{"id":649057,"date":"2010-01-30T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T01:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/modifications-accessories\/74601-gear-lock-needed-cars-immobilizers.html"},"modified":"2010-01-30T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T01:15:45","slug":"gear-lock-needed-for-cars-with-immobilizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/649057","title":{"rendered":"Gear lock needed for cars with immobilizers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I just picked up a new Honda Jazz and it comes with an immobilizer system that immobilizes the engine unless the key is present.<\/p>\n<p>One of the accessories being offered was a gear lock. When I asked the salesman what utility the gear lock has when the car already has an immobilizer, he couldn&#8217;t come up with any convincing reasons. He said the gear lock would make the car un-towable, to which I was worried that if someone is towing the car anyway, they wouldn&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s towable or not. They&#8217;ll just drag the thing away, and possibly damaging the car in the process.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that I&#8217;ll consult with the Team-BHP forum before I get the gear lock. So, T-BHP members, what do you say? Should I get a gear lock or not? And if I do, should I get the Honda one, the Autocop one, or some other one?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I just picked up a new Honda Jazz and it comes with an immobilizer system that immobilizes the engine unless the key is present. One of the accessories being offered was a gear lock. When I asked the salesman what utility the gear lock has when the car already has an immobilizer, he couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IQF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}