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02-22-2018, 01:50 AM | #1 |
Getting Wild
Join Date: Jun 2009
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How to keep your cart from being stolen
Howdy, I’d like to pick your collective brains. We had a near-new Club Car stolen a few days back, and I’d like to know what you all do to assure this doesn’t happen to yours. No one here has a garage (or someone would be living there), we have no dogs (nature preserve for over 50 years) and are pretty easy pickings for the metharians living in the area. We have footage of the guy getting out of an SUV (stolen) pulling his hoodie up, and just jumping in the cart and driving off the property. We stuck up reward posters all over and, SURPRISE!, got a call telling us they had seen one abandoned in the woods near by. We retrieved it, sans charger & key, and forked out $500. Very glad to get it back, but I would not like this to become a side job for some misguided soul.The key had been left in the cart. That won’t happen again, but the guy now has a key. I assume a flat bladed screwdriver would work as a key if you didn't care.
Today I have been fooling around with hiding another switch in case the misguided fellow knows about the tow switch, a pressure switch (think opposite of an auto door light switch) under the seat hooked to LOUD alarm, various motion detectors, and a steering wheel to brake pedal lock (because there is no metal reinforce in the wheel I found I could cut a chunk out in two minutes) , as well as several even more wimpy ideas like changing the two screws that hold the dash on to special head units. Also testing out trail-cams. I was always been amazed that we hadn’t had a problem with cart theft. Mostly they steal gas, car batteries, tires, and the occasional car, but there are a lot of off-grid folks up here in the woods making honey oil and meth and there sits $1000 worth of deep cycle batteries. Just take the cart and remove the batteries at leisure. You even get cables. Three points: 1 Can’t involve dogs, guns, electric fences, rattlesnakes, hornet nests or garages. 2. I personally called all 23 owners and told them to flip their tow/run switches when parked for the night. This was only to make them feel involved while I try to come up with something. 3. I'm not interested in catching these guys (we have police, though 30+ minutes away), just stopping them and making it less of a shoperee atmosphere. Every time someone is busted up here, the police also impound an arsenal. So, what do you think? Brian www.morethanthecar.com |
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02-22-2018, 02:05 AM | #2 |
Getting Wild
Join Date: Jun 2009
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
Also, I've been looking for a out-of-sight but accessible battery cut off switch. One of our drivers is 89 and another has Parkinsons so things need to be easy.
Brian www.morethanthecar.co |
02-22-2018, 07:03 AM | #3 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Hickory, NC
Posts: 702
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
I’ve got mine under a lean-to attached to my garage. I have a 1/2” coated cable that runs through the rear seat frame, through the front seat arm rests, through the steering wheel and then padlocked to some rebar that is mounted in 80 lbs. of buried cement. There is also a set of motion activated flood lights and a wireless video camera aimed right at it, as well as another video camera that will capture anyone approaching it.
I’m sure if they’re really determined, they can still get it, but at least they’ll have to work for it and I’ll have them on video. I’m going to enlarge my garage this summer and then it will be locked up indoors. |
02-22-2018, 08:04 AM | #4 |
Cave Dweller
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Always On The Move
Posts: 22,117
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
simple hidden kill switch , replace the stock key switch and a steering wheel to brake pedal lock . those are the three main ones I use as mine lives outside all the time . The kill switch I use every day and most effective. a the barrel style key works to but with a plastic dash its only a 30 second bump along the way of stealing it . The club works to, most thieves dont want to spent that much time trying to cut it off.
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02-22-2018, 09:07 AM | #5 |
Happy Carting
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Southern California
Posts: 73,358
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
You don't have to hide the switch if it is not obviously a run switch. One member added a big ole light switch with a picture of lights on it and wired his solenoid (-) through it. This way with out light switch pulled out the cart would not run.
A quick google search showed a big red ALARM button no thief would want to pull. Other buttons I saw were marked emergency flasher. Etc. One member use a cigarette lighter. |
02-22-2018, 11:10 AM | #6 |
Getting Wild
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 81
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
here is a link to an uncommon keyed ignition switch. I've seen some cheaper online, and I've seen guys adapt a universal one. These ones are nice because they fit right in the factory spot. This one is for electric, but also available for gas.
https://www.nivelparts.com/product/4...c-ds-prec-elec |
02-22-2018, 12:27 PM | #7 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Dundee quebec
Posts: 3,190
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
Get a length of 1/2" logging chain, grade 70 or better, [the cheap china $#it is too easy to cut] and the best padlock you can find and chain the cart to a tree or something immovable by a decent clevis or similar attached to the frame of the cart. The trick is to put the lock in a place that is not able to get at with bolt cutters or grinder. Simple, and effective. Let 'em try now!
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02-22-2018, 10:51 PM | #8 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 2,114
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
all these ideas are great, the problem is anyone that knows about golf cars would care less and still get your cart. Everyone of the above ways to stop thieves is in use where I'm at. Carts are still stolen. I'm sure it will slow down most or make them just move on to the next one, so something is better than nothing.
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02-22-2018, 11:17 PM | #9 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Philippines
Posts: 570
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
Perhaps the simplest would be a lock bar...
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02-22-2018, 11:35 PM | #10 |
Getting Wild
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 100
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Re: How to keep your cart from being stolen
from youtube less than 5 seconds to saw through the steering wheel.
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