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- From: johnc@yuma.acns.colostate.edu (John Cooley)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: CLUB Story
- Summary: Real Thieves (TM) just cut the steering wheel
- Message-ID: <Sep01.151047.78227@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:10:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.134505.1@dac.mdcbbs.com> <1992Sep1.025939.26928@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Sender: John Cooley
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- Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
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- In article <1992Sep1.025939.26928@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> scott@psy.uwa.oz.au
- (Scott Fisher) writes:
- >asr_2@dac.mdcbbs.com writes:
-
- >>Wife's CLUB just messed up royally. We go to unlock it and there it is
- >>stuck and the key won't turn(it has one of those circular keys not a regular
-
- (most of bad experience with CLUB deleted)
-
- >>an hour so the thing was good, the bad news was that it was a piece of
- >>crap lock.
-
- >That's interesting..a consumer magazine here in Australia called
- >CHOICE (US has one too I beleive?) did an article on these steering
- >wheel locks and had a trial where a randomly chosen guy (unskilled in
- >car theft) was given a screwdriver and told to ... see if you can remove
- >this lock.
-
- >The average locks were removed from anywhere between 15 seconds to 3 minutes.
- >all brands and styles failed the test at the hands of the amature.
- >The CLUB lock was apparently in the 15 second category.
-
- Despite advertisements to the contrary, "police departments" (whatever that
- might mean) do NOT endorse the CLUB or similar devices. Regardless of the
- quality of the lock, professional thieves don't even bother with it. They
- simply cut the plastic rim of the steering wheel and remove the device.
-
- If your CLUB-equipped car hasn't been stolen, it's simply because nobody
- wanted it badly enough yet. By the time they go to the trouble of breaking
- in, the CLUB is no deterrent.
-
- John Cooley
- Drive a piece of junk with a 300 hp engine. No one will ever try to
- break in or even bother looking at it!
-