so who is lying
Discussion
I saw BBC Watchdog last night covering the theft of BMWs without keys, and thought finally BMW have sorted things out - the presenter quite clearly quotes BMW as saying they can "extend the protection to other models free of charge" - apparently they only offer it to X5 and X6 built before September 2009.
So I phoned their special Customer Service number - 0800 0834397 - and waited for around 15 minutes before it was answered.
Then I was told that they have not in fact made this statement but they are looking into it - but I have to wait 8 weeks just to be told if my model will be covered!
My car is always garaged overnight so I'm not unduly worried by this and I do take BMWs point that this theft method was introduced after the cars were made. I know enough about encryption to know that the processing power available now is more than enough to brute force crack what I assume to be pretty puny encryption used in the ECU.
I'm tempted to just rip out the data port to be honest - that will stop it, or maybe be more subtle and cross a couple of the contacts?
So I phoned their special Customer Service number - 0800 0834397 - and waited for around 15 minutes before it was answered.
Then I was told that they have not in fact made this statement but they are looking into it - but I have to wait 8 weeks just to be told if my model will be covered!
My car is always garaged overnight so I'm not unduly worried by this and I do take BMWs point that this theft method was introduced after the cars were made. I know enough about encryption to know that the processing power available now is more than enough to brute force crack what I assume to be pretty puny encryption used in the ECU.
I'm tempted to just rip out the data port to be honest - that will stop it, or maybe be more subtle and cross a couple of the contacts?
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