All you Delta 88 guys out there watch where you park them. had 2 H bodies (a 90 Olds 88 and a 91 Buick Lesabre) come in this week after someone tried to steal them. must have been a first timer, they didn't get either one, which is sad because they are sooo easy to steal. the lesabre needed an entire column because they butchered it so bad, the olds just needed a lock cylinder.

been keeping my car on full lock down when i go out and leave it overnight (alarm, take the face off the head unit, club, kill switch)

To think that people would want to take cars as old as these tell you that there must still be a strong enoughmarket for them!

i dont' know about that, i think they were just trying to go for a joyride.

or a getaway car for a larger crime...

86delta, what do switch with your kill switch? I really want to install one in my car, but what is the most effective thing to switch? Ignition? Fuel? Both?

I know some systems allow a car to be started but are on a timer and kill the fuel pump after a short period of time, this way the engine just seems to sputter and die so if the culprit is a joyrider they just let it roll to the curb and leave it. That way you can find it pretty easy.

I bought a '77 Cutlass S, real sweet car, red interior, silver exterior with red vinyl top, 350/350 combo, clean with low miles. One month later it was stolen out of the junkyard lot I was parked in. Never saw the car again. What sucked was that I bought it on credit, so I had to pay the loan back over a two year period. The police found the car a month later, but didn't notify me for three more months, by then it was sold at auction under the excuse that I didn't respond to them. Turns out the city tow lot employees were dishonest and doing a lot of that, so I got screwed twice. But, I got the pink slip :? . Since then, I use a club on my Delta 88.

They do this if its a fuel cutoff or an ignition cut off. The premise being that if they just break into the car, try to start it and can't, then leave, it is only vandalism.
But if the car actually moves any distance, its theft.

So, I would be best off to not let the car start in the first place, or to let them steal it for a block... ?

If I switch the fuel pump, a guy would have fuel pressure enough to start and maybe run the engine for a minute or less before it would sputter and die.

If I switch the ignition, it would not start at all. To me, this would indicate that there was a kill switch. The earlier of the two would take a bit of thought before you could resolve the issue.

What do you guys think?

trust me, if you kill the fuel pump there is enough pressure in there for the engine to start and turn over maybe 10 times on its own then die. no way they'd make it anywhere.