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Originally Posted by The Maverick
Or to trigger the alarm! The problem with fun solutions like this is if you ever take your car into the tire shop, then everyone gets to know your "secret." Hence the benefit of something that incorporates ready manual reversibility for such circumstances. For instance, some of the replacement fuel/starter relays offer a valet mode.
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Mav,
Sure, true enough. Of course I'd be less
worried about the tire shop "finding out" than I would be
re-assured that a would-be thief would be put off by the change. (I suppose we'd have to introduce, into the Venn Diagram, the chance that the tire shop would communicate this to their close-by network of car thieves...?)
So I will admit I am still unsure on the concept: I believe I thought that the Immobilizer would work even if someone pulled the relay, but are we (the forum) not yet sure if this is true?
Because if it still works even when pulled, then for a thief to steal the car, am I correct in thinking that he would have to:
- pop the hood
- know to look for the relay
- have brought a replacement relay