I need a kill switch... today

Woke up this morning to my wife telling me about several posts on the local neighborhood forum. Car was stolen 2 blocks from our house. Not sure if it's related to the jack ass douche I saw the other day taking pictures of my truck in the driveway but I'll make the assumption, rightly or wrongly, that it is.

So, I need to some info on wiring up a kill switch. Who's got some? I'll want it for both my truck as well as wifey's car since she sits on the street.

 

That's f ed up. Somebody taking pics of your cars and house. See m14 thread from today.

 

On my 4 runner I ran one from the ignition circuit from the fuse block. Was pretty easy. However if the thief is willing to spend a little time it's fairly easy to bypass.
A buddy of mine put one on his Tahoe and wired the switch into the brake relay to put it in gear. You could start it but couldn't shift without the switch on.

 

Aren’t our trucks difficult to steal because of the chipped keys? Anyways, on one of my other cars, I had the alarm guy install a Kill switch wired to one of the momentary buttons on the dash. So you have to press the button while you turn the key. Works great and you don’t have to add a switch somewhere.

 

i like that idea. pretty stealthy. do you have any idea how that's wired?

 

Well, that was an awesome piece of equipment. If I thought I could get Bec on board, I'd have no problem with building a small arsenal. Have always want to build my own AR.

 

Sorry to hear @smslavin hope nothing happens and I'm interested too on kill switch

 

Thanks. So far so good. Lots of weird shit happening in our neighborhood lately. City living.

 

No idea, my alarm guy did it like 20 years ago. I would think the ignition wire is just wired into the circuit of the switch? Probably really simple for someone who knows electrical. All I know is it works because someone tried to steal that car two separate times and failed.

 

Here's my kill switch!!!!

 

We have here too in Houston...ther been a rash of breaking into but no vehicle theft...i have a viper alarm with glass breaking sensor tilt sensor extra backup battery and extra siren if main clipped paid a lil extra to have back up siren well hidden but would like kill switch

 

My GP uses this one on me every year at my annual exam. I’m not too sure about doing to my truck though!

 

Doc, why do you have a hand on each of my shoulders??!!

 

Wow scary to have people jacking up your hood brother. @smslavin I too am interested in having some type of kill switch. I’ll have to check out Chris’ post.

 

Going to have to dig around some schematics. I like this idea.

 

Its off topic but my last car had 5 different tunes that were changed with the steering wheel controls. One of the maps were a kill mode, another was a valet mode where the engine wouldn't go above 3k rpms. It'd be nice Toyota had something similiar.

 

This is why we can't have nice things, someone always has to ruin it!

Good luck!

 

My kill switch is made by Springfield Armory

 

In the meantime can you pull off an ignition wire. Used to be able to pull the main off the distributor but with today s engine I don't know.

 

There whose a posting years ago where a wire in the taillight wouldn't let the truck start that might be the easiest way.

 

You could cut the starter wire and put in a relay. Most common is to wire it to either the brake pedal or hi beams you must activate either in order to start the vehicle. Would only cost a couple of bucks. Just my .02

 

It can be over ridden though from what I've been told

 

May have found a worthwhile option.

http://www.ravelco.com/index.html

 

Never thought anyone could top Howard, but Jesse's return is incredible

 

LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ok so the video is laughable at best. Rocker switch is called a rocker switch because it mounts into a rocker panel. SPST is Single Pole Single Throw. Drill a hole in a freakin fuse??? WTF oh and lets solder without pulling fuses or a battery cable with a grounded soldering gun. Love the way he went to drill that fuse too, no vise holding in his hand and drilling on paper on the table. Oh, last observation, hes running the fuel lines and injectors dry, last I heard its not a good thing to do on modern engines. Shit homey that video was dope.