Broken in last night

[Greg Gobin]

Sorry to hear that, there is nothing worse than a thief

 

[rsbug]

Three things I purchased to thwart off thieves..

1.) Jimmijammer
..of which I purchased the hood and tailgate devices as well

2.) Lockerdown Safe

3.) Ravelco Anti-Theft Device

 

[frank d calabro]

unfortunately alarms arent as useful as they used to be. people hear it and think nothing of it. they wont even bother to stop their conversation. one of the reasons i have a train horn on my truck is that its tied into my alarm system. set of the alarm and the train horn goes off. with 10 gallons of air, it will make noise long enough for the thief to shit his pants. i was in a store and some guy hit my truck while parking. everyone near the store entrance were looking around wondering where this insanely loud horn was coming from. they saw me coming out to my truck where i saw the guy who hit me. i confronted him about it and the idiot said he didnt know he hit my truck. luckily he hit my tire since it was slightly turned right and sticking out an inch or two from the fender and running boards. but it got the attention of everyone in the parking lot and in the store. also, i have the viper smart start gps unit. with the viper app, it gives map location, gps coordinance, speed, heading, and being able to refresh it as many times as i want. heres a snap shot of what the viper looks like. this is just the map info.

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How is it hooked up to the alarm ? I have a train horn .

 

[Attackpilot]

Oh, and San Antonio hotels are a crap shoot. Might as well leave the doors unlocked.

The Emily Morgan Hotel was ok, even with street parking.

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

How is it hooked up to the alarm ? I have a train horn .

i have the viper 5906 alarm system. the siren wire output is a positive trigger so i ran it through a relay to boost the amperage. then just ran it to the relay on the train horn. doesnt make noise on arm and disarm, but when the alarm gets triggered, is exceptionally loud. i have the katrina train horn.

 

[Roc Nichols]

Im from San Antonio that should say it all. The key word here is from.

 

[smurfslayer]

The Emily Morgan Hotel was ok, even with street parking.

Embassy suites downtown near riverwalk has a Raptor friendly garage and optional valet parking. Pre-china-virus it was a good place to stay. Post china-virus it’s average.

 

[Greg G]

Well here I am in San Antonio and spent the night last night just to wake up and notice that my Ford pass had a "door opened" alarm message. Go out to the truck, and yep, it was broken into. I'm just surprised as to how little damage there was and how easy it looks it is to break into the truck. Doesn't even look like it would be worth claiming the damage on the insurance. anyone have the same happen to them? Looks like pulling the door handles and shoving a screw driver behind the cylinder and popping it back unlocks it.

I had the same thing happen to me 4 months after I bought it. The trucks with this style door handle are extremely easy to open. It takes about 15 seconds and a pair of channel locks. I complained to Ford and the dealer and they refuse to acknowledge there is a problem. I live in the Houston area. There are ways to prevent it it but it requires removing the door lock and losing the ability to open the truck with a key. There is plenty of info on the internet about how they do it and how to prevent it. I believe this is a design flaw and Ford should do something about it. They didn't get anything but a pack of cigs but it still pissed me off. They went right for the center console and touched nothing else. This tells me they were probably looking for a gun. The dealer wanted close to $500 to replace the door handle. I fixed the problem with $3 and a trip to Home Depot. Remove the lock cylinder and glue a plastic plug in its place. Like I said, it secures the truck but you can no longer use the key to open the door. This is not unique to Raptors. Any Ford with that style door handle can be easily opened.

 

[richnot]

That really sucks and thank God nothing valuable was taken. I`m going way back to Toyota pickups, when the first extended cabs were available. Mine was broken into 2 times, once by removing the passenger side extra cab window and throwing into the parking lot. Nothing of value lost. The second time I went out to get my jacket out of my truck and is along with other items were gone but the truck was locked, well about the same time they had a segment on TV about how easy it was to break into a Toyota pickup and all you needed was a pencil with an eraser on it.

Lift up the door handle and stick the pencil in eraser first through the opening created for the door latch and it would go right to the door lock rod, the eraser gave it the grip it needed and in 30 seconds you could be in. On TV no less......

Was installing the JimmyJammer kit just labor intensive, and do you have to completely remove the door panel? It definitely seems like cheap insurance

I guess the days of old time installation of a hidden kill switch are gone. My brother wired up his Mitsubishi GT3000 VR4 to a switch on the dash that was factory installed.

After watching the show Border Wars it`s pretty impressive with the sequence of switches that need to be pushed a certain amount of time along with other steps to get a secret panel open. I guess the same could be done to start a truck ??

I forgot to mention that after my truck was broken into I have never left the registration and insurance card in it

 

[1BAD454SSv2]

Only thing i'm concerned with removing lock is if you battery goes dead . Keypad will work on lower voltages but total dead your done. You have to jimmy hood release to open hood , or i was thinking of plugging into trailer plug to at least get some power going to use key pad . Pin 4 is positive and pin 1 is ground . Have not investigated this fully.

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