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whitter45

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9th Jul 12 at 14:10

May have heard much about this but taken from BabyBMW

Here's a video of my 1M being stolen a few months ago at 3am. They smashed a small area of glass (No alarm went off), used a device to reprogram a key fob trough the OBD port, then unlocked the car, pushed it off the drive and gone. In 3 minutes.

BMW can't recognise a problem with their cars. I can't understand why the alarm didn't go off, and why it only took 3 minutes to steal a £43,000 car. In the west midlands alone, 300 cars were stolen like this in March 2012 alone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHo-GYG25Q

Enjoy.

Apparently is happening very often now

John

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9th Jul 12 at 14:12

There's video's of people doing it online, Brett posted a link earlier.

http://hackaday.com/2012/07/07/keyless-bmw-cars-prove-to-be-very-easy-to-steal/

As I've said before, BMW seem to have more problems and common faults that Vauxhall.

[Edited on 09-07-2012 by John]

Ben G

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9th Jul 12 at 14:13

annoys the hell out of me.

Robin

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9th Jul 12 at 14:18

I don't understand how you can smash a small section of tempered glass?

Colin

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9th Jul 12 at 14:20

Should have got a 318i nobody wants to nick them!!

Whittie

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9th Jul 12 at 14:20

quote:
Originally posted by Robin
I don't understand how you can smash a small section of tempered glass?

Possibly shot it

Nismo

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9th Jul 12 at 14:20

I still think that nothing beats a good old steering lock or those that go on the handbrake, yeah they won't stop your car from being taken but it will make it harder.

But then if i had a 43K car and cctv cameras id pay the 1K a year for a remote monitoring company to sit there and watch them cameras at night.

Ben G

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9th Jul 12 at 14:21

the guy obviously spent the 1k on the clapped out old passat as his daily shed.

Ben G

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9th Jul 12 at 14:22

what i'd like to know is what happens when limited edition new cars like this get stolen?

obviously they can't go and buy another brand new as they only made them for a short time, so do they just get cash and have to buy something else?

3CorsaMeal

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9th Jul 12 at 14:24

its weird, as i imagine 90% of owners have only paid a few months rent on them by the time they are stolen.

Would deffo want to cancel the direct debit straight away if it was me.

[Edited on 09-07-2012 by 3CorsaMeal]

Robin

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9th Jul 12 at 14:28

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
what i'd like to know is what happens when limited edition new cars like this get stolen?

obviously they can't go and buy another brand new as they only made them for a short time, so do they just get cash and have to buy something else?

Isn't that how it always works? You never get bought a new car, you get cash whatever the situation

Ben G

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9th Jul 12 at 14:32

i've heard of people with gap insurance being given a brand new car again. only if under a certain age.

when i say 'heard', i mean i read up on it on an owners forum shortly after buying my focus with gap.

Colin

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9th Jul 12 at 14:32

Jim still lives at home and has never made a telephone digit purchase before so no.

No offence Jim, same as Im not offended with slander towards my rented bmw.

Robin

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9th Jul 12 at 14:36

Big plus point here...

That 1M, if found, will be worth about half what it was as it would be stolen recovered. Bargain for someone who doesn't care.

Sunz

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9th Jul 12 at 14:39

"BMW don't seem to want to admit they have a problem, even though over 300 cars have been stolen in March 2012 in a single UK county"

I believe now they have admitted there is a problem ?

Is an interesting common problem for the family at CS to list when people ask to buy a bmw.

whitter45

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9th Jul 12 at 14:41

quote:
Originally posted by Sunz
"BMW don't seem to want to admit they have a problem, even though over 300 cars have been stolen in March 2012 in a single UK county"

I believe now they have admitted there is a problem ?

Is an interesting common problem for the family at CS to list when people ask to buy a bmw.

at the time of the original post on BabyBMW was created BMW denied all knowledge

However with the ever growing list I believe they now have confirmed it is a problem

Anty

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9th Jul 12 at 14:44

wouldnt it be funny, if you had one minus an engine, and the steering wasnt connected ...

Corsa_Sport21

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9th Jul 12 at 14:49

quote:
Originally posted by Anty
wouldnt it be funny, if you had one minus an engine, and the steering wasnt connected ...

Both at the same time?? Would be pointless having the steering disconnected as you wouldn't be able to drive off to realise it had no steering.

djgritt

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9th Jul 12 at 15:18

Wasn't this posted on here a while ago?

Edit;

Roughly was - think the stuff posted above was also on PH around then

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=636254&page=1

[Edited on 09-07-2012 by djgritt]

Ludacris Turbo

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9th Jul 12 at 16:15

Piece of piss to reprogram a key aswell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=N70Z9Z5hY8A

Tom J

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10th Jul 12 at 15:47

they touched the cameras several times wonder if they got any prints

Wrighty

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10th Jul 12 at 16:14

wow!