Re: Progress of car security
"a substantial, bright yellow lock on the steering wheel"
Steering locks are pointless bits of scammy fake-security junk, sold by conmen preying on worried car owners. They don't work _at all_.
The best of a woeful bunch are the Disklock types, but even those take seconds to deal with enough to drive the car away*, and can then be removed at the thieves' leisure in a safe location. The others aren't even that good, and can simply be removed in seconds on the spot.
*They aren't thick enough anyway, but the only thing stopping the steering rotating is the protruding handle/bar. Thieves slip a piece of scaffolding pole over it and bend it 90 degrees until the wheel can rotate freely, then drive away.
If you want to make your car more secure, fit a kill switch. Anyone reading this site ought to be able to DIY it for £5-£10 depending on how fancy a switch you want to fit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
