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Locking Gas Door Project?
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 603580" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>Chops, </p><p></p><p>Yes, connecting an alarm switch to your gas door might be sufficient to keep the neighborhood kids away from your truck, but how much good would it do when you are parked in the Mall parking lot. Car alarms go off everyday and nobody pays attention.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I had a paging alarm on my 1971 Monte Carlo, and one day my pager went off while I was at work. The building did not have any windows that faced the parking lot so I had to take the elevators down 4 floors down to the ground floor. Then I had to run across the street to the parking lot and back to where my car was parked. If you havent already guessed, it was a false alarm. There was nobody else in the parking lot and nobody had messed with the car.</p><p></p><p>After several false alarms at very inconvenient times, I shut the alarm off and never used it again.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I mentioned this story because small kids like to play pranks like ringing door bells and running away. I can just imagine some 8 year old neighborhood kid flipping your gas door open and the alarm goes off and he runs away. He is so fasinated that he shows his friends, who want to try it too. I think you get the picture. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 603580, member: 52972"] Chops, Yes, connecting an alarm switch to your gas door might be sufficient to keep the neighborhood kids away from your truck, but how much good would it do when you are parked in the Mall parking lot. Car alarms go off everyday and nobody pays attention. I had a paging alarm on my 1971 Monte Carlo, and one day my pager went off while I was at work. The building did not have any windows that faced the parking lot so I had to take the elevators down 4 floors down to the ground floor. Then I had to run across the street to the parking lot and back to where my car was parked. If you havent already guessed, it was a false alarm. There was nobody else in the parking lot and nobody had messed with the car. After several false alarms at very inconvenient times, I shut the alarm off and never used it again. I mentioned this story because small kids like to play pranks like ringing door bells and running away. I can just imagine some 8 year old neighborhood kid flipping your gas door open and the alarm goes off and he runs away. He is so fasinated that he shows his friends, who want to try it too. I think you get the picture. ;) ...Rich [/QUOTE]
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