Sorry to hear about your loss.
A backup battery alarm was mentioned, this is the one I have that goes along with my alarm system.

http://www.caraudio-caralarms.com/515R.html



It will power your alarm and it has its own siren that will wail until it dies.

 

someone was breaking into my brother in-law's truck one night, I tapped on the bed with a baseball bat and the guy whipped around and swung a floorjack handle at me. I got a few good blows to his head with a Louisville Slugger. He ran with me swinging right behind him. I got a few blows to his shoulders. He jumped headfirst into an open window of a getaway car waiting. The cops nearly filed assault charges on me.

 

thats what i dont like about the justice system. if you defend your property by physically hurting the thieves, they can turn around and SUE you, and WIN most of the time! and the law never questions what they were doing there in the first place.. its so messed up. but having louie as a very close friend can and DOES come in handy. . louie is one of my besties

 

Couldn't have been that "good" if he was still upright!
Then again, cocaine is a hell of a drug...

 

that'd be a pretty satisfying feeling - cracking a bat over the head of a junky stealing stuff out of your ride. i'm not that violent but having had things stolen out of various vehicles in the past it's a mental image that brings a smile to my face.

 

Yeah that is nice....it's the only way I would do it.

 

Here's the subs exposed:

 

i don't know what he was on but the cops said the found the getaway vehicle and it was full of drug paraphanelia (sp) and all the cop said was "and we ain't talking weed"

 

that is true, I know that there are stories of people getting there car broken into just for the spare change on the floor or whatever

My friend has his car broken into, and all they took was his faceplate and change out of the ashtray, they dug all through his car, everywhere but the center console, which had a like $100 just sitting there from my buddy's grandmother or somthing (it was christmas time)

and cocaine is a hell of a drug.....

 

Dude that sucks, I dunno what I'd do if I came out and found my 4Runner like that.

 

sob and cry

 

I know what you mean. I bet it felt pretty good giving that POS what he deserved, but your mistake was when you kept hitting him once he was trying to run away. In this country you can't do that. You have to let them go when they are fleeing. Sucks. I know.

 

First off that you all for your support! After this I said I am working too hard and just took the day off and went paintballing. Had a blast and got my aggressions out. I don’t usually brag but I was FEARED out there today, every guy out there was the one that stole my stuff and trashed my truck.

Yeah I looked at the damage and I am not even thinking about using the insurance, I don’t have any claims or tickets on my policy and I want to keep it that way.

It was locked but I am guilty of leaving things visible. I have been wanting to get my cargo box in for awhile but just never got around to it. It will be a dozy when I do early next year!

No offense taken. I know that my truck said “Rob me” all over it. I was never really worried about it as the neighborhood I live in is one of the lowest crime rates in the area. And if it had not been for Halloween kids I bet it would not have happened. There is no one in my area that would know or care what I had. And I always make sure that I turn off the radio before getting to close to home (where I live it is pretty obvious if someone follows you. But then they can come back later and see my truck as there is no room in the garage.)

I already have some ideas as to how I am going to do it next time and it wil be 100% stealth. And if someone wants my stuf they will have to work at it. I know there are 2 sides to this but where I live is about the only place that they could really hit it and I am going to get a 2-way security sytem so my 12 guage will be able to get to it if they try to. Or if I am out my .45.

I think they did get scared off, more stuff could have been taken but they left my CD changer and a screw driver they were using. So I think they had to quit early.

I have considered lowering my deductable but it will cost XXX and when I was setting it up it was not worth it. Although now that I am modding it I think I will look into changing my policy some. Any other tips for coverage on my stuff?

The Cop that wrote it up wrote it up a little different then usual and a detective is supposed to call my in a few days for any more info I have and he said he is going to have the lab look at the screw driver. They are also going to look out at the pawn shops for me. So there is a chance they could find them although very small.

See PM. And yeah the tearing up my rear end and my tool box is what really had me ticked. Like just today I needed something and went to the back and opened it up to find the box missing!! Made me mad all over again!

Thanks, I will make it through, but my SC will have to wait some more… :-(

Thanks for the info! I was wondering what that was, I will clean it out while I am in there. I saw it and could not for the life of me figure out what it was! I have never had a sunroof before so that never even crossed my mind.

I will look into engraving my tools this time I think, good idea.

I have though about backing up but it is a pain with my tilted driveway and where you see it in the pictures is where it was. About ~5 feet from the road. It is on a corner and there is a light above it so I am surprised they tried it. I think I will park further up from now on though.

