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I am a new member of the forum, having just taken delivery of my first BMW. However, I am a sad new member as after just 10 days the car was stolen from my drive by thieves who broke into the house to get the keys. The car is a 3 door M135i, in estoril blue with an oyster leather interior, manual gearbox and adaptive headlights. The registration is HK16 CUJ (although obviously the plates may have been changed) and the chassis number is 5B4084. If anyone sees the car or has any information about it, I would really appreciate it if they would get in touch.
Thanks
Peter
Thanks
Peter
Police can track it through BMW, Op CUNDALL is the name given to the process. Have you tried it? Bit more info here:
http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=...
http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=...
Edited by Osinjak on Tuesday 28th June 20:24
Thanks for the replies and messages of hope. I had not replied before because I had some very good news-the Police recovered the car after getting tracking data from BMW. I did not post any replies because I did not want to reveal that the car had been found until the Police had completed their investigation, which they have now done. Unfortunately they did not catch the scrotes (apt word I think) who stole the car, but anyway I should get the car back very soon. So I am not such sad new member now!
Only problem is that I need to have the locks and control unit changed, at a cost of £1250 and my insurance will pay only £150! The combination of a upper limit for lock changes of £500 and an excess of £350 means the insurance is pretty useless. I am wondering whether it is worth claiming at all. There is a recovery fee from the police recovery place of £150 which I might be able to claim, but presumably I lose a degree of protection of my NCB-so I think I may have to just pay up.
Anyway, I was most impressed with the forum's response, in terms of suggestions and sympathy when I first posted, so thanks again for that.
Peter
Only problem is that I need to have the locks and control unit changed, at a cost of £1250 and my insurance will pay only £150! The combination of a upper limit for lock changes of £500 and an excess of £350 means the insurance is pretty useless. I am wondering whether it is worth claiming at all. There is a recovery fee from the police recovery place of £150 which I might be able to claim, but presumably I lose a degree of protection of my NCB-so I think I may have to just pay up.
Anyway, I was most impressed with the forum's response, in terms of suggestions and sympathy when I first posted, so thanks again for that.
Peter
Glad you got the car back, it was on our briefing for a while. Do you mind messaging me and telling me where it was found?
The BMW tracking isn't supposed to be common knowledge, but I guess it was inevitable that it would get out.
I'd suggest looking at some forums about moving the obd port and possibly look at another alarm and immobiliser. My mate has moved his obd on his m135i and said it was pretty straight forward, lots of guides available.
The BMW tracking isn't supposed to be common knowledge, but I guess it was inevitable that it would get out.
I'd suggest looking at some forums about moving the obd port and possibly look at another alarm and immobiliser. My mate has moved his obd on his m135i and said it was pretty straight forward, lots of guides available.
Great news OP!
For what it's worth if the £500 for locks cover is a Limit of Liability the insurers should pay £500 - might be worth asking the question anyway.
Hope you continue to enjoy it - great choice of car!
Had a similar incident in my road a couple of years ago. One neighbour had a brand new Golf Gti, and the scrotes found a front door unlocked one night and took a VW key, but they got the wrong house - the key they nicked was for next door's W plate VR6! Needless to say they left it behind! Served the f
s right! 
For what it's worth if the £500 for locks cover is a Limit of Liability the insurers should pay £500 - might be worth asking the question anyway.
Hope you continue to enjoy it - great choice of car!
Had a similar incident in my road a couple of years ago. One neighbour had a brand new Golf Gti, and the scrotes found a front door unlocked one night and took a VW key, but they got the wrong house - the key they nicked was for next door's W plate VR6! Needless to say they left it behind! Served the f
s right! Thanks for the advice, guys, although I'm not sure I quite follow it. FurryExocet, how does moving the obd help? I can have the keys reprogrammed so no one could start the car with the old key, but it would be possible to get into the car with the old key as it is a physical key as well as a software programmed control. Is the problem that having gained access the holder of the old key could use the obd to start the car? But presumably once access had been gained it would be possible to find the new location of the obd? The car was found in Hertfordshire-I am in Surbiton, near Kingston upon Thames so they took it about 60 miles.
Roofer, I didn't quite follow the point about the lock change not working because another old read will overcome the lock change. Could you explain further, please?
Thanks for your good wishes and help.
Peter
Roofer, I didn't quite follow the point about the lock change not working because another old read will overcome the lock change. Could you explain further, please?
Thanks for your good wishes and help.
Peter
HWOscar said:
Thanks for the advice, guys, although I'm not sure I quite follow it. FurryExocet, how does moving the obd help? I can have the keys reprogrammed so no one could start the car with the old key, but it would be possible to get into the car with the old key as it is a physical key as well as a software programmed control. Is the problem that having gained access the holder of the old key could use the obd to start the car? But presumably once access had been gained it would be possible to find the new location of the obd? The car was found in Hertfordshire-I am in Surbiton, near Kingston upon Thames so they took it about 60 miles.
Roofer, I didn't quite follow the point about the lock change not working because another old read will overcome the lock change. Could you explain further, please?
Thanks for your good wishes and help.
Peter
Cheers for for letting me know the location, I'll pass it on to our Intel guys . If you move the obd port to a different location, they can't access it to programme a new key. When you get new keys from BMW, it will overwrite the old ones anyway, it'll just be the physical locks on the door.Roofer, I didn't quite follow the point about the lock change not working because another old read will overcome the lock change. Could you explain further, please?
Thanks for your good wishes and help.
Peter
You can put the obd port anywhere you want, it would take them too long to find it and they'll usually give up.
A Cobra system is good, as it has an extra immobiliser in it, this is what my mate had on his 135i .
The obd move is a very cheap modification
FurryExocet said:
Cheers for for letting me know the location, I'll pass it on to our Intel guys . If you move the obd port to a different location, they can't access it to programme a new key. When you get new keys from BMW, it will overwrite the old ones anyway, it'll just be the physical locks on the door.
You can put the obd port anywhere you want, it would take them too long to find it and they'll usually give up.
A Cobra system is good, as it has an extra immobiliser in it, this is what my mate had on his 135i .
The obd move is a very cheap modification
This won't stop your car from being stolen in a ckb though (as happened with the op).For a car of this age,I would concentrate on home security in the first instance.The BMW security patch seems to have worked on newer vehicles-still hit and miss for the E and early F series though.You can put the obd port anywhere you want, it would take them too long to find it and they'll usually give up.
A Cobra system is good, as it has an extra immobiliser in it, this is what my mate had on his 135i .
The obd move is a very cheap modification
Billyray911 said:
This won't stop your car from being stolen in a ckb though (as happened with the op).For a car of this age,I would concentrate on home security in the first instance.The BMW security patch seems to have worked on newer vehicles-still hit and miss for the E and early F series though.
The Cobra system would if the key fob wasn't kept on the key ring and moving the obd port would prevent them coming back , using the keys they have already and programming themFurryExocet said:
The Cobra system would if the key fob wasn't kept on the key ring and moving the obd port would prevent them coming back , using the keys they have already and programming them
You know as well as I do that if they want it,they will just wait for you to park up and take it from you when off guard,that's why I've always been an advocate of the Clifford Blackjax.Making sure that you have the locate my car feature via the I drive is also a must as its not very well publicised to owners.
The game seems to have moved away from the keyless thefts of bmws.It all about the ST and the Audi now and that seems to have gone a bit quiet.
Car key burglary though,that's business as usual,unfortunately.
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