Offroad/Driving Light Theft Prevention

Alright so I've got four Hella 700's on an N-Fab light bar and I'm going to be parking my Tacoma at a hotel in Bellingham WA, while I'm in Vegas.

I've started to think about theft prevention, now that I'm going to be leaving my truck for 5 days... It's a little late to do anything about it now, since I'm flying out on Monday, but does anyone have any sort of theft prevention or deterrent in place on their lights?

I've been thinking about it and thought, what about getting a piece of 2-3" pipe and welding a washer on one end, placing that on the stud before the nut, then tightening the nut (inside the pipe) with a deep socket. Would prevent anyone from using a crescent wrench or the likes from stealing them. They'd have to have the proper sized deep socket to get the nut off. Or going even further, use one of the specialty wheel lug nuts where you need the proper lock socket to get it outa there.

Whatchu all think?

I think that when I get back from Vegas, if my lights are still there, this is what I will be doing.

 

Remove the light bar and lights before leaving. 5 days is long enough for thieves to make a repeat visit with the proper tools...

Get security screws here if you need them. To mount my All-Pro light bar, I used four screws with a pin in the socket head; they were drop-in replacements for the All-Pro-supplied screws.

http://www.fastenal.com/web/search/products/fasteners/security-fasteners/_/N-gj4wel&Nty=0

 

Put 2 nut on each stud and tighten them down and tack weld it on 2 or 3 sides, only way to get them off is to grind down the welds. Same goes for the vertical adjustment on those lights.

 

Ack. I'm starting to sketch out about them possibly getting stolen now... I don't have time to take my lightbar and lights off...

 

that is exactly what i was going to say

 

Should have mounted them on my roof. A little harder to get em off of there, sneakily.. haha.

 

I'm pretty sure if they wanted them they would get them off the roof as well. I like the Tack weld idea

 

http://www.kchilites.com/store/products/7221-%252d-Light-Locks%3A-1%7B47%7D2%22-bolt-only-%28pr%29.html

 

epoxy on the threads at end of nuts.
Won't stop a determined cretin, but what can?

 

I think PIAA offers some sort of nut lock...maybe those will work or maybe a hardware manufacturer makes something similar.