Car broken into (video) - relay entry

[TTW]

At 3:08am last night (morning of April 20th) someone broke into our car - there's no sign of forced entry so we suspect it was a relay entry.

We've had this happen several times before but this is the first time we've caught anything on camera (he first rifled through the glove box but this was out of the camera's field of vision): https://video.nest.com/clip/f9409a78f4d7472abec8b05fe3197ad0.mp4

The guy made off up the hill towards the west end of Chadwick Road/start of Grove Park. I doubt ours was the first or last car he tried that night. If anyone saw anything/experienced similar please send me a DM.

[a_m]

Hi TTW - this has happened to us too but they stole the car. A few months ago we woke up one morning to find our car was gone from outside our house. Luckily we had a tracker in it connected to a phone app which showed us that the car was currently sitting at an address outside London and had been stolen late the night before. The keys were safely inside our house in a Faraday case (a metal lined pouch that's supposed to protect keyless entry cars from relay theft). To cut a long story short, it seems that not all Faraday cases are effective. They are widely and fairly cheaply available and the police advised us that if you get one you should test it works by standing near the car with the key in the case and see if you can unlock the car by pressing the key through the closed case. We did end up getting our car back thanks to the tracker.

[Sonners]

A_m would you mind sharing which tracker you bought for your car? This seems like an excellent idea...