by GlassWolf » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:43 am
"I plan to make some sort of "fake cover"...."
look at BlitzSafe. seriously. They've been around since at least 1991 or so. They make a motorized retracting sleeve that your head unit mounts in, similar to a nrmal mounting kit if you have the depth for it, but it retracts the radio and covers the opening with a blank plate when it's activated. It's slick as hell. I've used them in 3rd gen F bodies a lot since they have the dash space for one.
"on another note, whoever was trying to shoot out windows (needless to say it wasn't a clucka) is either silly, an amateur/ignorant, or just stupid.."
they drive by and shoot the window with BB guns to see if the car has an alarm. If the alarm goes off, they keep driving. If it doesn't go off, they go back and knock it out and grab whatever tehy can. I used to turn off the alarm after tehy'd try it the third time in one night.. then I'd sit behind a tree in my yard with my .45 and wait for try number 4. They stopped trying after I left a few holes in their parents' car. Anyway, that was one way they'd try to see if cars had alarms. In my case, even if they did smash a window though, they'd have to climb through it to get anything, because the stock door locks were all removed and replaced with ones tied directly to the alarm so the only way to open the door qwas to disarm the alarm and pop the door that way. It made things more difficult for the dumb amateurs. Come to think of it, I did have one make off with the face for an alpine EQ once.. but he was about as dumb as a box of rocks anyway. He showed up in my store a week later wanting to know what he had and what it was worth. After I matched the serial number to my unit, I let him know it was worth about a year in jail, after I called the cops and reported him, and his plates on the car he drove in and parked right in front of the store windows.
total dumbass.
good deal with ebay there. glad that one worked out. that's a fair price if its in good condition and you have your own sec code for it. I was just saying retail on it was 600. If ya got it for 300 I figured that was ebay or a closeout deal at a shop making room for the new models. Still a great unit though. I had an 8454 for a bit, before I went to the alpine 7990.
yeah I'm north of Chitown in MI now, but I drive through Chicago often enough. I know the area decently. I like it here in the rural quiet now though. Man I can leave the Charger out front, in the drive with the doors open all night and nobody will touch it. Keys in it and all. I love small towns for that at least. Hell I'd probably get someone come up to say hey man, you left your car door open.. haha
"I plan to make some sort of "fake cover"...."
look at BlitzSafe. seriously. They've been around since at least 1991 or so. They make a motorized retracting sleeve that your head unit mounts in, similar to a nrmal mounting kit if you have the depth for it, but it retracts the radio and covers the opening with a blank plate when it's activated. It's slick as hell. I've used them in 3rd gen F bodies a lot since they have the dash space for one.
"on another note, whoever was trying to shoot out windows (needless to say it wasn't a clucka) is either silly, an amateur/ignorant, or just stupid.."
they drive by and shoot the window with BB guns to see if the car has an alarm. If the alarm goes off, they keep driving. If it doesn't go off, they go back and knock it out and grab whatever tehy can. I used to turn off the alarm after tehy'd try it the third time in one night.. then I'd sit behind a tree in my yard with my .45 and wait for try number 4. They stopped trying after I left a few holes in their parents' car. Anyway, that was one way they'd try to see if cars had alarms. In my case, even if they did smash a window though, they'd have to climb through it to get anything, because the stock door locks were all removed and replaced with ones tied directly to the alarm so the only way to open the door qwas to disarm the alarm and pop the door that way. It made things more difficult for the dumb amateurs. Come to think of it, I did have one make off with the face for an alpine EQ once.. but he was about as dumb as a box of rocks anyway. He showed up in my store a week later wanting to know what he had and what it was worth. After I matched the serial number to my unit, I let him know it was worth about a year in jail, after I called the cops and reported him, and his plates on the car he drove in and parked right in front of the store windows.
total dumbass.
good deal with ebay there. glad that one worked out. that's a fair price if its in good condition and you have your own sec code for it. I was just saying retail on it was 600. If ya got it for 300 I figured that was ebay or a closeout deal at a shop making room for the new models. Still a great unit though. I had an 8454 for a bit, before I went to the alpine 7990.
yeah I'm north of Chitown in MI now, but I drive through Chicago often enough. I know the area decently. I like it here in the rural quiet now though. Man I can leave the Charger out front, in the drive with the doors open all night and nobody will touch it. Keys in it and all. I love small towns for that at least. Hell I'd probably get someone come up to say hey man, you left your car door open.. haha