Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

ba-dum tshhhhh

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

I cant critercise the S3, goes this shiz off a well lubed shovel.
Dont expect Paul to let me have a play in any of his new cars from now on, his pants needed burning after that passenger seat experiance. He could have just put them onto the brakes though to be fair, they'd have been insinorated.
Very nice motor, me likey - as I said to YC its the most fun I've had on 4 wheels.

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

Get a dog.

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

Get a proper security lock

Simples.

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

How weird, next door to the house where I'm doing a bathroom, they have called a locksmith out for the front door lol
And, guess what, I just seem him banging on a key !! I sh1te you not, didn't watch him totally as I was getting something from the van, dodgy fookers some of them, is never use one tbh, I'd get in using my own methods.

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

Own methods? Like... get hammer from van, put hammer through window, job jobbed ;-)

I was working in a house during the summer and a neighbour locked herself out while putting rubbish out, only problem was her baby was inside! Got my ladder off the van and got in through one of the sash windows within seconds!

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

well.... the newer s4's and especially rs4's rs6's are more desirable since they're faster and always seem to get used in ram-raids/robberies and then outrun the police before being found as smouldering wrecks on a field. The older rs4's and modified s4's are also very quick and probably a bit easier to steal imo? The recent thefts all seem to have been in places like manchester, nottingham, birmginham & bradford nearer the city centre, but there have also been cars nicked from suburban area's so I'm only on yellow alert at the moment.

Yeah it was just the kelloggs crunchy nut gear box noises you were making which upset me lol, the rest of it was par for the course :D

Shiiite I completely forgot to ring you back on friday night david! So sorry buddy, I was driving into tesco's with the big shopping list in my head and only just remembered that you even rang me!

could borrow my dad's dog but she'd only give them a disapproving look and a big *SIGH* before sauntering off...

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_c5nU_S1VtbY/TS...s512/photo.JPG

wondering if this is an indication of just how common the method is mebbeh?

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

nearly all locks are pickable at the current time, the best at last time i read is Evva MCS, Evva 3KS also is good and cheeer, Abloy Protec are very good but have been picked and there is a tool to do it.
The Evva is available in Euro barel so you can put it easly into most UPVC type doors, not cheep though :p
You can also get anti pick lock shields, http://toool.nl/images/a/a6/Drumm-geminy.pdf , this is one of the best even resisting cutting disks.
Everything costs money and even with a good lock if they realy want it they will just kick the door down or catch you as you walk out/in.
VAG door keys are so easy to pick though with the right tool its a couple of mins at the most.

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

fair comments their TSM, like my dad always said "If it's worth locking up, it's probably worth having" so the moment a half decent thief notices you've got fancy locks, they're gonna know there's something worth nicking... and if they want it bad enough they will find a way of getting it :(

just pays to be vigilant and do what you can to try and stop them I guess

Re: Ever heard of lock bumping?
 

What a terrible world we live in.