I am getting ready to move this summer and don't have the $400 to drop on a set of tube doors at the moment. Obviously there's nothing that's going to stop someone from sitting in my Jeep if they want to, but I'm looking for something that'd work as a slight deterrent to stranger butts.
Is anyone using anything other than a tube door to just sort say "Hey, you're butt's not welcome in my seat"? I was thinking a length of chain with a clip that runs from the top of the hinge to the strike plate. Thoughts?
My personal opinion is that if someone has the balls to sit in someones Jeep without permission because the doors are off, tube doors or a chain isn't going to stop them either.
You'd be surprised. A tube door with a locking paddle would probably prevent most idiots from hopping in. There are stories on here about schmucks just sitting in other folks' rides at the supermarket not really thinking about what they were doing. Even the slightest inconvenience would probably prevent the impulse. Humans are weird.
Since you said that it means you're like most of us, normal. You don't assume the world revolves around you and you can do what you want to other people's stuff.
Let me tell you a story. I bring my daughter to our local town that has a water feature for kids.
There are huge benches that surround the water, plus additional seating. I get there, put my daughters diaper bag down on one little part of the bench, in the shade.
More people start showing up and start sitting in the shade. Last week a lady walked over, picked up my diaper bag without looking around to see if the owner was around or asking and just moved it because she felt she was entitled to my spot. Normally I'd yell the second she did that but I'm trying to watch it in front of my daughter so when it came time for me to sit I just walked over and pushed all of her shit off of my spot right in front of her.
Isolated incident right?
This has happened three times in the last month to me at that spot.
There are clueless morons out there who really think the world revolves around them. They, typically, have never had to deal with consequences or have been told "no".
So rest assured, there are people out there that will sit their ass in your doorless jeep. While I haven't seen it happen with mine, I've gotten in mine and know for a fact stuff has been moved like it was adjusted.
The kicker is if you catch these people and point out it isn't theirs and the world doesn't revolve around them they don't apologize sheepishly. They act all uppity like they are being wronged somehow
is this really an issue? does it really ever happen in the real world?
there really are random strangers who wonder around looking for jeeps with the doors off to sit in?
edit: JKMOPARMAN beat me too it... I am getting too slow I guess...
I've come out to a kid sitting in my Jeep before, yes. The [shitty] parent was extremely apologetic... she was talking to a neighbor and didn't see it happening.
Just to add to the "does this sort of thing actually happen" debate, try owning old cars. There are people that think they can open your door and sit in your car while someone else takes their picture. There are people who think they can sit on your fender or hood for pictures, or lean on your car for pictures. Kids with wallet chains that lean against your car might as well be ISIS. People will stick their whole upper body inside your car and fiddle with things. This stuff does happen, and it's why I don't carry.
absolute BS. I don't start fights and I don't look for trouble but leave my bike alone! (and my kids, and my wife and my property....)
and my dog- don't pet my dog either!
I use to frequent cruise nights with my last modded car and I use to hang out with a guy there that had a 69 Charger 440. His car is absolutely mint. Anyway we went to get a soft drink and when we came back there was an entire family sitting in his car 4 people!...We both looked at each other in disbelief. When we got up to the car my buddy was as polite as he could be, perhaps because the two in the back were young kids. In any event he did give the parents an etiquette lesson about sitting in other peoples cars and what the high cost would be to replace anything broken on a classic car along with legal ramifications.
What blew my mind was they really didn't think they were doing anything wrong that being a car show they could get in. I guess they didn't notice all the signs stating look but don't touch.
Now he keeps his windows up and doors locked at the cruise nights which isn't the same feeling as keeping everything open for people to get a better look.
Sold all my Cars and stopped going to cruise nights EXACTLY because of this. People are becoming increasingly clueless and rude (alarmingly so) it'll just keep getting worse - pendulums only swing back in clocks.
