Illegal Spare Wheel Trade

They say Gauteng may be the only set up the entire world to park your car or truck, walk 100 metres and buy your personal wheels (through the vehicle you merely parked!) from a street vendor. Yes, it can be tongue in cheek though the the truth is that syndicates of the nature are out there. Working at a well-known dealership in the western world Rand of Gauteng, I realized that virtually every day, individuals would come in the spares department to purchase rims with regards to vehicles. The dealership thought it was hard to match demand and at times, a client could well be advised to try roadside vendors at certain places where although be capable of find the rim and tyre combination for just the dealership charged with the rim only. Passing these vendors to the side of the path, one could see that rim/ tyre combinations were even bought from matching teams of four. I believed to myself that there's a huge market which targets the drivers of sunshine delivery vehicles, double cab vehicles, utility vehicles, 4x4 vehicles and in many cases heavier delivery vehicles. Once this triggered around my sub conscious, I noticed while driving daily that vehicles looking at me had their spare wheels missing. It had been obvious so it was stolen as the chain and bracket keeping the wheel in position, was dangling beneath the vehicle. It made me realise that those spare wheels are really easy remove - a jack handle can be lower the wheel onto the earth and also the bracket is released. One, maybe two minutes are required for just a person to get rid of the wheel and take ownership thereof. two-and-a-half decades inside the security industry got my mind working away at plans to stop this insane trade to remain. The sad part is the fact that vehicle owners came up with lucrative market by buying stolen wheels from roadside vendors! A vicious circle if ever there was one. The result dawned upon me. Create a bracket that has a lock store the spare wheel secure rolling around in its cavity. Normal spare wheel locks tend not to often avoid the theft of spare wheels as is also simply broken which boosts the time for you to get rid of the spare wheel by approximately 2 minutes. Obviously, when criminals are desperate, they adapt their methods to ease their operation. I decided that an alarm really should be fitted which induces as soon as the spare wheel is moved from position. The alarm should have an override facility for when the owner needs access to the spare wheel. In addition , it needs to be waterproof for those fanatics who consume a 4x4 trip through water and also driving in the rain could render the device useless if this gets wet. I also understand that all newly manufactured vehicles are bound by warranty issues and therefore the system cannot be incorporated into the electrical harness of the vehicle. Objective also crossed my mind that trailers for instance, would not have their very own power sources. For months, I designed, redesigned, quit, went back towards drawing board and in the end patented the protect-a-spare concept that integrates a lockable bracket and alarm to secure the vehicle's spare wheel. Everyone knows that whenever a car alarm activates in a vehicle park with many vehicles around, nobody takes notice which brought me to another location idea to link a strobe into your circuit which fires up the automobile being tampered with. Security and passersby will easily identify the car and surely, anyone found in the act of treatment of spare wheel come in a most uncomfortable situation. It must be rugged for obvious reasons and can't work with sensors as these activate easily for no no reason. Protect-a-Spare commits itself to produce peace security regarding all accessible spare wheels. It's just like developing a personal guard on duty attending to the spare wheel.