Peugeot car key extortion!

EssexExile

photome wrote: »

So is mine usually, but if I am going out drinking I leave the car key at home.

I tend to leave the car at home.

EdGasketTheSecond

Expensive keys and immobilisers make everyone an indirect victim of crime. Its because the law doesn't adequately punish car thieves that it does not deter them so everyone has to pay for these expensive anti-theft devices.

AdrianC

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Expensive keys and immobilisers make everyone an indirect victim of crime. Its because the law doesn't adequately punish car thieves that it does not deter them so everyone has to pay for these expensive anti-theft devices.

They're not expensive if you don't lose your only key.


I've never once lost a car key, let alone the only key...

EdGasketTheSecond

Well A Merc key is £255 whether you have another or not; I don't call that cheap.

almillar

Every car? So my car has an immobiliser? Didn't know that... does it? It's a 2006, so according to your "20 year" thing, it must have... I never knew that!

What car is it?

Edit: Immobilisers and alarms a legal requirement on all new cars after October 1998.

That makes my 2015 Renault Zoe illegal then? Has an immobiliser but no alarm.

EdGasketTheSecond

Immobiliser only; alarm is not a requirement but if you have an alarm there are laws about how long it can sound for.