My anti hijack device was installed today
Cost me $500 installed. It activates when I start the ignition or if the door is opened with the truck running. If i do not press a hidden button, the truck will start to shut down after 3 minutes. It...
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There is no "harm" bumpy. They just are useless in 99% of the country. Having exact coordinates for a stolen car and cops that refuse to respond is the same as throwing 500 dollars out the window as far as Mexico is concerned. lojack may work in large cities but how many tourists spend all their time in big cities?
A woman in Cihuatlan Jalisco almost got arrested when she cursed out the cops for not going "right after" her Izusu Trooper. It had been stolen minutes earlier parked right in front of the BanaMex. She cursed me out as well. She was not a happy camper. I tried to explain to the cops she was hysterical. She knew enough Spanish to call the cops pendejos and say no tiene huevos. Utterly stupid. I was parked right in front of her.
But again and again I say this --- if your car disappears you are screwed. Stall the car or take your lumps (hopefully in silence) if you ignore common sense advice.
Folks that drive old cars (me) or pickups are very unlikely to have them stolen unless the keys are in the ignition and a drunk needs a ride home. Carjacking is RARE. If the consequences weren't so freakin' draconian I could care less about harping about this. But being banned FOREVER again from bringing a car into Mexico is no laughing matter. Neither is being forced to pay SALES TAX. Like a head-on collision anything but studious avoidance is just plain nuts.
Living down here I would not waste time installing a stolen car locator device even if it was given to me. I would install a car stall device and use part of the car locator money to bribe the cops into getting off their dead --- and hustle the car out of the impound yard (if they and not me recover it).
I've assisted perhaps 10-12 folks deal with the authorities over stolen cars. It is not fun. The anger and rage of the Americans and Canadians at Mexican authority bums me out. I caught part of the hell, and I don't like it. I'm getting too old for it and now I can say my heart is weak (which it is) and bow out.
I've had my say on this forum about this subject and now it is time for me to back out and do pleasant things.
A woman in Cihuatlan Jalisco almost got arrested when she cursed out the cops for not going "right after" her Izusu Trooper. It had been stolen minutes earlier parked right in front of the BanaMex. She cursed me out as well. She was not a happy camper. I tried to explain to the cops she was hysterical. She knew enough Spanish to call the cops pendejos and say no tiene huevos. Utterly stupid. I was parked right in front of her.
But again and again I say this --- if your car disappears you are screwed. Stall the car or take your lumps (hopefully in silence) if you ignore common sense advice.
Folks that drive old cars (me) or pickups are very unlikely to have them stolen unless the keys are in the ignition and a drunk needs a ride home. Carjacking is RARE. If the consequences weren't so freakin' draconian I could care less about harping about this. But being banned FOREVER again from bringing a car into Mexico is no laughing matter. Neither is being forced to pay SALES TAX. Like a head-on collision anything but studious avoidance is just plain nuts.
Living down here I would not waste time installing a stolen car locator device even if it was given to me. I would install a car stall device and use part of the car locator money to bribe the cops into getting off their dead --- and hustle the car out of the impound yard (if they and not me recover it).
I've assisted perhaps 10-12 folks deal with the authorities over stolen cars. It is not fun. The anger and rage of the Americans and Canadians at Mexican authority bums me out. I caught part of the hell, and I don't like it. I'm getting too old for it and now I can say my heart is weak (which it is) and bow out.
I've had my say on this forum about this subject and now it is time for me to back out and do pleasant things.
