If It Is The Least Consolation...
The gunman that carjacked the Canadian Rainbirds Jeep, is now way down in the basement shoveling coal for eternity. I don't believe this "chisme" (gossip) to be idle rumor. There was a massive gunf...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Hi, now we're getting somewhere.
It is a TIMER.
The disabler allows the engine to start and the crooks drive away.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER the engine shuts down and the crooks haven't a clue as to why. By then they are long gone from you. Long long long gone. You are safe.
But the car can not run. Thieves do not call tow trucks, nor do they hook a chain to a disabled car. Cops and military look at towed cars. Brown faces, extraneous plates means el problemo for the crooks. They are not going to risk it.
The car stalls, they bail and run like hell. The issue is THE CAR DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. Continue on, call the cops. Hail a Mexican. Block the goddamned road. Someone will stop.
How hard is it to say. "ES DESCOMPUESTO EL CARRO" to the crooks? What are they going to do, shoot you?
Don't let your imagination run away with itself forming a scenario about how a carjacking will actually go down. But even the stupidest idiot in Mexico knows that harming a foreigner is like 10,000% more serious than harming other than a rich or influential Mexicano. The Army and the cops react. You know what, flows downhill.
The car stalls down the road. They run like hell. Even if they torch the goddamned car you are 100 times better off than if the car disappears. Half of the misery is the missing car, the other half is dealing with the Mexican government. If a melted hulk burned it's way through the asphalt you are better off. I have never heard of crooks taking the time to throw a temper tantrum. If the military or SSP stumbles across them, they get shot or worse.
This sounds like a great idea, BUT the device in the link you provided is NOT a timer. It is simply a DISABLER that prevents the vehicle from being started unless the plug is in place. As RonYVickie has already mentioned, that type of system is only effective for disabling your vehicle when you have parked and left it somewhere. It is pretty much useless when you are stopped by an armed carjacker in the middle of nowhere, as it is NOT a timer.
If a device such as you describe (a timed disabler) actually exists, please post a link to it.
