How Effective is the Club

[95Rio]

Has anyone here had their vehicle stolen with the Club in place and locked, or personally know of anyone who has?

[GRUNT]

I have had a club for 12 years. Still have my jeep, but I also have a garage spot for it, or had it in a yard with 5 dogs... :D When I use my club in public I put the long end where it would be against the door(toward the outside. That way if someone took it they would be spotted driving with it! :eek::eek: I do know people who have had the wheel cut and the club slipped out but that is difficult from what I hear. I also know they make newer clubs with more than one arm on them, like a fork so that is harder to do... I say mine was worth the investment.

[Fire Ball]

It takes about 10 seconds to hack up a steering wheel with a bolt cutter.

[GRUNT]

A few times whne I was real worried, like back in the day out in the West valley I would simply reverse two of the spark plug wires... It would not start. They are not going to take the time to figure that out! :D I would like to put in a kill switch(isn't that what we call it here?) For now I have drawn a very detailed map that I leave on my seat, to Fireballs house and let them know that his jeep is far, far better than mine...:p;):D

[RonsTJ]

It only a deterrent. My wife's FS Blazer got stolen in broad daylight in a Smitty's parking lot. There was another Blazer a couple of rows away. It had a Club, hers did not. Her's got stolen. If it had a Club and there wasn't another clean Blazer around, they might have stolen it anyway.

We got it back stripped, but obviously of the something they couldn't find; the power tailgate. They left the power doors & mint fiberglass top. Our shop gave up trying to find a junkyard tailgate after three weeks and ordered brand new from GM. Took another four weeks to get all the parts... piece by piece. What a PITA! Rental coverage had long since run out. Wife had to have wheels. Ended up buying her a compact car and selling the Blazer when we finally got it back. :(

[GRUNT]

I think you should get to take a bat to the sh**heads head if they are caught stealing or stole your ride. Better yet they should have their hand smashed and theif tattooed on their forehead! YES!

[Fire Ball]

I have never used a club and I have never had a vehicle stolen. So I highly doubt mine is better than yours. It is just undesirable :D

[Teal-J]

I like the ones that go under the pedal, especially if you have a manual, put it under the clutch pedal and he wont be able to start it at all.

[Digger]

I have had 1 for years, and crooks want the easy and quick job, so they wouldn't normaly mess with a club on wheel. They are heavy and remember they open with a key, so you have be sure you have a spare key in case you loose the one on key ring with the rest of your keys. and the key is a large full size key.

[ArizonaXJ]

I was advised by several people that the club can actually assist in stealing a vehicle as it gives the would be thieves leverage to break the locking pins in the column......My wife's 04 convertible 40th aniv. Mustang was stolen a couple of months ago.....computer chip keys that I paid $85.00 each for, alarm, locked, in the drive way, yada, yada.......came out to go to work and gone......I have a friend who's son had a couple of vehicles stolen. When he bought his brand new, lifted pavement pounder he had the club, Lo Jack, etc...guess what....stolen right out of the drive way! They and us live in decent blue collar working neighborhoods!
Bottom line; all a lock, or in this case "an anti-theft device" does is keep an honest person honest.

[Lonnie]

We bought a club the last time someone attemted to steal the wife TJ. They kept busting the passenger door lock so I replaced it with a large carrage bolt, cheaper than the $120 to get the lock replaced everytime. So far so good, no more takers on trying to borrow the jeep. They had tried about 3 times in the last year:( so we are hopping that with the club they won't try again. Time will tell. Of course if the little bastages want it bad enough nothing is going to stop them. Oh the jeep also has an alarm/security system on it also. It may have scared them off after they bumped it hard enough who knows.

[drroadie]

I have a kill switch. Just grounds the primary side of the coil. After three efforts to steal my junk I still own it. I have sense put a flashing red led in plain sight on the dash. That seems to be keeping them out. Got tired of buying ignition switches.:mad:

[Fire Ball]

Tweakers and kids are the ones who break into your car for valuables. If you come out and your car is missing, more than likely it was stolen by a pro who wanted it and was going to get it no matter what you did.

Clubs, pedal locks, all these things barely slow a professional car thief. Even if it can't be started they will take it any way if they want it.

