Removing the Battery for Vintage Auto Theft Prevention

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm George Stonebook for Expert village and I am here to talk to you today about preventing theft to your vintage car. Another issue to preventing your vehicle from being stolen is disabling the electrical system entirely. A most sensible and easiest thing you can do is remove the battery which is the simple matter of moving the battery clamps off the battery and pulling it out of the vehicle. You want to be careful to remove your negative battery cable first so that anything else gets touched won't destroy or otherwise injure/damage the electrical system. The battery comes out; well, what's to stop someone from someone just coming along putting a battery back in and starting the car up. There are other things you can do. This vehicle down from the battery, the positive battery cable device that actually is the starter, called the starter solenoid. On that starter solenoid there are 2 wires. They are easy to take these wires off their clips, just like this. When the battery gets put back in the car, if they turn the key the starter will still not engage because the device that turns the starter on has been effectively disabled. "