Anyone has any experience installing kill switches??

Hello I am trying to install some kind of kill switch on my 1984 Toyota pickup wondering if anyone has any experience installing these? any write ups? I just want a easy and simple way to add a little extra anti theft on my little truck. Thanks in Advance...

 

https://www.customtacos.com/forum/#/topics/128291

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/extended-cranking-hot-starts-3-4l.549968/page-4

 

Most key locks have 1 wire that goes hot to activate the ignition system. A switch in line with it will prevent an engine from running.

 

Depends just what you want to shut down .

Fuel or ignition any care thief can bypass a ignition kill switch in his vehicle of choice

 

Few thieves looking to steal an 84 Toyota ares going to spend much time looking for a switch.

Really, just being an 84 Toyota is likely enough of a deterrent : laugh:

 

I'm very interested, toyota's get stolen here all the time, its like hot soup and crack to the homeless.

 

Two of the easiest; a switch interrupting the starter relay and a switch interrupting the fuel pump. They can be bypassed fairly easy though. But it should prevent 99% of theives that don't have access to a flatbed.

 

But by far the simplest thing to do is never unlock your truck with the key fob.

 

99.999999999999999% of the stolen vehicles I had to handle had 1 thing in common. They were all stolen using the keys left in the vehicle.

The conversation usually went like this.

Them:my car was stolen.
Me: where was it parked? If the answer was anywhere besides outside their house, most cases were solved by going to where they were drinking the night before. Then it was either stunned embarrasment or even more stunning "someone must have stolen it and driven it back here..."

Me: is the car paid off? If the answer was no, "are you behind in your payments?" That answer was ALWAYS no, but I made them call the bank anyway. About 90% of the cases were immediately solved just by watching their faces.

So now we're down to a fraction of a percentage of the total number of stolen vehicle calls.

Next question, "where are your keys?" Here's where a LOT of people decided to lie to the police. The answer was either "in the ashtray", "under the floormat", or sooooooo many times "I leave them IN THE IGNITION". Some times the answer would be "in my pocket" but after coming back to that question, eventually one of the previous answers would come out.

Now the fun part is every single person would then say "I've been doing it for xxx years and never had a problem..." 100%, every single person, said that. And I got to reply "well, you can't say that EVER AGAIN." And then got to explain why they needed to change every single lock on their house, they needed to let their boss know to do the same at work, and to expect their other vehicles to be stolen in the next few weeks. Because now the thieves literally had the keys to their entire lives. And all ease they were TOO F'ING LAZY to carry their keys 10 feet into their houses.

Literally all you have to do to almost guarantee your vehicle doesn't get stolen, is LOCK THE DAMN DOOR and carry your keys inside.

And yes there were a couple of vehicles that didn't follow that formula, but not even a notable percentage.

 

A good friend of mine was in the habit of leaving his keys, took me forever to break him of it. Then one morning he called me "dude, my truck got stolen last night"

This was a 1 year old duramax 3/4 ton, along with his $3k work laptop, all of his work files, and a desert eagle .40.

"Seriously? Did you leave your keys in it again?"

No, but his wife left her keys in her car, (which was worth maaaybe a bit more than scrap value), which was parked directly behind his truck. We recovered the truck about 2 years later,missing the laptop and pistol of course.

 

It's not a kill switch but when I leave my truck in crappy areas I pull the fuel pump relay and take it with me

 

Yup these 84’s 4x4’s and years before are very common to be stolen

 

You will be surprise about these trucks even in good areas I’ve here’d about them being stolen. People really like these old solid axle trucks

 

That’s a good idea to try out

 

Ok thanks I’ll look into that.

 

He may have some $$$ put in the truck that some their may want. And even in a good neighborhood there is always those particular theifs that come from other cities or neighborhood looking for a come up.

 

Leave the t-case in neutral!

 

Wouldn't that be a "benefit" to the scumbags with a flatbed trailer?
They just snip the e-brake cable. Then they're on their way?

 

Nothing stops a flat deck or a tow truck, just a GPS/Lowjack. Neutral is easy on any car, but if its stuck in transfer case neutral it can really throw a guy off when he goes to drive away.

It's more of a joke than anything, I loved putting friends trucks into t-neutral when I was a kid.