How are most cars stolen?

EdGasketTheSecond

Supersonos wrote: »

So when I'm away for a week and my Range Rover is parked in a hotel car park (so they have no way of knowing who owns it and the keys are nowhere near it) it's impossible to steal it other than to tow it?

And even if they tow it, what can they do with it then other than strip it for parts?

I wouldn't bank on it; Range Rovers seem to be especially popular with car thieves:


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7595631/Range-Rover-Evoques-targeted-spate-keyless-car-thefts.html


Neighbours Jeep was stolen last year although it was locked and alarmed; no-one heard or saw anything. Found a few days later after it had crashed into three parked cars.

Jackmydad

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

I wouldn't bank on it; Range Rovers seem to be especially popular with car thieves:


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7595631/Range-Rover-Evoques-targeted-spate-keyless-car-thefts.html


Neighbours Jeep was stolen last year although it was locked and alarmed; no-one heard or saw anything. Found a few days later after it had crashed into three parked cars.

What all on it's own?
Poor thing must have been sick of being on tarmac all the time and had escaped to the wide open spaces. . .

George333

Supersonos wrote: »

So when I'm away for a week and my Range Rover is parked in a hotel car park (so they have no way of knowing who owns it and the keys are nowhere near it) it's impossible to steal it other than to tow it?

And even if they tow it, what can they do with it then other than strip it for parts?

Laptop plugged into the OBD and away it goes, into a shipping container and off to Eastern Europe.

mcpitman

In my younger days, I had a Fiesta RST, that was somewhat modified.

Due to that ins wanted a Thatcham Cat 1 alarm and Tracker fitting, duly done.

It was on my parents drive with a wheel clamp, disklok, alarm installed and Tracker fitted. That got stolen and was eventually tracked to a farm in France somewhere, in bits.

If the professional thieves want something bad enough they will get it, but worrying about that all the time is where madness lies......

20 odd years on and i now drive a relatively boring family diesel. The beauty of that is I couldn't give a monkeys if it got stolen.

facade

Will the ghost defeat the obd port thefts?


They sell them for the Ford STs, which are pretty much all stolen that way.


I had a look at the website, and they seem to just trumpet how brilliant they are, I'm guessing they just keep sending an ignition off or similar code down the canbus to keep cancelling the key, but if you open up the system with the obd tool can you just ignore it?

EdGasketTheSecond

mcpitman wrote: »

20 odd years on and i now drive a relatively boring family diesel. The beauty of that is I couldn't give a monkeys if it got stolen.

You would when you found out how much it'd put up your insurance.

Herzlos

caprikid1 wrote: »

But with a tracker you can get it back ?

They normally steal the car either remove the tracker or dump it on a street somewhere for a few days to see if it gets recovered/watched. Or they strip it for parts and dump the rest.

Supersonos wrote: »

And even if they tow it, what can they do with it then other than strip it for parts?

A lot of cars are worth more as parts than as a whole car.

Exemplar

motorguy wrote: »

And a Ghost cant easily be bypassed like the Peugeot one could.

Yes - look for the worn numbers.

reeac

In the old days when cars had carburettors and carburettors had float chambers a petrol pump switch allowed the car to start and run for a couple of minutes but then stopped when the float chambers were empty. This tended to leave the car in an embarrassing situation in the middle of the road and apparently was rather off putting to would be thieves.

Alexd52

Exemplar wrote: »

Yes - look for the worn numbers.

But that doesn't tell you the order in which they are entered, so still a fair number of possible combinations