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bels123 Wrote:

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> Buy a ?car key signal blocking pouch? from eBay,

> we had the same issue but this stopped them

> cloning the signal.

>

> Or in the short term I believe wrapping in tin

> foil or putting key in the fridge has the same

> effect.


Turn off this feature in the car's settings. It's more trouble than it's worth.

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Both our SUV?s have had the contents emptied recently. They only took loose change that was in mine, my partners was done a few weeks later and they took everything, 2 coats, dashcam, bag of polish etc that came with the car and the service history book. We live just off east Dulwich road opposite Tesco. We now have a ring camera outside the house which records any motion in the street. We have also put the keys in a back room instead of the living room at the front. Thanks to a previous post I have ordered some of the pouches to put them in
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Also happened to my SUV near the Great Exhibition! I have gone into the car a couple of mornings this week to notice the dashboard telling me my boot was open. Wasn't until yesterday morning when all of the contents of my boot were on my back seat that I realised someone had been going through it on more than one occasion. Thankfully nothing of value was taken. Really grateful for advice on this forum around the car key issue! What a crazy world we live in.
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We had our car broken into last week, Tyrrell Road

Car cleaned out, nothing of value, but took everything including a charity donation box of clothes!!

We have a 'keyless entry' car, so am fully ware of the security issues with this.

Am thinking of getting a steering wheel lock

We simply assumed that following the theft we'd stupidly left the car unlocked for the night

I guessed that if they'd had a reading of the keyless code that they'd have just stolen the car.... am i wrong???

if we didn't leave the car unlocked, how did they get in and why wouldn't they have stolen the car???


Incidentally i hate the keyless feature, i have no idea what problem it is trying to solve.... It just creates a security problem

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I guess with keyless entry it's easy to break in, but then if you drive off perhaps some car models will just stop once the key is out of range, making it rather useless? I know our car (2012 BMW) gets very upset if you switch it on and walk away with the key, I don't know how long before it takes executive action and turns off the engine (if at all).
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This happened to us sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning. On Devonshire Road. Car was locked automatically after so we only noticed because glove boxes, etc, had been opened and emptied. Police said they must have been disturbed or they would have stolen the car. They got away with ?2 and missed the bag of gin in the boot!
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This has happened to us repeatedly on Chadwick Rd, SE15. On several occasions we have caught the perpetrators on camera - one or two white males, always walking up the street towards Grove Park. Seems pretty endemic round here - many people don't realise it's happened because there's no sign of forced entry. We now have a faraday box and haven't been broken into since - annoying but the only solution given how rubbish the car companies have been in addressing it (VW in our case).
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twinhunters Wrote:

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> My friend had same brand new car seat still in box

> as she?s pregnant, police told her to wrap keys in

> silver foil until she gets pouch recommended above

> . Mine was also done twice last year :( .


Surely the car manufacturers have some liability for this? The keyless locking system is clearly not fit for purpose.

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In our company we have had 2 vans broken into and tools stolen from the back. One attempted break in with holes drilled into the back doors. One set of ladders stolen off the roof bars and this morning, one of our engineers woke up to discover his front window smashed and sat nav / bag stolen.


All of these incidents have happened over the last 12 months. We're a family business. This is really upsetting.

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I hope all these were reported to the police. Although they may not be able to do anything - they will be able to build a picture of the areas the thieves are operating in, the type of cars targeted, times etc. Some wards appear to have low crime figures but this could be that residents are not reporting incidents. More accurate figures could give police additional resources.
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Pugwash Wrote:

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> I hope all these were reported to the police.

> Although they may not be able to do anything -

> they will be able to build a picture of the areas

> the thieves are operating in, the type of cars

> targeted, times etc. Some wards appear to have low

> crime figures but this could be that residents are

> not reporting incidents. More accurate figures

> could give police additional resources.



All reported apart from theft of ladders because in that incident the engineer forgot to chain them to the roof bars.

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doogleflip Wrote:

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> In our company we have had 2 vans broken into and

> tools stolen from the back. One attempted break in

> with holes drilled into the back doors. One set of

> ladders stolen off the roof bars and this morning,

> one of our engineers woke up to discover his front

> window smashed and sat nav / bag stolen.

>

> All of these incidents have happened over the last

> 12 months. We're a family business. This is really

> upsetting.



Obviously I'm very sorry to hear this, and I really don't want to sound unsympathetic, but surely vans should be emptied of bags, tools, satnavs etc at night?


That's why you often see notices on vans "no tools left in this vehicle overnight", as otherwise these (expletive deleteds) will break in on the offchance.

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Sue Wrote:

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> doogleflip Wrote:

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> -----

> > In our company we have had 2 vans broken into

> and

> > tools stolen from the back. One attempted break

> in

> > with holes drilled into the back doors. One set

> of

> > ladders stolen off the roof bars and this

> morning,

> > one of our engineers woke up to discover his

> front

> > window smashed and sat nav / bag stolen.

> >

> > All of these incidents have happened over the

> last

> > 12 months. We're a family business. This is

> really

> > upsetting.

>

>

> Obviously I'm very sorry to hear this, and I

> really don't want to sound unsympathetic, but

> surely vans should be emptied of bags, tools,

> satnavs etc at night?

>

> That's why you often see notices on vans "no tools

> left in this vehicle overnight", as otherwise

> these (expletive deleteds) will break in on the

> offchance.


And women with short skirts are asking for it?

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Yeah we do deadlock our vans and engineers try not to leave stuff in the front on show but sometimes they forget, especially when we?re so busy at the moment. In last nights case they smashed the window and tried to unlock the back for tools but the engineer had deadlocked it so they just grabbed his bag instead, which he had left on his seat. It was just some personal stuff like gym clothes I?m told. The problem is people are chancers. ?No tools on van sign? probs let wouldn?t deter them. Unfortunately...
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