You could just flood the area with RF I guess. But it's all very unlikely. In the OP's case, I'd be willing to bet he just left the car unlocked if there's no signs of forced entry. Even the 'OBD keyless' thefts of recent years require physical access to the diagnostic port.
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Yea, that does make it vulnerable to someone trying to boost the signal. But that's a lot harder to do than simply having a £50 jammer in your pocket.
But I need to do some more testing
If I need to park mine up for a long period I just unplug the start button and pull the OBD2 fuse (you can leave the fuse out permanently TBH), which takes maybe 30 seconds to do. Simple but not an easy one for someone with limited time to figure out
To be fair though, I need to be within 3 feet of my door for it to work so they'd have to be pretty close
Perhaps not there are a lot of cases of people breaking into locked cars without forced entry recently.
Do you have a Ford by any chance? We had the same thing last week car locked, triple checked as we went on holiday. 5 days later it was broken into Thief in and out in minutes didn’t set alarm off and no damage done.
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so turns out there was a big mass break in around my area last night. They have 7 other cars that were successfully broken into.
Luckily 1 of the houses had very good CCTV, the officer said its very likely they will be arrested
It feels nice to know I wasn't singled out
Luckily 1 of the houses had very good CCTV, the officer said its very likely they will be arrested
It feels nice to know I wasn't singled out
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There's a guy at my gym who checks every door twice before leaving his car. Seems a tad excessive on a £2k car
A 2k car to a poor person can be the same as a 50k car to a richer person...There's a guy at my gym who checks every door twice before leaving his car. Seems a tad excessive on a £2k car
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Irrelevant because a 2k car to a thief is not the same as a 50k car to a thief.
Yes it is to most thief's. Normally its not the car they steal but what's in the car. They thief's is after anything they can pocket and make as a quick sale like wallets, cash, satnavs, tablets and the like. The car itself doesn't really matter most of the time.
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Surely tho the 50k car is more likely to have built in sat nav and stuff like that whereas cheap car will probably have a tom tom.
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Ford Focus here - I came home late from work and parked behind the Mrs 2014 Focus week or so ago.
I know it was locked as I was looking at wing mirrors (folded in) and thinking about how annoying it is that I have to push a button in mines
Next day home from work at lunch time - Mrs is still London - Wing mirrors are out...inside car glove box open etc - service book stolen and £3-4 from ash tray.
Spare key in safe, her key sat in key bowl/bookcase that I wasn't anywhere near.
Annoying me how it could have happened - Police and Ford offered no options other than "Maybe you hit key by mistake" - Ignore the fact that one key is in safe and the other was in a bookcase that I was nowhere near the whole time.
Ford's security seems to be especially weak :/
When I had my Fiesta ST there were loads of stories on forums about keyless thefts. BMW had something similar around the same time, but they issued a fix, Ford did nothing and apparently the new RS still has the same vulnerabilities.
When I had my Fiesta ST there were loads of stories on forums about keyless thefts. BMW had something similar around the same time, but they issued a fix, Ford did nothing and apparently the new RS still has the same vulnerabilities.
I always thought that in the case of the Ford/BMW thefts, you had to break the glass in the corner of the window and gain access to the OBD port, and that this was a small dead spot which wouldn't be detected by the alarm. Surely being able to unlock a modern car like this just by being near it would require some extremely sophisticated and no-doubt expensive equipment, which might be accessible to an organised gang of car thieves, but to a casual thief looking to steal "a service book, and £3-4"?
You wouldn't wanna do leg day then stagger out and find your cars been nicked, lord kill me now lolzThere's a guy at my gym who checks every door twice before leaving his car. Seems a tad excessive on a £2k car
Something like this happened to me many, many years ago but in reverse. I came home from work, getting out of the car, went over to my passenger seat to get my briefcase out and at the moment my wife and daughter who was around 18 months old at that time came running up to me, so I picked her up and we all turned around and went inside. Came out the next morning and found the passenger door wide open, thought the worst, checked the car and nothing has been disturbed, on my way work it dawned on me what had happened, felt a right old fool.