Better idea: Someone tries to break in the car, the car gives the thief a massive electric shock. On the second try, the car ups the power and kills the thief/ vandal.
Ford did the electric shock alarm on the Ford Escort Cabrilet, it was banned after serveral court cases. South Africa legally you can have flame thorwers on your car sils, to fry car jackers.
So, if you dont like someone you go past a car, bash it with rubber gloves, arm it,... then walk past it with the person you dont like and PUSH them into the car and the car murders them for you... Not to mention, its going to really piss of drivers coming back to a car which gets inpounded due to a dead body on it, but the battery would be flat also.
"Step back or the alarm will sound". ooow spooky, I tell Alexa to sort you out, in the mean time I a stealing you, whack. Did the designers ever think about when a alarm sounds who is gonna come ? Panic button - who comes to rescue you then ? And lots of sound changes - so it has ice cream van mode too.
My grandads old saab 93 had one, it was horrible. Whenever someone would park beside the car it would set off. And the dissarm my lock could be picked easily
Most cars from that era took less then 10 seconds to get in without smashing windows, could be stolen in less then 1 min 30 secs, And most of those moss alarm systems aswell of others got disabled by shorting the indicator bulb so it blew a fuse lol Security has improved hugely but so has access to information lol
We use to bend the door out on fords in the 1990s. Use a small piece of tubing over the barrel, away you go. Smashing the window would make it bloody cold. Vaxuals, just screwdriver the lock, snape the steering look, black box it! Hartcliffe ram-raiding crew!!
Fords hex lock, one second and open if you use the half a tennis ball trick. Ford had to recall van to a version 2 lock that had holes in it to stop this airlock trick
So, the first car has this security system that sets off the alarm if the key is turned in the ignition with the doors locked. What's the point in engineering it to do that? If a car thief takes your keys, the chances are he's gonna use them to access the vehicle as well as start it.
Antony Collingwood It might work on those cars, since they seem to have been made before the mid 1990's. With cars from back then, you can start the engine just by ramming a long thin instrument, such as a flathead screwdriver, into the ignition and turning it like a key.
@@theant9821 true, but to get around that all the thief has to do is lock the door (by pressing the little button down on the door) then break the ignition lock.
@@pqrstzxerty1296 No, the arm/disarm switch is on the door lock barrel. Moving the interior door lock knob doesn't change anything. Almost all cars have the same system today: use the remote to lock yourself inside then unlock or open the door, you'll set it off.
Early Vauxhall deadlocking system up to around 1992 where flawed. If you could lift the interior lock button at the same time as operating the exterior handle the deadlock was bypassed & the door opened.
cops on the way?? It's low on their priority list. My car was stolen, thieves took what they wanted and ditched the car in a no-parking zone across the city. The car collected two tickets before the cops had it towed. Only AFTER they towed it did they contact me. The cop who issued the first ticket mush have known the car was stolen once he put the plate # in the computer ... oh well. At least I didn't have to pay for the tickets.
@1:40 there is a reason windscreens are laminated and side windows are toughen, in an emergency a 1st responder may need to drag you out of a car, not likly to happen with a windscreen... like WTF use your brains, thank God, this didn't catch on. When seconds cost, your life can be saved or lost
Wrong. Use your brains. Nearly all side windows are laminated today. Those that are not are "chemically toughened," very similar to Gorilla Glass on phones. It's a legal requirement to prevent ejection in a crash. For the US, the regulation is FMVSS 226. On the other hand, there is also a requirement that the door be able to be opened with one had after a crash test.
1m50, big laugh... " and the police becoming". Maybe next week on a push bike. 🙂🙂🙂🤪🤪 reality. These days if you car is being nicked, and people if they see it being stolen they get their phones out and youtube it.
"By now the Police would be coming..." Not nowadays; not unless the would-be thief called the car a bad name, then the Police would be all over him/her/they/them/zee/zer/blah....
