Cool idea -- would be well-hidden. It seems that it might be too hard to
reach from outside the van in the event that I need to emergency cut off
the fuel pump -- but come to think of it, I'd just yank the key, huh?
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

Sudhir Desai typed:
> push-button style switch hidden under the carpeting of the pedestal
> near the seatbelt buckle?
> That's where I'd put one if I were to do it.
> Sudhir
>
> On 4/23/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greg Potts typed:
>>
>> >
>> > Apparently the advent of so-called smart keys simply pushed the car
>> > theives into doing a B+E to get the key. They break into your house,
>> > steal your keys and then drive away quietly. It didn't lessen the
>> > theft rate at all, it just put the owners at higher risk of personal
>> > injury.
>>
>> And biometric locks, e.g. fingerprint readers, have resulted in at least
>> one case of thieves cutting off the owner's finger to start the car.
>>
>> I like the fuel pump kill switch idea. I think I'll put one in. I reckon
>> it should be mounted in a discreet location, one that the driver can
>> reach without drawing attention before opening the door to get out, and
>> one that is easily accessible without having to get into the van if the
>> pump needs to be killed for whatever reason. (This wheel has probably
>> been invented before, many times, but anyway it's Monday and I'm tap
>> dancing here to avoid going to work.) I'm thinking that the pump's
>> ground wire would be pretty easy to use: use the switch to ground it to
>> any handy nearby good ground. Where's a discreet switch location that's
>> easy to fish a wire to?
>>
>> --
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>> KG6RCR
>>
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