http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-30...inute.html

I thought a software update for the newer cars had sorted this out!?!? A PM from Pete also confirmed that newer cars have a new firmware so this should not be possible - obviously the software has been cracked....

Why not just do away with keyless entry and go back to usual remote and key locks!?

This is a disgrace honestly - LR need to sort this issue out ASAP!

Agree it is a disgrace  Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!

Is it brand new? I can't make out the reg no? 2015 models have an inbuilt tracker + in control.

RRSman wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3043213/Gone-30-seconds-CCTV-shows-thief-break-drive-new-keyless-Range-Rover-minute.html

I thought a software update for the newer cars had sorted this out!?!? A PM from Pete also confirmed that newer cars have a new firmware so this should not be possible - obviously the software has been cracked....

Why not just do away with keyless entry and go back to usual remote and key locks!?

This is a disgrace honestly - LR need to sort this issue out ASAP!

Mine is a 2015 yes it has a inbuilt tracker and yes it has incontrol but if the car is taken without the key as is done here there is no way to know until RR call and by that time your car could be in a trailer somewhere............

That was a 63 plate, either way it's a disgrace and very worrying! Arrived: MY16 A/B SDV6 in Aruba, Ivory interior, piano black trim, black panoramic roof, spare wheel, blind spot monitoring, mudlaps and more...

Gone but not forgotten:
2014 RRS2 SDV6 HSE in Loire Blue
2011 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE in Santorini Black

Whatever the thief did it appears that the indicators did not operate on unlock like my 2015MY car has. I wonder if the car was not locked but the mirrors folded and this was an opportunist theft............... 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

See how the thief gingerly opens the door...he's not too sure if the alarm is going to go off.

Tim in Scotland wrote:

Whatever the thief did it appears that the indicators did not operate on unlock like my 2015MY car has. I wonder if the car was not locked but the mirrors folded and this was an opportunist theft...............

Doesn't look like the mirrors were folded as they don't appear to unfold when the scrote drives off.

ETA: almost certainly a key fob grab as the interior light is on at the start of the video so probably unlocked it as he was walking up to it before the video clip starts.

Don't use the fob to lock/unlock!!! 

DRDILL wrote:

I don't use the remote key to lock my car, always lock on the door handle

Because as in the case of most thefts, and it appears this one, the scrote gains entry to the car by waiting behind a wall or bush and grabs the signal from the remote and then unlocking the car. Once inside they have access to the OBD port. 

Aha OK get it - thank you.

So if one never uses the key they would pretty much be safe. As I have Incontrol if someone smashes a window to gain entry it would trigger an alert to the call center.

Safer, yes.

Double lock too. 

Never use the key and all ways dead lock function on the handles.

Sorry I have to disagree about using the door buttons in preference to the fob. If you have the fob on you it is continuously transmitting a very very week signal looking for the car's correpsondingly weak signals - about 1m range (although yesterday I managed to open my car's boot from about 15m!). When you press the button on the fob it sends a coded command to operate the locks/ lights or whatever. I would suspect either a member of staff at a dealership cloning the fob when the car has been in for a service or the owner has used a valeting service/carwash/ valet parking somewhere and has at sometime handed over the fob to a low life. Near to where I am there used to be a carwash bay inside the local shop centre covered carpark, after a whole lot of car thefts - mostly Audi and BMW saloons - local police put 2+2 together and caught the carwash staff cloning the fobs in a sting operation. As customers had to leave their keys with the car washing team so they could repark the cars elsewhere in the carpark to work on the next car so they had the opertunity to do what they wanted with the car/ key fob while the innocent where shopping for a couple of hours. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW