highgater63
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BMW have kept very quiet about how easy it is to steal the i3 without a key. Or any of their keyless cars, apparently.
Our i3 was stolen from our drive this Sunday, CCTV footage show it took about 2 and a half minutes. Hard to see exactly what happened, but the cars lights flashed on and off a few times and then they were driving off...
Now I've done a bit of research online and discovered keyless cars are easy to steal with equipment bought online to re-programme blank keys, by hacking into the on-board diagnostic (OBD) computer port. Apparently 17 cars a day are stolen like this in London alone. 6,283 cars and vans were stolen in London last year by keyless theft, according to the Met.
Thanks, BMW. They think we'll just keep coming back for more?!
So, if you want to keep your car, don't rely on BMW's systems. Lock the car up in a garage or behind a driveway gate, fit a mechanical steering lock and apparently you can also get an on-board diagnostics lock fitted. Also consider Tracker, to find the car via GPS. If you want to risk it and the aggravation involved.
Our i3 was stolen from our drive this Sunday, CCTV footage show it took about 2 and a half minutes. Hard to see exactly what happened, but the cars lights flashed on and off a few times and then they were driving off...
Now I've done a bit of research online and discovered keyless cars are easy to steal with equipment bought online to re-programme blank keys, by hacking into the on-board diagnostic (OBD) computer port. Apparently 17 cars a day are stolen like this in London alone. 6,283 cars and vans were stolen in London last year by keyless theft, according to the Met.
Thanks, BMW. They think we'll just keep coming back for more?!
So, if you want to keep your car, don't rely on BMW's systems. Lock the car up in a garage or behind a driveway gate, fit a mechanical steering lock and apparently you can also get an on-board diagnostics lock fitted. Also consider Tracker, to find the car via GPS. If you want to risk it and the aggravation involved.