• EeeDawg101@lemm.ee
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      Yep and crack the windows. Ridiculous how hot it can be in a sealed car after roasting all day.

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    The steering wheel locks are making a comeback for Hyundai/Kia vehicles. Also, I still use the sun visor especially in this heat right now.

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      The garbage bin. If someone wants your car and that’s on the wheel they’ll cut through the wheel and remove it in less than 30 seconds. It was stupid from the start.

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        It’s a deterrent. It reduces the odds of your window getting smashed and your ignition switch mangled. Your car should have an immobilizer anyway, and if it somehow doesn’t, you can get a kill switch installed

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        If wasn’t stupid for most people. If there’s your car with The Club on it, and an identical car a few spots down without The Club, which car do you think the thief will steal?

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    #2 is decent TBH (or killswitch or pedal lock), yes they can be circumvented, but they are deterrent enough usually, since most thefts these days are sit and go, especially with the advent of keyless cars.

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      My friend had fusible links and a keypad installed in his car. You had to punch in the correct key combination to start it, and if you got it wrong then the fuses would pop and it would be physically impossible to start the car until you replaced them. A bit drastic, but it was a rare collector’s car and we lived in a high theft area.

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      My dads friend back then had a casette player that you could pull out. It had a handle like a little purse. He would take it anywhere, it was so goofy

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    Funny how car radios aren’t a thing any more. Another victim of the smart phone. I don’t even use the speakers because my headphones are far better at sound reproduction and they cancel 90% of the noise. It’s blissfully quiet, I can hear everything they say in the podcast. My only gripe is that my passenger accuse me of being anti social.

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      You really shouldn’t be using headphones while driving. It’s extremely important for everyone’s safety for you to be able to hear horns directed at you, to hear ambulances, and to hear pedestrians. Wearing headphones makes you an inattentive driver putting people at risk.