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snowric

Member Since: 01 Aug 2011
Location: London
Posts: 20

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Galway Green

Attempted theft? Advice please

Hi all I have a defender 100 2.4 csw. Had it since new and love it still.

Last night I visited my wife in hospital, parked the car outside my home and went to bed. This morning car wouldn't start. Odd, no lights, no idiot lights nothing at all. Central locking didnt work either. I figured I had been stressed out and left the main lights on or something so tonight I replaced the battery and.......nothing.

To cut a long story short I used my AVO meter and could see that there was no power going into the main fuses in the box under the drivers seat and had plenty of volts at the battery.

So i called the AA out and the guy eventually found underneath my car that someone had cut the feed from the battery to the main fusebox. Very cleanly and they had even stripped the wires. Once he reconnected them, alarm etc all hell broke loose but good news everythig worked nicely.

AA man reckoned that the cut would stop the alarm sounding and then they could open the doors (with a strip of metal he said), put in neutral, park brake off, break steering lock and tow the car but he didnt understand why they didnt. I have an Ashcroft auto conversion on it.

Any views and also should I re-route this wire internally across the gearbox tunnel to ensure it cant get cut easily again?

Thanks for your thoughts. Imagine I am pretty lucky to still have my green beast and should be able to pick up the wife in the morning ! Snowy Snowy

29th Nov 2018 9:02pm

Caterham

Member Since: 06 Nov 2008
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 6298

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

What bummer - especially with the wife being in hospital and all.

on the up side as you say you still have it. shame the thieving scum bag wasn't able to roll the truck just far enough to crush himself under one of the wheels.

I'd defo aim to re-route the cable indoors as you say. I'd also suggest you replace the cut cable with new but consider making it a tamper circuit ie if it's cut it sets the alarm off. not sure how exactly you'd do that but it can't be difficult (at least I wouldn't have thought so) ie cable hold a relay open - once cut it closes relay and activates horn?

with any luck it would give thieving

a heart attack

29th Nov 2018 9:12pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17391

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

This is the normal way to disable the alarm prior to breaking into the vehicle, a very well-known vulnerability. Fit a BBUS, reroute the cable, or run a cable in parallel. Also fit additional security such as a pedal lock.

29th Nov 2018 10:54pm

DSC-off

Member Since: 16 Oct 2014
Location: North East
Posts: 1411

2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Aintree Green

Sorry to hear of your troubles, lucky you still have the Defender.
LRD Security do a kit to reroute the live cable. A bit pricey for what it is, but it has everything needed and it fits without having to measure it up first then find all the bits and pieces. So worth it in my opinion for easy fitting.

https://www.landroverdefendersecurity.com/...ation-loom

As well as rerouting the live, it's a good idea to fit an extra earth from the negative battery terminal to the body inside the battery box. It needn't be a heavy earth wire, 20amp should be ok for the intended purpose. A tip picked up on this forum a few years back.

30th Nov 2018 1:05am

Adam17

Member Since: 15 May 2018
Location: Within Bedfordshire
Posts: 1193

Sorry to hear your news bud!
Glad you still have the truck though. Regards
Adam

Loving The Duchess
The Defender 110 TD5 XS

My Defender story - http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic64005.html

30th Nov 2018 2:09pm

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