# Thievesteal eleven trucks from Denver dealership

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/thievesteal-eleven-trucks-from-denver-dealership/181381>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 21, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/thievesteal-eleven-trucks-from-denver-dealership/181381 "2021-12-21T14:34:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robert-Gift](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/robert-gift/32/356_2.png) [@Robert-Gift](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Robert-Gift)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/thievesteal-eleven-trucks-from-denver-dealership/181381/1 "2021-12-21T14:34:55Z")

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> **[Thieves Steal 11 Trucks From Denver Dealership](https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/12/20/thieves-steal-11-trucks-denver-dealership/)**
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> The owner of Truck Kings says thieves broke in and ripped a safe off the wall which held keys to all the vehicles.

Would there be an easy way to instalkill switches to discourage the criminals?

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**Author:** ![eddo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/eddo/32/2594_2.png) [@eddo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eddo)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/thievesteal-eleven-trucks-from-denver-dealership/181381/2 "2021-12-21T15:25:06Z")

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I would be very surprised if these vehicles didn’t have a lojack style tracking/shutdown system on them.

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/thievesteal-eleven-trucks-from-denver-dealership/181381/3 "2021-12-21T20:54:41Z")

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> [@Robert-Gift](#):
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> Would there be an easy way to instalkill switches to discourage the criminals [from stealing vehicle from a dealer lot]?

At the time I purchased my Corolla it had one installed that prevented cranking. It wasn’t the sort of switch you could turn on and off with a flick. A special device had to be inserted into its socket. I didn’t realize its existence at the time, not in any wiring diagram for the Corolla, and later it failed and caused me some “fails to crank” grief.

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**Author:** ![Robert-Gift](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/robert-gift/32/356_2.png) [@Robert-Gift](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Robert-Gift)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/thievesteal-eleven-trucks-from-denver-dealership/181381/4 "2021-12-23T21:34:02Z")

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> [@George\_San\_Jose1](#):
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> _… caused me some “fails to crank” grief._

My girlfriend’s little car stopped cranking.  
Luckily had **MAN** ual transmission. (Meaning me.)  
Pushed her car and slowly lethe clutch out and started thengine.  
Told her to try to park on downslopes until I was able to replace her starter motor solenoid.