Bloke down our road in tbe 70s got so fed up with his viva being broken into he told the police he’d put a poison laced bottle of booze in there to be nicked. They weren’t impressed.
Picolax is dissolvable, no?
Got a disclock in my garage. We've not used it for years as our cars require the key and are deadlocked anyway, so can't be opened from the inside ! We deliberately got the older model when we bought my wife's car as the newer one was keyless. It's crazy how easy cars have become to steal.
as the owner of cars aged 10, 15 & 45 years old with no experience of keyless entry / starting, what is the problem its trying to solve?
I appreciate more than a whiff of "old man shouts at cloud", but just can't see how pressing key fob / putting key in door / ignition is such a pain
I had something similar in an old Astra. Fake front fog light switch, turn ignition on, press fog switch then start.
Mk2 Astra? Once the most stolen car in the UK. A friend at uni had one, after the third time of it getting taken and dumped at the side of the road with an empty tank he started taking the rotor arm off when it was parked up. They pushed it round the corner and torched it.
as the owner of cars aged 10, 15 & 45 years old with no experience of keyless entry / starting, what is the problem its trying to solve?
Don't shoot me but when I asked this, I was told "handbags, fishing around for keys in handbags"
Putting the key in the door/ignition is a source of key breakages (just generally, and especially in cold markets) and a lot of wear. Also some risk in crashes, depending when the ignition barrel is and how it's mounted (steering lock etc).
Keyless does away with all that.
Replacing the pressing a button on a fob, i have no idea. Maybe it's because everyone else is doing it.
recently had a coule fo cars with keyless. Personally i dont like it.
However i do subscribe to Billaddie's school of thought. In that if they want it they are going to take it. I imagine that if someone was to break into the house it would be a lot more mentally troubling than loosing a car.
Sorry to hear your car was nicked.
I dragged the 20 year old Disklok out of the garage when I took delivery of my new Octavia VRS last month, It blocks in the Mrs new Scala against the garage door. They may be both company cars but it is the hassle and stress that goes with them been stolen.
