Anyone here had a k5 stolen? 
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Anyone here had a k5 stolen?
- Thread starter wazzabie
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If I parked mine outside, it would have been stolen by now for sure.
Hard to steal something that doesn’t fit out of the garage without deflating the tires to 0.
Haha! I was thinking a lot of the trucks on here are projects.
I have secret switch in plain sight and 4 shifter levers .
Mine is...pump the gas pedal 15 times, crank for 10 seconds, pump the gas pedal 5 times crank till is starts, or the battery runs flat, feather the pedal for a minute till it runs smooth. After all that the duel purple hornies and axle dump exhaust is sure to wake up a dead cat. If anyone gets that far the fuel tank has usually only got enough fuel for the 454 to hardly make it off the yard.
Mine is fairly safe!
Mine is fairly safe!
great point lol. Wife wakes you up pissed that "Blazer has been cranking over for the last 5 minutes!!!"
a stealthy thief would bring a diesel flatbed.
Someone tried to steel the Jimmy at KOH the first year I went. I came out of the camper ro find the driver door open. The ignition switch was attached to a slide hammer laying on the floor. An ignition switch that turned free in the hole.
Ground wire disconnect hidden and a fuel pump switch stopped them cold.
Ground wire disconnect hidden and a fuel pump switch stopped them cold.
This topic scares me, my truck is so easy to steal. Lucky for me it's usually on the side yard behind a locked gate.
Kain
3/4 ton status
they have tried several times and are to stupid to get in it,
one fellow tried stealing the drive shaft but it rolled when he took the bolts loose
a witness told me who he was..........
one fellow tried stealing the drive shaft but it rolled when he took the bolts loose
a witness told me who he was..........
I worry about this with mine, since I have no top and tube doors there's no way to even pretend to lock it up. I recently added one simple hidden switch and I'm thinking about a second.
I probably shouldn't worry, most of the time a thief would need a rollback to steal it.
I probably shouldn't worry, most of the time a thief would need a rollback to steal it.
And here I am leaving my doors unlocked so any potential thieves don't break my windows.
I figure the SM465 and carb combined with the loud muffler and being parked right outside my bedroom are adequate anti-theft measures.
I figure the SM465 and carb combined with the loud muffler and being parked right outside my bedroom are adequate anti-theft measures.
Someone stole the doors off my '72 K5 when I was living in my home town at my older brothers apartment in a "bad" part of town..
It was Feb.14th,Valentines day--we had 16" of snow fall during the night,and when I got up and went out to start the K5 up to let it warm up--I saw it sitting there with no doors!..
My Craftsman tool box full of nearly new tools was still sitting on the passenger side floor,and my custom built speaker box in the back seat with new 6x9's was still there,tire chains lying in the bed hadn't been touched either..
I guess doors were all they wanted--why they didn't just steal the truck baffles me,it had 4 Cooper M&S tires I'd just put on it 2 months prior,and a lot of other desirable parts ..
What got me was the doors on it were no real prize--both had rot that was patched with tin & pop rivets and bondo ,they looked decent but were not mint by any means..
I had to drive it to work door-less in 22 degree snowy conditions,I made it about a mile from where it was parked before a cop saw me and followed me,and pulled me over--I told him it wasn't my idea to drive around with no doors,some asswipe STOLE them,and he called in to the station to confirm I'd make a report on the theft..
He almost made me have it towed!..
I drove the truck after work to a body shop,they called my insurance co. and told them what happened (glad I had fire & theft on it!)--I lost use of the truck for over a month,they had a tough time finding ANY doors,after a few weeks they located two pickup doors they had to chop the window frames off of,then try and locate the pieces that screwed on to seal against the removeable top,all they could get were some ratty junkyard ones...
It had Cheyenne wood grain door panels on the original doors,the body shop searched for weeks and could only locate one NOS one in a dealership in Nebraska--had to settle for a plain jane plastic one on the other door,I painted it black with SEM vinyl dye..
Since I had no wheels until the middle of March,I was forced to get a ride 70 miles to my parents house where I stashed my '69 GTO away for the winter,had to use that to get around in--it was one of the worst cars I ever owned in the snow,and we had plenty of it that year--I put studded snow tires on it and loaded the trunk up with several sand bags ,but the dam thing still went sideways more than forward,even idling in drive the rear end just wanted to slide sideways when you let your foot off the brake..only my '80 El-Camino with a posi was worse than that car in snow & ice..
I bought a '71 GMC K1500 that year,just so I'd have a plow truck and a "spare" 4x4 in case the K5 ever broke down during the winter..
It was Feb.14th,Valentines day--we had 16" of snow fall during the night,and when I got up and went out to start the K5 up to let it warm up--I saw it sitting there with no doors!..
My Craftsman tool box full of nearly new tools was still sitting on the passenger side floor,and my custom built speaker box in the back seat with new 6x9's was still there,tire chains lying in the bed hadn't been touched either..
I guess doors were all they wanted--why they didn't just steal the truck baffles me,it had 4 Cooper M&S tires I'd just put on it 2 months prior,and a lot of other desirable parts ..
What got me was the doors on it were no real prize--both had rot that was patched with tin & pop rivets and bondo ,they looked decent but were not mint by any means..