[Cronoh]

Yeah, I have a hidden kill switch on my jeep, (Thanks Tom ;p) which is hard to get to, but if someone really wanted to steal it, they could find it. I have a blinking LED in the dash though that looks like a security system :) It actually just means the fan is off lol. I park my jeep on the street with no doors and have been for a few months now. Never lost anything out of it, but I live in Gilbert so... :p

[Dragonfly]

The club... spray some lock de-icer in the lock and hit it with a hammer a few times....takes about 10 seconds.... saw it done on 20/20

[Markos]

We bought a club the last time someone attemted to steal the wife TJ. They kept busting the passenger door lock so I replaced it with a large carrage bolt, cheaper than the $120 to get the lock replaced everytime. So far so good, no more takers on trying to borrow the jeep. They had tried about 3 times in the last year:( so we are hopping that with the club they won't try again. Time will tell. Of course if the little bastages want it bad enough nothing is going to stop them. Oh the jeep also has an alarm/security system on it also. It may have scared them off after they bumped it hard enough who knows.

Finally someone else who replaced their lock with a carriage bolt. Did you see my post on here by chance?

[Tom Schenk]

Yeah, I have a hidden kill switch on my jeep, (Thanks Tom ;p) which is hard to get to, but if someone really wanted to steal it, they could find it. I have a blinking LED in the dash though that looks like a security system :) It actually just means the fan is off lol. I park my jeep on the street with no doors and have been for a few months now. Never lost anything out of it, but I live in Gilbert so... :p

got me through living in the ghetto for a year. the engine will crank until the battery is dead but it'll never start. makes a lot of noise and the bastard will probably think is a POS that just won't start. while on the subject: if you have a starter kill alarm system and a manual transmission and think you are good to go:

you're not. add something that kills the ecu or fuel pump.

the club might help you sleep at night but it won't guarantee a Jeep in the driveway in the morning. ADD A KILL SWITCH. go ahead and search "stolen jeep" and see how many posts there are.

[GRUNT]

I have a new plan... I am going to chain a rabid pit bull to the roll bar and put a pillow on the back floor. Then when they get all the way in it is too late. I will also not feed it and punch it in the nose everynight before I go to bed so it is nice and mad! :D j/k, I love dogs, do get mad at me Shannon!

[YJunk]

I live in an area where there are a lot of vehicles stolen; both my rigs are out in the open and easy to access, my truck has been broken into seven or eight times. I use a clutch/brake lock on the truck and the jeep and still have both of them... have actually caught someone trying to take it off of the jeep.

[KennethS]

I like the ones that go under the pedal, especially if you have a manual, put it under the clutch pedal and he wont be able to start it at all.
Did you know you can pull a fuse and it will start without depressing the clutch pedal? I leave the fuse out so I can start it in gear when wheeling. And sometimes I drive to work without using the clutch, I just slip shift it.

A determined thief will get your vehicle no matter what, but every thing you do to slow him down increases the chances of your vehicle not getting stolen. Add as many layers of protection as you can: alarm, kill switch (starter, ignition, fuel pump), visible deterrents*, an armored steering column collar, Lojack system, the Club, whatever. Nothing will stop a thief with a roll back tow truck from making off with your vehicle, but doing NOTHING is just plain stupid and asking for a punk joyrider to take your vehicle and trash it.


visible deterrents: a blinking LED, window stickers saying you have an alarm, VIN etching on the glass, etc.

[Antman]

I have two layers of kill switches on mine. What I worry about is
the tow truck thief. Pull up, hook up, drag on, and gone.:(

[shaggy914]

girlfriends looking at a cj5(no doors no top no alarm) lives in a historic neighborhood near 19thave and thomas(not the best place) shell have to part it in their side yard thats ungated.

im just planning on doing multiple switches and chaining the damn thing to their tree with the heaviest stuff i can find.
just loop it around the axles.
make it thick enough that it cant be cut with bolt cutters.
make it so theyd have to torch it or grind it, either way making noise and drawing attention.

[lancetkenyon]

A club is just a deterrant. Hopefully they will steal one without it. If they want your car, they will get it. They just cut the steering wheel, takes about 10 seconds. My truck had one on it when it got stolen.:mad: