Someone broke into my LOCKED car with no signs of forced entry!! Keyfob Jammer?

Atari said:
I've done it a few times when I've kept the keys in my pocket after getting in the house. I once walked out to find all the windows down too - figured I'd just sat in a way that the keyfob was being pressed between my leg and the outer part of my jeans. :o
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This happened to me on a snowy evening found the passenger seat full of snow.

I always check the handle before I leave the car and don't leave anything of value in it over night. The only thing in it is the satnav. Car manufacturers have had it easy now they need to treat security as highly as the IT industry does. Criminals can get the tools so easily nowadays.
 
My dads into radio comms and he showed me this, you can block the fobs signals, depending on the power of your equipment is to how big a radius you can do.

People just press a button and walk away. I always listen for the sound of the lock.
 
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Johnnytoxic said:
My dads into radio comms and he showed me this, you can block the fobs signals, depending on the power of your equipment is to how big a radius you can do.

People just press a button and walk away. I always listen for the sound of the lock.
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He's saying he did hear the lock though...

Quite scary stuff really. Although it's not car related, I remember they did this on the One Show with peoples internet routers. They just drove round the block in a car with a bloke using a laptop, out of about 30 houses he managed to get into like 10 connections pretty much with the press of a button. He could get into their webcams and watch them without them knowing, he could install a keylogger and get account details, etc. They knocked on the peoples doors and they were clueless to the fact he'd been on it.
 
wndzr said:
We had exactly the same problem here as did two other cars on the street. No chance the car could have been left unlocked as it would lock itself.
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How would it lock itself? Surely that's only if you have locked it and then unlocked it without opening the doors?
 
Had the same thing happen to me. Stupidly, in my glovebox I left my Paul Smith wallet (worth around £120) with £175 cash inside.

Police said I must have left car unlocked, insurance wouldn't pay out even though there was no proof either way.

Absolutely convinced I locked my car. I'm one of those with a weird habit of pulling the handle to check its locked.
 
Just leave motion sensor pir alarm in the glove box, you turn it on using one of the supplied remote, costs a fiver.

I'm sure 105 Db alarm, will frighten the **** out of them at 3am.
 
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Mostly they only self lock after you unlock them but then do not open any door, my ford is the same and will lock after about 30 secs. But I've never heard of any car self locking when you've been in it, seems to me there is a risk of the car locking with the keys inside.
 
Lady got a new bmw and someone got in it luckily didn't manage to start it.

Weird thing is a guy was on their drive a few days before as she was locking it enquiring about the old one.
 
I remember some people mentioning this whilst I was at work a month or 2 ago.

They can record the RF signal from the keyfobs & just replay it to open the doors. It depends on the manufacturer, some are encrypted, so it can't happen, others aren't. It always surprised me how little is done to prevent wireless unlocking of cars.

I worked for Jaguar Land Rover, and although I don't know much about those keyfobs, I remember someone saying they use some form of rolling encryption for the keyfobs & handshaking system, which means no 2 unlock commands are the same. I don't understand why more don't do something similar.
 
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