Do y'all do anything to shatter-proof your windows? How about to make your doors hard to open (old car)?
Posted by RaiseOurAxesToTheSky@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Just the other day someone smashed through the passenger window of my pickup truck and stole a fuckton of my tools. I'm still so immeasurably angry and now that I'm almost done finding all the glass, I want to know. Do any of you guys take measures to make your vehicle physically difficult to enter? I don't just mean wheel club or alarm type of deterrents, I mean to make the act itself of breaking in extremely hard? My truck is my mobile mechanic's shop and I stow literally hundreds of pounds of equipment, fluids, and storage in there. I'm not gonna haul everything in and out every morning and night, that'd take forever. Tint is a big one for me, even though my shit was already quite tinted. What else?
Also, anyone else with manual locking doors have good ways of ensuring they can't be opened?
Mr_Saxobeat69420@reddit
I believe you could get like a film to cover your window. I remember seeing a Fifth gear segment about it.
Link
RaiseOurAxesToTheSky@reddit (OP)
Will definitely invest, thank you.
Mr_Saxobeat69420@reddit
No worries
Gunk_Olgidar@reddit
Trunk monkey.
Tony-cums@reddit
Try not to leave shit where it can be seen. This is an owner level problem.
hatred-shapped@reddit
A locking bed toolbox probably would have helped
jabroni4545@reddit
They sell 4 and 8mil security film for windows. link
AbruptMango@reddit
The cabin isn't a secure storage box. They make steel toolboxes for pickups.
RaiseOurAxesToTheSky@reddit (OP)
They also broke into my locked camper shell which I will be replacing with a fully metal one.
DJScaryTerry@reddit
If I thief wants in your vehicle, they're going to do whatever damage is needed to get inside.
RaiseOurAxesToTheSky@reddit (OP)
Sure, but I'll also install an alarm that rings my phone and also cameras. Layers 👍🏻
DJScaryTerry@reddit
Absolutely! I was more making a point, that's why people generally don't install stronger glass.
Well also because it's generally illegal due to the trouble it causes first responders. Reinforced glass = takes much much longer to get to you.
RaiseOurAxesToTheSky@reddit (OP)
Fuck it, I don't care. My truck is old as fuck, the seatbelts barely work and it has no airbags. If I crash, I'm gonna die anyway
CrowLogical7@reddit
If you want to steal my stained t-shirts and my weak as fuck handheld vacuum, go for it. Anyway, I live in a safe city, so taking precautions like that isn't really a worry.