Someone Just Tried to Steal My Car, So I Installed This

Instant Kill Switch for Your Car. This Will Stop Any Thief from Stealing Your Car, DIY and car review Scotty Kilmer. Stop car theft. How to keep your car from being stolen. How to install a kill switch. Car stolen and anti-theft system. How to stop a car thief from stealing your vehicle. This device will help protect your car and make sure most people will fail to steal it while you're gone. Car advice. DIY car repair with Scotty Kilmer, an auto mechanic for the last 55 years.

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[daveborchard]

You could install a fourth button in a very obvious location. The fourth button actives and locks on extremely loud sirens inside and outside the vehicle, powered by independent batteries. The loud sirens make it impossible to physically be inside the vehicle, unless the criminal also happens to be deaf, which is very unlikely. Just make sure to never press that fourth button yourself!

[theslimeylimey]

Magnetic proximity switches switches work well too. My friend put one under the headliner and you had to stick a neodymium magnet in the right place over it to close the contacts.

[jdrissel]

I built something years ago that did a similar job. Mine was based on a button the thief doesn't want to push, the horn! To operate mine you had to turn the key over to start and hold it there and then press the horn to crank the engine. Had to let go of the horn button first because if you let go of the starter button then the horn would start blowing. It all used a couple of standard automotive relays, so it was cheap and blended in to the stock wiring.

[JohnCalvert-wg]

We have one installed on each of our cars, with three switches that are hidden beneath the trim in various places. There are no visible buttons - we simply press three separate spots on the dash in the correct order and then turn the key. They are impossible to find and work like a dream. I cant recommend them enough. Such a simple idea but perfectly executed

[nucleargrizzly]

Stop any thief from stealing your car? A manual transmission. 😁😁😁

[johnmichaelrichards]

Over here in the UK, I'm using the Autotech Ghost 2 in my Jaguar. No need to install any buttons -it detects a sequence of buttons pressed on the steering wheel, windows or radio, etc, in a preset combination.

[cafned]

My wife had a '97 Saturn when we met. It had a little numerical keypad to the left of the steering wheel (might have been a dealer installed option). To start the car you had to enter a code (there was a valet mode.) So the car had double protection. First, it was a '97 Saturn, and second it wouldn't start without a code.

[docredline]

Scotty, I love the fact that you not only narrate...but use sign language for the deaf!

[PS-rrjt]

One thing I’ve learned from 3 decades of working on other people’s vehicles is that the best way to make them less reliable is to cut into the factory wiring.

[reginaldhill]

Funny thing about this video is that my car was actually stolen with a tow truck during the same time frame of three days ago. I don't think the kill switch would've did me any good in this case. But it's good to have for the theft you pointed out in the video.

[optionstraderman]

If you want to have some real fun, try installing 6 or 8 buttons all together in a cluster in an easy to access place that is visible, but don't wire any of them up, Maybe even stencil numbers on them like a keypad. Then hide 2 more buttons that are actually wired to the starter relay.somewhere else in the car. They will never figure it out. LOL

[mjss]

Back in the 1990s when I was into tinkering on older muscle cars I bought a high-end coil. The coil came with a micro-switch that you could engage when you parked you start and left it. It was basically a kill switch BUT it worked in a manner that you didn't know there was a kill switch.

If it was toggled you could start the car and it would run perfectly for about 15 seconds. Then it would start missing every now and then for about 30 seconds. After that it would get worse and to the point that you couldn't even accelerate anymore. Finally, after a total of maybe a minute it would die. Turn the key off and start it again it would run rough for about 5 seconds and then die. The third time it wouldn't let you start it at all.

It made the car act like it had some issue going on so rather than you looking for a kill-switch you just give up and leave. If you managed to get it into gear as soon as you started it and drove off you might end up a couple hundred yards away at the most.

I loved that thing....until I forgot that I had it and ended up being almost 30 minutes late to work. I checked everything until I remember that stupid switch, jumped in the car, toggled it and fired it right up.

[Nozinbonsai]

The problem with Australia is that the naughty kids know that if they're caught car fishing, they get a safe place to sleep and a couple of good meals. Then they can go and do it again. Thats why the community is doing something about it.

[alanjameson]

Reminds me of a kid in my home town a long time ago who installed a grid of toggle switches on the dash of his car; didn't need a key at all, but had to know which toggle switches to throw which way to turn on the ignition. Separate starter button on the floorboard next to the clutch.

[truetexan]

When I was a kid in high school I would take the rotor out of the distributer cap when parked.
Only took a minute to do so.

[jimcarmichael]

Scotty, Thank you so much for this important topic of auto security devices!!!! Live in California where there is a huge increase of stolen newer cars. You are the greatest.

[johnhwang]

I've planned on installing a 5 pin relay wired to the starter solenoid on the 87 pin. 87a pin to a horn. 30A to the original solenoid wire. The coils attached to a push button. If the thief tries to start the car without pushing the button, it will sound the horn.

The nice thing is that if the car needs to be serviced by a mechanic, simply remove the relay and jump the 87a to 87 pin. It will start normally. When done, replace the relay.

[Mernom]

Where I live, a standard security measure is a mini keypad you need to type a pin code into before you can start the car. Seems much simpler to do than messing with hidden switches.

[Babanananna]

My car used to have a kill switch hook up to the window switch and you had to pull it to start the car at the same time and some people had it a battery disconnect hidden switch. Definitely would recommend something like these. Even if they have fancy tools/screw driver, they still can’t start because they need to connect it.