Anyone actually test to see if this works?

my car will roll forever when its locked and in neutral. Not sure what to expect from that anti towing function thingy.


~fk

 

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.

 

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)

 

It responds to a change in angle when the ignition is off.

 

Remember to disable the alarm if you lock your car onboard a ferry.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

Repo guys don't even bother with dollies. If they can't get to the front, they will just lift the rear wheels and drag the front wheels until they can hook up the front instead. Although if the brake is set, they will have to deal with that later too.

 

Hey, heres a better idea. How about some way to hook up a tazer to the car so that when the fat nasty tow truck driver touches your car he gets shocked BZZZZZZZ.... LOL

 

Are you sure you didn't mean that you actually had the door locked but the windows was down so you could listen to the music? Because if the door is closed and the windows is all the way up, you still get much of the music on the outside regardless the alarm is on or off.

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.

 

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.

jlm

 

Ooh! Oooh! There's one for Monster Garage!!! Let's see Jesse build that out of an M-series for under $3K!!!

Aaron

 

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!

 

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!!!

 

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.

 

Damn, an Escalade with 26 foot rims. And in a resturant nopraking zone, no less.

Just messin' with ya, timmy.

 

Sounds like an upscale BIGFOOT

 

Hmmm, might be time to pull out the ol' core removers. Wonder if the guy's got 4 monster-sized spares.

 

 

Nice bump, lol

but that's a pretty quick and effective way to tow cars

 

It was probably mad at you for touching it's beloved shoes.

 

Wow, I wonder if that will cause any strual damage to a normal car. I mean I seen cars get jacked like that in the junk yard, but junk yard cars no one cares what condition at that point.

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.

 

That won't cause structural damage anymore than having the car on a lift would. They're not fragile like that.