On Broken Into Cars

Fuck me sideways with a French rioters brick, that is a lot of money for a window! Is it for the Disco? Crikey, you could get one from a scrappers for a tenner i bet.

-- Subaru WRX Range Rover LSE (Bob)

'"gimme the f*ckin' money"

window! Is it for the Disco?

If its a Disco I, all the glass on the Corpse is still intact. Which do you want ?

Steve

Please, next time you use the word "toe-rags" in public, could you hyphenate it? I spent a good minute or so wondering about thieves on camels wandering around your area. Very perplexing. I know it's spelt with a "u" but...

Jesus H, is that with gold filament heating element and busty blonde demister?

How about just breaking into someone else's car and knicking their windows? Take a camel and throw the police off the scent.

The 'wirey bit' just plugs onto the back of the steering lock - 2 or 3 little grub screws hold it on. There's some "one shot" bolts to hold the actual lock on - a chisel job to get them off, but with a bit of careful work with the chisel you can get them back on if you really need to.

I guess you'll need to get the 'wirey bit' and work out whether it's easier to replace the whole thing or just splice what's left of the wires you have.

From memory, the lock is about £100 genuine and another £30-40 if you want to match the existing key. Sounds like you don't actually need it though.

Possibly, or Tuareg, there seems to be a few different spellings of it, they're Moroccan/Saharan/African etc and websites from the area spell it either way it seems. I couldn't be bothered to try to investigate further given that I was only mucking about anyway!

(Assuming 200tdi Discovery I)

STC981 Steering Column Lock - Complete - Discovery I 200Tdi £52.87 inc VAT

or

PRC3408 Ignition Switch - Discovery I 200Tdi £38.07 inc VAT

I've not tried it on a Discovery, but on a Defender it is possible to change the Ignition Switch without removing the lock using a small Allen key to remove and replace the three tiny screws.

Richard

Mine was a 300, which may be more expensive. My prices were also from a main dealer, which I'm sure didn't help much!

From memory I'm sure you could fit the ignition switch with the lock in-situ, but the tamper bolts are cheap enough for it not to be worth the hassle if it isn't dead easy.

I've just had a look at it - the switch housing has been completely butchered.

For reference, the electrical wiring on a 200 doesn't use a modular plug

- it's attached to the switch.

I think I'm going to do something "creative" with the starter on this thing and see if I can cause problems for anybody else who tries to nick it. One thought is having the starter rigged as a reed switch behind one of the dash panels - any other thoughts?

I'm also planning on getting a painfully loud alarm and mounting the sounder about where the drivers left knee is (I think there's enough room inside the dash). That should stop any little bastard hanging around long enough to do anything major to the car.

P.

What I used to do with mine was interrupt the feed to the stop solenoid via an extra switch on the day, fir one for front fogs (that you don't have) for example. it'll crank until the batter is flat and never start. however if the yoof knows what he's doing he can use some wire to put a 12v veed to the stop solenoid or even remove it.

-- Mark.

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Have a hidden switch on the glow plug/fuel cut-off solenoid (white) lead could be worth a try - on the basis that it will appear to try to start and hopefully keep them occupied for most of the (so they say) 3 mins they are prepared to spend on the motor.

Leaving it in low box also has the entertaining possiblility that they may try and bump start it (head->windscreen).

Just my 2p's worth.

Richard

Last time I was at Gaydon (last year I think) a bloke had about 50 Rangie ones (which sound the same as you are describing) for £20 each. Lock and switch all in one, but no good for a 300.

STC1435 Steering Column Lock - Complete - Discovery I 300Tdi £82.25 inc VAT, £101.00 plus VAT Genuine unless you have an auto with interlock...... Richard