(Video) How to Quickly and Efficiently Hotwire a Car

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It's an unfortunate situation: You have a vital work meeting to get to, or your child needs to be picked up from school, but you can't find your car keys. Either you misplaced them somewhere, and you forget to pick them up, or they fell out of your pocket as you went throughout your day.

Whatever the case may be, if you have a keypad on the side of your car or it happens to be unlocked, getting into your car won't be an issue. Now you just need to face the prospect of getting it started without having any car keys.

Luckily with a little bit of know-how, many vehicles can be hotwired in just a few minutes and also be driven to the place you need to be, where you hopefully have an extra set of keys. Knowing how to hotwire an abandoned car is also a relevant skill to learn should you need to use it post-collapse.

To learn a quick and efficient way to hotwire a car during an emergency or SHTF situation, check out a straightforward video after the break. 

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75 Comments

  1. Bruce Somes said:

    Don’t do this, you’ll ruin your car,or costly repair bill. Cutting wires in an air bag car would deploy air bag. Red wire isn’t always hot wire,yellow wires are air bag

  2. Kendall Kelly said:

    If you have one that old it is supposed to be emp proof with the exception of the condenser use to you could carry a ignition switch to just plug in and go

  3. Ronnie Frazier said:

    Old$#%&!@*anything after2000 has chips or conputer saftey built in old modek
    Say bye

  4. Joe Bonea said:

    Prepped Survivalist! You can show this all day long but it only applies to cars with the ignition in the dash board, the column ignition switch locks the wheel, did you forget that beauty? On fact most cars made after 1970 had a column ignition switch that locks the steering wheel. That’s when the steering wheel club is handy, simply lock it to the wheel, now jump in the passenger seat, push hard with your legs on the club arm, you have now broken the steering wheel lock mechanism. Now grab a dent puller and yank the switch out easily. Start it with a regular screw driver. Now drive it to the chop shop. Good day.

  5. Joe Bonea said:

    Do the following all day to a 2000 and up, not gonna start….

  6. Charles Seibert said:

    Too many things on todays cars from computers to fuel injection systems that didn’t exist 25 yrs ago make this article B.S.

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