There are any number of ways to immobilize a car. The real trick is to make it temporary.


http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/cro...ta-_600x0w.jpg

Permanently immobilized car.

The BRZ is already one of the most secure cars out there.
Disconnecting the battery will also disable the alarm.


Any thief (worth a damn) that intends to actually steal the car will do it with a flat bed, they don't even have to unlock the doors.

Actual serious thought - make sure your alarm is activated since they are off by default.

Wait....what? I was not aware of this...

In America, this is the best immobilizer money can buy!

Many are not aware of several features. If only there was a way to discover such things...

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/image...s/sign0012.gif

Hmm...I found this book in my glove box...

...but threw it away. Weight savings, yo.

:laughabove::laughabove:

I'm an engineer by trade, so I never read manuals. I'll happily take things apart to find out how they work, but I won't crack a pedestrian manual.

I'm also a collector at heart. So my hardcopy of the "GT86 owners manual" is carefully preserved in unopened mint condition.

Manuals are getting thinner. Anyone else noticed that? I just installed a new headunit in my truck, and the manual is a folded piece of paper. I haven't read it, of course; but one paragraph caught my eye as I disdainfully discarded it. It said
"Play USB. Please be careful not to crash. Cause the machine to prevent damage. To protect traffic safety, please do not concentrate on driving the process of regulating the product."
Which is nice and friendly of course, but it also confirms that manuals are written by clowns and are therefore utterly useless.

Or written by complete competent engineers and then thrown through Google translate making them appear like idiots.

Would you take your car apart to learn how to reactivate a safety shut down window switch or to learn that the default setting on the alarm is off? Seems a tad extreme.

Well... Writing documentation is generally perceived by engineers as a tedious and boring task, so it's usually assigned to the new clown or the clown who's never busy with important stuff. Or it's postponed until it's too late.

Nah, I would figure those out without taking anything apart :-)

About 20% of my job is reviewing and approving documentation written by engineers and that ^^^ is probably the most accurate statement ever written!

remove all your tires and let it sit on the jacks...it's not like a thief will bring his own tires and install them to drive your car away.