim it is his car and it wont start and continue wondering why it wont start till he gives up or takes the car. (chew on that for a while and you will see why im right)

+AnalQueen1969 This would be for long term parking - would be a pita for daily parking

Sorry for the late reply but it's not for everyday

agree

and then another minute more to write your 2 cents ;)

My gf tied me to a chair and taped my eyelids open and forced me to watch this video, so yes.

Saul Martinez Yes because im sure you were super buisy at work or something thats why you were watching this

Me too... This was not ingenious

Old school and right on! cheap and effective - what do people expect for 50 cents?

Absolutely! 👍😀

Seriously, driving stick is a lost art in the US.

+jaket2k9 a smart car thief will know how to drive a stick. most of them know what they're after. i wouldn't underestimate the criminal mind. the other problem with this video is that he blows the fuse to prevent it from starting and puts it back as if the criminal wont notice. well if he's smart enough to check the fuses, he's probably going to check to see if any were blown.

John A "Smart enough" and "Time" are two different things. If hes smart enough a car thief would ignore whatever gear your cars in and just trailer it or tow it. But if the owner is smart enough they would RFID all the panels and have ways to prevent theft. The easiest is not parking where your car is likely to be stolen.

I knew how to drive a standard gear box car when I was 8 - and started driving a standard on the roads when I was 13 - got my license when I was 17

Let me think on that Frank

Just came from Edmonton Police, thieves like Dodge Neons and Settings as much as anything else, low key.

yep that works great and sometimes i just take the whole wire and hide it, most wont have a spare wire with them fuses maybe or they could use foil to make things work and i have also use a kill switch but today most thieves know these tricks but the wire gone stops all.

And they might want to take a course in emergency medicine since the car is in the air, tires off and me less than 50 feet away

The genius that make this video

thats why you hide the switch and dont make the wiring obvious

***** But they won't, because it's quicker move on to the next car.

even if you do that, it still has some gas in the system so it could still go for a bit

No, fuel injectors will not work without pressure from the pump. Now if it had a carburetor, then it could drive for awhile ( couple of minutes) because the fuel bowl is full of gas.

There are radio controlled kill switches. Cost less than $5 each. I bought 2 and can't say if they work since I never installed one.

How do you...nvm

Good advice thanks Bourne - cheers!

one big problem a lot of cars have a safety device that stops your car from idling over about 4,000 rpms My solution is to put a locking gas cap on your car and only put enough gas in your vehicle to get you have way to where your going (that way there won't even be fumes left), then go Married with children style and push it the rest of the way. Prevents theft and keeps you in shape.

Yes sir too much work

***** If you have the right tools and the car is older than dirt, you mean.

This is not a solution for short term - its for longer term storage

Easy, put GM badges on it and nobody will think its out of the ordinary

I knew someone that had a crackhead break his window and steal just his radio face. People will steal stuff just to do it.

i had someone break my window to take a snack size bag of doritos once. i dont leave a single thing in my car now.

Not even seats.

On my car, if you bust a window and unlock the door the horn will start honking repeatedly after a few seconds. That alarm system came with the car when it was new.

Just loosen the oil filter. They won't get too far.

meanwhile your claim is processed, walk to the bus stop???? Or wait for you to give me a ride???

My car has an alarm. You have to have a key to steal my car. Or a flat bed tow truck.

And a very smart man he is

Yep you could

That is definitely a stopper - can you imagine a thief carrying a battery around?

I wasn't serious but if they really wanted the car they'd get a battery, either steal one from another car in the lot or come back with one!

***** this isn't stopping the serious professional thief - just your average bonehead

***** This is probably the dumbest way to secure your car. Also, if taking out the battery is not stopping a professional, WHAT KIND OF PRO TAKES AROUND A CAR BATTERY IN CASE THERE ISN'T ONE IN THE CAR, BUT WON'T TAKE AROUND A SPARE FUSE. I got a way you can secure your car for free! When you go in the the coffee shop just pop your trunk and pull out your socket set, speed jack, engine hoist and Haynes manual, and remove the engine and transmission from your car! Then when a thief goes to start it NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. Still....might not stop those professional car thieves who carry a spare engine and tranny around with them.

Do the words "catastrophic car fire" mean nothing to you?

This is for longer term situations

He looked kind of goofy. I think he was serious.

tough to get one amp fuse but yes you could do it

Nope - long term only

sure - kill switch to fuel pump or ecm - you have to wire yourself

And his twin brother.

I'd rather they steal the car - removing the rear transmission is one giant pain

heheheheh them st0ped theves

They could move a similar fuse into it's place. Basically replacing it with a dead fuse is security through obscurity... Then again, how could they tell if that car needs a fuse in that specific place... Rip this argument...

It’s an American thing

Absolutely no problem - replacing with a blown fuse just makes it that much harder

...or the wndscren

Good advice - just takes more skill and time

+clf laz Park so one of those repo trucks with the hidden hoist in the bed cant just tow it away without even getting out of their truck.

Buckeyefreak28 I don't know about the engine, but the pump certainly won't suck air in, simply because it would be turned off because of blown fuze...

Buckeyefreak28 The fuel system is sealed - the pump can't pull air because it's always connected to a fuel line full of gas. With the blown fuse in place, it would just sit there - no power/no damage. And gas doesn't lubricate your motor - oil does. Turning an engine over with no fuel doesn't do it any harm, other than overworking your starter motor and killing your battery.

Actually gas does coat the top of your piston so that when the fuel air mixture combusts it doesn't completely melt your piston but the car has to be running for that damage to be done.

Adrian Calugar If you have so much gas entering the combustion chamber that it "coats" the piston crown, the engine is running way too rich. Piston crown cooling is usually handled passively by dissipation of heat though the ringlands, rings, and cylinder walls, although some engines make use of jets that squirt oil at the underside of the crown. That much gas would dilute the oil on the cylinder walls and cause seriously accelerated wear. That's the main reason why modern engines last longer - fuel injection meters the fuel way better than carbs ever could, so excess fuel doesn't end up running down the cylinders walls and diluting the oil. Pistons don't melt under normal running conditions - they're designed to take a lot of abuse over many miles of driving.

Buckeyefreak28 the fuel Pump is not going to suck air if the Pump is not working

This is a chevy...

Ford F-150 is the most stolen. You don't live near a Southern U.S. border do you? Honda's with VTEC are 80% likely to have jacked long block if driven by tuners with gang affiliation. hands down the most stolen import for the motor. They boost em and blow holes in the blocks with rod failures..

LOL serious? Chrysler is owned by Dodge. Dodge also owns Jeep. Now go google all the videos of people breaking into chryslers and jeeps in under 15 seconds. All they do is bust the ignition housing and they can drive off with a screw driver. Fords are alot harder depending on the model and Chevy I'll admit I dont know much about. Point being is that dodge fucking sucks.

SomethingNewThisWay But it's a nice Chevy ! A well used one, especially from the 'rust belt'... Who wants that unless they are truly desperate.

Lol the car he had was a Chevy Corvette