Cant low lifes go out and work and buy thier own shit instead of stealing other peoples stuff. Really shits me off and it was parked in my driveway too. If I didnt have a chain bolted between the two posts Im sure they would have taken the car too, but you cant get out with the chain up (unless they bolt cut the lock). My car alarm also happens to be stuffed too so it must have been easy as pie for them.

I might just remove the trunk lid lock altogethor and fill up the hole and just have the lid activated via solenoid instead.

Forget the solenoid. Its just replacing the key mechanism and just as easy to open up. I put a land mine under the trunk lid that was set to go if the trunck was opened with out de activating it. (make sure you tell the old lady eh) My friend just eltrified his car a few extra coils and he claims thats more civilized.

Were you being serious that your friend electrified his car? If so, how? I had the same idea today actually...

I'm soooo sorry. I know Thanksgiving has already come and gone for you but happy Thanksgiving anyway, eh?

Man, I really need anger management or something 'cause I just get livid about stuff like that. I react just like you do in times like those. I start thinking that people like that are a waste of good oxygen and should be euthanized. I've considered connecting an ignition system to the chassis too. Drop a chain to make a ground and viola! Then the next thing you know I'm thinking about how to use more drive current, use a bigger coil, make sure it really works...

After a while, I settle down and think about it a little bit. I can't help being angry but I don't want to become dark over it. But, dude, you've had a rough year! With the car deal, your friend, and this. I'm reeeeaally sorry. You watch, in a year, you'll look back on this. You'll make lemonades out of this deal, and it will be sweeter than what you have now.

I've suffered a lot of theft too in the past couple of years too. I have two Oldsmobile Cutlass's. One is my baby, and it's garage kept so it doesn't get touched. But the other is a stock car, just a backup really. And that thing is always getting messed with. The sound system was stolen three times in the last couple of years, so I stopped replacing it. The car itself was stolen earlier this year. I was amazed that it was found, but I had to pay to get it from the impound and the steering column was destroyed and the rear lock punched in. I eventually replaced those and now have begun to use "the club" on the steering wheel. Sometimes when I think about it, I can easily revert back to my Nazi thinking of euthanizing the riff-raff of society.

But in the end, you're either a giver or a taker. Givers are happy, takers are not. It really is that simple.

Take it easy Adrian. You're a good guy and it will turn around and you'll be ten times better off in 2005.

Wayne

What also makes me angry is that I was going to take the exhaust out of the boot and put it in the house last night..... but I thought, ah, why should I bother? Im gonna be jacking the car up and installing it tomorow anyway, so I'll leave it in the trunk. And the bloody thing gets stolen, man I wish I put it in the house. I paid $250 for it on the same day too so it was literally brand new from the shop. For some reason they only took the front section of the exhaust and not the rear section, I suspect that they must have heard someone or a car coming down the street and nicked off before taking it. Cuz the two go togethor. Maybe I should sit out there tonight and see if they come back for the other half of the exhaust.....

I use a club lock on my steering wheel all the time. Good protection against someone stealing the car. I bought a car alarm today and am gonna install it tomorow (THIS time I am not storing it in the trunk overnight). I think getting rid of the keyhole altogethor and just open the boot via button inside the car would also help a bit... or just make them wreck the car more in attempt to open the trunk.

Perhaps its time for Autotuba now to replace my stolen 12" subs....

Hmmm... I dont think Thanksgiving is an Australian celebration - no one here that I know celebrates it and its not on the calender.... Im not sure exactly what thanksgiving is actually about either in the US?

Wow, your car audio gear was stolen three times... that would have to suck. Was it JBL stuff? Im glad at least my whole car wasnt stolen... the person who stole the stuff in the boot must have known I had it. I dont really play it loud going down my street but Ive tested it loudly while parked in the driveway a number of times, but havnt done that in a month of two.

Ive seen pics of yout Cutlass before, its nice. Heres my baby:

And here is what I USED to have in there.... until it was stolen:

Shown is amp/subs/exhaust... dont have a pic of the air compressor that was also stolen.

Im thinking any new subs I get will literally have to be bolted down with 1" thick bolts if its gonna stay..... the subs I had were just screwed down with brackets so it doesnt rattle but certainly not burglar proof. They just ripped the entire box out of the boot, also ripped off my ground wire to the chassis etc.

Adrian

About Thanksgiving, I had Australia's customs mixed up with Canada's. Sorry about that.