I would not recommend installing that film to your glass as you won't be able to break the glass to get out and emergency services won't be able to break it as well
faizan joyia trust me we have enough kit in our appliances to get through the film, it's essentially a cheap version of what's used on the windscreens of modern cars :) but I do agree it takes vital extra seconds in a submersion situation
I was warned before putting that special film on my car windows. They said it's a good idea to stop break-ins, but the problems arise when the car is tipped upside down and the window is your only escape route, or if the car falls into a river and the door becomes impossible to open because of the fast flowing water, the window is a viable escape option, but not when this film is applied. So I decided not to apply it
No, Top Gear tested the myth. You can push hard and open the door as soon as your car hits the water and still on the surface. If you wait for the car to sink, the air inside the car will slowly bubble out and the pressure inside can never keep up with the water pressure outside. You have to actually wait for the car to sink slowly to the bottom, wait for a while then the pressure will equalize. You are definitely going to drown by then. So, open the door as soon as possible, don't bother waiting. Either way, keep the windows breakable is more preferable, there is nothing worse then an upside down car with reinforced side windows...
Guess you will just have to look at your individual circumstances and make a decision based on the odds. If you often drive into lakes or other deep bodies of water, but experience few break-ins then perhaps it is best to not use the foil. On the other hand, if you are not so prone to driving into water and sinking, then the foil is better bet.
yup if a thief is looking for somthing then they will be redy for it. they will bring proper tools and have a proper plan for the theft. less organised impulse thiefs do not steal hard to grab stuff.
Or just steal the car and pull it apart it apart some were ealse and then cash it in. You can hire a car trailer for $50 and load up a car no one will stop you. Look my car broken down I will need to tow it.
It just takes practice for the converter. Over here where i live we have a big lot full of cars and the whole "no snitching" policy and alot of people just watched as a group of guys all went through the parking lot car by car and within about 4 minutes had the converter off each car and piled in their car and they went through about 50 cars altogether between them all and did it all within an hour or so then scrapped them but it wasn't "out of place" for people to scrap a crap ton of converters at the time so they were getting away with it but now the scrap yards ask for proof it came from your vehicle when you scrap one.
I drive a 2001 Mazda MX-5 Miata, which is easy to get into with a knife (through the soft top), but I don't keep anything of value in there; even the glove box is locked, but contains nothing except for registration, insurance, a pencil and a spare pair of glasses. Not even a midget could get the catalytic converter out without a jack, but the best part is that the car has something that most of my fellow Americans can't defeat: a manual transmission. On my first car, a 70 Pontiac Firebird (with an automatic), I installed a custom steering wheel with a release that allowed me to take the entire wheel and lock a cover over the column. Worked like a charm.
Seems the UK needs to step up their laws regarding license plates. In the US, I haven't heard of anyone who steals plates. The plates are legally attached to your license and must fit the description of your car, so if a theif got a speeding ticket either from a camera or by being pulled over, they'd be screwed.
Peter Schmidt The programme got that bit of info slightly wrong. What the meant to say is that someone else with exactly the same car as yours, can steal your plate and falsely identify their car as yours in order to avoid speeding tickets etc.
Typical American who can't use their brain. So must fit the description, OK.. So if I have the exact same colour and model of your car and clone your plate, is that not the exact same thing you've just said UK need to avoid?
@@Toastmaster_5000 ah yeah, I forgot! Manufacturers never made more than 5 of the same models in the same colour... Silly me. How many red tacomas, or blue fiesta STs, or silver f350s do you have?.....
It was a cheerful day when a grunt cut off his own thumb with an angle grinder while trying to steal the catalytic converter off my neighbors truck. He had some repair cost but now he has an extra thumb.
