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From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Car Theft - Part 2 (McGuard Wheel Locks)
Message-ID: <1603@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 21:10:33 EST
Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1603
Posted: Sun Jan 20 21:10:33 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:44:50 EST
References: <997@hou4a.UUCP> <631@voder.UUCP>
Reply-To: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN
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In article <631@voder.UUCP> kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) writes:
>
>   Just a comment about McGuard type locks; they are not fool-proof,
>nothing is.  When I was a manager at a 4Day Tire Store at least once
>a week someone would come in for new tires who had forgotten his/her
>wheel lock key.  The simplest way to remove them is to pound an 
>appropiate size impact socket (not a standard socket, they'll split!)
>over the lock and then use a standard wrench to remove.  If the lock
>was too tight or too deeply recessed then you just weld a standard nut
>on top of it.  We used an arc welder to do this which I assume would
>be a lot quicker than a torch, but torches are not that expensive and
>places like Sears sell small oxygen/propane versions.
>   And don't think that there aren't duplicates of your key either.
>If I recall I believe that there are 1200 key paterns actually used so
>it's not impossible for you and your neighbor to purchase locks that
>both use the same key.  We'd always check our stock of abandoned keys
>to see if any would fit, on occasion they did.

I sure hope that no car thieves are reading this stuff!  It's absolute dynamite!