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Gorilla Automotive 910 Gorilla Grip III Steering Wheel Lock with Remote Control
Gorilla Grip III Steering Wheel Lock stops auto theft in 3 ways. First, the Grip 3 locks onto the steering wheel making the vehicle virtually impossible to drive. Second, the electronic alarm protects the vehicle by activating the 130dB siren if the Grip 3 is tampered with or disturbed. Third, the built-in flashing LED acts as a visual deterrent to warn car thieves that the vehicle is armed and protected.
October 27th, 2009 - 19:05
I recently purchased this product via Summit Racing in order to enhance the security system already on the vehicle. I must admit the product doesn’t lack effort on the part of its designers, but falls short in a couple of areas.
1. As with most steering wheel locks, can be easily defeated by simple cutting the steering wheel and discarding the product. Although the alarm is loud, 130db isn’t sufficient enough to cause a loud disturbence. Tried from inside the house while listening to the alarm. Sounds like a smoke alarm siren to some degree. Alerts for 40 seconds, and then resets itself.
2. The unit is battery operated by nature, but there are two screws located on the battery compartment. Know where I’m going?? Anyhow,they are standard phillips heads, allowing for either the battery to be removed or wires cut to siren doing a theft of the vehicle.
Overall, it is a decent product, considering replacement screws, requiring a hex key, will only cost a couple of bucks. 2. Theft-deterrent not theft-proof are the key words.
I recommend the club 491 (for cars and trucks) or the Club 493 for motorcycles and smaller tires. The earlier of which I’ve purchased and should receive this coming Friday.
*** As with any theft-deterrent, if a thief wants it, they’ll get it and you if necessary. No product is fool-proof or perfect.
Hopefully my first review will help someone.
October 27th, 2009 - 19:37
We have been using this Gorilla Automotive 910 Gorilla Grip III Steering Wheel Lock with Remote Control since Feb. 08 and I highly recommend it. It is a solid and well made product that is very easy and quick to put on and take off the steering wheel so you actually don’t hesitate put it on even if you just go in a store for a few minutes + the added remote motion triggered alarm is a bonus in case someone makes it inside your car and start trying to remove the Gorilla Steering Lock. The alarm makes a very high pitch sound that would be hard to stand for too long while in the car trying to mess around with the lock. This lock is also highly visible which is a good deterrent inviting thieves to go for another car without such protection. I personally think that this Gorilla Steering Wheel Lock offers a much better protection than all the Club like devices that are on the market because it is very easy to remove a Club or similar system just by sawing the steering wheel with a little metal saw and then slightly bending the wheel to remove the Club and then bending back the steering wheel. On the other hand the Gorilla Steering Lock has a much wider grab on the steering wheel and most likely would require to cut the wheel on both sides of the lock in order to remove it. One: that takes longer, two: it is not so discret driving around with a big chuck of the steering wheel missing and three: cutting the wheel will trigger the alarm.
October 27th, 2009 - 21:10
like the high visability and built in loud alarm .Seems very sturdy and asnap to set up ie quicker than other steering or brake locks