It ahppened to me in Milton Keynes, last year. Left the tell tale base on the dash by mistake and found they'd taken the satnav the next day and even tried to figure where to start the car. 2005 SAAB has no ignition barrel as such but fibre optic fob insert next to the handbrake. They'd pulled up the housing around it and thankfully chose not to tamper with any of it. They wouldn't have got it going but rather just brick it. Irony is that one of the doors evidently hadn't locked, which happens, so no broken window.
in the 70s i had my ccw permit i worked for motorola i had a silent pager alarm so i could catch the motherfucker in the act if my pager went off on my belt someone was in my car
Damn simple really...if you know how to read an electrical factory service manual for your car, find the ground-wire for your fuel pump (Usually located in the fuel tank)...remove its existing ground (usually in the trunk/boot)...splice & extend wire forward along driveline/transmission tunnel inside, locate a simple SPST switch where YOU only know where, ground out the second terminal of the switch on some adjacent sheetmetal. Works every time..
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On a holiday recently we spoke to someone in the Lodge next door who said their 2017 honda civic got stolen while parked in london. They don't even need to unlock the car, they just take it with a truck off the road. Apparently they then sell it in foreign markets.
@@n_u001 theres about 10,000 other ways to steal a car after 1996... most people get a factory ecu off some random car at the wreckers, disable the anti theft system and your good to go along as normal
@@cheetahgaming3642 where did i say it was impossible? of course its possible but not without expensive equipment that's not publicly available. hotwire and theft are 2 different things.
That's great about the film over the window but it doesn't stop my window from being broken which can cost more than 300 to repair, usually people store their valuables at home or somewhere a little more secure and not the car.
I can remember when the thieves would break into cars to steal the radios. The damage they did to the cars in the process was more significantly more expensive than the radios were even brand new, much less what they could sell them for. Some people event went so far as putting signs in their windows saying that their radio had already been stolen.
The dedicated GPS receivers tend to be more reliable in operations, especially when you get into a remote area where a cell phone signal might not be available. The only problem is that your data might not be that recent on the dedicated units. When I was over in the UK recently, my phone worked OK, but the refresh rate was not exactly optimal. The best you're going to find on GPS receivers on phones is probably a 1 Hz refresh rate. With dedicated units, you might find 5 Hz. That 1 Hz refresh rate sucks when you are in a traffic circle and it tells you to take an exit after you've already passed it. I ended up going around a lot of traffic circles over there *multiple* times. :)
modern cars are even easier to steal than old cars from the 90s. You just have to hack the remote keyless system which can be done with tools costing 30 Dollar and free software.
2m8y4u I wouldn't say that for "all modern" cars. The only case I heard of was an Audi Q5 SUV being accessed illegally and the theif made off with a 5,000 dollar race bike and that was that. For companies thst are able to push out bi-monthly updates like Tesla, software break ins are a thing of the past.
Hahahahah. "If this turns up at a scrapper's, he'll see the number and know it's a stolen catalytic converter." Yeah, like that will make a lot of difference.
Nobody is going to risk breaking into a car to get an old "sat nav" everybody has gps on their phones these days. How are no other comments talking about this??
yeah. was about to say the same. sat navs go for like 5 bucks on the used market. A lot of advancements in tech have made a lot of useful items worthless second hand.
I had my car nicked a few years back but unfortunately for the little prat who took it I had not only installed a well-hidden GPS tracker but a deafening remotely triggered 140dB alarm system. We found the car within 90 mins and the chav who took it got 2 years.
What tracker did you purchase? Is it a GSM GPS style tracker? I would like to get one for my new car. What would be a good place to hide this device? Thanks.
It's interesting to see how car crime progresses. It will never disappear but it changes. When I was late teens one of the people I kew made a 'living' stealing car alarms. Even the brand fitted were very seperate so relatively easy to remove if you knew how. When someone came out to find the alarm not making a beep sound they would call to organise a repair. By the time it got to the garage, any sign of him being there had gone. Ultimate irony, some of the brand garages were his customers, so people he had stolen from would in some cases have got their own alarm back after an insurance claim. Now if he is still in the same industry it won't be the same target. Alarms are heavily integrated, but there is always an easy target somewhere. With fuel prices on the rise again I wonder how long it will be before the target for thieves is bypassing the anti-syphon tech becaue the tank of fuel is worth more than the car.
It's great seeing him struggle with the cat but with a 14mm spanner or even a shifter I had the cat off my car in 2 minutes and it didn't make a noise, well comparative to taking an angle grinder to it.
