New type of car crime

Originally Posted by tigersaw

'changing the locks' could run into 4 figures now that the keys carry a transponder linked into the cars ECU - even on smaller cars nowadays.

Gone are the days when you could just take the rotor arm out and put it in your pocket

A new coded key for my car is £400. A new lock (with blank key) is £75 (inc fitting). Then just use the master key to recode, just takes a little knowledge and 10mins.

mines insured if they want it they can have it.

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Scum...utter scum.

absolutely! poor David has just split up with his other half of 15 yrs, is totally broke and having to sell his house, spent last week in hospital, and while he's in there gets burgled + loses his car...

[embee]

Following on from the earlier comments about the fishing rod through the letter box stunt.

1 - don't leave your keys in the hall just inside the door
2 - the next place the burglars will look is (wait for it) the drawer in the kitchen. Go on, where are your keys?
3 - I have all my keys in a plastic box which I take upstairs when I go to bed, it's just routine now.
4 - a cheap and simple trick you can do on some modern cars is fit a switch on the dashboard which is a genuine OE switch (often only a few quid from the dealers) so looks just like the others, and switches the fuel pump relay feed. They tend not to look at the dash when trying to find "hidden" switches. If you want to get more involved you can also wire it to the horn when in the "off" position.

A few years ago when car security started getting better, there was a scam at a dealership where a mechanic would copy the car's key and tape the copy under the driver's seat, reachable from through a broken side glass. The car would then disappear from the owner's driveway a couple of weeks later, with just some broken glass to show.

[Viney]

I cant even find my car keys so what bloody hope has some lowlife got?

[Viney]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Bit noisy, what you want is a crossbow and some pigs.

Hmmm, crossbows...Silent, deadly, espeacilly with a night scope attached

[yorkie_chris]

Also not needing a license, pay in cash and there's no record that you own one.

To be honest I'd sooner them find my keys easily rather than them come upstairs & get me to show them where they are/hand them over. I think this would be a more dangerous situation.

[embee]

Originally Posted by gazman

To be honest I'd sooner them find my keys easily rather than them come upstairs & get me to show them where they are/hand them over. I think this would be a more dangerous situation.

If you leave the keys in the car it'll save them breaking into your house.

I think your onto something there ... Do you think they'd appreciate my bike keys in my bike to?