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Hi, i just wanted to mention that there was an attempted theft of my car on Marmora Rd last night. Someone had put the lock in on the drivers door and tried to hack into the cars computer to re-program a dummy key (something that was reported on Watchdog a month or so ago). Luckily they didn't succeed in stealing the car, but did cause a fair amount of annoying damage in the process. Just wanted to warn people who may have a similar make of car and for everyone in the area to keep their eyes and ears open.


Cheers

Here's one of many articles about the process, with some video as well, showing what to look out for. They get into the car, plug a device that looks much like a TV remote into the diagnostic port under the dashboard, and do some reprogramming operations -- takes a couple of minutes.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132526-hack-the-diagnostics-connector-steal-yourself-a-bmw-in-3-minutes

  • 2 months later...

Our 3 series was stolen from just Last week on melbourne grove. Seems they are able to clone the key somehow because there was no damage and the stereo etc. looked like it was 'uninstalled' by professionals so they know what they're doing. Calling BMW tomorrow.


Excellent response from police, tried to take prints etc but no response. They also advised contacting BMW.

Can't you fit one of those disc locks on the sterling wheel to act as a deterrent?


A mate of mine visited down here and put one on his brother's golf. He didn't realise he'd left the keys for the lock at home in the midlands. It took the AA about 2 hours to get it off using multiple hacksaw blades.

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