Of course not. He's a TV presenter. But that does look inherently more difficult than working a minimum wage job. How the hell do I know this? I actually work a minimum wage job, and it's easier than cutting the cat off a modern car.
Well this is why I drive a 5 spd pick up I leave it unlocked everywhere I go and I've never had a problem with it it's because people don't know how to drive a stick anymore so I have one of the world's best anti-theft system built right into my pickup
So: Most cars from before 1996 have already been scrapped, (1996 was 28 years ago as of October 2024) Google maps and iPhones are now a thing, how hard can it be to bring everything in every night? And nicking a catalytic converter is more effort than it’s worth. So yeah, just spend 50 quid on special number plates and no more car theft worries. (On average, A month of car Insurance isn’t much different)
They say about catalytic converters: "It's only the most determined thieves that are going to be able to nick these things". Ha! There's an epidemic of cat converter theft here in the SF Bay Area.
Another trick is to NOT steal the license plate, but instead just take a photo, and print it out using a laser printer, glue it too a sheet metal plate the same size as a real plate and you're good to go. tip don't forget to remove any unique features, such as stickers roof racks, bumps and scratches, and cover you're face, so it's impossible to identify. Anyone that deliberately drives through speed cameras and evades tolls for fun with another persons plates, will be investigated. The police will comb through thousands of hours of CCTV footage to get you're face or you're car. Eg say you stopped to get fuel or went to the shops, that car can be tracked by CCTV and even by satellite to see where it goes, investigators can see you get out of car, and track you through the shopping center using the CCTV, the very moment the disguise is removed, you're caught. If you use any bank or credit card to pay for anything linked to you're identity, you're caught also. If you keep offending, a police team will track the car and will come after you, the moment you offend or are spotted. So the stolen plates works provided you don't keep offending, with the same car, or plate.
Buy a ignition less car. After a while the car will stop because they don’t have the key. Or you can buy tools to prevent them like the window shield thingy in this video.
i just have to say something... that window is meant to break easily like that for safety reasons. can you imagine you roll over the only possible way of your surviving is breaking that window and exiting the vehicle only to be blocked by a "protective film"
If you steal number plates, they will run your plates and knows that the vehicle was stolen because it was registered with a different car, at least in the US
if you have a qaulity impact driver they will either come off or snap off with all the torque so either way is better or even using a breaker bar for the extra leverage works on rusted bolts too
some are welded on.alot are acually.besides,a cordless elilectric has minimal power.youll prob.need pneumatic impact or at leat breaker bar w/ cheater bar to break nuts loose.anything with exaust usually rusted tight,because no oils/undercoatong used to prevent rust.so usually need cut out anyway.
mate do you know what a hack saw is .flat saw blade cuts metal . held by it's self no frame cut muffler pipe in 5 min less than 10 to remove catalytic converter
"Most of us own a fancy car like this." No I don't. I own a 2002 Dodge Stratus. Most people I know don't own cars worth more than MAYBE $30,000. Mine actualyy doesn't have a keyfob, but it does have one of those hybrid keys that is still a piece of metal, but it emits a radio signal what I'm basicaly sitting in the seat.
I have a manual kill switch, an automatic kill switch, a steering wheel club, a wifi enabled "ring" camera, 3 english mastiffs and multiple assault rifles and semi auto pistols. God help the mope who tries to steal from me.
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I would not recommend installing that film to your glass as you won't be able to break the glass to get out and emergency services won't be able to break it as well
faizan joyia my tint stopped a break in. And here the police were lecturing me days before saying it's a safety risk.
faizan joyia safety risk in other ways of course.
faizan joyia trust me we have enough kit in our appliances to get through the film, it's essentially a cheap version of what's used on the windscreens of modern cars :) but I do agree it takes vital extra seconds in a submersion situation
faizan joyia Yeah but when ur car is sinking just roll down ur windows, power functions will work and a old roll will also work
Tell that to the thief who smashed my window.
