Dude, Where's your car? Where's your car dude?
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Originally Posted by neffster
Yeah, but if/when they find his car with no sign of forced entry, on blocks and 100% stripped with the keys sitting in the ignition, odds are he isn't going to be covered.
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Originally Posted by mizzoutiger
As I know he read my posts last night and still hasn't responded as to jurisdiction in which he filed report and confirmed job (as listed in his profile), I'm throwing in the bs flag. Barney Fife would see trouble with this story.
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Originally Posted by mizzoutiger
As I know he read my posts last night and still hasn't responded as to jurisdiction in which he filed report and confirmed job (as listed in his profile), I'm throwing in the bs flag. Barney Fife would see trouble with this story.
Seriously, if this is a joke, and you left your keys in the car, then you have just scared a lot of people over this....
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my boss had his car stolen 2 years ago while he had the car idling out front (warming it up because of winter).... he ended up settling on the car even though the insurance company grumbled about the keys in the car. a stolen car is a stolen car... period. i lost 2 cars this passed november... so i feel your pain. hope everything works out. i just received my new g coupe last friday and had a tracking system installed yesterday... i'm not screwing around this time (maybe i'm just more paranoid?).
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Originally Posted by giddyup69
i lost 2 cars this passed november... so i feel your pain. hope everything works out. i just received my new g coupe last friday and had a tracking system installed yesterday... i'm not screwing around this time (maybe i'm just more paranoid?).
Dag man, 2 cars in one month??? what kind of area do you live in?
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Originally Posted by clokwork
Dag man, 2 cars in one month??? what kind of area do you live in?
the cars were both stolen in one night... broke in took my keys... then left with the cars. house alarm was on and everything. my wife and i were out with friends that picked us up. pretty crazy what lengths these guys will take to steal the car they want. oh... took about 15minutes for rent-a-cops to show up. so it looks like they are capable of grabbing the cars well before a 15 min time span. in my eye's they were pro's who have done it countless times before. what shocked me the most was that the cops didn't seem to care (they're attitude was... "eh, u'll get your money back and u didn't get hurt"... sad part is... u NEVER get ALL your money back... plus it's a massive headache). the insurance company did a better write-up of the whole incident. go figure.
-regards.
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Thought you all might find this interesting. I found this article, which sheds some light on the POSSIBILITY of immobilizer cars being able to be stolen:
2/1/05
Security Codes on Keys Cracked
The Car Connection
"Those transponder-based security chips implanted in some car keys as a security device may have met their match. The Associated Press reports that researchers at Jonhs Hopkins University have found a way around the immobilizer units, which use the electronic components to bar thieves from starting and stealing vehicles. The team studying the security devices says a relatively inexpensive electronic device could obtain the information needed to bypass the chips. The specific radio-based units that could be overridden are featured on more than 150 million vehicles made by Ford, Toyota, and Nissan; the systems are similar to those found at some gasoline stations that allow customers to wave a fob at the pump, automatically charging the total to a credit card on file. The Hopkins researchers say they've cracked those devices too - but experts put the likelihood of thieves committing thefts by the school's methods low."
Anyhoo, just thought I shed some additional light on the subject. This doesn't mean that we should all be worried, but I found it interesting, nonetheless.
2/1/05
Security Codes on Keys Cracked
The Car Connection
"Those transponder-based security chips implanted in some car keys as a security device may have met their match. The Associated Press reports that researchers at Jonhs Hopkins University have found a way around the immobilizer units, which use the electronic components to bar thieves from starting and stealing vehicles. The team studying the security devices says a relatively inexpensive electronic device could obtain the information needed to bypass the chips. The specific radio-based units that could be overridden are featured on more than 150 million vehicles made by Ford, Toyota, and Nissan; the systems are similar to those found at some gasoline stations that allow customers to wave a fob at the pump, automatically charging the total to a credit card on file. The Hopkins researchers say they've cracked those devices too - but experts put the likelihood of thieves committing thefts by the school's methods low."
Anyhoo, just thought I shed some additional light on the subject. This doesn't mean that we should all be worried, but I found it interesting, nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by RidinThaGSpot
EDIT : Now that i think about it, the keys were in my jacket pocket.. which was also in the car. The reason i grabbed the other keys instead of reaching in the back seat to get the keys in my jacket were because the other keys had my gym scan thing on them and i needed that. Stupid ****ing me..but i still don't think that's how they got the car. Who would think to look in the jacket? U think insurance will give me a hard time for that?
I wish you the best.
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Originally Posted by RidinThaGSpot
by the way, thanks for all your support guys. Hopefully I will have my G Ride back, or maybe a new one god willing
I just have to say.....that our 2002 BMW 330ci with BBS rims was stolen from the Barnes and Noble on Route 46.....the car was found in Secacus New Jersey 3 weeks later with the headlights and Rims gone......
The car was TOWED away...no key or anything.
What the theif does is they break into the car by making a hole into the driver side door and open up the lock from there. FOR THE BMW, they punch out the door lock and got into the car that way. when they are in they look for a spare key to start the car up...some people leave the spare keys in the car (owners manual/glove box) this is what they look for if they didn't tow the car.......
I know this because the bmw had it door lock punched out (easy fix 100 bucks) and they went in looking for the key. Few months later they just towed it....