Security devices?

[Apple Blossom]

Posts like this make me appreciate where I live.

I live in a safe place also, however, the city gangsters are moving out into the country slowly but surely. If someone wants your Bronco, your VW, your Mercedes they will get it but they do not wish to take too long and if yours is harder to steal they will move on. These are not kids out for a joy ride. These are kids sent by well organized gangs to supply the overseas markets for these cars and trucks.

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[DogHauler]

It's too cold here, they won't bother with us.

 

[Chris_Derksen]

I live in Ontario as well and have the same concerns. It's getting ridiculous how many vehicles are being stolen. I considered this product...and they even have pictures of a 2.7 Badlands install.

Only drawbacks I see are it's kind of a bulky item to carry on your keychain or with your fob, and while installed remote start won't work (obviously).

https://www.ravelco.com/

 

[andrusoid]

I want to get my new toy some protection. She will be a 2022 Outer Banks with a few goodies including the B&O sound system. What do you all recommend? I am trying to buy an OBD blocker. Don’t know what fits…. Does anyone?
Other suggestions?

Hidden switch for timed driver side lap javelin for the unwary.
15 second high voltage field surrounding the Bronco.
There are other options, these are the ones I opted for.

 

[MileHighWT]

I think you're way overthinking it.. but hiding a switch in line with the fuel pump fuse will cost you about $10 and an hour of your time.

 

[‘21OBX]

My bronco does not find the key half the time I’m sitting in it. Has to be in my right hand pocket. I find it hard to believe the signal goes too far unless a button is pressed. Not impossible I use the ford pass app to remote start not sure if that’s a capture able signal or not. But I also have a soft top if someone wants it it’s gone.

 

[Kos]

I’m going to experiment with AirTags. Good concept, but not sure how it will work in the real world.

You can already locate your vehicle through the FordPass app

 

[WeirdFlex]

I’m going to experiment with AirTags. Good concept, but not sure how it will work in the real world.

To give you an honest review of AirTags in good faith: I bought a 4 pack for my pelican case/luggage for a job in Dubai. Of course, I eagerly watched it on my phone every chance I could to ensure that it arrived, however seeing the last location it was is sometimes worse than having a tracker. But, alas, it fell off the conveyor belt at the very end of its journey and was plopped on the ground beyond the rubber door. Fortunately they got someone to get it after a half an hour of telling them exactly where it was. If I hadn’t had my AirTag in it it might have been in a wild goose chase for a while. So: come time for the next job, and that specific AirTag battery is dead. I think it might have been a dud or it died from checking it so much, but the other 3 are perfectly healthy. New battery’s are cheap though.

Moral of the story: if you do, put all 4 all over, and don’t incessantly check them like I did. Check in to make sure battery leveled are good, and hide them somewhere you can actually access. They’re also not waterproof. And fairly non weatherproof from certain angles especially.

Hope that helps! I’ll absolutely be slapping a 4 pack into mine as well as the south West Coast isn’t the best coast.

 

[Apple Blossom]

I think you're way overthinking it.. but hiding a switch in line with the fuel pump fuse will cost you about $10 and an hour of your time.

But then remote start cannot work....

 

[Apple Blossom]

My bronco does not find the key half the time I’m sitting in it. Has to be in my right hand pocket. I find it hard to believe the signal goes too far unless a button is pressed. Not impossible I use the ford pass app to remote start not sure if that’s a capture able signal or not. But I also have a soft top if someone wants it it’s gone.

But if they cut the top it will have to be repaired to go into the shipping container. They don't want then damaged.

 

[ZipZit]

Okay. Here’s my design. Microprocessor controller.
Inputs: hardwired switches ( in my case, unused overhead auxiliary switches)
OnBoard Diagnostic feed (which I believe includes transmission selection msg)
Output: feed to fuel fuse and/or fuel relay
Interface: Micro OLED display.

use display for setup. Set custom switch pattern. Verify messages/power. In operation, if overhead switches are NOT set in the correct pattern, kill power to fuel pump when vehicle is placed in Drive.

The transmission Drive indication helps our friends in the North with their cold start issue.

Ideas?

 

[Apple Blossom]

Okay. Here’s my design. Microprocessor controller.
Inputs: hardwired switches ( in my case, unused overhead auxiliary switches)
OnBoard Diagnostic feed (which I believe includes transmission selection msg)
Output: feed to fuel fuse and/or fuel relay
Interface: Micro OLED display.

use display for setup. Set custom switch pattern. Verify messages/power. In operation, if overhead switches are NOT set in the correct pattern, kill power to fuel pump when vehicle is placed in Drive.

The transmission Drive indication helps our friends in the North with their cold start issue.

Ideas?

I sorta understand what you mean but I cannot do it and no one I know can..

 

[Apple Blossom]

Okay. Here’s my design. Microprocessor controller.
Inputs: hardwired switches ( in my case, unused overhead auxiliary switches)
OnBoard Diagnostic feed (which I believe includes transmission selection msg)
Output: feed to fuel fuse and/or fuel relay
Interface: Micro OLED display.

use display for setup. Set custom switch pattern. Verify messages/power. In operation, if overhead switches are NOT set in the correct pattern, kill power to fuel pump when vehicle is placed in Drive.

The transmission Drive indication helps our friends in the North with their cold start issue.

Ideas?

I am sending/showing this to my guy. He would like to do his F-150 also.

 

[DebbieEF]

An OBD is the on board diagnostic unit that allows your mechanic to access all the info on your vehicle. They have other names but anyhow they can also program a blank key among other things. So the thief uses a scanner (from Amazon) which can read the info on your remote start key in your house and sends/takes the info to your car sitting in your driveway on your upscale street in your city/town. He uses that to open and start your Bronco. He attaches a OBD reader (from Amazon) to your unit and programs two new keys (from Amazon) for your beloved Bronco. Since they are there they do this to a number of high value machines that belong to your neighbours and then drive off quietly into the early morning mist. A few hours later they are in Montreal, loaded into a shipping container (with 2 working keys) and shipped off to Africa or the Middle East. Soooooo...... Firstly you must park in your garage, secondly you must keep your keys in a Faraday box or pouch which prevents them being read, thirdly you can buy an apparatus which locks onto your OBD and really slows them down or stops them. I have discovered, with the help of the tech guy at my dealership, that the Bronco OBD unit does not lend itself to these blockers because of its shape. Actually, firstly is to block your VIN on the dash so it cannot be seen. Plan B then becomes a problem, especially if you wish to use your remote start and I do. I remotely open my garage doors (from my phone) in the morning, start my Edge, put my boots and coat on and wade into the great white abyss we call the Canadian winter. We, the tech guy and I, are thinking of a few things to run through one of the AUX switches that will prevent the Bronco/F-150 from driving off. The problem is the remote start. After a number of F-150s that were stolen from my dealership a year or so ago they have been installing kill switches on their desirable vehicles but these entail raising the hood etc. Not desirable for me, re- read white frozen abyss above. I realize this is a non technical explanation but I did my best. Questions???

Thank you for the information, Nancy!

 

[604Bronco]

Trunk monkey…

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