I was warned before putting that special film on my car windows. They said it's a good idea to stop break-ins, but the problems arise when the car is tipped upside down and the window is your only escape route, or if the car falls into a river and the door becomes impossible to open because of the fast flowing water, the window is a viable escape option, but not when this film is applied.
So I decided not to apply it
"most of us own a car like this" proceeds to show a bright yellow convertible saab...
yeahhh no. no one uses those now.
i still love saabs, idk if its out of nostalgia though
@@Delta132 Saabs are great
Who else thought he looks like that robber in Home Alone? xD
Pbknowall MARV
Pbknowall lmao he looks like a gearhead
Marv!
Neil patrick harris from long range!
Pbknowall he does tho
Dudes forehead is insane
kris hedges You could project a movie on it.
jimboishere11 you could land a 747 on his head
Robin Slot his hairline is so far back I think I can see Russia and I also can see Jeremy clarkson punching another producer
fr his hair line running away from his face
kris hedges 1:44
dudes forehead has amazing wifi
Xavier Griffith Damn hahahaha
😂😂😂 this cracked me up
Damn that's a new one xD
Ah don't be mean haha
Xavier Griffith ouch
Okay you can't get in the car with the foil. But if jou crash in the water could you get out?
Well, he could open the door from inside after pressure equalizes.
No, Top Gear tested the myth. You can push hard and open the door as soon as your car hits the water and still on the surface.
If you wait for the car to sink, the air inside the car will slowly bubble out and the pressure inside can never keep up with the water pressure outside. You have to actually wait for the car to sink slowly to the bottom, wait for a while then the pressure will equalize. You are definitely going to drown by then. So, open the door as soon as possible, don't bother waiting.
Either way, keep the windows breakable is more preferable, there is nothing worse then an upside down car with reinforced side windows...
Guess you will just have to look at your individual circumstances and make a decision based on the odds. If you often drive into lakes or other deep bodies of water, but experience few break-ins then perhaps it is best to not use the foil. On the other hand, if you are not so prone to driving into water and sinking, then the foil is better bet.
And keep a safety tool with window hammer in the car!
Seatbelt off, window down. That's the rule to remember as soon as you hit the water.
guy has never heard of a cordless bandsaw or sawzall
Nope. Even better the thieves that targeted the vans at work used a hydraulic cutter. They were pretty organised.
or a set of spanners
mattmopar440 what guy?
yup if a thief is looking for somthing then they will be redy for it. they will bring proper tools and have a proper plan for the theft. less organised impulse thiefs do not steal hard to grab stuff.
Or just steal the car and pull it apart it apart some were ealse and then cash it in.
You can hire a car trailer for $50 and load up a car no one will stop you.
Look my car broken down I will need to tow it.
1:44 Holy shit that forehead
Freeso those lines are longer than my future
That actually fucking grossed me out
Gross
ACruise
"Do ya wanna balloon?!"
Matthew Dawood Khaghani yes it looks quite funny, but your comment is disgusting
1:58 didn't even hit it hard!!!
StanceGTI hit it 3 times harder the first time
Ruslan Kostenko You're meant to hit it once with the head and then go through with the claw, and once that's done you just pull the window back out.
ShadowGuidR it’s totally not suspicious that you know how to break a car window.
He could be police/fire fighter.
Yeah. What an absolute big girl’s blouse. Whack it harder! Are you a man or a mouse?
It just takes practice for the converter. Over here where i live we have a big lot full of cars and the whole "no snitching" policy and alot of people just watched as a group of guys all went through the parking lot car by car and within about 4 minutes had the converter off each car and piled in their car and they went through about 50 cars altogether between them all and did it all within an hour or so then scrapped them but it wasn't "out of place" for people to scrap a crap ton of converters at the time so they were getting away with it but now the scrap yards ask for proof it came from your vehicle when you scrap one.
I drive a 2001 Mazda MX-5 Miata, which is easy to get into with a knife (through the soft top), but I don't keep anything of value in there; even the glove box is locked, but contains nothing except for registration, insurance, a pencil and a spare pair of glasses. Not even a midget could get the catalytic converter out without a jack, but the best part is that the car has something that most of my fellow Americans can't defeat: a manual transmission. On my first car, a 70 Pontiac Firebird (with an automatic), I installed a custom steering wheel with a release that allowed me to take the entire wheel and lock a cover over the column. Worked like a charm.
