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brooks379
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Dec 22, 2016

Super Duty #1 stolen truck

I have a Ford F350 TV...Powerstroke, Crew cab, 4x4 and last week someone tried to steal it. I was in a motel and at about 7pm the factory alarm went off. I went out to the truck to find the key cylinder in the door punched out and the sob that tried to steal it was gone....he didn't get the truck. I understand the Ford Super Duty's are being stolen at an alarming rate, the Police told me they are stealing more Super Duty's than any other vehicle....Fast and easy he said. How are you protecting your TV when you're on the road or away from it ?

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  • I use a Club on my F-450. It's not fool proof but it does make things inconvenient enough that they might not bother.
  • I have a throttle cutoff switch on our Super Duty somewhere in the wiring. You might steal it but your getaway is only going to be at idle. Not going to say where switch is, but I do use it all the time. Bad thing is I sometimes forget to turn it back on, makes for a slow drive.
  • I took thousands of stolen vehicle reports and none of them had a Club or similar device installed on the steering wheel. Seems they see the Club and move on. It's a great visible deterrent.

    I recall back in the 90's we had a problem with Mexicans coming over the border with master keys to Chrysler products (down-side of them being made down there). The Mexicans would cruise parking lots trying the keys in various door locks until one unlocked. We arrested one of them who had a large key-ring loaded with keys. The keys were crude copies of the master keys, according to our detectives.