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piecesparts · 07-26-2006, 10:28 AM

Over the years there have been many things done to make it hard for the thieves to steal your stuff. Alarm systems are made by man---That means that they can be overridden by man. Your vehicle will be in a spot that an alrm will make no difference whether or not it has an alarm anyways. Most people of today walk on by a vehicle that has an alarm going off and don't pay attention to it. THEY don't want to get involved and then have to go to court. With that thought in mind, I still put in an alrm system on my trucks.

Another way over the years was the installation of a safe or vault that was a hardened case that your radio would retract into. this required a lot of space and was really expensive. The real way to not get hit is to drive a POS and maybe no one will bother you. You might try leaving an empty 44 Mag holster on the seat and the intruder would have to wonder where the gun is while he is in your truck. Maybe it is pointed at him as he is breaking into the cab, then again maybe not.

I saw where a guy made a panel that covered his radio and hid it. A lot of people have done that, however this one was different. It had an old radio connector wiring harness hanging off of it. It was made to look like some other thief had already stolen the radio and there was nothing but a big hole and wires left. Quite creative, I thought. The idea of hiding the true stereo and leaving the factory AM unit in the dash is good. That way you have two different worlds available---stereo sound and relative safety for your sound system. The quality unit would need a remote control or something so that you could easily change it. When I travel far in my truck, and I have gone a quite a few cross country trips with it; I am usually not far from it and I pack an equalizer for assistance in controlling the Riff RAff. My daily driver truck has a stereo in it, too and apparently it has not been a target, yet.

DON'T Let the Thieves control your life, live with them and let them live in terror of what you can do to them.

07-26-2006, 10:28 AM	#13
piecesparts Parts and more parts Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Lebo, Kansas (middle of nowhere Posts: 6,821	Re: Stereo installation ?????? Over the years there have been many things done to make it hard for the thieves to steal your stuff. Alarm systems are made by man---That means that they can be overridden by man. Your vehicle will be in a spot that an alrm will make no difference whether or not it has an alarm anyways. Most people of today walk on by a vehicle that has an alarm going off and don't pay attention to it. THEY don't want to get involved and then have to go to court. With that thought in mind, I still put in an alrm system on my trucks. Another way over the years was the installation of a safe or vault that was a hardened case that your radio would retract into. this required a lot of space and was really expensive. The real way to not get hit is to drive a POS and maybe no one will bother you. You might try leaving an empty 44 Mag holster on the seat and the intruder would have to wonder where the gun is while he is in your truck. Maybe it is pointed at him as he is breaking into the cab, then again maybe not. I saw where a guy made a panel that covered his radio and hid it. A lot of people have done that, however this one was different. It had an old radio connector wiring harness hanging off of it. It was made to look like some other thief had already stolen the radio and there was nothing but a big hole and wires left. Quite creative, I thought. The idea of hiding the true stereo and leaving the factory AM unit in the dash is good. That way you have two different worlds available---stereo sound and relative safety for your sound system. The quality unit would need a remote control or something so that you could easily change it. When I travel far in my truck, and I have gone a quite a few cross country trips with it; I am usually not far from it and I pack an equalizer for assistance in controlling the Riff RAff. My daily driver truck has a stereo in it, too and apparently it has not been a target, yet. DON'T Let the Thieves control your life, live with them and let them live in terror of what you can do to them.