He looks like that robber from home alone 🤣
Seems the UK needs to step up their laws regarding license plates. In the US, I haven't heard of anyone who steals plates. The plates are legally attached to your license and must fit the description of your car, so if a theif got a speeding ticket either from a camera or by being pulled over, they'd be screwed.
Peter Schmidt The programme got that bit of info slightly wrong. What the meant to say is that someone else with exactly the same car as yours, can steal your plate and falsely identify their car as yours in order to avoid speeding tickets etc.
Typical American who can't use their brain.
So must fit the description, OK.. So if I have the exact same colour and model of your car and clone your plate, is that not the exact same thing you've just said UK need to avoid?
@@jjmmjj9999 pretty low probably of that happening unless you drive something super common
@@Toastmaster_5000 ah yeah, I forgot! Manufacturers never made more than 5 of the same models in the same colour... Silly me.
How many red tacomas, or blue fiesta STs, or silver f350s do you have?.....
@@jjmmjj9999 there's trim level too, so suddenly the choices along with color become quite a lot. In any case, who cares to steal such a car?
A job on fifth gear would suit me nicely......
Calvin's Car Diary or top gear fifth gear is a rip off
It was a cheerful day when a grunt cut off his own thumb with an angle grinder while trying to steal the catalytic converter off my neighbors truck. He had some repair cost but now he has an extra thumb.
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yo dude I got some laminated windows
* drives into lake *
DUDE I CANT GET OUT THESE CAR WINDOWS ARE UNBREAKABLE
4:06
Turn on CC
LUCKMAN lmao
LUCKMAN oh man, I better prevent the cat sex
LMAO
I got "catfish"
I clicked on this video purely because of the thumbnail of an unbelievable forehead
*$300 Film*
*Adds 1 extra hit on the glass to break...*
i HIGHLY doubt anyone's breaking into cars to steal satnavs these days
Why
@@MrTwisted1977 satnavs now are worth maybe 25$
It ahppened to me in Milton Keynes, last year. Left the tell tale base on the dash by mistake and found they'd taken the satnav the next day and even tried to figure where to start the car. 2005 SAAB has no ignition barrel as such but fibre optic fob insert next to the handbrake. They'd pulled up the housing around it and thankfully chose not to tamper with any of it. They wouldn't have got it going but rather just brick it.
Irony is that one of the doors evidently hadn't locked, which happens, so no broken window.
in the 70s i had my ccw permit i worked for motorola i had a silent pager alarm so i could catch the motherfucker in the act if my pager went off on my belt someone was in my car
0:28 Red brick, fences, MkIII Capri, car thief in black... a quintessentially British scene.
Damn simple really...if you know how to read an electrical factory service manual for your car, find the ground-wire for your fuel pump (Usually located in the fuel tank)...remove its existing ground (usually in the trunk/boot)...splice & extend wire forward along driveline/transmission tunnel inside, locate a simple SPST switch where YOU only know where, ground out the second terminal of the switch on some adjacent sheetmetal.
Works every time..
Ricardo Ellison or if you have a manual car that was converted from auto, tap into the neutral lockout safety switch
Secure plate? Just note down the reg and get the plates made.
Haven't paid insurance in years.
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So, to nick the cat you never thought to use a couple of spanners? YOU SPANNER!
Put a sticker on your window, "film on window, will not break, test me out please!"
Umm m8,what about nicking "THE ACTUAL CAR"?
Ayaan Jahangir he already covered that, if your car is newer than 1996 then its pretty much impossible to hotwire.
On a holiday recently we spoke to someone in the Lodge next door who said their 2017 honda civic got stolen while parked in london. They don't even need to unlock the car, they just take it with a truck off the road. Apparently they then sell it in foreign markets.
