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NOTE: my goal for this is to add time and difficulty to the effort to steal my truck. A multi-layered defense might stop amateur thieves.You've got me thinking about this again, but with a different angle. How about moving the ODB2 port to another location like you mention, but leave behind a fake one in it's place. One that looks real, even has wiring to it, but doesn't fully function. If at all. Meaning would be thief hooks up their gear to it but their device can't talk to the vehicle through the OBD2 port fully- cause it's not real. Slows them down, when they look at the OBD2 port it looks real, same pins in same locations where OEM puts them within the OBD2 port....but they just can't get the connection to work.
I'm thinking that if the port is missing all together, they might look up under the dash from the bottom to look to see if the original OBD2 port is tucked up under the dash for some reason. If they did, they might see that's it's plugged into another extension and just disconnect it, plug in, and back to their normal theft approach. But if the ODB2 port were still there, looks real, has shiny pins in it when you look at it visually, it might just delay them enough that they give up. Yes could look up under the dash, but much more time I think would be lost before that would happen vs. if they see it's missing up front.
With either you could get creative with how you hide it up under the dash. Just thinking of how to fake them out by having something in the original location that has some wiring acting somewhat like its trying to connect, but doesn't. So no changes can be made to add another key and steal the truck. Certainly would be frustrating!
Thoughts?
Que the vehicle thief that backs up to your truck with a flat bed tow truck or a wheel picker. There's a ton of videos on YouTube of vehicles being repossessed, it happens in less than a minute.
True that. No argument that pros are pros. Look at the gang in the Port of Baltimore just busted. All vehicles going to Africa.
Hi @ANGLICO and thanks for posting!
Lol! Love those video's! Crazy that I found a link some weeks back from a forum that included I guess the whole series of those trunk monkey ad's, some of which I just saw for the first time from the link! For those living in some cities however (and our Canadian friends) you're going to need several approaches to your theft deterrence. I know for the Memphis area, they would not even hesitate to just shoot the trunk monkey immediately! Not to mention anyone else in/around the car. Craziness out there!
