Suspicious Car Theft

[JackG]

A friend on mine had his BMW M3 stolen with out the key, the guys watched him for a few weeks, learnt his life pattern and one night when he locked up he pushed he beeper on the remote as he normally does and they copied the code from the key fob....that's all I know so far and didn't want to ask to much out of respect but he thinks it was a proper job and the car was allready sold


Jack

[ConeKiller]

if its turned up with accident damage the boyfriend drove it drunk crashed it reported it stolen.

i work for insurance fraud deal with this kinda stuff day in day out lol

the keys of all newish cars log when they are used, how long for, the cars mileage etc and if you take the key to a dealer they can tell you in a cool machine!

only just closed a file at work, a guy in an audi s4 got his car stolen as he was at work, sent us the keys as he said he had one on him at the time and one was at home, checked them with audi and they confirmed it had been driven the same time he was at work.

he finally admitted he couldnt afford the finance so had it stolen and burnt out.

he ended up with no car, no payout, and £19,000 still outstanding on finance!!

[stealthwolf]

Ouch. He could have sold the car back and might've had some equity in it too.

[Greeners]

Wow, wouldn't like to be in the dock if any of you lot were on jury service! 

[lee_]

It is possible to crack them but its very specialised  and can be very time consuming. Example - http://securityevaluators.com/content/case-studies/tiris/index.jsp

Was the car a UK car? Japanese imports often don't have the immobiliser systems that are mandatory in the EU,
my old S2000 didn't have a factory fit one, which would make stealing it a damn sight easier! 

[rich83]

AFAIK... UK spec.

[andrewparker]

My boss had his brand new TT stolen by someone who was working at the dealership he bought the car from. He wasn't aware the car should have came with the black plastic key and so never checked when he took ownership of it. Shortly after it disappeared. Just by chance he learnt that this wasn't the first time this had happened and marched down to the dealers. They confessed that they had a "problem" and gave him £7K of a replacement.

[sub39h]

sounds like a happy ending then - £7k is a hefty chunk of change

back on topic - it does sound like the bf has lost an argument with a tree but if there's no evidence of that then innocent until proven guilty.