@@n_u001 theres about 10,000 other ways to steal a car after 1996... most people get a factory ecu off some random car at the wreckers, disable the anti theft system and your good to go along as normal
@@cheetahgaming3642 where did i say it was impossible? of course its possible but not without expensive equipment that's not publicly available. hotwire and theft are 2 different things.
That's great about the film over the window but it doesn't stop my window from being broken which can cost more than 300 to repair, usually people store their valuables at home or somewhere a little more secure and not the car.
0:28
People who want DeLoreans: **nervous sweating**
£300 to protect my shitting sat nav that's not worth ought
Head like a fucking orange
They can have my sat nav, it's the biggest piece of shit I've ever bought. My phone outperforms it in every way.
I can remember when the thieves would break into cars to steal the radios. The damage they did to the cars in the process was more significantly more expensive than the radios were even brand new, much less what they could sell them for. Some people event went so far as putting signs in their windows saying that their radio had already been stolen.
who has a sat nav these days? Its either built in the car or people use their phones
The dedicated GPS receivers tend to be more reliable in operations, especially when you get into a remote area where a cell phone signal might not be available. The only problem is that your data might not be that recent on the dedicated units. When I was over in the UK recently, my phone worked OK, but the refresh rate was not exactly optimal. The best you're going to find on GPS receivers on phones is probably a 1 Hz refresh rate. With dedicated units, you might find 5 Hz. That 1 Hz refresh rate sucks when you are in a traffic circle and it tells you to take an exit after you've already passed it. I ended up going around a lot of traffic circles over there *multiple* times. :)
By the thubnail I thought this was going to be a world record video of most wrinkles on a single persons forehead.
1:50. For around £300, you can have this film which basically guarantees you're not smashing the window when you crash into a river.
modern cars are even easier to steal than old cars from the 90s. You just have to hack the remote keyless system which can be done with tools costing 30 Dollar and free software.
not rly, they have few issues but its not easy to just copy signal
I've also heard this. Someone I spoke to online does it for a living. Says the actual breaking in part has never been lower risk.
BadgerZ you should report him to the police
Spoke to him on the Dark Web. I think it would be a struggle to find him. Plus it's been ages since I last spoke to him.
2m8y4u I wouldn't say that for "all modern" cars. The only case I heard of was an Audi Q5 SUV being accessed illegally and the theif made off with a 5,000 dollar race bike and that was that. For companies thst are able to push out bi-monthly updates like Tesla, software break ins are a thing of the past.
Hahahahah. "If this turns up at a scrapper's, he'll see the number and know it's a stolen catalytic converter." Yeah, like that will make a lot of difference.
2:00 $300 for a extra 10 second delay.
Nobody is going to risk breaking into a car to get an old "sat nav" everybody has gps on their phones these days. How are no other comments talking about this??
yeah. was about to say the same. sat navs go for like 5 bucks on the used market. A lot of advancements in tech have made a lot of useful items worthless second hand.
@@HungryGizmo this video is older than your comments guys...
@@DutchManticore posted in 2017? unless it's a video from like 2005 posted in 2017
@@HungryGizmo it is. Hes calling a Saab 9-3 convertible a modern car.
ok, thanks for the info. didn't realize it was a much older video.
I had my car nicked a few years back but unfortunately for the little prat who took it I had not only installed a well-hidden GPS tracker but a deafening remotely triggered 140dB alarm system. We found the car within 90 mins and the chav who took it got 2 years.
What tracker did you purchase? Is it a GSM GPS style tracker? I would like to get one for my new car. What would be a good place to hide this device? Thanks.
on the thumbnail Tim has more lines on his head than charlie sheen on his table.
It's interesting to see how car crime progresses. It will never disappear but it changes.
When I was late teens one of the people I kew made a 'living' stealing car alarms. Even the brand fitted were very seperate so relatively easy to remove if you knew how. When someone came out to find the alarm not making a beep sound they would call to organise a repair. By the time it got to the garage, any sign of him being there had gone. Ultimate irony, some of the brand garages were his customers, so people he had stolen from would in some cases have got their own alarm back after an insurance claim.
