BMW -- Keyless -- Gone in 60 Seconds...

[Dromedary66]

Fckitdriveon said:

Autowatch ghost . Fitted to all my cars.
adds another layer for the thieves to tackle.
No insurance discount but should hopefully mean I m not having to make a total loss claim.

Just had a google of that, sounds pretty clever.

[Fckitdriveon]

Dromedary66 said:

Fckitdriveon said:

Autowatch ghost . Fitted to all my cars.
adds another layer for the thieves to tackle.
No insurance discount but should hopefully mean I m not having to make a total loss claim.

Just had a google of that, sounds pretty clever.

I’ve had it fitted to 4 vehicles now....All fairly easily stolen by all accounts.

Just see it as another layer to existing security set up, adding to the Difficulty factor for the thieves.

There ll always be easier targets just round the corner.

One of my clients whose ‘lost’ 3 range rovers in 2-3 years, she won’t bother with them now.

For example Incontrol (Range Rover tracker) became standard because they were so easy to steal and insurers were refusing to touch them at all for a while.

I was chatting to 2 of my neighbours about their cars - Range Rover sport and bmw M4, and both were worried about theft etc, one of them had the signal jammed and all his possessions taken from the car just a couple of weeks ago, neither of them have taken additional steps to enhance their security since, it’s that apathy that mean thieves are never short of victims.

[Howard-]

rfisher said:

Ford very kindly set their keyless cars to run without the key, once started, until the engine was switched off.

They reckoned that was safer than designing the system to cut the engine after 10 mins or so.

I'm not sure if this post is sarcastic or not, but if so, please enlighten me as to how having the engine cut off after 10 minutes when the key isn't detected could possibly be safe?

It's ok, I'll give you some time to think about it.

In fact, please name a car that *will* cut the engine if the key can no longer be detected once the engine has already been started?

[V8 Fettler]

Yipper said:

Watch a CCTV video of a new keyless BMW stolen by a "relay attack" in under 1 minute.

Alleged suspect holding allegedly a signal amplifier.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4977134/Th...

Ingenious beggars. Things have moved on a bit since lowlifes used to get into my Mini with a penknife, although starting it was beyond them.

[johnwilliams77]

V8 Fettler said:

Ingenious beggars. Things have moved on a bit since lowlifes used to get into my Mini with a penknife, although starting it was beyond them.

Death penalty would be to good for these lowlife bds.

[shep1001]

Not specifically a car but we have a yale front door lock that can be opened on an RFID tag I wonder if they could unlock the front door the same way

[GrumpyTwig]

shep1001 said:

Not specifically a car but we have a yale front door lock that can be opened on an RFID tag I wonder if they could unlock the front door the same way

RFID is short range and passive iirc, so unless someone gets near you with something that can clone the ID card probably not.