Trying to Steal a Car with Anti-Theft Products

The “thieves” were surprisingly efficient! Imagine a pro with proper tools.

my only disappointment in this video is that you did not pixelate thier faces the whole time as a joke 😀

A note for that thief in the red hoodie: probably not a good idea to go around stealing stuff with your name and address on your chest.

The takeaway from this video is, if you want to thief-proof your car, replace your car with a knackered Peugeot.

I like how half the time for the ridiculous yellow xlock thing was spent being amazed at how easy it was to bypass 😂 Fantastic as always!

Putting that switch somewhere less obvious would have made that job a while lot harder. I had a vehicle I had two such switches that were in series so they both had to be switched. If they find the one, they thought it was job done. It worked. 😊
Enjoy this type of video from you guys.

A former teacher of me had put a magnetic switch into his car before driving to eastern Europe. The car would only work when there was a magnet in the glove compartment.

The thing is, something like that kill switch may be effective but it wouldn’t deter anyone from trying. If you have a nice car, something like the steering wheel clamp may just deter someone making them go for someone else’s car. Ideally go for both so you have the effectiveness of the kill switch and the deterrent of the large, visible steering lock (being inside the car also adds a level of commitment which further deters would be thieves as it adds risk of being caught in the act

This gives me old top gear energy and I want more of this stuff!

I know the poll asked for more MORE FAST. But this kind of video is still very appreciated, love it.

9:08 "drive and it would break itself", try that on the Pity Cruiser

am i tripping or scott and callum sound much deeper than usual. stay warm lads

I bet most of the locks on these devices can be opened by a novice lockpicker. Probably with a rake.

Pro tip: The best anti theft device is to get a car that no one wants 😂

The thing is your car doesn't really need to be super hard to steal, just needs to be harder than the car next to it

that shifter and clutch pedal would be by far the best anti theft in the USA and canada lmao

I actually once had an older car that I rigged up so that it wouldn't start if the stereo wasn't running. It was a Pioneer head unit. So with the faceplate out, stereo can't power on, car doesn't start. And it did actually prevent a theft, so that was great :)

I remember having The Club steering wheel lock in the 90s. My dad always said they could still steal the car but hopefully they will see the steering wheel lock and decide to steal a different car without it.

I was at an auction and this Mazda RX7 was not bid on except by me. The vehicle wouldn't start so nobody wanted to risk buying it.
It had a fuel shut off toggle switch to prevent the rotary engine from flooding.
I bought the car for $2900 CAD spent $20 for a technician to discover the issue and drove it for 2 years.
And then after driving it for 2 years I sold it for $6500 CAD! 😀
KISS is and always will be the best way to live your life.

"It took less seconds than pounds" Will in 2023

"I'm a thief, not a maniac" lol safety first, morals be damned!

That switch is very noticeable. You need a small dark black one that has no lights. Have the switch tucked in a very out of viewing from any angle possible. I had a 91 Escort GT 5speed here in Wisconsin but over the pond Cozzay. It had the safety fuel cut off in the trunk by I also added a switch hidden in the engine bay as well as under the dash in a place not viewable even squatting down looking under the dash. Had no problems despite plenty of attempts noticed while parked in Madison. The previous owner was a forgetful redhead who lost her keys and had a shop add one half arsed dangling from the side which used a flathead screwdriver to turn it over. Only had a door key. So yeah it was necessary. Never kept anything important in it.

Heh, my old car used to get broken into a lot (at least 3 times) the 4th, i had taken to unplugging the ignition coil. So you couldn't start it until you plugged it back in. The thieves actually tried to bump start it, and i found it abandoned 100m down the road. The hardest part of this was figuring out how to hotwire my own car to get it to a garage or something to fix it.

We installed a kill switch on my Dad’s old Toyota pickup when he worked in a bad part of town. Years later after he retired, and when he hadn’t driven it for a few months he called me to help him figure out why his truck wouldn’t start. I spent about 30 minutes troubleshooting it before I remembered the switch we had installed! He had left it in the no-start position the last time he drove it. We felt like such fools, but it obviously worked!

With the kill switch, you should add multiple phonyes that are not connected. Plus, an interior dash cam 🤣😂

The second option could be bypassed by pushing the steering wheel forward if it was pulled out.

