What relay under the hood will disable car

This is a generation too so if they've stolen one of your complete remotes or key fobs then they have the metal key to get in your car no matter what you do to it right? Are you banking they don't know that there's a metal key in the key fob? Or how does this work out in our minds? What are we going to disable on the vehicle that's not going to allow this person that has the electronic access code and the physical metal key to operate the lock in the driver's door???.

 

Besides eBay, I think you can also buy the replacement lock cylinder kit right from Toyota and it's not much money, comes with two precut metal keys. Swapping the cylinder in the door is a very easy job (nothing at all like the old days where to rekey a car you'd have to take apart all four doors and the steering column and the trunk).

And as long as you still have one fob that's registered as a master, you can use the "forget all fobs except this one" procedure right away.

There must be several choices for fuses to pull or other connectors to undo that would be equally effective at keeping the car from going anywhere.

 

Not sure about a chicken dance. Gen 1 had one and I used it, but gen 2 I'm not sure. If your dongle won't connect, that might be an obstacle.

 

It's a thread. mr_guy_mann did most of the work to put it together.

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Guess you could pull an EFI relay or something like that but I mean if these people stole your key fob seems to me they must know you pretty well where the key fob is been in your apartment you keep them both in your car? I mean whatever something seems like they would have taken the car if that was the end game I mean that is a felony you know if you're going to commit a felony like that you might as well steal a nicer car seems to me or you're going to come back and get some electronics and laptops and stuff that's left in a given car because you have access which I don't ever leave stuff like that in my car so you know not much of an issue.

 

Homeless people got to eat bro. Don't be stingy

 

You could pull a couple of relays (fuel pump would be good) and take them with you. If you hide them in the car the person you are worrying about might find them and reinstall them.

At this point I think I wouldn't bother with the relays though, instead go with something like "the club" and place a device like an apple tracking tab on the vehicle.

The car does have a built in alarm, disabled by default. If you turn that on I think that maybe it will go off when they try to use the emergency key (after the fob has been disabled). All that said, if they want the stuff in the car they will just break a window, grab it, and run.

 

A very easy thing to do is remove the 15 amp AM2 fuse in the underhood fusebox. Try it, you'll like it.

 

In addition to removing the AM2 fuse, don't leave the AM2 slot empty, install a blown 15A fuse in its place. You don't want to make it too easy for the toerags to work out what's wrong assuming they have the luxury to troubleshoot.