I don't know why Top Gear didn't stick to this format, I feel like my brain has been gently massaged.
Because nobody was watching it...
Sadly Tom Boswell died this same year, 1990. He presented many pieces for Top Gear in the 80s but 1990 would be his last.
R.I.P
After his death, Boswell was then replaced by Steve Berry in the early 1990s, who was also a motorcycle enthusiast.
I couldn't help but see his lazy eye staring off in the right.
He always keeps one eye on the streets and the other on the titties.
He was just looking to see if a policeman was coming...
@@neilbaker1 its difficult. i have also 😜
Bos-well
Everyone had a lazy eye on TV then. Now it’s never seen
Top gear in Ireland during the 1990s
"How many bombs can we fuck in here"
'And by now the police would be coming' Wait I never saw him write a mean tweet why such a rapid response time?
stuffanthings AHH the days before the internet, social media, and mobile messaging.
It was a happier time :)
Some BMWs had that system in the early-mid 90s. I've seen some E34 5-Series with it.
By now the police would be here!!! Must have been made before police cuts and we all film each other!!!
Systems like that on 5:05 where just horrible if you lived in a crowded city.
Whole day the alarm set off, as people kept passing by :p
Better idea: Someone tries to break in the car, the car gives the thief a massive electric shock. On the second try, the car ups the power and kills the thief/ vandal.
Megadriver So the FXX K?
Great idea, but unfortunately it's illegal. Don't want to infringe the little bastard's human rights do we?
Ford did the electric shock alarm on the Ford Escort Cabrilet, it was banned after serveral court cases.
South Africa legally you can have flame thorwers on your car sils, to fry car jackers.
@@pqrstzxerty1296 If only we could have that here in the UK. You watch car and other crimes plummet overnight.
So, if you dont like someone you go past a car, bash it with rubber gloves, arm it,... then walk past it with the person you dont like and PUSH them into the car and the car murders them for you...
Not to mention, its going to really piss of drivers coming back to a car which gets inpounded due to a dead body on it, but the battery would be flat also.
To think nowadays all they need is a laptop and a rf range extender through the letterbox
Ahh, back in 4th he 90's when could still afford to run a car!
Ford Sierra way ahead of it's time for styling, still looks modern today.
Lool laminated glass on the sides kek
I have magnavolt.
We need MagnaVolt from Robocop 2
Wow £80 was a lota money back then.
"Step back or the alarm will sound". ooow spooky, I tell Alexa to sort you out, in the mean time I a stealing you, whack.
Did the designers ever think about when a alarm sounds who is gonna come ?
Panic button - who comes to rescue you then ?
And lots of sound changes - so it has ice cream van mode too.
most riminals are idiots who run if its not an easy run of mill job.
My old mk 2 golf had a shifter lock that locks it reverse
Gear stick to handbrake lock?
Moss 750 looks cool. I'd have one :)
My grandads old saab 93 had one, it was horrible. Whenever someone would park beside the car it would set off. And the dissarm my lock could be picked easily
Has Ford ever put headlight wipers on any car besides the Sierra?
yeah but it is certainly is something to show friends
Most cars from that era took less then 10 seconds to get in without smashing windows, could be stolen in less then 1 min 30 secs,
And most of those moss alarm systems aswell of others got disabled by shorting the indicator bulb so it blew a fuse lol
Security has improved hugely but so has access to information lol
Stabs at the window 5 or 6 times and says don't worry the police would've been called by now.
Is car theft a European value or basic right out there?
Smith John in the 80s and 90s, it was a right of passage, once you your teens.
OK, my car security doesn't do this today and it was built in 2018. I've been robbed!
your lock will be much better, the engine will have an immobiliser.... If not yeah you been robbed
We use to bend the door out on fords in the 1990s. Use a small piece of tubing over the barrel, away you go. Smashing the window would make it bloody cold. Vaxuals, just screwdriver the lock, snape the steering look, black box it! Hartcliffe ram-raiding crew!!
