Suggestions for practical "kill switch" installation in a newerToyota SUV ?

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Barry - 12 Feb 2007 01:11 GMT

Suggestions for practical "kill switch" in install in 2006 Toyota
4runner ?

Back when I was working so hard to have my Mom not be driving (at 88
years and no valid drivers license for a year) - I received
suggestions to install a simple (or even not so simple) "kill switch"

Obviously, I could disconnect a fuse or electrical relay under the
hood, but there might be an easier way to have something out of the
usual installed inside the passenger area.

The 2006 Toyota 4runner does require that one use a factory ignition
key to start the car, but I would not be surprised if thieves have

Also, significantly, I would not want to totally kill the power /
battery every time I stop in an undesirable area. I expect that I
would have to reset some system elements as one would have to do after
changing the battery.

Anyway, it might be the case that the neighborhood mechanic could put
in a kill switch in a location which is not assumed by or already
mastered by thieves.

Suggestions - workable ?

Thanks

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HLS@nospam.nix - 12 Feb 2007 01:31 GMT

> Suggestions for practical "kill switch" in install in 2006 Toyota
> 4runner ?

On the Fieros, we used to wire the electric fuel pump lead to the cigarette
lighter,
and use a shorted lighter plug to make the circuit. When we left the car,
we could
just put the lighter in our pocket. No circuit, no start or run. That
stymied a lot
of bucket seat thieves.

You could as easily put a switch in the electric fuel pump lead, if your
particular
car has one.

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Barry - 12 Feb 2007 06:14 GMT

>> Suggestions for practical "kill switch" in install in 2006 Toyota
>> 4runner ?
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>particular
>car has one.

These are good ideas. I guess going to local shops and inquiring what
they might suggest is one way to approach it. Then evaluating or
sorting through the approaches - and / or bringing them back to this
forum might be a good idea ....

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Daryl Bryant - 12 Feb 2007 03:34 GMT

> Suggestions for practical "kill switch" in install in 2006 Toyota
> 4runner ?
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> would have to reset some system elements as one would have to do after
> changing the battery.

Since your Toyata is fuel infected you can use the fuel pump terminals - I'd
cut a break in the ground wire that goes to the pump. If you make a break in
the hot wire, and later on the wire insulator melts for some reason or
another, grounds out to the frame - you'll find yourself in a mess!!

> Anyway, it might be the case that the neighborhood mechanic could put
> in a kill switch in a location which is not assumed by or already
> mastered by thieves.

Put the keyed switch in the door jam!

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larry moe 'n curly - 12 Feb 2007 11:32 GMT

> Suggestions for practical "kill switch" in install in 2006 Toyota
> 4runner ?
>
> Back when I was working so hard to have my Mom not be driving (at 88
> years and no valid drivers license for a year) - I received
> suggestions to install a simple (or even not so simple) "kill switch"

I had one going to the ignition coil power source, but then I heard
stories of kill switches failing during driving. So now I use one
wired into the starter relay. That way it doesn't matter if it fails
during driving.

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