I had a car taken but I recovered it. weeks later, it was taken again.
I set up a small panel with 5 separate 3-way toggle switches. 2 were wired to ignition, 2 wired to fuel pump, and one wired to horn. unless they know the correct order, good luck. Plus them trying and sounding the horn was enough to scare them away.
My friend added a remote horn button to his car for normal horn use and his kill switch was deactivated by just pushing the steering wheel horn and turning the key. not so common for a thief to try and blow the horn when trying to be stealth.
He later added a tilt switch hidden in a random blank spot behind the dash and had a magnet on a retractable key holder on his belt. He would put the key in and place the magnet over his sweet spot and start the car. He got so proud of his security, he started telling people he would pay them if they could steal his car. A fellow mechanic friend said he could with ease and let me say, this was a friendly bet and we knew the attempt was coming...just not when.
Next day, the car was gone.
The bet went to double or nothing and my friend was allowed to add as many anti-theft devices as he liked.
a couple weeks later, his car was not waiting for him in the parking lot after work.
He went back into work and watched the security video and our pal had simply used a tow truck to take the car.
Back at his shop, he used lock picks and wire tracing to bypass all of the anti-theft measures. (where he had plenty of time)
As a mechanic, I have to be pretty good at getting past most security devices and kill switches. With the right tools and time, nothing is totally secure.

That is disgusting to see how fast you can take off those car security items. Thanks for showing how fast you can take these items off the car.
I guess if the thief has enough time inside the car, they can take of the security items and then steal the car. If a car thief is desperate enough, they will steal your car no matter what it takes.
You guys are great, take care.

This is honestly how far I have gone, I know I am crazy, but if a thief DRIVES my car away without towing it, good luck to him with all this shit! He deserves it!
First line of defence, I have put security tint. Not car tint but the home anti intrusion stuff, was expensive and very hard to form to car windows but was done. $1000 AUD - this stuff has been specifically tested against those pressure glass breakage tools. I just wish my current car had physical turning key locks on the rear seats to disable them being folded down, like an older Audi of mine used to. I think it was an S3 that had that.
Ghost 2 immobiliser $990 AUD
Steering wheel lock with movement/air pressure sensor, 120db alarm and paging function $299
OBD port blocker, the metal type, the best known one on the market that takes at LEAST 20 minutes to disable $399
After market alarm so it can be going off like crazy the entire time and they can't disable it via the OBD port cause the OBD port is blocked. $880 AUD
I am thinking of adding a cop lock (Australian product) just to be an extra annoying asshole to them LOL.
For me, having a prestige car it was worth it to spend the 3.5K securing it to the hilt, of course I have well hidden GPS as well, use faraday pouches for all my keys, and with TWO alarms going off, a port blocker, a relay blocker and an immobiliser, I have done the works to deter - I think it's more about ME having the satisfaction of them FAILING and leaving my car in anger and capturing that on video with my tri cam and home exterior cam setup (with auto cloud upload so they can't do shit about that either until they physically break them).
The dash cams were of course installed for road accident evidence but they serve a dual purpose.
The other cool thing about the wheel lock is it goes over the spoke so they can't cut the wheel to remove it. So that needs a few minutes of bashing the shit out of it just to disable that, then cutting it. I envisage this is what someone would have to do:
A couple minutes of hardcore smashing to get through tint - with alarm going off and having paged me the entire time. Steering wheel lock, maybe another 2 to 3 minutes for this one, it's ultra high quality and built like a brick wall
OBD port blocker, a 15 minutes PLUS I feel, and car alarm itself still going on all this time even though wheel lock has been defeated at this point. Note, they have to find OBD port first as blocker has been installed in a relocated port! Nice one.
Disable alarm, 20 or so seconds now that they have access to OBD port
Now, they have to deal with the Ghost 2.
I can't see it ever being stolen unless I park it in some unsecured car park and I am literally hundreds of miles away for a trip and they have like an hour to work on it.
And that will never happen, so.....
Am I crazy? Probably. Do I feel good about it? For some reason, shit yeah! Will never publicly say which of my vehicles this is on and its city location for obvious reasons, I think it would be too tempting for some hardcore thieves that they'd have to try it!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I actually had someone try & steal my car a few years ago, but because i used it for sprint/hillclimbs it had a battery isolator which stopped the thieves! Despite the sticker on the bonnet next to the isolator switch, guess i was lucky there!

In the US, stick is already a robust anti-theft device

It'd be interesting to have the car do something if you try to start it with the switch in the wrong position. Maybe have it give a warning (in case you forget about it), then go ballistic with the horn and lights if you don't flip it to the right position and try again. Bonus points if it sends you a text message. Definitely more work, but it might be a fun project!

What we've learned here then, is that the best anti theft device is...a knackered old Peugeot 😁

I think that a switch and any one of the other ones together would be the best bet. The visible security measure is just a decoy so if someone tries to steal it, it would distract them from it having a switch.

