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| How you can stop thieves stealing your car from your driveway WITHOUT the keys |
| 2022-08-06 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] AA boss urges drivers to protect their fob in a metal box after his £55,000 Lexus was stolen - as drivers are warned HALF of cars are sitting ducks. The boss of AA is encouraging motorists to keep their keyless car fobs inside a secure pouch, locked in a box and then placed inside a microwave after hackers stole his wife's £50,000 car. Edmund King, one of Britain's leading motorist experts, said that thieves intercepted his wife Deidre's car key signal and were able to steal the keyless Lexus. He now keeps his car fobs securely in a wired pouch that blocks the hacker's signal, locked inside a red metal box, and then places the box in a microwave at the very back of his house. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #18 #15 ^ Besoeker Bought a used 1970 Dodge 440 Super Bee in 1974 for $1,500 ($54.00 a month payment). Wife totaled it 4 years into our marriage. I still have the wife but...... have thought about buying another one until I saw hell people want $45K to $100K or more now. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-08-06 20:52 |
| #17 I have found buying a Stupid Simple $19.99 Driveway Alarm and placing the transmitter in the car and the receiver next to the bed has interrupted a few Mid-night visits. Shaking car will set it off if positioned on the hump of the Dashboard. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-08-06 20:32 |
| #16 Thanks, B. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 16:46 |
| #15 /\ 1970 Dodge. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-06 16:42 |
| #14 I'm looking for a 69 or 70 Coronet wagon. I'll put a 440 and a Richmond 6 speed in if I can find the right car. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 12:16 |
| #13 "What would it take for you to seriously play the lottery?" "Under 50k miles manual transmission anything with a maintained interior, nothing worse than a deer strike." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-08-06 12:13 |
| #12 Coming from the other side of the coin, its all fun and games until driver 1 takes off with the FOB, and driver 2 is left stranded when the FOB gets out of range. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-08-06 12:10 |
| #11 They are doing away with the fob / push to start setup because too many idiots are leaving their cars running. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 11:38 |
| #10 My brother told me of a 'anti-theft' device he cobbled together for his Harley Shovelhead motorcycle (yes, it was a long time ago). He had a box covering the battery and there were four toggle switches that had to be flipped up or down in the right order to get any electricity. More of a deterrent because a really motivated thief would just drive up and toss the bike in a truck and leave... |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-06 11:31 |
| #9 "The Subscription to Turn Off your FOB has Expired." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-08-06 10:38 |
| #8 There was this guy's Bentley which had a lockbox I needed to get into. The locksmith said there was a thumbprint recognition thingy in the stupid box. I went at it like a delinquent with a hammer, pliers, screwdriver, everything. No give. Enraged, we kidnapped the guy, beat him senseless and opened the shitty box with his thumb. All the while he was trying to tell us something but we didn't speak his Malayalam. It was much later we realized the box had a keyhole too, concealed in the side. The locksmith had probably seen it earlier but didn't even mention it out of fear all the time. Hee hee hee... |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-06 09:41 |
| #7 Why doesn't the car shut itself off when the FOB signal is lost? H1B software "engineer." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 09:18 |
| #6 I get that they can start the car, but it's crazy they can drive off in it. Why doesn't the car shut itself off when the FOB signal is lost? |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2022-08-06 09:15 |
| #5 He now keeps his car fobs securely in a wired pouch |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-06 09:10 |
| #4 ^^ Or an 'Off' button/switch. They'd just charge $300-500 more unfortunately. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-08-06 09:00 |
| #3 Gee. Imagine if the manufacturers just put a sleep button on the fob. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 08:39 |
| #2 ^^ Also just wrapping the keyfob in heavy tinfoil a couple times seems to work pretty well, too. Used a friend's industrial RF sniffer probe and my 1GHz spectrum scope (yeah, I know we're geeks) to test this method. Fobs usually operate in the 300-500 MHz range, FYI. A little leakage right next to the wrapped fob (probably how we wrapped it), but nothing over 6 inches away. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-08-06 08:35 |
| #1 Simpler solution: drive a car with a 'stick shift' |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-06 00:37 |