Wife's car stolen from our driveway overnight

Gazanimal · 2025-02-04T09:43:36+0000

A bit of a shock this morning to find my wife's car missing from the drive. :eek:

Had to double take as the wife is away with her work (school teacher on a trip with pupils) and I thought "She didn't take her car".
No forced entry, keys still in the house and haven't been able to find out when it disappeared as nothing activated on neighbours door cam.

Police informed, but little they will do until it turns up somewhere and insurance notified. Not the best start to the day.

Stu999 · 2025-02-04T09:45:56+0000

Is it one of those keyless entry cars? My mate had his car nicked via that method.

Nasher · 2025-02-04T09:47:37+0000

Keyless entry/start. They probably used a signal booster and it was gone in seconds. Once started they don't need to key to keep it running.

It's ridiculous manufacturers didn't consider this obvious vulnerability when coming up with it.

JRS · 2025-02-04T09:50:14+0000

Car thieves suck

Junglist · 2025-02-04T09:55:46+0000

Scum!

I had that feeling when my R6 got stolen. Your brain takes a while to process it's missing and it shouldn't be.

Hope there is a positive outcome to this for you.

sovietspybob · 2025-02-04T09:55:48+0000

Yeah unfortunately modern car manufactures seem to apply the Grand Theft Auto logic to security, pretty much anyone can walk up to them and just drive away!

Either a man in the middle where they pick up the signal or nowadays just get into the canbus network somewhere, by pulling a wheel arch liner off etc and then the car just unlocks and they can drive away.

Gazanimal · 2025-02-04T10:00:35+0000

Keyless start yes.
Just use the key to lock/unlock. Quite village on a quiet cul-de-sac.

Urgh.

Uther · 2025-02-04T10:03:22+0000

You didn't have the keys in a Farady box?

Jonnycoupe · 2025-02-04T10:06:57+0000

What car? Worth seeing if theres a stolen car group for your area. I see many people post about random cars parked in their road and turns out they have been stolen and parked up.

Nasher · 2025-02-04T10:14:09+0000

sovietspybob said:
Yeah unfortunately modern car manufactures seem to apply the Grand Theft Auto logic to security, pretty much anyone can walk up to them and just drive away!

Either a man in the middle where they pick up the signal or nowadays just get into the canbus network somewhere, by pulling a wheel arch liner off etc and then the car just unlocks and they can drive away.

Yea probably if the car is old enough. It may have been fully cracked by now. Easy steal. Even a faraday container won't help then.

Gazanimal · 2025-02-04T10:14:23+0000

Uther said:
You didn't have the keys in a Farady box?

No, and I suspect 99% of other people don't either, but the keys are about 25ft away from a door.

Gazanimal · 2025-02-04T10:16:03+0000

Jonnycoupe said:
What car? Worth seeing if theres a stolen car group for your area. I see many people post about random cars parked in their road and turns out they have been stolen and parked up.

Ford Fiesta Titanium (2014) - Posted it up on our local village facebook group, but it could be long gone by now - especially with the full tank of petrol in it.

Uther · 2025-02-04T10:16:48+0000

Gazanimal said:
No, and I suspect 99% of other people don't either, but the keys are about 25ft away from a door.

We've had a couple nicked in this village, they weren't in Farady boxes either.

Dangerous Dave · 2025-02-04T10:22:26+0000

A Farady box doesn't help with the Fiesta's, the alarm has a blind spot that allows access to the OBD port without going off and a new key is coded via the OBD port.

sovietspybob · 2025-02-04T10:38:37+0000

Yeah nowadays i don't think faraday pouches are really worthwhile, lots of easier ways to steal cars for the most part.

Have a read of this if you want to scare yourself with just one example with how easy modern cars are to steal..

https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/

Fluffybob · 2025-02-04T10:42:01+0000

Ruddy scrotes :mad:

Nasher · 2025-02-04T10:44:32+0000

Dangerous Dave said:
A Farady box doesn't help with the Fiesta's, the alarm has a blind spot that allows access to the OBD port without going off and a new key is coded via the OBD port.

Yea on the MK7, not sure about the MK8. Other Fords are the same. You have to reach quite far in to actually set the motion sensor off, no glass break sensors either. Rubbish.

I suspect a lot of modern cars are the same though. Alarms aren't as sensitive (or loud!) as they used to be.

Jonnycoupe · 2025-02-04T10:54:34+0000

Does anyone sell OBD port locks?

Diagro · 2025-02-04T11:13:01+0000

Ghost II.... Answer to all

Nasher · 2025-02-04T11:37:26+0000

Or just yank the OBD2 fuse and have the keyless entry system disabled. Which is far cheaper