Remote car unlocking

Mal Cullen · 20 Apr 2015 at 10:21

Hi,

The close I live on recently had 5-7 cars broken into one night out of around 22 houses/cars. Cars all ages but generally from 2003 to 2009 and include a black cab. None were stolen probably because we live behind security gates but maybe they were not after cars just contents.
The thing is no windows broken, no alarms and no noise. Wife is very light sleeper and heard nothing. Very unlikely we left car unlocked but guess you never know. Very very unlikely all 5-7 cars left unlocked.. Guys/gals were fast as they stripped anything of value from cars (sadly had left some things in ours overnight... lesson learnt).
Anyway how possible is it for the thieves to have some kind of remote unlocking device which can do different types of car/lock? Police were looking into it but didn't really get too involved I believe. As only stuff was nicked I don't think anyone could get too fussed about the whole thing and all the houses dealt with it in their own way and never discussed it en mass.
Is this something anyone has hear of before and do these kind of unlocking devices really exist?

Rgds

MC

Mal Cullen · 20 Apr 2015 at 10:34

Ahhhh that makes a lot of sense. Would a signal jammer cover an area which would fit 20 houses? Or are they very concentrated/targeted in where they work?

Man this world doesn't get any easier....

Mal Cullen · 20 Apr 2015 at 10:36

I ask because cars from each end were broken into.... and yeah seems bonkers to come in behind security gates to try to rip off contents of some oldish cars.. you would think there would be much easier pickings out there... Plus to get out you need a code for the gates... makes zero sense to me..

Mal Cullen · 20 Apr 2015 at 10:38

mind you they got around £400 notes worth of easily disposed of stuff from mine and always a chance you get a couple sets of Pings.. that kind of thing. But if it was a signal jammer covering the whole Close then all cars would have been open and only 5-7 were done over..

Mal Cullen · 20 Apr 2015 at 11:00

meandu229 said:
AFAIK signal jammers are quite power intensive (been a while since I read about them) so I would have thought they would have parked up a car (or 2) at around the time people get home from work leave signal jammer running for 30mins (or whatever) leave and then come back hitting people who havent returned to their car all night who's doors are open.
Or they might just have a nice way to get into some older cars as I bet car locks from 8 years ago arent really that good.

Makes perfect sense thanks.. Every time I can't think of what could be going on, it becomes a lot clearer...

To my mind defo a signal jammer preventing a number of cars being locked/alarmed and then thieves in quick shiftie around the cars and hit the open ones...

Damn..