- Hey folks, we've all seen this scene in the movies.
The good guy, which is usually a detective, gets that emergency call and then all of a
sudden he needs to get his hands on a car to drive there.
But, for what ever reason, he doesn't have a car so what he ends up doing is he just
gets in a random car.
Touches two wires together.
Hot wire's it and goes on his way.
- I got no choice I gotta get my hands on a car and hot wire it.
Ah-ha!
There's one.
I'm gonna get it!
Don't be afraid sir, I'm a police officer.
But I'll need your car.
- [Voice From Car] Okay, officer, you can have it.
Ow, Ow, why'd you do that?
I said you can take it
- Alright, how he hell do you hot wire these things?
Wait a minute, the keys are still in it.
- Hmmm, I think that was the wrong movie.
I think its actually the bad guy that does this right after he escapes from prison.
Because, you know, planning a complicated prison break is easy, but making sure you
have a getaway car, not so much.
- Yeah this looks fine, I'll take it.
- That's it, that was the right movie, but he question is can he actually hot wire a
car like you see it in the movies and simply drive off into the sunset.
So if you want to find out, I recommend you watch this video all the way to the end.
Not only will you have an answer to that question, but you will also learn a lot about your car's
starting system.
Alright in order to be able to hot wire a car you're gonna need access to the wires
that come out of the ignition switch, which is usually at the end of your ignition lock
and cylinder assembly.
Now you'll see it's missing on this, but I'll show it to you on the car.
Now in order to gain access to the ignition switch, you might have to remove a couple
things, depending on where the ignition lock's cylinder assembly is located.
So, for this car, since this is locate here, we're gonna have to remove this kick panel
to gain access to the back of this.
See, on a lot of cars, the ignition assembly is located on the steering column, in which
case you would have to remove these screws on the bottom of the cover before you can
remove it.
But in our case, we just have to remove these screws that are on the circumference of this
kick panel before before we can remove it.
There we go.
Alright, so here's the end of our ignition lock and cylinder assembly and our ignition
switch is back there.
I can't get you a straight shot, but we've got all the wires coming out of it, which
is all we're gonna need.
In fact, here's the connector for it which is gonna make our job easier.
Alright, next we need to identify three sets of wires.
First, our battery voltage supply wires.
As you can see we got two of 'em here which is gonna be this white wire and this white
and red wire.
And these are always gonna be thicker guaged wires as you can see here.
Next, we need to identify the two wires that take the power from these two wires that supply
to our body control module and our power control module.
So, basically, you always have battery voltage here.
And then when you put in the key and turn it to the on position, you send voltage to
your body and electronic control module.
Turning on all the lights on your dash, and also getting your car ready for a start.
And these second set of wires are generally going to be the same gauge as the power wires.
And I'm actually gonna remove this connector to show you guys better.
Alright, so on this connector these two are our battery voltage supply wires.
We got one thick gauge wire here, another one in front of that, and then one more, this
black and yellow one, is also a thicker gauge wire.
So on this car, this black and orange one is going to be for the electronic control
module for our engine.
This black and yellow one back here is for our body control module.
And this pink and blue one is for accessories.
Oh, and I almost forgot, the third wire you need to identify is the starter signal wire.
Now you usually have just one wire and for this car it's gonna be this black and white
wire.
Alright, so next if we didn't have access to the connector you would need to cut all
these wires that we just identified.
But since we do have access to the connector, all we have to do is use a piece of wire to
jump the connections between the power and the wires supplying all the control modules.
So, first, I'm gonna jump the connection between this white and red wire and this black and
orange wire which is for our electronic control module.
Like that.
And then use another piece of wire to jump the connection between this power supply wire
and this black and yellow wire for our body control module.
And once we connect this one, all the lights on our dash should come on.
And once those two are connected, you don't have to worry about this pink wire for your
accessories.
Next, all you have to do is to supply 12 volts to this starter signal wire.
Now if you have two starter wires, you just want to touch those wires together temporarily
to crank your engine.
But most cars are just gonna have one starter wire.
Here we go.
There we go.
And here's another shot.
Alright, let's go 'round back.
And then if you need to turn off the car, you just disconnect these wires.
That's it.
Alright, great, we got the car started, but what are we gonna do about our wheel lock?
We did not think this bank robbing thing through, did we?
And there you have it folks.
Hot wiring your car doesn't work the way you see it in the movies.
Even if you get the car started like we did, you're gonna be unable to turn the wheel to
the left or to the right because of the wheel lock.
And, also, on the newer cars, they have chips and other anti-theft devices in the cars that
practically make cars impossible to hot wire.
So next time you decide to break out of prison, or to rob a bank, make sure you have your
getaway car ready.
So that's it, I hope you enjoyed watching this video.
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Alright, thanks for watching.
I'll see you guys next time.