Yeah, I hear you. Unless you get a total piece of junk, you'd have to spend at least $1,000 to $1,500 and even that won't buy you much but it can be a big chunk to come with all right.

I put a kill switch on my old chev van after it got stolen once. Lost about $1500 in tools -- shouldn't have had that much in there. I wired the switch to one of the wires coming from the automatic tranny to the starter. So when I flip the switch, the starter acts like the car is in drive. Oh so sorry, slime bags, my car won't start for you. Of course, it wouldn't be that hard to find the switch, and if the jerks had time, and they didn't find it, God knows what kind of damage they'd do trying to get it to start.

It is a tough one indeed.

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