Cruises used to be fun, now they are just exercises in frustration.
this is why i will install a viper alarm.and an amplified speaker..if they get inside with the doors off, it will blast their eardrums...i will also have train horns and a loaded tank at all times with the solenoid off the battery. maybe i can find a way to activate the train horns remotely?
Get this, years ago I dropped off my CJ at a local shop called Sargent Pepper's to have some work done. A few months later I got out of my jeep and was walking into a store when this kid that was 10 or so comes up to me and says "Nice Jeep, that was fun to ride in." So I asked "Oh, you know someone with a Jeep like mine?" to which he responded "No, I rode in YOUR Jeep. My Grandfather own's Sargent Pepper's and he took me for a ride when it was there." The kid wasn't with his grandfather or I likely would flipped on him!
As for a deterrent, you might consider a car alarm window sticker in the corner of your windshield. That might deter people from getting in, as well as some thiefs, and is really cheap. I put them on all my cars. If it works great! If not, it was only a few dollars.
My friends that worked at a car dealer had a golf cart for running shop errands from different buildings. The sales team had their own golf cartS, and for whatever reason, kept taking the shop cart. So the techs rigged up a windshield washer reservoir/pump, some tubing, a switch, and a sensor.
The tubing was run up from the floor, placed in gap where the seat bottom meets the seat back- just far enough back you couldn't see it.
If you sat on the seat without first pressing the hidden switch, the sensor would activate the pump and your ass would be soaked before you could get up. There was no nozzle, just tubing, so the volume was surprising!
Aside from the fact that it's just really rude for someone to sit in my Jeep without my permission...is this really worth spending a bunch of money on? I mean, I don't doubt that it happens, but does it really happen so much that it warrants buying tube doors or rigging up some sort of Rube Goldberg device to thwart unwanted squatters?
That's so stupid simple that I wish I'd thought of it. I hate you. I got 8 feet of black decorator chain and a few spring clips I'm going to experiment with at lunch.
Been running doorless & topless over the past couple of summers, never really had an issue. Worst thing was some yahoo left his empty soda cup on my seat (empty). I have a lock box and all valuables go in there, glove box and center storage are empty. Unless you count napkins and ketchup packets.
Been running doorless & topless over the past couple of summers, never really had an issue. Worst thing was some yahoo left his empty soda cup on my seat (empty). I have a lock box and all valuables go in there, glove box and center storage are empty. Unless you count napkins and ketchup packets.
Someone left a cup in my Jeep once. Sad thing is it was at a Jeep meet. Wasn't a big deal but the fact a fellow Jeeper would do this was disappointing.
I came out of the gym last year to a couple of woman sitting in the front seat and taking pictures of one another but seriously how often is that ever going to happen? They were figure skaters from Russia and they said they were going to tell everyone back home that the jeep was their rental. For some reason I wasn't mad at all....except that I forgot to ask for copies of the pictures.
I had a very similar experience when I used to catch girls sitting on my motorcycles. I never thought to get their pictures or their numbers because I figured they were way too crazy for my taste.
Unfortunately when a car is on display somehow, a disturbing number of folks think it's a-okay to hop right in, like its a manufacturer auto show similar to Detroit, New York, Chicago, LA, etc.
There's a guy in the local modern mopar group who recently traded his Hellcat Challenger for his dream car, a new Viper SRT. He brought it out to a small car show with us at a children's charity event. He had the hood up, but the doors, windows, and rear hatch were all closed. A woman was walking around looking at the cars. He happened to glance over and noticed she was bending over next to his car. He walked over to see what she was doing, and found she had opened the door. The closed door. With the window closed. She was leaning into it. He flipped out, understandably.
Later on, a family walked by and their rambunctious son had his hands on the door. He was gentler that time in telling the kid to stop it. The father understood completely why, but you'd think he'd have the common sense to keep his children in check when checking out a car that retails for more money than most folks earn in a year...
According to the rules, I'll be fine. I am not a hot girl.
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