Morris Minor Owners Club

following a read of the stolen forum and remembering the theft of a bus from my next door neighbour a few weeks ago, my sleep pattern has altered drastically.
i think i need to implement more security measures on my beloved rose.

however, until my dad has time to help me fit it, such things as cut off switches and alarms are out of bounds.

Anything I can do, by myself, as a determined 5ft 18 year old girl with limited tools to help keep my beloved morris safe? xD

Easiest thing to do is to remove the rotor arm from the distributor

Sleep in the car.
Make your brother/father sleep in the car.
Let the dog sleep in the car.


Seriously - just remove the lead between the coil and the distributor. What is the chance that an opportunist thief will be carrying a spare? Alternatively interrupt the supply to the fuel pump so that it runs out of petrol just down the road where they don't want to be seen. There is an easy way to do this. I'm sure someone will send you a PM about this.

Park a couple of Landies in front of her.

the first 2 methlods are the easest for now you can buy a battery clamp that hasa screw that you can undo and breakes the circuit so the car wont start just dont lose the screw ,i have one fitted to my car look for it on google battery disconnect .

I quite agree

Is it wise to advertise our "security methods" so openly on an open forum for all to view.? You never know who may be reading.

I think this kind of info should be passed by PM only for our own good !

Too late - Now the whole world knows, might just as well have published it on Facebook

mike.perry wrote:Too late - Now the whole world knows, might just as well have published it on Facebook

What's facebook

I Suppose you can do a "Mr Been" and take the steering wheel off and put a padlock on the doors.

What's facebook
Don't know but it has been on the telly

LIMEGREEN

I am about an hour down the M4 from you, if you need a hand I could cast an eye over it

Well, I'm pretty much free during the weekdays now, so I can have a proper fiddle about with security options. Thanks all!

@polo2k - if you're ever in Chepstow, do drop me a bell!

dalebrignall wrote:the first 2 methlods are the easest for now you can buy a battery clamp that hasa screw that you can undo and breakes the circuit so the car wont start just dont lose the screw ,i have one fitted to my car look for it on google battery disconnect .

Bit of a 'caveat' with this. I fitted one and found it kept undoing itself while I was driving. I'd recommend either a hidden switch for the fuel pump, or an ignition cut-out.
If you want to go the 'disconnect the battery' route, you'd be better off with a battery master switch with a removable key.

These are really good, http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx? ... 269&title= I don't rate those ones that screw on the battery terminal, could probably get it going by sticking a bit of wire in it.

mike.perry wrote:What's facebook

Don't worry you aren't missing much!

limegreen wrote:Anything I can do, by myself, as a determined 5ft 18 year old girl with limited tools to help keep my beloved morris safe?

If only there were more girls in to moggies...

Just another thought. When we had a 1962 Saloon it had one of those fuel cut off switches but we ended up taking it out (hubby was very poorly so that was the quickest and cheapest way for me to keep it on the road); the problem was it would cut out at stupid times due to a faulty switch. Worked fine for years but suddenly misbehaved (oh and there was the time I accidentally pushed the switch to off whilst trying to find something on the parcel shelf for the children !! )

A slightly different take on this relates to an experiecnce I had not long after moving into my house.

At the time there was a pretty shabby concrete garage there. My runabout in those days was a Mini (My one and only brand new car) and it was kept in the old garage (The Midget was left in my parent's double garage until I built my present garage). It was not exactly secure BUT when a local yobb decided to pinch a car, he pinched my neighbours car off his drive. I remember being awoken by a commotion, as my neighbour heard the car being stolen. When I went outside the Police had just arrived and the car was back (Incredibly our yobb lost his nerve and brought the car back before running away).

The point is that they could have just as easily pinched my car (Having got into the garage, they would have been out of sight as they tried to get it to go) but it was out of sight!! My neighbour has recently built a sort of car port/garage, I think mainly because at 75, he's finally had enough of working on the car outside . It's quite cleverly done and fits between his shed and the solid garden fence. He's made doors for the front and is making some for the back end, hence it's now more garage than car port. I don't think it's cost him a packet either.