RE: Protect your car in style
Wednesday 23rd March 2005
Protect your car in style
Baseball bat-style universal anti-theft device
If you use an steering wheel lock, you might want to consider this stylish item. CarVogue reckons everything to do with your car should look great, and great looking cars need protecting with style.
That's why it has produced Baselock, a high impact anti-theft device. Baselock is an anti-theft deterrent for anyone who wants all the benefits of traditional devices with added high impact style.
Available in Bee Sting Yellow and Gun Metallic
- Universal fit with or without air bags
- High security lock, 60,000 combinations
- Fits in seconds
- Fully attack-tested, hardened steel
- Highly visible steering wheel immobiliser
- Length 68cm, weight 2Kg
Discussion
Fully attack tested hardened steel?
A "High impact" safety device?
With a nice and convenient rubberised grip one one end?
I love the idea of this thing. Means that keeping a very large maglight in the car "a bludgeon that can, if you really have to, be used as a light" as discussed on SPL in the past can be supplemented with a baseball bat that functions as a steering lock...
On a serious note, something clamping soley across the top of a sterring wheel cant be tough to circumvent can it?
Sawing the top off the wheel would work rather rapidly (I know crooklocks are there as a deterrent value, saying "take an easier car" rather than as serious security against a determined thief, but still...)
A "High impact" safety device?
With a nice and convenient rubberised grip one one end?
I love the idea of this thing. Means that keeping a very large maglight in the car "a bludgeon that can, if you really have to, be used as a light" as discussed on SPL in the past can be supplemented with a baseball bat that functions as a steering lock...
On a serious note, something clamping soley across the top of a sterring wheel cant be tough to circumvent can it?
Sawing the top off the wheel would work rather rapidly (I know crooklocks are there as a deterrent value, saying "take an easier car" rather than as serious security against a determined thief, but still...)
DiscLock and other locks that completely cover the wheel have this market covered and are probably far superior.
This is definitely a "defensive" weapon
Just imagine:
Officer: ".. and you happened to be carrying a baseball bat in the passenger footwell to inflict bodily harm to carjacking scroat?!"
Carjack Victim: "No officer, it's a steering wheel lock!"
Steering wheel locks like this are crap, ALL OF THEM, no exceptions. Car thieves actually like them because they make the car easier to steal. They are nearly as useless as those ones you slip over the handbrake and fasten a collar around the gear stick. I can get through one of the former in minutes, the latter in seconds, and I am not an expert. If you want to know how, it will cost you a new steering wheel though.
This was something I saw on a vehicle security film made for the motor insurance industry several years ago. They had some ex-car thieves and the Police and insurance industry bods testing out various devices.
With the club devices, the customer focuses on how strong the actual device is, or how difficult it is to bypass the lock, and when they are tested, this is all that is focused on when making security claims too, when really it is only as strong as the actual steering wheel itself. One of the ex-thieves demonstrated this really well on a car with a club lock fitted. He didnt even bother to attempt to get past the club lock, instead he first used it as a lever to spin the steering wheel around to break the metal lug on the cars own steering lock. Then he just cut through the steering wheel with a junior hacksaw, it didnt take very long, he slipped the club lock off completely untouched and undamaged. Most car steering wheels are just a thin hardened steel hoop, with the various grades of rubber bonded around it. He did this with several club locks and wheels. No trouble getting any of them off surprisingly quickly, but a neat trick to use it to break the steering lock lug 1st. Imagine taking a hacksaw to your own steering wheel, how long do you think it would take to saw through it? A single stroke would take you through the rubber down to the metal, not many more to get through the metal.
Its a bit like claiming that the door locks defeated attempts by experts to get in for over fifteen minutes, when a brick takes just a second.
With the club devices, the customer focuses on how strong the actual device is, or how difficult it is to bypass the lock, and when they are tested, this is all that is focused on when making security claims too, when really it is only as strong as the actual steering wheel itself. One of the ex-thieves demonstrated this really well on a car with a club lock fitted. He didnt even bother to attempt to get past the club lock, instead he first used it as a lever to spin the steering wheel around to break the metal lug on the cars own steering lock. Then he just cut through the steering wheel with a junior hacksaw, it didnt take very long, he slipped the club lock off completely untouched and undamaged. Most car steering wheels are just a thin hardened steel hoop, with the various grades of rubber bonded around it. He did this with several club locks and wheels. No trouble getting any of them off surprisingly quickly, but a neat trick to use it to break the steering lock lug 1st. Imagine taking a hacksaw to your own steering wheel, how long do you think it would take to saw through it? A single stroke would take you through the rubber down to the metal, not many more to get through the metal.
Its a bit like claiming that the door locks defeated attempts by experts to get in for over fifteen minutes, when a brick takes just a second.
If you fancy one try this
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