I had to drive it to work door-less in 22 degree snowy conditions,I made it about a mile from where it was parked before a cop saw me and followed me,and pulled me over--I told him it wasn't my idea to drive around with no doors,some asswipe STOLE them,and he called in to the station to confirm I'd make a report on the theft..
He almost made me have it towed!..
I drove the truck after work to a body shop,they called my insurance co. and told them what happened (glad I had fire & theft on it!)--I lost use of the truck for over a month,they had a tough time finding ANY doors,after a few weeks they located two pickup doors they had to chop the window frames off of,then try and locate the pieces that screwed on to seal against the removeable top,all they could get were some ratty junkyard ones...
It had Cheyenne wood grain door panels on the original doors,the body shop searched for weeks and could only locate one NOS one in a dealership in Nebraska--had to settle for a plain jane plastic one on the other door,I painted it black with SEM vinyl dye..
Since I had no wheels until the middle of March,I was forced to get a ride 70 miles to my parents house where I stashed my '69 GTO away for the winter,had to use that to get around in--it was one of the worst cars I ever owned in the snow,and we had plenty of it that year--I put studded snow tires on it and loaded the trunk up with several sand bags ,but the dam thing still went sideways more than forward,even idling in drive the rear end just wanted to slide sideways when you let your foot off the brake..only my '80 El-Camino with a posi was worse than that car in snow & ice..
I bought a '71 GMC K1500 that year,just so I'd have a plow truck and a "spare" 4x4 in case the K5 ever broke down during the winter..
Not yet.. I park min close to the garage door then park my other car damn near flush to my Blazers bumper.
They would have to first get my other car out of the way to even attempt to get the Blazer.
I have a yuuuuge chain around the brake pedal to steering wheel. But ultimately if the thief wants it, they’ll get it.
Plus you’d need to know the right foot fuel injection dance to get it going. Coupled with the axle dump exhaust with the obnoxious Black Widow venom250 mufflers, I would wake up for sure... then comes Mr. 9mm
They would have to first get my other car out of the way to even attempt to get the Blazer.
I have a yuuuuge chain around the brake pedal to steering wheel. But ultimately if the thief wants it, they’ll get it.
Plus you’d need to know the right foot fuel injection dance to get it going. Coupled with the axle dump exhaust with the obnoxious Black Widow venom250 mufflers, I would wake up for sure... then comes Mr. 9mm
I have a '90 that somebody attempted to steal once and then about a year later it was stolen from the same location. This was back in the late-90s. Probably the same people as they busted a big car theft ring in the area not long after. After the attempted theft I noticed it in the morning as I was walking by that the driver's door wasn't fully latched closed. Opened it up and found the entire outer column of the tilt wheel was broken and the steering wheel was swinging by the shaft. I had one of those "Clubs" on the wheel they couldn't get off but it was bent and you could see they had beat on it with a hammer or something. They punched out the passenger side lock cylinder to gain access (the lock cylinder was laying on the ground). A year later I walked outside and it was gone and found a door lock cylinder laying on the ground. It was recovered several weeks later in a business parking lot outside of town. It was sitting on blocks with the tires and wheels, batteries, spare tire, and some misc tools and coat and overalls missing. They had tried to steal the radio but broke it as it was half hanging out of the dash. Still had a Club on it but they cut a notch out of the steering wheel! They had apparently played with it as it was in 4wd, covered in mud, and it had sat outside for who knows how long with the windows open (it had a 4" lift and 33" mud tires on it....so pretty "built" for that era). After the body shop got done with it the rearend went out within a few days of getting it back, so had been beat on pretty hard.....though never did have any other mechanical issue with it that couldn't be attributed to something I did.
After that time I did install a hidden kill switch but it was never tested.
After that time I did install a hidden kill switch but it was never tested.
good ol Victorville and Hemet
I had to drive it to work door-less in 22 degree snowy conditions,I made it about a mile from where it was parked before a cop saw me and followed me,and pulled me over--I told him it wasn't my idea to drive around with no doors,some asswipe STOLE them,and he called in to the station to confirm I'd make a report on the theft..
He almost made me have it towed!..
difference in areas I guess;
I had a 72 blazer with 11" of lift and 39.5 Swampers when I lived in Fort Worth and I used to drive around with no top or doors. had cops pull up beside at a stop light looking it over and giving me a thumbs up! I would have people on the street ask "isn't that illegal?" and I would reply "why? Jeeps do it."
The loud pipes thing may not work as good as you think.
Mine never wakes my wife up. Parked right on the other side of the wall. Bored n cammed 454 with 3" pipes, flowmasters, and dumped at the back of the cab.
Wakes up the 5 year old. But she sleeps right through.
I'm lucky, both of mine start real easy. But the theives here only take chit that's running, or has keys in it.
Bunch of lazy forkers around here lol.
Even so, I've been looking into the secret switch idea.
Mine never wakes my wife up. Parked right on the other side of the wall. Bored n cammed 454 with 3" pipes, flowmasters, and dumped at the back of the cab.
Wakes up the 5 year old. But she sleeps right through.
I'm lucky, both of mine start real easy. But the theives here only take chit that's running, or has keys in it.
Bunch of lazy forkers around here lol.
Even so, I've been looking into the secret switch idea.
Yeah I've never heard of cops around Colorado or Utah busy anyone's chops about lack of doors. Although I've also not known anyone to do it after a huge snow storm.
Man I would be pissed !
