Anti Towing function
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i can tell you this.
when i got into my accident i had my car carried away to the auto-body on a flat bed truck. i drove the car up onto the flatbed, put on the parking brake, got out and locked the car. when the guy started driving away, the alarm sounded. so i hit the panic button on my key to turn it off, but i guess it turned on 3 more times on the way to the auto-body. keep in mind, my car was not at an angle at all. i can't remember what all the alarm goes off for in these cars, but i guess you can't move them without it sounding.
when i got into my accident i had my car carried away to the auto-body on a flat bed truck. i drove the car up onto the flatbed, put on the parking brake, got out and locked the car. when the guy started driving away, the alarm sounded. so i hit the panic button on my key to turn it off, but i guess it turned on 3 more times on the way to the auto-body. keep in mind, my car was not at an angle at all. i can't remember what all the alarm goes off for in these cars, but i guess you can't move them without it sounding.
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I have a CLK with this function and I can vouch for the fact that it works. I recently ungraded my brakes to C32 brakes and I inadvertantly forgot to unlock the car when they started jacking it up. Almost immediately after they started raising the car, the alarm went off. It probably didn't go off just rolling in neutral because you usually have to lift a car to tow it. ;0)
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2002 c230 sport coupe six spd. C7
I think that the car needs to be locked to trigger the alarm. I jacked up mine the other day to rotate the tires and no alarm sounded. Vehicle was unlocked.
2002 C230 C7 C5 Bose 6 spd. 23K miles
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Originally posted by mayday
I think that the car needs to be locked to trigger the alarm. I jacked up mine the other day to rotate the tires and no alarm sounded. Vehicle was unlocked.
2002 C230 C7 C5 Bose 6 spd. 23K miles
I think that the car needs to be locked to trigger the alarm. I jacked up mine the other day to rotate the tires and no alarm sounded. Vehicle was unlocked.
2002 C230 C7 C5 Bose 6 spd. 23K miles
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Yup it does blare the alarm when raised! When the tow truck towed my car away from a no park zone, I was chasing it and the alarm was blaring and all the neighbors were looking...very :o The "tow hoars" pimped me for $240. They should make the anti tow IMPOSSIBLE to move the car.
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They should make the anti tow IMPOSSIBLE to move the car.
Unless you can figure out some way to increase the mass of the car to, say, 100x it's current weight, blaring the alarm's the only other alternative.
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Originally posted by Alphaman
They can slip dollies under the wheels to make even a front wheel drive car in gear and with the parking brake on movable.
They can slip dollies under the wheels to make even a front wheel drive car in gear and with the parking brake on movable.
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Originally posted by Alphaman
That would be impossible. They can slip dollies under the wheels to make even a front wheel drive car in gear and with the parking brake on movable.
Unless you can figure out some way to increase the mass of the car to, say, 100x it's current weight, blaring the alarm's the only other alternative.
Aaron
That would be impossible. They can slip dollies under the wheels to make even a front wheel drive car in gear and with the parking brake on movable.
Unless you can figure out some way to increase the mass of the car to, say, 100x it's current weight, blaring the alarm's the only other alternative.
Aaron
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Originally posted by Silver_Lana
Quite the opposite. I was changing a tire with the driver's door unlocked so i could listen to music and i was rudely interrupted by the blaring alarm after the car was jacked up.
Quite the opposite. I was changing a tire with the driver's door unlocked so i could listen to music and i was rudely interrupted by the blaring alarm after the car was jacked up.
If the alarm goes off on an unlocked car when it is being jacked up, it will be inconvenient for a person to just change a flat tire or do any engine related work that require jacking.
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When I was working in Israel, I saw the most amazing tow truck. The frame was built so there was a huge notch on the passenger side of the vehicle. The truck would pull up along side an illegally parked car, a hydraulically-operated set of tongs would lower to the street and slide under the car, then they would pick the car up a little bit, pull it in line with the rest of the truck, and finally raise the whole car several feet off the ground. I watched a guy snag a car in under a minute (several times). I've never seen this anywhere else. Seemed to me to be the Weapon of Mass Destruction for the car-stealing world.
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Originally posted by jlm
When I was working in Israel, I saw the most amazing tow truck.
When I was working in Israel, I saw the most amazing tow truck.
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what would be a great anti-towing feature is the tires deflating when parked. then the car will be lowered to the ground so slow that nothing can go under it to move it around. maybe a big **** magnet. anyway, the tires will reinflate when the owner returns! 
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The alarm started blaring at me when I jacked the car up to rotate the tires. I hit the panic button and it stopped, but started again a minute or two later. It wasn't until I unlocked the car and turned the feature off via the button on the dash that it stopped. It is very loud!!!
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There is a guy at a local college around here that has a Escalde with 26, yes 26' rims. he constantly parks in the resturant nopraking zone, but the parking lot attendent cant get the wheel look around the rim so he just has to leave the car there. Its also sitting very low, and has to inflate his airbags just to get the car on the lift to change the oil, at the dealer. Pretty neat looking.
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Originally posted by TimmyC230boy
the parking lot attendent cant get the wheel look around the rim
the parking lot attendent cant get the wheel look around the rim
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do you reffer to these tow trucks?
When I was working in Israel, I saw the most amazing tow truck. The frame was built so there was a huge notch on the passenger side of the vehicle. The truck would pull up along side an illegally parked car, a hydraulically-operated set of tongs would lower to the street and slide under the car, then they would pick the car up a little bit, pull it in line with the rest of the truck, and finally raise the whole car several feet off the ground. I watched a guy snag a car in under a minute (several times). I've never seen this anywhere else. Seemed to me to be the Weapon of Mass Destruction for the car-stealing world.
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I am sure the owners won't be too happy to see that their car has frame issues. But then again, if it's illegally parked, then what can they say.
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