This has been covered before, but living in DC for years taught me just how vulnerable our vintage Hondas are on their door locks & handles. The weak point is where the door handle mounts to the door- all the thief has to do is jam a screwdriver, slim Jim, etc. in between the rectangular handle and the door, pop the thing out, and they're in the car in like 25 seconds. I'm contemplating shaving the handles entirely and going to power locks some day... I've kept this from happening to me personally, but if anyone would like to share they're stories, chime in!
George '89 DX-Hybrid-D16Z6, 122k miles "Seats, Suspension, Engine, MSD, next=dyno" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert K. Kuhn Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:54 PM To: The Rex list Subject: Re: CRX: door locks On 10:22 AM 07/22/02 -0700, Powell Thomas said... >Or, even better, use it as an excuse to add power >locks, an alarm w/pager, and rear door handles from >same year civic sedan. It's a pretty cool mod that >doesn't cost too much, but gives you a little bit of >peace of mind about your crx being so vulnerable. Of >course, nothing can stop someone from breaking your >window... (* snip *) I was just going to mention something to that effect. I sort of have power locks in that my locks are controlled by the alarm. I have the solenoids in each door. Now it's just a matter of me getting around to installing some switches that will operate the doors (which, as you can probably tell, has not been a high priority of mine since I installed the solenoids back when I got the car in 1998....). Anyway, I don't think I've *EVER* used my outside door locks. I wonder if they work? :^\ The solenoids, at the time, were $30 (USD) each and I programmed second button on my alarm remote to lock and unlock the doors. It took me about an hour to do each door. I probably could have done it in less time but I was also installing the alarm system. I got the solenoids from a local stereo/alarm type shoppe. Since we're on the subject, has anyone added a power lock for the rear hatch? Easy? Hard? Robert K. Kuhn CRX Owners Group President (http://www.crx.org/southcal) 1990 Honda CRXsi (http://drive.to/jiggy) ICQ # 3714283 (nickname: godzilla)
