T6.1 Steering Wheel Disc-Lock

[cavester]

Yet for all that in 7 years as shift sergeant on an autocrime team I (and the team) never came across a Disklok that had been successfully defeated. Quite a few where Billy Light fingers had a go with all sorts of hardware, but none that came anywhere near close to being overcome.

Indeed, we would often come across CCTV where the scumbags would roll up, eyeball the Disklok, have a quick conflab with lots of head shaking, and then clear off and steal a similar but unprotected vehicle from up the road because they knew what the odds of winning were.

The Diamond has a particular blend of steel that is particularly resistant to attack, especially by grinding or drilling. Because it's stronger it doesn't need to be so thick in the less critical areas yet still provides the same level of resistance to attack. If you and a chum could snap the pin by hand that can't be cut by an angle grinder I'll donate £50 to the charity of your choice.

Yes as I say, visual deterrent. If I hadn't spent almost £300 on it, I'd take your up on the offer just to make an interesting video

 

[Sasquatch]

I'd be interested to know how you'd intend to apply such leverage without breaking the wheel from the top of the column, and thus rendering vehicle undrivable anyway? Seen it happen...

 

[cavester]

I'd be interested to know how you'd intend to apply such leverage without breaking the wheel from the top of the column, and thus rendering vehicle undrivable anyway? Seen it happen...

Do you work for Disklok?... You know you can get these things off with relative ease with the correct tools right?

I bought it as a first line of defence, more so visual and the opportunistic scroat to help prevent the inevitable damage to door locks prior to finding out they can't get the van away anyway. Not however your hardened pro that will look at it as a mear inconvenience thinking it's going to take them an extra minute or so to nick it.

My comments were more to do with the look and feel of the product quality since I had one some 25 year ago. Maybe the metal is made more robust stuff, that's just not how if feels in hand and it really surprised me.

 

[Sasquatch]

Do you work for Disklok?...

I don't work at all. Well, I'm a semi-pro musician, so the end result is no work.

You know you can get these things off with relative ease with the correct tools right?

Really? Then why isn't it happening regularly?

I wouldn't suggest theyre impregnble, but cases where a scumbag has successfully removed one in order to facilitate TOMV are exdeedingly rare. So rare its never happened in my county (one of my new neighbours is Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator and has my old job on Autocrime Team so I can still say that with certainty.)

 

[cavester]

Really? Then why isn't it happening regularly?

Just for the reason we concur, visual deterrent.

I'd actually be interested to know statistically how many vehicles with visual deterrent Vs non-visual are actually attempted. I suspect those with only such things as immobilisers are broken into more than those which posess visible diskloks and the like. Be interested in your knowledge on that as someone who was in the job.

The majority of scum are simply that, thick as grease and not 2p's to scratch their backside with.

 

[Sasquatch]

I have a lot of knowledge from the job, and without going into detail (for obvious reasons) were I the light fingered sort id choose a vehicle to pinch with electronic rather than physical protection. It's usually easier (often with off the shelf Chinese kit) and a lot quieter, hence attracticing less attention and a smaller window of opportunity to get caught.

 

[cavester]

I have a lot of knowledge from the job, and without going into detail (for obvious reasons) were I the light fingered sort id choose a vehicle to pinch with electronic rather than physical protection. It's usually easier (often with off the shelf Chinese kit) and a lot quieter, hence attracticing less attention and a smaller window of opportunity to get caught.

That's the go to method now. No noise, quick and easy. Hence the desire for a visual physical deterrent. Yet depending on how much that want it and for what reason will determine if that makes a difference or not.

Those that want to nick our vans most likely do so on back order, so are specifically targeting it. The 110 certainly won't be to joy ride in . To this end, I reckon most theves doing so, know a thing or two more about vehicle disarmament and auto electrics than the cops. In fact, I know they do.

My dad once had a Sierra years ago. Latest immobilizer, alarm (cobra something or other) basically equivalent of S5 thatcham approved currently and one of those locks that tie up your gear stick bolting it down through the vehicle chassis. From witnesses, apparently it took a group of people dropped off in a car at 2pm in the afternoon on a busy sea front street mear minutes to nick.

It was reported and found only hours later in an estate on chocks, cheese style alloys gone, in addition to every other single thing in the car not remotely bolted down, trim the lot. They had basically nicked it for all it's valuable parts.

Those that done that weren't scroats in the true sense of that perception, they were professional vehicle engineers/mechanics that knew exactly what they were doing.