Ravelco Anti-Theft device?

[Trodo]

Has anybody had this installed? It seems creative.

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

 

[Se7enLC]

Has anybody had this installed? It seems creative.

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

Sounds cool! I really like the idea. It's simple but effective.

For those that don't want to read into it, it's basically a kill switch for a number of different components, but it's in the form of a 16-pin "jumper" that you plug in. that jumper makes various connections to enable the engine components to work again.

A normal kill switch is just a toggle switch you either hide under the dash or build into another existing switch (for example, adding a switch for the fuel pump under the dash, or wiring the starter up with a relay to the left-blinker-switch. Those systems rely on the would-be-theif not knowing where the secret button is to start the car.

This Revelco device breaks a number of different connections all at once, and the "key" is a plug which makes connections between the right pairs of wires, enabling those connections to be made. With 16 different pins, you can disable 8 wires (8 components). There are just too many combinations of different connections to actually brute-force check them, and the wiring inside the steering column is all the same color, so the would-be-thief would need to actually trace each wire back to its source to figure out what it is and how it should connect. Basically, they'd need to re-do all the electrical wiring in the car to start it.