Thread: Secure your winch

Was talking to a winch guy today, and he told me the latest trick for kids whose parents and teachers didnt belt them enough is that they have worked out that a piece of wire bent the right way and inserted into the remote plug on your winch can be a good way to while away a boring Saturday arvo.You then disengage the cable, run it under the vehicle and hook it to the towbar.Then somehow with the wire they start the winch and run away ****ing themselves laughing.
He was telling me this to make sure I fit an isolator.
Urban Myth or true story??? :?: :?: :?:

Locking the cable to your bull bar is a good start, but Locks only keep honest foke out,
If Kids are really board they will find ways around it,
I have heard of them using the super junk auto $50 jump start pack to power stuff like that,.
So unless you pack it away in the shed not even an isolator will save you,
In England I remember reading they had trouble with Kids shorting out your flood light power back onto the chassis,

they write stuff in acids on smick pain jobs, they 2 bob your side pannels,
they nick the rubbers from your whipers, so when it rains and you turn them on, your window gets scratched up,
They put nails under your treads so when you drive out they punture your wheels, on fourbys they open empty cans coke, fill them with paint and put them on your roof, so when your drive off it covers your car, and runs down the windows,

I remember when I was at bp we had a lady come in and said I need help putting fuel in, cause I am running late and some kids jammed something in the hole, the hole was full of tangled up string, and something jammed on the other side of fuel trap door, I used a screw driver to open the trap door, and moved the string around but the item was bigger then the hole, I said to the lady I don’t want to yank the string out cause what ever is in there would then drop into the tank, I shined a light in the hole and to my horror realised, some one had jammed a party popper in there, if some one just got angry and yanked on the string it would have fired in the tanks, fuel vapour,
8O :!:

so whats the best protection for your four wheel drive? supply the familys these hoods come from with free birth control, stop the leak at the mains.