Now if he is still in the same industry it won't be the same target. Alarms are heavily integrated, but there is always an easy target somewhere. With fuel prices on the rise again I wonder how long it will be before the target for thieves is bypassing the anti-syphon tech becaue the tank of fuel is worth more than the car.
I love the thumbnail for this !😂😂
If your willing to go though all that trouble of stealing my catalytic converter your welcomed to have it!
It's great seeing him struggle with the cat but with a 14mm spanner or even a shifter I had the cat off my car in 2 minutes and it didn't make a noise, well comparative to taking an angle grinder to it.
hardest 200 quid hes earnt he ant never seen minimum wage then.
Of course not. He's a TV presenter. But that does look inherently more difficult than working a minimum wage job. How the hell do I know this? I actually work a minimum wage job, and it's easier than cutting the cat off a modern car.
@@MrSupercar55 Both can be a tough work, but minimum wage jobs vary a lot
1:59 your window has to be easy to break because it is made that way so you could escape in an even of a crash or if your stuck in your car
chain pipe cutter would of got that Catalytic Converter off in minutes! Poor effort.
Sssh! Now everyone s gonna know how to quick-nik it !😉😀😎
It’s funny how this is the other way around, most car thieves go for modern cars because they’re easier to steal without damaging the car as much.
Cant get you cat stolen if you own a tesla
Also cant get your cybertruck glass broken unless somebody whips out their metal ball
Top Gear is the better show
My sister (lives in Chicago) has had her catalytic converters stolen twice so far (she has a 2003 Jeep, but I believe she got a new one)
A reciprocating saw would make quick work of that cat
Does anyone know where to find the glass film and secure plates?
what if ur child gets stuck in the car on a hot day and that plastic stuff is on ur glass
you use diamond rope for cutting catalytic converters. And go for the van and truck ones, they are worth more.
or so i have heard.
The thieves will think it’s karma when you install the film and then drive into a river and you can’t smash the window
Pro tip film yourself breaking into a car and pretend you are making an anti theft video and people will walk right by
Lmfao angle grinder? Everyone knows they use a battery powered sawzall takes less than a minute
Well this is why I drive a 5 spd pick up I leave it unlocked everywhere I go and I've never had a problem with it it's because people don't know how to drive a stick anymore so I have one of the world's best anti-theft system built right into my pickup
Matt Sprayberry this is in the UK where almost everyone drives a standard transmission
@@aisback1990 not anymore chummmmmm p
@@James28R Still most use manual
Here in my country you have to pay to get that shitty blocked catalytic converter off and in England you get it off for free and complain about it 😅
So:
Most cars from before 1996 have already been scrapped, (1996 was 28 years ago as of October 2024) Google maps and iPhones are now a thing, how hard can it be to bring everything in every night? And nicking a catalytic converter is more effort than it’s worth.
So yeah, just spend 50 quid on special number plates and no more car theft worries. (On average, A month of car Insurance isn’t much different)
"1000 plates per week". 😂😂 Know who's responsibly for around 100 of those weekly plates
to steal a cat you just need a hydraulic clamp
Speaking from experience buddy?
Easy way to prevent catalytic converter theft... Just a simple decat. If there's not one on your car, there's not one to steal.
ends up tapping the window after the first hit lol
They say about catalytic converters: "It's only the most determined thieves that are going to be able to nick these things". Ha! There's an epidemic of cat converter theft here in the SF Bay Area.
Another trick is to NOT steal the license plate, but instead just take a photo, and print it out using a laser printer, glue it too a sheet metal plate the same size as a real plate and you're good to go. tip don't forget to remove any unique features, such as stickers roof racks, bumps and scratches, and cover you're face, so it's impossible to identify. Anyone that deliberately drives through speed cameras and evades tolls for fun with another persons plates, will be investigated. The police will comb through thousands of hours of CCTV footage to get you're face or you're car. Eg say you stopped to get fuel or went to the shops, that car can be tracked by CCTV and even by satellite to see where it goes, investigators can see you get out of car, and track you through the shopping center using the CCTV, the very moment the disguise is removed, you're caught. If you use any bank or credit card to pay for anything linked to you're identity, you're caught also. If you keep offending, a police team will track the car and will come after you, the moment you offend or are spotted. So the stolen plates works provided you don't keep offending, with the same car, or plate.
