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Jul 12
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stolen1m says:
Hi All. Here's the CCTV footage of my BMW 1M stolen without any keys in 3 minutes!
This is a £43,000 BMW 1M Stolen at 3 am in under 3 minutes. They accessed the car's OBD port in the footwell by breaking the glass, reaching in and using a device to reprogram a blank key fob. The car was simply then unlocked and pushed off the drive and driven away. No Alarm went off, and later found out there is a 'void' on the inside of the car, so if you keep your arm close to the inside of the door and the dash, the alarm will not activate. Just enough room to get your arm down to the OBD port where you can re-program a blank key if you have the correct device (which you can buy in the internet!)
BMW don't seem to want to admit they have a problem on their cars. They are still producing cars with the OBD port located in the footwell in the same location. Over 300 cars have been stolen in March 2012 in the West Midlands alone and apparently the Police told me in one night £250,000 worth of cars were stolen in the region.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHo-GYG25Q
Jun 12
Posts: 3
monkeydoo says:
So much for high security i thought you could only nick new cars with the keys.
ellend27 says:
stolen1m said: Hi All. Here's the CCTV footage of my BMW 1M stolen without any keys in 3 minutes! This is a £43,000 BMW 1M Stolen at 3 am in under 3 minutes. They accessed the car's OBD port in the footwell by breaking the glass, reaching in and using a device to reprogram a blank key fob. The car was simply then unlocked and pushed off the drive and driven away. No Alarm went off, and later found out there is a 'void' on the inside of the car, so if you keep your arm close to the inside of the door and the dash, the alarm will not activate. Just enough room to get your arm down to the OBD port where you can re-program a blank key if you have the correct device (which you can buy in the internet!) BMW don't seem to want to admit they have a problem on their cars. They are still producing cars with the OBD port located in the footwell in the same location. Over 300 cars have been stolen in March 2012 in the West Midlands alone and apparently the Police told me in one night £250,000 worth of cars were stolen in the region. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHo-GYG25Q
I feel sorry for your loss. Its really frustrating to think that a big car manufacturer like BMW doesn't even make changes to their present car designs inspite of the fact that there are already so many carnappings happening around because of glitches in their car instrumentations. I hope your case will be resolved soon...
May 13
Posts: 2
WesleyCheek says:
Personally I still believe there is some future for hybrids. Just the technology is not quite there yet and it will take more than a start-up à la Tesla or Fisker to take it to the next level
Oct 06
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Sam the Eagle says:
WesleyCheek said: Personally I still believe there is some future for hybrids. Just the technology is not quite there yet and it will take more than a start-up à la Tesla or Fisker to take it to the next level
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