Bizarre Scratches On Door Surround

[the edmundator]

What size fits a Scirocco?

Disklok? Small.

[DannyH]

Ta Ed

[mark1gls]

Another handy thing with a disklok fitted is if your car is outside on a hot sunny day the steering wheel stays nice and cool.

[the edmundator]

Another handy thing with a disklok fitted is if your car is outside on a hot sunny day the steering wheel stays nice and cool.

Although the same can't be said of the Disklok

[duggers]

Door lock plates and make sure you don't have standard golf T style lock buttons. At one of the national meets a few years ago I got into someones car for them as they locked their keys in using some packing tape and an old nectar card.
I highly recommend HAWK alarms (alarm -immobilizer) as they are easy enough to fit if you have some electrical knowledge and basic skills. They are also very good value.

[Nate]

Homebrew kill switches are often harder to get past than a pro alarm install, as it's not going to be the standardised installation. You can fit them somewhere very easily accessible but not obvious, and if you don't know where I is its gonna stop you. One of the best home brew immobilisers I've seen was made from 3x 1/4" jack sockets that were set into the bottom of the armrest on the drivers door of a mk3 cav. There were 2 plugs wired together so that one way round the car would start, but if you put them in the wrong way round or into the soxket that was supposed to be left empty it would just pop a fuse

[Nate]

How cumbersome and time consuming is it to remove and install disklok?

It's much less time consuming than having your car pinched ;)

[Nate]

http://s794.photobucket.com/user/konyo- ... s.jpg.html

This is the halfords lock I used to use. At the time it was claimed as a Thatcham cat 3. Could be that it's not listed as it's no longer made?

Other options to consider if youve got slightly deeper pockets are the multilok gearstick lock, one of those box things that locks over the pedals, or if you fancy having a go at a bit of fabrication, how about something that just locks the chair in the tilted forwards position ?

[james butler]

On my old golf the live going to the coil from the ignition went through a toggle switch fitted in the dash that immobilised the car.
The best bit was the switch diverted the ignition live straight to the horn instead.
The amount of times I forgot to press the switch and when I tried to start it I got the horn instead of the ignition.

[scrumpyone]

The amount of times I forgot to press the switch and when I tried to start it I got the horn instead of the ignition.

Ooh er missus!

[craigwalton]

Duggers, pardon my lack of vocabulary, but what you do you mean by "door lock plates" and "lock buttons"? Are the lock buttons the little pins that sit atop the door card? Will look into HAWK alarms.

I love that incorrect switch combination results in blown fuse idea - adds hassle and complication to thief but not to driver! Could put an obvious dummy kill switch under dash that blows fuse and hide the real switch a little better. The gearbox and peddle locks are probably slightly beyond where I'm willing to go to be honest.

The horn switch hookup is a great idea too. I guess anything to surprise, confuse or slow down a thief the better. Will have a look around where best to fit a switch, might put it on the fuel pump circuit. Or is ignition generally better since you could use a momentary switch?

[james butler]

ignition is generally easier to immobilise as you only have to cut one wire and put a switch in.
to make it sound the horn you would need to add another wire from said switch down to the horn relay so every time the ignition is switched on the horn will sound but the car wont start.

it would be in your interests to get a professional to fit you an alarm like the toad ai606 so you would have thatcham cat1 alarm and combine that with central locking. this alarm has motion sensors inside the car as well as vibration and battery signal sensing and if it does go off, when you reset the alarm the number of flashes of the led tells you what triggered the alarm.
it cost me £300 to get mine installed but at the time brought my insurance down by £450 so was quids in in the first year.

[Nate]

I remember an advert from when the toad ai600 series came out. They said if a thief managed to get past the immobiliser and steal the car, they would pay out. Think they are generally regarded as just about the best you can get. My mk1 has got one going into it, the camper will when it's finished, and likely the mk2 as well. They're also easily expanded to provide additional toys (remote headlights, remote start etc etc

[mark1gls]

Amour door plates, I've fitted these to both of my cars and again 16 years later they still look good.
https://www.candrenterprises.co.uk/shop ... -golfmk117

Golf


Scirocco.

[sabre0699]

Someone has attempted a pull back break in, had they done that with a newish Corsa the whole of the door top would have pulled open by at least 10 inches allowing access into the car.

Problem is if they do get in that without an immobiliser fitted (either electronic or mechanical ie a steering wheel lock) it takes a matter of minutes to barrel the lock and thus get rid of the steering lock then pull the white plastic switch and drive the car using a screwdriver to start it

Back in the 80's and early 90's we were catching little scrotes who could be into a mk2 golf 16v or astra 3 gte and have it started and moving within 90 seconds.

My Scirocco has had a Multi Lock gear lock fitted since new plus an alarm