Morris Minor Owners Club

With the weather being nice over the last few weeks, though raining recently, yet still warm, my lady wife, in the face of my protests, likes to sleep with the bedroom windows open.

Now as pleasant and less stifling as this is, I lay awake all night thinking that that every single noise I can hear is someone breaking into/stealing/vandalizing my moggy.

The first Minor Matters I received there was an artical about the rise in classic car theft. The first CC weekly I bought was also about classics theft and anti theft devices.

Hugo has a Disklok, immobiliser and is covered (garage being built in a few months) at the end of a dead end road with no through traffic or foot traffic and we have security lighting at the front of the house. YET with the windows open, every single sound, sounds like night crawlers trying to nick him and I'm up and down at the window.

Does any one else suffer from this 'Auto Paranoiac Insomnia'?

Or have you ever looked through the window and actually seen/caught someone trying to nick your cherished classic?

no Alarm

I agree. Fit an alarm. You'll sleep much better

Most modern alarms drain the battery very quickly a cut off switch might help

I park the modern behind them so they've got to move that first

Just connect a spare horn to the ignition circuit - with hidden switch of course..... Any attempt to hotwire the car will result in the horn blaring - if you put in INSIDE the car (but in a hard to reach place) they will not be able to stay inside the car to drive it - or to disconnect the horn......

my alarm is very modern ,no battery drain ,measures voltage drop and movement no infra red etc

its easy to imobilise a moggy just remove something red or black .

Immobile doesn't make it safe though. There's still vandalism to consider.

Correct. One of the main reasons we will be having a garage built. People see you working away outside the house - nastiness, lealousy (whatever else compels people to do such things) they come along and key a couple of panels out of sheer spite!!!