You may want to disable the microwave system if you leave a dog in the car.
Forgets.
Comes back from the shop to find Fido crispy cooked.
Fords have a special lock that is more difficult to pick... REALLY? Have you seen how easy it is to pick a Tibbe?
Had mine picked and my stereo system stolen back in the early 2000s.
Fords hex lock, one second and open if you use the half a tennis ball trick. Ford had to recall van to a version 2 lock that had holes in it to stop this airlock trick
So, the first car has this security system that sets off the alarm if the key is turned in the ignition with the doors locked. What's the point in engineering it to do that? If a car thief takes your keys, the chances are he's gonna use them to access the vehicle as well as start it.
the theif might have broken into the car and forced the ignition barrel, or bypassed it completely.
Antony Collingwood It might work on those cars, since they seem to have been made before the mid 1990's. With cars from back then, you can start the engine just by ramming a long thin instrument, such as a flathead screwdriver, into the ignition and turning it like a key.
+MrSupercar55 25 years ago now, and cars were still better then. except their alarms.
@@theant9821 true, but to get around that all the thief has to do is lock the door (by pressing the little button down on the door) then break the ignition lock.
@@pqrstzxerty1296 No, the arm/disarm switch is on the door lock barrel. Moving the interior door lock knob doesn't change anything. Almost all cars have the same system today: use the remote to lock yourself inside then unlock or open the door, you'll set it off.
4:45 KITT's French cousin?
That's not a french car, it's a Rover 800 from the UK
This format is so good. Lots of information. No need for boys with toys format. So dreary.
Of course … the police will be coming ….😂 my arrse
Was he looking at me or you 🥴🤪
4 minutes? well these days thiefs need just few seconds thx to remote door opener scanners...
Vauxhall with a deadlock!!! Vauxhall nova anyone?
Early Vauxhall deadlocking system up to around 1992 where flawed. If you could lift the interior lock button at the same time as operating the exterior handle the deadlock was bypassed & the door opened.
He has Wednesday's eyes, he looks both ways to the weekend.
He's got headlight eyes. One on dipped beam, one on main
Ur glasses look like there laminated.
cops on the way?? It's low on their priority list. My car was stolen, thieves took what they wanted and ditched the car in a no-parking zone across the city. The car collected two tickets before the cops had it towed. Only AFTER they towed it did they contact me. The cop who issued the first ticket mush have known the car was stolen once he put the plate # in the computer ... oh well. At least I didn't have to pay for the tickets.
Ave nicked every Ford going 3 wires in door cut an join together yeah good security system I quit When Ford Focus come out
Top gear before it got stolen.
Snooze gear before it got exciting.
1 eye looking at ya...............................
and still the Ford car got stolen by a joy ride teenager with a stick.
i would rather have my car stolen than be trapped underwater because i can’t smash the window
4:58 He's overreacting. Drama queen.
I don't like American accents on stuff in the UK.
@1:40 there is a reason windscreens are laminated and side windows are toughen, in an emergency a 1st responder may need to drag you out of a car, not likly to happen with a windscreen... like WTF use your brains, thank God, this didn't catch on. When seconds cost, your life can be saved or lost
Wrong. Use your brains. Nearly all side windows are laminated today. Those that are not are "chemically toughened," very similar to Gorilla Glass on phones. It's a legal requirement to prevent ejection in a crash. For the US, the regulation is FMVSS 226. On the other hand, there is also a requirement that the door be able to be opened with one had after a crash test.
1m50, big laugh... " and the police becoming". Maybe next week on a push bike. 🙂🙂🙂🤪🤪 reality.
These days if you car is being nicked, and people if they see it being stolen they get their phones out and youtube it.
"By now the Police would be coming..." Not nowadays; not unless the would-be thief called the car a bad name, then the Police would be all over him/her/they/them/zee/zer/blah....
Not really sure why I watched the whole thing. I did it though.
I made it through