I wouldn't put a note stating your power windows are disabled....a fitsall brick will remove that hassle if they really want to get in


As for the gun solution....if he didn't catch them in the act the forst couple times it happened then what good would a gun do? Logic says that if you never hear or see them (which most thieves avoid quite well) then you have nothing to shoot at. If you were to shoot this person in the driveway then you would be arrested and tried for voluntary manslaughter and looking at 5-10 years state time

 

I to have a 96 Honda Accord that have gotten broken into 4 times. The first time, the foolz made off with my sounds but thats all. After the first time, I installed a pin switch under the hood of my car (since this is normally the way thieves enter the car by disabling the alarm), so when the hood is lifted, the alarm goes off. It scares them half to death, then I just flash them with the flash light(because my car is right below my window) right in their faces and normally that has scared them away. The pin switch is nothing more than a spring that is attached to the alarm wire and screwed in to the base of the hood. Very Cheap only like 10-15 dollars to get it installed.

You know what I wish I could do, is get a snake installed in my car that recognizes me but when some intruder tries to break in, they get bitten. Or better yet, how about getting a webcam installed in your car that can see from all 4 angles. That way every time some gets near the car in a threatening way, a voice will come on stating that, "You have been recorded".
Just an idea.

Its sad that you have to go through all of this to protect your car? I hate it when people dont want to work for what they get, they want to take the easy way out and steal! No fair!

 

My '92 Accord, which was sitting under a streetlight, was broken into a couple years ago. To this day, I have no idea what they were looking for... No faceplate on my deck in the car, and nothing sitting out that someone would know they'd want. Yet...
They pried the door handle out of the car on the drivers side (the locks are slide lock - according to the mechanic he said you can't break a slide lock by prying out the door handle like you can with some cars - whatever). When that didn't get them in, they went to the passenger's side and pried out that door handle (I guess he didn't learn on the first one that that wouldn't work.).
So still failing to get in that way, he broke the rear triangle window (this is a two-door) and crawled in through that.
He took the CDs (all burned, no originals) out of my visor CD holder and left them on the driver's seat and rummaged through the glovebox.

The only thing he took was a mini-bic lighter that was sitting in the centre console above the gear-shift.
There was a $20 gift cert for a womans clothing store in an envelope on the dash (wasn't touched - but you couldnt' tell what it was without opening the envelope) and there was 15 dollars or so of change in the change drawer beside the steering wheel that wasn't even touched.

So, all told, 11 days car rental (while door handles, rear window chrome trim and bodywork/paint job on both doors was done) and $1200 in parts/labour for that bloody moron to get a bic lighter.

After that, I left my car doors unlocked. There is nothing in my car to steal - so I'd rather them steal the whole damned thing, or just riffle through it and not vandalize my car for nothing.

(And to top it off, it poured like hell all night long soaking the back of the car.)
The guy had to be pretty brave too, because the amount of time he took, underneath a street light, in a relatively busy 'hood... And all that risk for nothing.

I lock my doors now because I no longer have theft on my car, but I also don't live in that 'hood any more - much quieter area and I live in a house as opposed to an apartment. I pity the fool that screws with my car in the driveway...