Thread: Defender Security

G'day Mick-Kelly

Yes he has, look in Made it to Darwin,

but Inc has a few more, as well, and it is a nice truck, wait until you see the pics that Eric will be posting of his newbie YOU WILL POST PICS,WON'T YOU ERIC

cheers

Defender security is not good by modern standards. Fortunately, the probability of their being stolen is very low (particularly compared to the UK where they are much more common). More likely is theft of property from in them, and there you have the advantage that they are hard to look into compared to lower cars. But still, keeping anything attractive to thieves out of sight is worthwhile.

What do I do? If parking in a suspect area, I fit a club steering lock - and leave the transfer case in neutral and the fuel tap between the two tanks. Also have blinds on the windows and a sun screen on the windscreen to make the interior less attractive.

I have considered fitting mesh on the sliding windows and a car alarm and immobiliser (one problem is when I was looking into this there were no approved immobiliser installers west of the ranges).
John

I know a bloke around my area who has two heavy duty latches and padlocks on the doors of his sIII, I bagged him out and called him Mr Bean, I got a laugh out of him but then he walked off abruptly. Haven't seen him since.

Ah Dobbo always making new friends

I think hes worried i'll pinch it and leave a disco in its place

Yes Uncle Ho I will be doing just that, after waiting for 3 months for the Defender.
Myself I'm going to make up a pedal lock with straight bar and padlock.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Does anyone know the figures for how many land Rovers get stolen? I bet its not many

A quick google got a list of the top fifteen models stolen - and Landrover did not get a mention. The fifteenth only represented 3% of the 21632 cars stolen (this is for 2005, Australia wide), and the only model on the list not a popular sedan was the Tarrago at number eight. The top five were various model Commodore and Falcon. (see ncars.on.net/)
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the category of cars least likely to be stolen is "full size four wheel drives" and I would think that of these Landrovers would rate at the bottom for most thieves, if only because of perceived poor performance and unfamiliarity.

John

the original door locks are bloody useless, it is actually harder to get past the locking fuel cap! I fitted an alarm and central locking to mine, if they use a key to unlock the door the central lock instantly locks it again before you can get the door open. the bonus is unlocking the car from across the road when you run to it in the ****ing rain