Bringing 21st century Technology to 20th Century products

Pimp My Box Ltd was created in 2018 after its founder had an idea for a new product.

As an ex vehicle technician himself and later as a Snap-On franchisee,  Karl Arnold knew that technicians the world over had the same problem.

Vehicle technician's tend to spend thousands of pounds on High end Professional tools and a few thousand more on a really secure cabinet to store them in. But because of the pressures from work they leave their tool cabinet unlocked all day long.

Most technician's respect each others property and would never intentionally take another persons tools and not return them, but due to the pressures of the job, tools are sometimes borrowed without the owners consent and not returned.

We are not suggesting that they are stolen  but they are frequently borrowed and not returned.

In 2014, as a Snap-On franchisee Karl started asking his customers Questions  every time they bought a replacement tool about how they lost it,  the results were staggering. Karl soon realised that on average a technician would have £128.00 worth of tools taken from their toolboxes every year. which amounts to £5760 over a typical career.

Karl realised that what was needed was a toolbox that could lock itself every time that the technician leaves their workspace and unlocks when they return. He knew that the technology existed to make this happen and in 2017 he started work on a design.

Karl believes in sustainability and didn't want to make people change their toolbox to benefit from the new technology, so Karl decided to make a retrofit system.

the design spec was as follows.

A retro fit system that can fit a range of toolboxes that is easy to fit without any modification to the toolbox.

It must be invisible from the outside and not compromise the security of the toolbox.

The toolbox must still be able to be opened with the key if the system fails

The device should be mains powered as no-0ne would want to change batteries

the device should be of at least the same high quality as the toolbox that it is fitted to.

After discussing the concept with his customers Karl added something else to the design spec It had to work from the customers mobile phone" this proved to be the most challenging and costly part of the design, but Karl didn't want to burden the technicians with having to carry a remote device or key fob as it is just another thing to loose, break or a battery to replace.  Karl wanted to give the technicians a system that worked seamlessly without them doing anything that they don't already do.