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Scary!

One worrying question is: how long before insurers start to find a way to avoid paying out for this sort of thing? 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Frightening I program keys for a living all above board I might add and the main problem is the key programmers have been copied by the Chinese and are available on the Internet for peanuts. It's killing the locksmith trade and also allowing the scum bags access to cheap programmers. 16 model year yulong white autobiography
Bentley continental GTC
2011 VW Transporter T5 Kombi 140BHP with sport line kit for work

15 model year black RRS HSE gone
11MY Fuji White 3.0 TDV6 HSE
Ivory premium leather
Ebony contrast stitching
Extended leather pack
Anigra Wood now gone


08MY Range Rover Sport TDV6 GONE

Unbelievable  FF 4.4 V8 Soooo looking forward to this bad boy
Ex 2006 RRS SC - garbage
Ex 2016 135i M Sport - dream car
Ex 2003 RS6 Avant - piece of cr*p
Ex 2014 320d X Drive, M Sport Touring - ok I guess
Ex 2007 RRS TDV8 - bloody loved it
EX 2007 FL2 XS - not so bad

Makes you think doesn't it

Maybe if manufactures started to employ retired theives and things like this would would be stopped as ODB ports would be less accessible, but then been retired how would they find out the new techniques

Catch 22

As said, unbelievable!

Not possible for everyone, I know, but keeping a decent car locked up inside is becoming almost a neseccity with low life like this around . ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
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GOING: BMW F31 335D MSport+ xDrive Touring
GONE: Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE - Stornaway Grey w/Black Interior (wish we'd kept it )
GONE: BMW F10 520D MSport - Carbon Black
GONE:MY12 RRS SDV6 HSE Sumatra/Ivory/Grand Black Privacy glass

Perhaps the answer is that the ODB port should be inaccessible and behind a physical lock e.g. behind a locked flap in the engine bay or under the boot floor. Use the car's physical key to unlock the flap. That way, a garage can still access it because the owner will let them use the key but scum can't get to it even if they break a window. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

^^^ Good idea  ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
MERCEDES GL350 - Metallic Navy Blue w/Grey interior

GOING: BMW F31 335D MSport+ xDrive Touring
GONE: Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE - Stornaway Grey w/Black Interior (wish we'd kept it )
GONE: BMW F10 520D MSport - Carbon Black
GONE:MY12 RRS SDV6 HSE Sumatra/Ivory/Grand Black Privacy glass

^ Just what I was going to suggest..

Surely the brilliant minds at these car companies can work this out?

Either locate it within an internal sensor's range (or put an extra sensor in the footwell)

or have an alarmed flap cover on it.

not rocket science RRS gone
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It's becoming more common to employ the services of ex-hackers in the IT security arena to perform penetration testing and find exploits in companies network security. Would make perfect sense to do the same thing in the car security arena.

The sort of people who like breaking into things (IT or cars) usually do it for the challenge and as such are interested in simply beating the system. They tend to stay up do date with technology as they enjoy it...