Best solution is to disconnect your battery and carry it with you when you leave your car

Years ago I had a Mk 4 Ford Cortina and it had the best anti theft device in any car I’ve ever owned. The gear stick had a green plastic type collar that was loose so you could just pull the stick out of the console housing. You just had to make sure the car was left in gear so you could slip it back in again 😂

Gotta admire Will’s professionalism and him expressing safety concerns for his fellow thieves

yuuuuup- best anti car theft is a hidden switch indeed! just be clever with placement- even outside the car is better, my favorite is inside a driver side front wheel-well- cut a little hole, install swtich and cover it with a little flap to keep grime out. There's a bit more to it than that but I've seen it in action that way and it's super convenient and someone in a hurry mostly likely would never know. Just make sure the wiring is well hidden also- sometimes they'll pop the hood and look for anything out of the ordinary! I've known a few Car Thieves- not Friends, just people I had to be around for... reasons (Jail, woohoo!)

I remember nicking a few cars or so as a kid, well 12 to 15 years old ish and I remember a car that had one of those clutch pedal things on it to stop you pressing the clutch down lol, i just pulled the clutch pedal back and up toward me and the anti theft device simply fell off, took a second and off I went. In fact the hardest part of any car was breaking the steering lock quiet enough lol. Of course now I am older I wish I had not have done any of it and wouldnt dream of doing anything like it now but then again I am going way back to the early 90s when I am not lying i saying you could steal a metro using just a strong stick broken from a tree, thats both bending the lock so the knob pops up enough to open the door through to starting the car. I mean to start was just taking the under dash off and pulling out the round black box, anything you can put in there would start the cars lol

My old 1990 Corolla was constantly being broken into, mainly just for people to raid the ashtray for spare change. Replaced three damaged locks.a
I ended up just leaving the doors open with some assorted small change in the centre console. Cheaper than having the door locks replaced. Thieves were also considerate as they never took all the change.
Eventually the thefts stopped and I never locked the car again after that. If someone really wanted to steal this one, locked doors we not gonna stop them.
I have a feeling that not locking the doors actually prevented further thefts as people may have thought an open car just sitting like this is bound to be a trap.

When i had a 205 gti, i always took out the fuse for the fuel pump relay hoping a thief would not know.

I'm probably wrong, but wiring the seat belt sensor as a kill switch would probably do quite well. I'm not sure I've ever seen car thieves (on telly) put their seatbelt on before trying to start a stolen car.

my favorite anti theft device is to take the engine out of the car every time I leave it

i fitted a cut off swith years ago on a cortina mk 3 but what i did was take the door panel off cut some of the hard board off leaving the outer leather effect intact and put a standard home light swith in so when you open the door all looks original except the swith burried behind the outer material... never got stolen again .....

Interesting, but did you specifically not choose Thatcham approved versions on purpose? The original Stoplock steering wheel cover, and wheel bars are a lot more comprehensive than these knock offs. Be interested to see if and how quickly they could be beaten.

When on a family trip many years ago, our car broke down and had to be towed. Took a while to figure out what went wrong.
It was the secret switch that died, not connecting in either position 🤣

The owner is always there when their car is getting stolen to answer questions.

Most of these interior locks would deter most thieves. but a hidden switch for sure is the best option.
Most people would just assume the car was broken and move on.

Thanks for doing this people will not be toxic to the environment and buy crap products mass produced 🙏🏻👍🏻

The only bad part of the video is that the owner is there giving them hints and stuff, other than that, very fun video good job

Great video chaps , very informative . My top tip for anyone with a classic car (no ECU ) is a battery cut off switch under the bonnet. They only cost around £5 pounds , simple install on your battery terminal , car can’t be started unless the thief pops the bonnet and bypasses it, it won’t cause an issue when driving. Also if you store your car over winter it will save your battery from draining, win win. No good good for modern cars though

Thanks for teaching me the best methods to get passed car security devices. Realy appreciate it ❤

Those 165 dislikes are the people who got their car hijacked with these car products

I understand how my bicycle got stolen so easily. Those types of locks and cables are a joke to defeat

Best video I have seen in ages... Two totally unprofessional thieves making short work of "Amazing Security Devices"... 👍👍👍

9:15 They’re made from Chinseium !
😂😂😂😂

I had a kill switch like that 48 years ago on my Vauxhall Viva 🤣 now I have a very pissed off German sheppard. I leave in the car without food. Have a go at taking it if you want to 🤣🤣

I'm actually quite surprised people aren't using pump switches more often. Every single one of my cars always had fuel pump switches fitted to it.

A tip on the switch.
Have an obvious switch that blasts a 2-minute. alarm.
For the real hidden switch, you can have it hooked up to a fuse. If the thief tries to start the car before flipping the switch the switch blows a fuse thus making the switch useless. Have this fuse hidden and carry extra fuses in case you have a brain fart and forget to flip your switch.

Think the general public has no idea how good a pair of bolt cutters are

This video has taught me I only need a battery angle grinder to steal a car

I think the £18 clutch/pedal lock did pretty good! Using an angle grinder is probably not ideal for a thief (super loud) but good ol reliable kill switch. Pulling the fuse for your fuel pump would also have the same effect but free!

