You can make those buttons on your steering wheel much more functional if you have a way of monitoring them. Don’t even think of cracking open the factory finish to get to the solder points ...

Like they say in those bad old driver education videos, if a thief wants your car it will be gone in sixty seconds.

Press both center buttons on the steering wheel pads - cruise control on the left and select on the right - and a rolling burnout kicks in. Line lock works for 15 seconds before cutting throttle.

He showed us the weaknesses in steering wheel locks and how they might be attacked ... which pushes a plunger to press the release button. It took seconds to remove, so only has limited deterrent ...

An ever-increasing percentage of new cars are coming equipped with steering wheel controls for the stereo, however, you’ll lose the button control if you change out the stock head unit to ...