My car is alarmed and immobilized and i have the deterant stickers but i am aware if they want something they will have it but im looking for some ideas on how to disquise my 6x9 speakers in the parcel shelf anyone got any ideas
2007-03-11 11:40:24 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
You could put some Cushions on the speakers to disguise them as that is what my Dad does and he has never been robbed for his Xplod speakers.
2007-03-11 11:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by vodaAde 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've already said it: if a thief wants your car (or something in it) they'll get it no matter what you do.
So, sure, you can hide those speakers, or remove them entirely -- but that won't stop a determined thief from looking in anyway. Heck, I once had a car broken into for a duffel bag, open, showing that it contained one VHS videocassette. The car didn't even have a radio. I also had a car broken into via a screwdriver through the door panel and trunk -- but the windows were half down, there was nothing in the trunk, and nothing in the car (no radio, nothing.) Often, thieves target a type of car, and don't take the time to even look.
The best you can hope for is to drive a type of car that is considered undesireable or unlikely to contain things of value (open Jeeps generally aren't rifled through, and German cars always are -- when I switched to Japanese cars, my break-ins stopped cold) and be careful where you park your car.
Of course, it's often hard to tell safe and unsafe areas for parking; I went months parking my German car (with a broken window and a crappy alarm) in the (run down, scary, heavily-transient) Uptown neighborhood of Chicago and nobody ever set off the alarm -- but when I parked the same car in a shopping mall in (upscale, suburban, pleasant) Schaumberg for one day, someone rifled through it.
2007-03-11 17:52:31 · answer #2 · answered by big_bowl_of_meat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make the cutouts for the speakers as normal but don't put them through the holes, mount them underneath so that the speakers can still be heard but not seen, then recover your shelf in acoustic cloth. Even easier if you make yourself a new shelf first and cover it so that it looks professional. Alternatively tint your rear windows so that they can't be seen so easily!
2007-03-11 11:58:22 · answer #3 · answered by highrevs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your speakers arent worth anything, so your protecting them against children... which is damn near impossible. they are like magpies...
here in coventry we seem to have a spate of new breakins... they literally fold the drivers door top open... reach in thru the gap and pop the central locking...
this is prevalent on small mass produced cars like fords and vauxhalls... so, i leave my volvo open... it has a cycle lock around the steering wheel (15mm steel cable) and a crooklock... and in 4yrs its been opened lots of times, but no one has ever tried to steal it, and they havent smashed my windows... yes i take the stereo out...
my brothers wife just had her escort done again... this time it was a complete new drivers door, glass and central locking system.. which has already cost her over 250 quid... luckily were in the trade... labour is free..but the parts arent!
either hide your speakers, relay the acoustic matting on the parcel shelf and bury them, sound travels...
2007-03-12 02:37:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do it yourself by covering the shelf with acoustic cloth, but you can get 'em ready made. Called "stealth shelf".
2007-03-11 22:20:26 · answer #5 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You want a dummy shelf set just above them, they'll sound the same but can't be seen.
2007-03-11 11:48:04 · answer #6 · answered by tucksie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you want a stealth shelf look on ebay what car do u have?
2007-03-11 19:54:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about it. No one but an idiot kid would bother to stael a couple of stereo speakers.
2007-03-11 15:05:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