Have you ever worried if you parked your vehicle and left it unlocked, you would come back asking, ‘where’d I park my car?” only to find it was stolen?
One way to prevent getting your vehicle ripped off, is to hire a locksmith who specializes in ignition switch repair to install a kill switch in your car. What you will need is; Two hours, wire wraps, soldering iron, solder, voltmeter, electric wire, wire stripper, and a screw driver.
To those who are a little more mechanically and electrically adventurous this articles is a how to article on how to install a kill switch in your vehicle.
Your first plan of action will be to gain access to your ignition switch wires. This should take around 15 minutes to locate and cut the Red and Black wires leading from your engine up the neck of your steering wheel and toward you ignition. Your vehicle’s ignition switch wires can be found in the User’s Manual. You can also call your car maker’s dealership service department. Usually you can find the wires behind the casing over your steering wheel.
Next step should take around 45 minutes. Look for a suitable spot to place your kill switch. Keep in mind, where an experienced thief be less likely to find a kill switch if he looked for one. A well experienced thief would know to look for these countermeasures. I would recommend becoming creative with the child window lock area for a switches base of operations. Doing this will require you to lift the casing up off the door panel.
This next step should remain about an hour to complete. You’ll want to start by cutting a long enough length of electrical wire to run from your kill switch to your ignition wires.
Mentally mark out the route your wire will travel safely and unimpeded to the other wires crossing throughout the instrument paneling.
Feed that wiring through the wires and architecture down near the gas and brake pedals. Properly tape the wire along the door frame up to the child lock window switch. You will solder one wire to your switch. Reattach the doors plastic.
Trim and shape the ignition switch to fit inside the door paneling. The wires for the child lock window will need to find another wire to piggyback its power from. If you connect it to the front driver’s window, putting the window up will lock the windows and putting the window down will not child lock. It is a risk you are going to have to take. You can always give up control of child lock and connect the two wires as is.
Moving back to the ignition wires on the steering column. Cut the two ignition switch wires that is used to start your car. Reconnect by wire wrapping these two wires to the electrical wire running to the switch on the door panel from the steering column. Replace the steering column plastic and everything should be back in place.
Test your switch my starting you car when the switch is “on” and attempting to start it when the switch is “off” position. You should have a completely functioning kill switch ready to use after two hours of work. Good job. Now your vehicle is as safe as can be.