Keeping Your Truck From Getting Stolen?

[Hawkez]

These days having a manual might be a pretty good deterrent to have your vehicle stolen.

 

[KATOOM]

2 hours ago, Hawkez said:

These days having a manual might be a pretty good deterrent to have your vehicle stolen.

 

 

Thats probably as true as it is funny.....

[Mopar1973Man]

2 hours ago, Hawkez said:

These days having a manual might be a pretty good deterrent to have your vehicle stolen.

 

 

Strange but truck most truck owners out here favor the manual over the automatics.

[Hawkez]

Just a few that made it in the news.

 

http://www.kiro7.com/news/police-search-carjacker-who-stole-mustang-manual-t/43431525

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/would-be-carjackers-foiled-in-seattle-couldnt-drive-stick/

 

http://www.9news.com/news/crime/attempted-carjacker-couldnt-drive-a-stick-shift/266593143

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/carjacker-ditches-vehicle-drive-stick-shift-article-1.2116880

 

http://www.sltrib.com/home/3468879-155/carjacking-ends-because-would-be-thief-cant

 

Edited July 10, 2016 by Hawkez

[Mopar1973Man]

Maybe that why vehicle theft is low in this part of Idaho most of all the ranchers have manual transmissions and to this day people still leave the keys in the ignition. It does happen where manual transmission vehicles are stolen. I've done a front end rebuild of a 2000 Dodge after the thief crash the truck on Christmas morning into a bridge railing on a icy road being chasing by the police. Worse yet the the caught the thief and he since then skipped bail and ran.

 

[TFaoro]

For those of you who have driven a G56, I don't think someone could get mine into reverse! It doesn't have the shift pattern on the knob, so pulling it past the reverse detent isn't known by many. G56 2nd gens aren't too "common"  

Edited July 14, 2016 by TFaoro