Tips to Keep Your Car Safe From Theft

In petrol engined cars and jeeps, I had a very good secret weapon to
deter the thieves from attempting to start and drive off with my car/
jeep.
Just open the distributor cap, pull out the rotor and keep it safe in a
small plastic bag in your pocket.This little "rotor in my pocket"
practice has been adapted by me whenever I had to park the automobile
in some unsafe area, even during night halts in hotels, where their
parking space had no compound and was exposed to some main road. It has
been working excellently and touch wood! All's well.
Invariably, in such hotels we find that there is a watchman who reports
for duty at around 10 or 11 pm and soon goes to sleep near the hotel
gate, only to get up at dawn and disappear.
I would like to seek answers from friends as to what can be done to
modern diesel automobiles so that these are parked safe.I mean which little
part of the diesel automobile can be pocketed in a plastic bag like the
rotor and refitted without any hassles? I am sure this will work better
than either the remote locking device or immobilizer or any other gear
or steering lock.
I now own a Scorpio and hence am inviting friends for a discussion on this topic.

Battery cable disconnection and detachment of the cable, carrying it away with oneself, is quite OK for both petrol and diesel
cars.
By the way, I have a crude steering lock of steel, where the
clutch pedal and steering are connected and any huge lock (Nav Tal or
else) can be applied on the slotted telescopic holes.
Another tip I found useful was " The closest thing to this would be to add a switch that kills the fuel
supply to the engine - could be done easily if the fuel lines have a
solenoid placed somewhere in between the fuel pump and the tank." This can be tried after consulting technocrats who have a better pulse of such engines.

anjan wrote:Battery cable disconnection and detachment of the cable, carrying it away with oneself, is quite OK for both petrol and diesel
cars.
By the way, I have a crude steering lock of steel, where the
clutch pedal and steering are connected and any huge lock (Nav Tal or
else) can be applied on the slotted telescopic holes.
Another tip I found useful was " The closest thing to this would be to add a switch that kills the fuel
supply to the engine - could be done easily if the fuel lines have a
solenoid placed somewhere in between the fuel pump and the tank." This can be tried after consulting technocrats who have a better pulse of such engines.

i was thinking for the same but was confused if this can practically been done, needs some technical consultancy before attempting this, if worked can be a good idea and safer option to car's security.

What is a distributor cap?

anjan wrote:Battery cable disconnection and detachment of the cable, carrying it away with oneself, is quite OK for both petrol and diesel
cars.
By the way, I have a crude steering lock of steel, where the
clutch pedal and steering are connected and any huge lock (Nav Tal or
else) can be applied on the slotted telescopic holes.
Another tip I found useful was " The closest thing to this would be to add a switch that kills the fuel
supply to the engine - could be done easily if the fuel lines have a
solenoid placed somewhere in between the fuel pump and the tank." This can be tried after consulting technocrats who have a better pulse of such engines.

Is it possible to add a switch like that? I doubt it cannot be done.