Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

triple layer of anti-theft security now installed in the Solihull Tank. Not gonna stop anyone that's sufficiently motivated but will hopefully give the casual tea leaf second thoughts.

what are the thread's on-street parking security measures?

Pull the coil when you park it?

Do people still wire a secret switch that cuts the ignition?
My volvo has a key/switch in the glove box that cuts everything. I never use it because my car's a shitheap.

@greenhell you had the tracker installed?

I park both my cars in the council estate I live in, never had an issue. Hackney's changed....

But I prefer it when there's 4 trumpets coming out the front of the bonnet

Do people still wire a secret switch that cuts the ignition?

I had one in my Dolomite Sprint that I recently sold... though that was so insecure that you could get into it just by looking at it so it kind of made sense.

I think you're better off with something visible, to stop them trying to get in in the first place, though a little flickswitch somewhere isn't too much effort to add / use I guess.

i have. all up and running. mine's parked right outside a council estate. tho thanks to margaret thatcher it appears to be occupied predominantly by young media professionals.

the latest wheeze amongst the more resourceful car theft gangs is to load your vehicle onto a flatbed truck, drop it off in a remote area / car park and see if anyone comes to claim it. this is why trackers are not an entirely terrible idea. presuming they don't find the thing and bin it prior to setting off. tho even doing this will send off an alert.

I'd rather they just took the car and I got the insurance money rather than trashing it and giving up, leaving me to pick up the pieces. I don't really want to come out to my car with a slashed roof, broken window, or broken lock and then trashed wiring where they tried to hotwire it and then failed because cold starting throttle bodies is apparently beyond everybody who doesn't own the car.

My mate had his M235 stolen and they did exactly that, apart from the flatbed. They stole it, ragged it for an hour to some road in the middle of nowhere and then left it. Police were a bit shit but my mate rang BMW and they told him where it was, he had to drive to it then phone the police to say he'd found it.

cunts.

the tracker i've installed has a subscription model so when it goes off, the tracker operations people communicate directly with plod to find yer wheels. Ideally you should get a call from them telling you they've found it before you even knew it was nicked.

How did they get passed immobiliser?

Guessing they broke in fo keys?

Yeah fuckers are getting good at getting keys these days

No idea about BMW, but I was speaking to a carsearch consultant recently. He said that new Range Rovers (not sure about current ones, but at least ones between certain build dates) are apparently very vulnerable via some bit of hardware that can get around / spoof the keyless systems. He was getting all his clients to use big yellow steering wheel locks and the like.

I don't think my Dolly would have passed the 'desirability test' for such an effort... I like to think that the manual choke would have acted as an additional killswitch for the younger car thief :)

My last house was broken into while I was asleep.

I woke around 4am to sounds in kitchen.

I released the power of ten tigers and flew down stairs to find front door open.

Ran out into road but they had gone.

No idea what I would have done if I had caught them.

They couldn't find the keys but took laptop / hand bag wallet etc.

I reckon local scrotes.

Police only useful for insurance.

/csb

Had this on my drive for the weekend. Wasn't allowed a go on it sadly. Insured for £750k...

*Blows Wad*

He was getting all his clients to use big yellow steering wheel locks and the like.

they work pretty well, all things considered. (they also come in silver)

You can use the BMW App to locate your stollen bimmer (high spec models like M135/M235 and full fat M cars at least anyway). You can also lock/unlock, sound alarm, flash lights, and i think you can get a notification to come up on the idrive screen saying the vehicle is being tracked (which would probabaly just lead to it being dumped and torched).

My sister's a copper and works on a team that go after the gangs that do this. Lots of fancy cars with keyless entry are vulnerable.

My understanding is that the main method to gain access to the car is to 'jam' the locking signal in a big car park (shopping centres etc) so you think you've locked it but you haven't. This gives them access to the car and they can then somehow get it going and clone the key at their leisure (dunno how this bit works). I believe BMW, Range Rovers etc are/were affected.

Always best to modify a Disklok with two bars across the back and reinforce the hinges..

Jesus.

What u protecting?

Brabus 6x6?

oof. that's a top idea. anyone up for some amateur welding?

Brabus 6x6

My word. Did not know such a thing existed...