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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I’ve seen it work with older model motorcycles, also. For legitimate diagnostic purposes, of course 🙂
Good job. Tell more hoodlums how to do it. Idiots
You are right. Because this is the only page on the Internet to learn this stuff, been top secret until now. Cats out of the bag, lock your doors because the whole bunch of criminally intentioned people now know how to steal your pink smart car.
Real cute Dave!!! No go put man underwear back on.
So cool you’ve got a running car with the steering wheel still locked.
Yeah, all the car thieves learn how to hotwire cars from the internet!
lol….it’s a little more complicated with today’s vehicles. no coils…no distributors.unless you actually know what wire and where or have a wiring diagram. older cars…no prob
This incorrect and old as dirt! (For NON-ELECTRONIC Ignition) :/
Not any more. You will blow the computer
Yah when they had could you could also just reach under tree dash and cross ignition wires
Hahaha good luck doing that with a modern vehicle.
Uhh.. instead of putting a hot wire to the coil you put it to the computer… same difference right ?
Yea and you will fry the computer and the vehicle is useless. If your going to have to Hotwire a modern vehicle you need to find a very basic model…the ones with very little electronics (no power window, locks, etc). Might work then.
If the car was made prior to 1980.
Exactly!
Yes just keep on giving first starting crooks the knowledge to do it
If the car is pre 1980’s
Modern cars typically have a module, where years ago you had a cylinder linked to the wheel lock and the rod to the ignition switch.
unless its all electric car or diesel, cars still have ignition coils
They are about 35 years to Late with this info. The picture says it all the screw driver touching the positive post on the ignition coil. LOL! I don’t know what that would accomplish.
Car thieves now just carjack u an take the keys,thwy need role models.lol
Give it a yank they’ll pop! There’s two though
Impossible on modern cars with chipped keys and encrypted immobilizers, having $10k of the latest diagnostic computer won’t help either unless you have the manufacturer specific pin codes to access the security modules.
This doesn’t work on newer cars…. idiot
What’s a distributor and cool?
yes they may have a coil but not as in the picture. and what Steve Martin said.
Won’t work on$#%&!@*1999 and newer
Lmao. Unless the car around 45-50 years old this doesn’t do jack$#%&!@* Even if you could get the engine running this way, how are you planning on steering with a locked steering column?
Great! Now I can steal any vehicle before 1969.
I’m gonna be such a bad$#%&!@*
Lot of know it alls out here……..lol. the simple fact is we don’t need more information published to help criminals that would do us harm. Pure and simple
Good luck with that nowadays
Jumping the coil worked till the mid 80’s not on newer models
Please don’t forget to let everyone know just how easy it really is to get shot and/or get your hands chopped clean off if someone wants to hot wire the wrong car!! Don’t even get me started on what would happen if someone tried to steal one of my motorcycles!!
Back to the future on this one
That’s how I use to turn my old truck on
NO !!! Do not do it this way , always label wires before cutting . Gloves not needed use insulated cutters do not touch any grounded or other hot wires . After stripping and joining wires ( put a wire nut on it not tape ) and all other wires cut same thing label , and put a wire nut on it .
Sure.
If your car was built in the ’70s
Yup so no good
Yes right they would have a slug in there head plant a knife on him and say when I caught him he lunged at you with it
The hard part is finding and gaining access to the solenoid…?
In any car with a keyed or chipped ignition it would be impossible to actually get the car to “fire” without the key in the run position there is no power sent to the distributor. You will just be sitting there turning over the engine with little result
Grounding, ur supposed to bridge with the screwdriver. But this pic is like 20 yrs late.
Makes me wonder if any of these tips are legit—
what year car is that? my 53 willys?
All your cars must be from the ’80’s or older.
Click bait
Great tip! Since this only works on antique vehicles, will you also have future tips on how to steal a Model-T?
Ok. So now you have bypassed the ignition and have a running engine. Now , how are you going to turn the steering wheel?
How does placing 12v on an ignition coil start a car. Too many adverts to fight through to see the end. Even old cars require a lot more.
Steering wheel lock?