Took it into the dealer and WALA!!! some little pissant tried to steal my baby!!!! is there any aftermarket kits available to stop this type of action??

 

Glad they weren't successful..

There's no worse feeling.......

There are alot of aftermarket alarms, most pretty good, some better, and better than nothing for sure.. Or even just a blinking red dash light may turn'm away.. But nothing really to keep anyone from tossing a brick through the window and taking goodies, or an attempt at the whole prize.. Has happend MANY times to our fleet trucks..Disabling the truck with a switch/device only known to the owner and trusted folk, has been covered hear in depth as a less expensive alternative, and one that may be harder for a thief to quickly figure out.. Try a search, interesting topic!.. We have a large fleet of S/D's and use Lojack and have retrieved more than a few.. Unfortunetly, not much good in just plain vandalism situations.. And you never know the skill and determination of your adversary..!!!

................HP..............

 

I live in one of the car theft capitals of the world (Phoenix-Mesa), in an apartment complex that is not gated and is not in the safest neighborhood to begin with. My car was broken into last year, and a 3-year old aftermarket stereo was stolen (it cost $100 at the time I bought it, if that says anything). About 5 months after that, my 1999 Dodge Ram 2500 CTD was almost stolen (someone must have disturbed them before they could finish). In both cases, the doors were locked. They simply broke a window in the car, and they tried to get in under the door handles in the truck.

I am now the proud owner of a 2006 F-350, and I was determined to make it as difficult as possible to steal the new truck. My main goal was to prevent theft of the truck. I know that short of a steel-plated truck, I will never stop a smash-and-grab thief, so instead, I just decided not to keep anything worth stealing in my truck. Besides, insurance is less of a pain when replacing a window and a stereo, as opposed to the entire vehicle.

Therefore, I layer my security. First, I always lock all doors and make sure there is nothing of value visible in the truck. Second, I use a brake lock (in my case it is a clutch lock) that slips over the brake and against the floor making it impossible to use the brake (or clutch). Third, I have a dummy blinking red LED installed on a toggle switch. And fourth, I had a magnet sensor installed hidden in the dash. I have to hold a magnet on a certain spot while I am cranking the truck in order to start it. Is it still possible to steal the truck? Absolutely; but it would take more time and effort than most thieves would want to spend. If someone wants your vehicle, they are going to get it no matter what you do to it. I am working on the principle that if I am in the woods with a friend and we stumble across a grizzly bear, I don't have to be able to run faster than the bear, I just have to be able to run faster then my friend. My truck doesn't have to be impossible to steal; just harder to steal than the vehicles surrounding it.

All of this brings me to another point about alarms. Most alarms are ignored anyway. This is a by-product of the era in which alarms were easily falsely triggered. If I got a pager alarm that alerted me, I asked myself what I was realistically going to do. Was I going to go out and confront someone who was possibly on meth (big problem down here, had a lab blow up in the aprtment complex behind mine), possibly armed, and with possibly nothing to lose (a prison cell might be the Ritz compared to what they are currently living in). I am sure that a lot of you here a big, tough, and mean, but I am not. I am not willing to end someone's life with a gun because they tried to take my vehicle. The police aren't going to come just because I heard my alarm go off; heck, I would be lucky if they came within 5 minutes even if I saw someone trying to steal my truck. Some alarms come with an immobilizer like the one I have, but I decided to cut out the noisemakers and just get the immobilizer. To each their own, but remember to realistically determine your needs and your subsequent actions before just saying "if I hear my alarm go off, I will go out and beat the ____ out of the person." I have a family, and while my truck can be replaced, I can't be. Just my opinion, take it for what it is worth.

EDIT: Yes, I will be moving to a better neighborhood once I finish my graduate degree. Needless to say, they don't pay graduate students enough to live in a lavish neighborhood.