One tinny issue with the plastic shatter proof windows if you get in an accident and the doors are broke you can't just bust a window and get out
Was the beginning portion filmed in hurlingham?
that thumbnail is horrifying.
Buy a ignition less car. After a while the car will stop because they don’t have the key. Or you can buy tools to prevent them like the window shield thingy in this video.
i just have to say something... that window is meant to break easily like that for safety reasons. can you imagine you roll over the only possible way of your surviving is breaking that window and exiting the vehicle only to be blocked by a "protective film"
that guy looks like one of the bad guys from Home Alone
If you steal number plates, they will run your plates and knows that the vehicle was stolen because it was registered with a different car, at least in the US
Want to avoid your car being stolen? 1. Remove Fuel pump relay every evening 2. Sleep in your car every night with a pump gun in your hand.
wow to steal a cat why not just take it off like a mechanic would with a cordless impact driver
Nuts could be rusted solid.
Oliver Webb still easier then fucking with an angle grinder
if you have a qaulity impact driver they will either come off or snap off with all the torque so either way is better or even using a breaker bar for the extra leverage works on rusted bolts too
The guys an idiot leave him alone😂😂
some are welded on.alot are acually.besides,a cordless elilectric has minimal power.youll prob.need pneumatic impact or at leat breaker bar w/ cheater bar to break nuts loose.anything with exaust usually rusted tight,because no oils/undercoatong used to prevent rust.so usually need cut out anyway.
well, nowadays catalytic converters are hot items in LA and certain part of the country in the U.S
With a portable gas axe I'd have the cat cut off in a couple of in a minute and with a flat bed tow truck I'll take the whole car in the same time!
Why’s the guy on the thumbnail look like he has 10 landing strips on his forehead.
Looks like this was filmed at the "Custard Factory". 🤠
My RSX here in Canada has an aftermarket exhaust with no cat.
mate do you know what a hack saw is .flat saw blade cuts metal . held by it's self no frame cut muffler pipe in 5 min less than 10 to remove catalytic converter
Yes let's worry about having secure plates when I can go online and order the exact same plate 😂
"Most of us own a fancy car like this." No I don't. I own a 2002 Dodge Stratus. Most people I know don't own cars worth more than MAYBE $30,000. Mine actualyy doesn't have a keyfob, but it does have one of those hybrid keys that is still a piece of metal, but it emits a radio signal what I'm basicaly sitting in the seat.
Now Top gear is gone... This is the only channel to watch
Best way to nick a number plate with plastic bolts is use a wood chisel, just line it up behind the bolt head and clonk it off.
just install a kill switch that no one would ever think of where it is and you're done
This episode is nearly 10 years old. Good luck selling a Cat for 200 quid.
lMAO the captions "to avoid cat sex" XDDDD
The sat nav thing is quite irrelevant in 2017 where they are so cheap, it's not worth the risk to the "tea leaf"
Glass protection? How might you get out of car in the event of an emergency? Car theft ? Tons of professionals do it in under 90 seconds.
3:41 in California there is an Vietnamese district where someone always does that but thank god he got arrested
Plot twist: that wasn’t his car and he was trying to steal it
At 4:04 Turn On The Subtitles And Look What It Says |Like If You Saw What It Said|
He Meant To Say "Car Theft" 😂
Didn’t realise fifth gear still existed 😂😂
Need to go old school mr bean style and just put a straight up padlock on the car lol
Once a thief stole my dad’s exhaust pipe
Wow that's a very creative name and idea of a show I wonder where you got this tv show idea
Brilliant Window film prevent window smashing to escape car crash !!!!!!
I have a manual kill switch, an automatic kill switch, a steering wheel club, a wifi enabled "ring" camera, 3 english mastiffs and multiple assault rifles and semi auto pistols.
God help the mope who tries to steal from me.
You could use a spanner to take of the CAT. Thats how the garage would do it. Its quiet and takes a few minutes.