BMW 1M Stolen....

TS7 said:
This is England. I personally know numerous people in London residing in homes worth well in excess of a million pounds with no garages and only parking spaces on the street with permits. These streets are lined with expensive cars (Aston's, 911's, Bentley's). I'm yet to hear of an outbreak of car thefts from them.

It doesn't appear that a lack of garage caused this theft. An error on part of BMW seems the cause.

I don't know much about the whole BMW situation but why aren't they addressing this. Seems to be a widespread problem over the past few months?

Anyway, you can't hide everything away. Do you think thieves cannot get into garages? This is what insurance is for.
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It isn't a BMW error, it stems from an EU Directive which opens up the ability to diagnose the cars from any garage rather than just their own brand dealerships.

It doesn't just affect BMW's eithers, there's a good handful of car companies who are also having the same issue.
 
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They will be broken, honestly, breaks your heart looking at warehouses with broken M3'S, M5'S etc.

I get weekly intelligence updates from the west midlands, hence the figures. They include pictures of naughty people and naughty people places of work. Last week included what was a lovely 2010 M3 with its engine complete with gearbox hanging from an engine crane :(
 
MrLOL said:
Simple solution is just to have the ODB port inactive until a key is inserted into the ignition. Would stop the entire thing in its tracks.
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That's a fairly obvious solution to the problem but the system doesn't work like that. The key is programmed from the car as it is coded to the ECU - they don't build the cars around the keys. If your idea was to be implemented the car would need a new ECU if the keys got lost.
One of the main issues here is the location of the port and the 4" alarm dead zone. I think the E30's ports were under the bonnet and some vag car ports are built in the side of the dash, so the the door has to be open.
 
so easy to make yourself immune from this, whip out your OBD port and swap the DME cables around, takes 10 minutes if that.

If I had the inclination I'd setup a website offering the service and a cable to counter the changes, but then the tea leaves would just buy my cables. This would however earn me more money, better the devil you know?
 
I'm probably being thick here (not the first time) but is there no longer a "mechanical" element (ie, keyblade -> pins) involved in the ignition system on these now?

Or is it a purely electronic system? (rf chip/proximity, etc)
 
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