Warning: thefts of and from cars

FX_Munkee

Sporky said:

menamestom said:

smear it with a mixture of LSD and excrement

I take it this will now be the forum's answer to almost any situation.

Unless it requires a dual channel oscilloscope, signal generator or laminate flooring.

menamestom

Sporky said:

menamestom said:

smear it with a mixture of LSD and excrement

I take it this will now be the forum's answer to almost any situation.

I can't imagine many things that could not be improved with just these 2 simple ingredients, so yes, it may come in handy.

speshul91

menamestom;959977" said:

speshul91 said:

Mines that unworthy of stealing I left my keys in the ignition the other day for 3 hours. Nothing. My shed is still here. Xsara Picasso with 175k on the clock.





smear it with a mixture of LSD and excrement, I'm sure that would improve it somewhat.

Have a lol, I take the piss out of it daily but to be honest it's really really reliable, in a good way too.

Sarge

Don't try the brown acid kids!

octatonic

Sporky said:

Would you have smeared it with a mixture of LSD and excrement?

Well, that would happen anyway.

57Deluxe

Great Jape. I always have a emergency piss bottle in the car and currently is a 1pt milk bottle. I might change this to a brown bottle expensive larger bottle and gently take the cap off so it can be replaced....

RocknRollDave

I have the 'joys' of on-road parking on a busy street, so to be honest my car is usually so far away from my keys when it is parked up that I often get a taxi in the morning just to take me to my car.....

ICBM

Surely this will only work with those system which just recognise the key fob automatically when it's close to the car? Which always struck me as a very stupid idea. You don't always want to unlock the car just by being near it.

On most normal ones you have to press a button on the fob to unlock the car, and I'd like to see how that could be done remotely.

Sassafras

Sporky said:

menamestom said:

smear it with a mixture of LSD and excrement

I take it this will now be the forum's answer to almost any situation.

I wouldn't recommend having it on toast.

Bogwhoppit

This has been going on in my area for the past three years, mainly with BMWs.  Young kids have got fobs that open the BMW doors, sometimes they just unlock it and open the door, other times they steal from, or damage the inside.

Some of the entry level or small family small cars such as Ford Kia etc. seem to be fairly immune to this according to the local Police. It mainly effects the mid to high end market car range.

Saying that, my key fob can unlock/lock my car across a 1/2 mile wide Tesco car park.

crunchman

A lot of crooks have software that can program fobs.  They might need to physically break into the car to access a diagnostics port but once they have done that they can program a blank fob in minutes.

I think that it still makes sense to have a physical key as well as a fob.