Hotwiring the IX??????
Originally Posted by TheGVR4kid
I leave an attack tortoise on my hood at night to protect the car.
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Originally Posted by j3ffw19
yes. And Thats why I went to the dollar store a bought some black electrical tape. Two pieces placed neatly over vin and it is nolonger readable, piece of mind so nowbody sees my vin. just make sure you make it neat or it will look like ****.
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Originally Posted by evo_racer
Okay let me explain something, i've been a mechanic for sometime now, and worked at honda for a bit. let me explain to you how the system works, it's called an imobilizer, what is it? basically it's a chip planted in your key that sends a signal to the ignition which has a receiver when the ignition is turned on, but it doesn't stop there, there are more parts to the imobilizer, it is controlled in your ecu. Back in the day, you could swap out ecu's and start the car easily, but now the difference is, most older ecu's won't start a newer car anyways, so it doesn't matter. There are ways to bypass the imobilizer on honda's, but it's temporary and it's very hard to get the code, even at the dealership. There's tricks with the handbrake and using the ignition to plug in a code, to get the car to start like five times with out imobilizer. as far as mitsu's, i'm not sure, case in point, you don't really need to worry about your car being hot wired, it's very hard to do it. Does that mean your car is safe, NO, why? cause i use to have a type r, it had an immobilizer, to bypass the immobilizer with my alarm on it would take an minimun of atleast ten minutes to do, cause i had it pretty secure, i built a couple of things. Did that stop my car from being jacked? nope, why? flat bed truck, no car in the world is safe from being jacked. they flat bedded my car in a matter of minutes, and stupid camera's can't see who it was. they stripped it and threw it off the back of the flat bed when done with it, onto the freeway, a local small one, not a major one. so case in point, no car is safe, but you are pretty safe from hot wiring.
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Originally Posted by evo_racer
There are ways to bypass the imobilizer on honda's, but it's temporary and it's very hard to get the code, even at the dealership. There's tricks with the handbrake and using the ignition to plug in a code, to get the car to start like five times with out imobilizer. as far as mitsu's, i'm not sure, case in point, you don't really need to worry about your car being hot wired, it's very hard to do it.
Originally Posted by TheGVR4kid
I leave an attack tortoise on my hood at night to protect the car.
Originally Posted by SR20DE-T
Hey is that a African desert Tortoise, or something my lil bro has 2 of them. I like the say the shell looks when they are young looks like helmet.
Nobody has EVER broken into my car with the attack turtle standing guard.
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just to make it simple, anything can be cracked, hacked, broken into etc. its just based on the advancement of the criminals technology used to perform the crime and the criminals knowledge of what hes doing.
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Originally Posted by lowbdgtmechanic
but dont cops looks at your VIN? i dont know, maybe when theyre writing you a ticket??
Originally Posted by TTP Engineering
Way too many questions being asked about how to steal an Evo here.
Especially when you are asking quesitons on how to steal our cars
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