anti-theft save your truck from getting stoen

[sparg93]

u can also get the fuse holders at radio shack.

I was playing around with the fuse panel ('99 Hoe), but i can't see an easy way to get to the wires...any recommendations?

 

[Dismay]

I feel like people are focusing too much on the fuse holder, If one of these is plugged in to the fuse panel, it will only draw attention. It makes much more sense to just splice into the wire in well hidden spot, and run the wires to your switch from there, leaving the oem fuse alone. You don't want to give the thief any clues as to what you have disabled.

 

[puckhead]

I feel like people are focusing too much on the fuse holder, If one of these is plugged in to the fuse panel, it will only draw attention. It makes much more sense to just splice into the wire in well hidden spot, and run the wires to your switch from there, leaving the oem fuse alone. You don't want to give the thief any clues as to what you have disabled.

True, i thought about that. Is it easy to get under the fuse panel to the wires?

 

[sparg93]

yeah...you definitely don't want to plug this into a fuse panel unless you have to...but how do you get to the wires behind the panel to splice them.

I've been playing around and i've had a really hard time finding the wire, let alone splicing into it.

 

[Slammedchevy01]

So is this controlled by the switch for it not to start or do u pull the fuse?

 

[Z-56 Hoe]

now isnt that an alarm right there?

 

[k gee]

Isn't this basically like a double kill switch for someone who has an alarm already? Just a hidden switch in case they find the actual alarm?

 

[cam3439]

pretty much

 

[k gee]

Thanks, I already have two kill switches. One is pretty much unbreakable.

 

[LazyAssLou]

Yea, I did this and my truck still got stolen. Damn theives!...

 

[TnTahoe]

I was looking under my dash the other day and found the source of my kill switch/horn thingy lol. It appears to be 3 relays wired to a bunch of stuff, but it disables the starter or something and instead of cranking the vehicle it just blows the horn everytime you turn the key when its activated

 

[Dismay]

That looks like a mess, lol!

 

[TnTahoe]

yeah i know

 

[rigo_jones]

Yea, I did this and my truck still got stolen. Damn theives!...

u serious? what did you disable? if you cut the power to the ecu or fuel pump there is no way the truck can be started. i find it hard to beleive it was stolen after u did this.


relays will do nothing for you and to me are pointless even the relays that your alarm came with are easy to disable.

i know i said i was gonna get pics but ive been super busy. i bought a house and i still moving in and setting everything up.

 

[MOBmentality]

My dude has a tilt sensor on his steering column somewhere under the hood.. and it doesnt matter if... the alarm is disabled.. and autostart has cranked the truck.. and the doors are unlocked.. but the key is not in the ignition.. and you move the steering wheel AT ALL.. it sends a pulse and kills the fuel pump, ignition and ecu... so the truck just sits there dead with the alarm screaming.. i thought that was kinda a neat deterrent...

putting the key in after its going off wont do anything.. you have to SET the alarm.. then disable it again.. then put the key in... so just cutting ignition wires wont do you any good.

He also has an old trunk latch key hole for the hood pop instead of a lever.. so you need a key to pop the hood... hes an installer and its his shop demo truck so he went overboard on alot of stuff.. but hes got some novel shit going on

 

[denalianyone]

Invest in a Mo Mo stering wheel with a quick release. Then whenever you get out the truck, the steering wheel comes with you.

 

[crmzendrgone]

When I first got my yukon I thought about doing that exact thing and running the switch some where like in the glove box or in a cigeretter lighter. I have seen that before. My cousin use to do car audio and he wire the gain on his amps to a false cigerette lighter so all you had to do was turn the cigerette lighter like a knob and bass no bass. That would be cool I have my radio hidden under the dash with a remote control and left the factory one in the dash. It would be cool and a good idea to wire one of the buttons on the radio and have that as the switch.

 

[LazyAssLou]

u serious? what did you disable? if you cut the power to the ecu or fuel pump there is no way the truck can be started. i find it hard to beleive it was stolen after u did this.


relays will do nothing for you and to me are pointless even the relays that your alarm came with are easy to disable.

i know i said i was gonna get pics but ive been super busy. i bought a house and i still moving in and setting everything up.

Not sure exactly how they started the truck, I was too sad to look. Seeing my truck like that at the impound. But it is getting worked on now so I guess I will never know.

 

[Dismay]

Tow truck? No amount of switches can stop that.

 

[ScottyBoy]

When I first got my yukon I thought about doing that exact thing and running the switch some where like in the glove box or in a cigeretter lighter. I have seen that before. My cousin use to do car audio and he wire the gain on his amps to a false cigerette lighter so all you had to do was turn the cigerette lighter like a knob and bass no bass. That would be cool I have my radio hidden under the dash with a remote control and left the factory one in the dash. It would be cool and a good idea to wire one of the buttons on the radio and have that as the switch.

I've seen that done before. You can hook up a kill switch with a relay and have the relay triggered by the remote wire on the radio. Basically, the truck wont start unless you have the face on the radio and turn the radio on before you crank the truck. You also have to wire the radio to an ign wire instead of an accessory wire so the radio stay on during engine cranking. When its all done, its a pretty sweet setup.