http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...key&topic_set=

It's 3 pages, but quite interesting. Writer had a 2003 Civic Hybrid that was stolen, insurance refused to pay, saying he had a transponder and it was thus impossible to steal and he had to be lying.

Fast forward to the 3rd page, he went to a tuner/bike show and the owner told him that he knew how to steal his Civic even without the transponder. He got a series of pulls on the ebrake and turning the key (with the transponder effectively nullified) to start the car.

I didn't know you could do that to a Civic. I know that a lot of electronic security devices have backdoors, but I didn't think they'd be dumb enough to put one on a car.

 

i heard about this today
stupid

 

By transponder do you mean immobilizer?

 

heh, i've met the tuner/motorcycle shop owner, ken, before. nice guy.

 

the ebrake method works on several hondas w/ immobilizers

 

Thats pretty cool.

I had a cut off swith installed on my Civic, and I had a magic sequence of buttons to push before the ignition would actually work. Otherwise you were just turning a key for nothing...

It saved on insurance.

 

wooahhh,....im going to try this when i get home.
Wrap my key with foil and play with the e-brake, that should be interesting.

 

I just put a waded up tissue and a playboy on the drivers seat and people seem to leave it alone

 

I found that the German Shepherd sleeping in the backseat method works well too.

 

that's why I keep telling everybody, you need a trunk monkey.