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Three years. Every weekend in the shed. Building the perfect touring rig. LandCruiser 200 series. Long-range fuel tank. Dual battery system. Roof-top tent. Rear drawer system. Fridge. Solar panels. UHF. Snorkel. LED light bar. Recovery gear. The works. All up, about a hundred and forty grand. Eighty for the vehicle. Sixty in mods. Last April I stopped at a servo in Echuca on the way back from a week on the Murray. Went inside to pay. Was in there maybe three minutes. Came out. Bloke standing next to my car. Just standing there. Looking at it. I got a weird feeling. Walked over quick. "Nice rig," he said. Smiled. Walked to a white van parked nearby. Got in. Drove off. I got in the car. Nothing was wrong. Nothing was taken. But something felt off. I told a mate about it at the pub the following week. He builds 4WD rigs as well. He showed me a photo of his steering wheel. A cable. Steel. Connected to the seatbelt buckle. "That's a Driveway Defender. Anti Apex. Fifty bucks." "For a LandCruiser?" "Fits any car. The cable connects the steering wheel to the seatbelt chassis bolt. The bolt is welded to the structural frame. Even if someone clones your key and starts the engine, the wheel doesn't turn." "That bloke at the servo was checking whether I had one?" "Possibly. Or he was just having a look. But here's the thing. If he did decide to try something, the cable would've been the thing that stopped it." I spent sixty grand building something worth stealing. Took me five minutes to make it not worth the effort. 250,000 sold across Australia. Zero defeated. 👉 antiapex.com/products/defender