Ouch, that would SUCK! Without a 2 way alarm I would consider just leaving everything open and hidden. But if I have the 2 way then there is never any time where I am to far from it to not be able to greet the robber with a nice purrty .45. and if I make it hard enough then I will have time to get to them. If I was to go someplace that I was worried about my truck I would just take something else.

Careful! You will shoot your eye out! Lol

Get the real deal, it works much better! And thanks for the kind words.

Once again all well noted. Everything will be WELL hidden next time and I think I will bolt it down with a 2 way security system to let me know so I can go check it out. But good info, I will keep it in mind for sure.

Yeah, I got a few guns around that will drive some instant fear into ANYONE. This is one reason that I am wanting to know how secure the stock engine immobilizer really is. Will it really stop someone or is it a joke?

Interesting idea, I will have to check that out, I have to say that I am VERY pleased with USAA and so are my parents as they have used it all there lives as well.

Yeah, I will be putting more $$$ into my fronts this time around (was going to replace them anyways) and might do without a sub but most likely I will make some kind of stealth enclose where even if you look you won’t know if it is there (the ideas are already flowing)

LOL, so true.

That is along the lines of what I am thinking but yet different. Mine will be more “useful” Desing plans and help will be posted soon I am sure, lol)

Thanks, I plan on getting all those goodies on my truck, (I will post help/write up page in that section I am sure). I am thinking about finding a good security system installer around that will do a good job or do it myself if I think I can. I will also be installing a camera on my house watching my cars from now on.

I don’t want to think about what I would have done..

I had a friend that had this happen. Guy robber her house and he then sued her for getting locked in for a week. The world is screwed up!

I was thinking the same thing! :-))

I can think of a lot more things I would like to do. But going paintballing got most of them out. lol

Nice, looks similar to what I am planning.

This is what REALLY sucks. Don’t know if I mentioned it in the first post but my dads car got his window broken out as well the same night. And for what you ask? A 2 liter bottle of COKE!!!!!! Now that is just low. It is costing him $200 to replace the window! This is one reason the cop is making a bigger deal out of this case I think.

I can think of a few things I would do I I caught the guys doing it. As for what I would do when I find it, you don’t want to know. Ladies read this board too.

Been there done that.



Thanks for the support everyone!

 

I feel your pain. My toyota pick up was busted into twice. what a hassle.

 

what i am wondering is your windows look tinted from the glass on the floor or is it just me?? they must have known something was in there? i got my windows tinted for the same reason.

also i see your amp is still there? why wouldnt they just snap those cords and grab that too? i feel like it might be someoen who saw what was in your car, maybe they were driving by and you had it open working on it or something.

car alarms are great, but they cant scare everyone.

i agree that it looks like someone mauled your truck

WAS NO ONE ON THE STREET AROUND/ HEARD WHAT HAPPENED???

 

Yeah, I have the privacy glass on all the rear windows although I am thinking about tinting it more. At night it would be impossible to see what was in there unless you looked with a light.

And that is my CD changer that they left along with a flat head screw driver, my guess is that they got scared off and didn?t finish it. As for them knowing what was there, I have no idea unless it was someone that just happened to see in there while I was working on something. I make sure not to really play my radio around my house and no one knows what I have back there except a few friends. Either they got lucky or they saw it some day.

The alarm is more for me to know about it then to scare them off, I know that if they want something bad enough they will get it. I just want to know they are tring to. With a 2 way alarm my remote will let me know there is a problem and I can check it out.

And no, no one saw anything that night. We were up late cleaning the garage and got up early so they must have hit it fast. The lady across the street was gone that night, she is a super light sleeper and has caught 2 or 3 would be robbers in her 30+ years in that house.

I know that these guys were 100% fags, they broke my dads window for a 2 liter COKE!! I mean that is just low. $200 for him to fox over a 2 coke! gimme a break! (well not literally!)

 

That is why I have a $250 deductible, shotgun, .45 and other asundery toys.

 

Got the last 2 covered, the $250 deductible just not sure that it is worth it. In this case i would get a whole $100 - $200 if i was lucky. not really worth fileing a claim on the insurance for that. but i am thinking about lowering it some. Mabey $500.

 

i didn't read all the posts but did see at least one that pretty much said what i was going to say.... "are you suprised"? i think you said it too.......your truck did pretty much have "break into me" all over it. obviously though, i'm sorry to hear/see this happen to anyone.

 

Yeah i am well aware that it said rob me all over it. I have been wanting to start stage 2 of my build up where everything goes stealth, just didn't do it in time....