The best 'kill switch' would be touching already installed buttons in your car in the right sequence. So they would never find that one switch for that sole purpose.

Nothing beats removing some breakers in the fuse boxes. Unlike fuses, breakers are more specific to the components, whereas with a fuses sometimes you can get away with installing a lower-rated fuse and have the component partailly work, or work long enough to make a getaway . Breakers on the other hand are a bit more tricky.

I wish (and thought) this was an escape room style thing where they had to get all of them all at once and see how long it would overall take. Of course without telling them what they're up against beforehand.

The other problem with all of these is that in the real world most car thieves will just wait for you to remove all the anti theft devices and then stick a gun in your face and take the car anyway

I'm falling on love with this channel day by day

😂😂😂 just cut the seat belt on the 3rd one 😂😂

Keep in mind…a lot of these could deter a thief but if they know the product they will have their bypass. With the fuel cutoff if a thief gains access and the car won’t start the chances of them just leaving greatly increase! You can even hide the switch more and if it’s not a quick steal I’m sure they would move on.

Well it looks like it's time for you guys to do a how-to video on fitting a fuel pump kill switch!!!

The idea is only to make your car harder to steal than the neighbors car.

Back in the 80s my dad had a very fast ford popular with joyriders he bought a large chain and spent a lot of money in a padlock he'd wrap it around the stearing wheel and pedals it was never stolen but they did try wrecking the door even breaking into his garage after one failed attempt someone shat on the back seat he sold it after that and got a Datson

This is the content i want to see

as a car theif i do recommend these products 10/10

3:10 "Cheap Crap" 😂

I want a killswitch on my car too! Always a pleasure to watch you guys 😂

After someone tried to steel my vehicle I installed a flush mount starter kill switch, instead of the fuel pump kill switch. I placed it on the part of the dash that meets up with door. Thus hiding it when the door is closed. Plus nobody ever thinks to look in a place such as that.

If I were a thieve, I'd have to thank you for this video

Nice one gentlemen. Keep up the good work 🌞

If a thief has the right tools people don't stand a chance

i wonder where they got all of those experience from?

Some cars have gear knobs that have a little set screw that you have to undo with an allen wrench before you can remove them. That might work better with the first product.

That e brake lock only works best with auto gearshift levers. My mates motor has a shifter handle with the interlock switch and od selector etc. and it dosen’t screw off. When someone tried to nick it they actually tried to hacksaw the shifter just between the lock and the handle itself, but failed. And if they did manage to saw through it, wouldn’t the shift interlock that now cannot be disengaged keep it from going into gear?
As for the kill switch… I was too cheap to do it (and I’m not good with electrics) and I used to just pull the fuse every night.

the pedal stopper and the kill switch combined would be perfect

I would love to see a video of you actually installing the kill switch.

For the steering/clutch lock, couldnt you just adjust the steering wheel down?

Taking Note that my Kia Soul was just stolen a few days ago, I thank you for taking the time to make this video. It was very useful and informative.

Imagine,is 3 minutes with them knowing it's a security device and a switch in the daylight. Imagine the thieves in the dark having no idea why the car isn't starting. Awesome

The first one can probably work with some automatics that don't have a removable shift knob

Bros teachin the thiefs what to do 💀👀

That makes sense. I have heard that usually the best security devices are the ones that are hard to notice. 🙂

Killswitch is the best. I did it on my own car too but it's much smaller and hidden behind a regular plastic overlay so even with knowledge of existence of this switch you'll spend a lot of time searching it. My friend spent a whole minute trying to find it when I told him the exact placement of this switch

The pedal lock was pretty good considering they might not be holding an angle grinder, also usually the thief didnt watch you install it

you can actually pick all those locks as the lock picking lawyer has shown on his channel in a non destructive way he shows just how weak the locks are in a matter of seconds

That's one of the two modern day things to almost make it a full proof success for thieves. 1.) access to cordless high powered cutting tools and cell phones for an accomplice to keep watch for the crime.Terrible. This is a good demonstration for all these gadgets that I was just on Amazon looking at them. A thief will find a way.

Finally, a good tutorial on how to steal cars

These devices aren't as bad as they're making out because they do act as a visible deterrent. Thieves want to be in and away in as little time as possible. Unless you have a specific car they are targeting, they'll move on to an easier target rather than waste time having to deal with these devices.

I always find a pair of soiled underpants over the steering wheel puts most thieves off.

Wire the cutoff switch to the indicator on a BMW. Noone will ever use it. Perfect hiding spot.

I have fitted a kill switch to a few cars I have owned, even running to the neg side of the distributor works if you hide the wiring. Fuel pump is the best. How good it works comes down to how good the hiding spot is that you install the switch.