Jan 27, 2016 · 11,417 recorded views
This one is a good example of a small, targeted product solving one specific, well-documented attack rather than a general-purpose fix. The early 2000 to 2002 Ford Transit had a wiring loom running into the rear door that, if cut with a hacksaw blade from the outside, would unlock both the rear barn doors and the side load door, letting someone empty the tools straight out of the van. The 2008-on model in this video was never actually susceptible to that trick, but plenty of the earlier vans still on the road were, and even where it didn't unlock the doors it still meant an expensive wiring loom repair and the van off the road.
People do go in and cut that wiring loom, and it is a big inconvenience for you.
Worth pointing out from the video: there's a loom on the left-hand side too, and it can be guarded the same way, but on this van we didn't bother, purely because that side is never used on any model of Transit to unlock a door by going into the wiring. The only damage someone can cause there is to the brake light and number plate light wiring, still annoying but nowhere near as serious. That's the right way to think about these small accessory products generally, fit the one that closes an actual documented weakness, not every loom just because it's there.
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It stops someone reaching in from outside with a tool such as a hacksaw blade and cutting into the wiring loom that runs into the rear door, an attack that on early Ford Transits could unlock both the rear barn doors and the side load door.
No. On the Transit, only the wiring loom on one side is used to unlock doors if cut, so that side is the one that matters most for security. The other side's loom only affects things like the brake light and number plate light wiring if damaged.
Cutting the loom can blow a fuse that stops the central locking working, leaving the van off the road until an expensive wiring loom repair is carried out, even on models where it no longer unlocks the doors.
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