How to steal a car without the key. Hint: your Faraday cage won't.
The Puma Defenders have a vulnerability in the same place, but it's way more simple than a Can attack.
Thieves were removing the headlight and disabling all the security including immobiliser, so there is a well known upgrade which extends the loom so it goes nowhere near the perimeter of the car and to get to it the thieves need to get right into the guts of the vehicle - still possible but harder than popping a headlight out and driving away in two minutes.
Physical barriers like steering locks and pedal locks are still favourable, I use them and two hidden kill switches that cut ignition and fuel circuits.
The real problem is the state of society and the criminal justice system, it's weak and criminals don't care. It's depressing.
I don't trust extra locks much, for ages steering wheel locks had those round locks that could be opened with a pen.
I used to love the fuel cut off switch my MG had, easy to reach but unmarked and not obvious.
I'm not sure how I'd go about doing something similar in a modern car.
Mussels wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:56 am
I don't trust extra locks much, for ages steering wheel locks had those round locks that could be opened with a pen.
I used to love the fuel cut off switch my MG had, easy to reach but unmarked and not obvious.
I'm not sure how I'd go about doing something similar in a modern car.
My old Beetle had a floor mounted, foot operated fuel cut off. No one except Beetle owners knew about it.
Mussels wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:56 am
I don't trust extra locks much, for ages steering wheel locks had those round locks that could be opened with a pen.
I used to love the fuel cut off switch my MG had, easy to reach but unmarked and not obvious.
I'm not sure how I'd go about doing something similar in a modern car.
My old Beetle had a floor mounted, foot operated fuel cut off. No one except Beetle owners knew about it.
Ant wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:07 am
The far left extremist leader, Nicola Sturgeon to resign today from the position of leader of the Scottish Racist Party
Jumping ship before some scandal hits the press, do we think?
A new scandal to add to:
Ferries fiasco, several scandals for the price of one
Trans right arguments
Declining health service
Education system problems
Air traffic control strikes
Dodgy loan from her husband to the SNP
Accusations of bullying
Knowing about Salmond being a sex pest and not doing anything
There's probably more too. And then there's the internal party strife on how to claim the country has de facto voted for independence in the next GE whatever the result.
Mussels wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:56 am
I don't trust extra locks much, for ages steering wheel locks had those round locks that could be opened with a pen.
I used to love the fuel cut off switch my MG had, easy to reach but unmarked and not obvious.
I'm not sure how I'd go about doing something similar in a modern car.
My old Beetle had a floor mounted, foot operated fuel cut off. No one except Beetle owners knew about it.
Was it called 'the throttle?
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
DefTrap wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:58 am
The locks on my car don't work very well.
And my bike has been parked up with the keys in it for at least 5 years.
Last year we lost the key to our shit box Honda Civic. Called up an automotive locksmith, within 20 mins he'd broken in and produced a new fully functioning key for it.
Bit of a sideways thought but some cars used to have a foot operated dip/main beam, which actually seemed quite a good idea. (Bit irrelevant now cars can decide - quite often rather late - when you need to dip the beam).
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Count Steer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:14 am
Bit of a sideways thought but some cars used to have a foot operated dip/main beam, which actually seemed quite a good idea. (Bit irrelevant now cars can decide - quite often rather late - when you need to dip the beam).
My new car has adaptive headlights that can dip a portion of the beam so that you have high beam on your side of the road but not in the face of incoming traffic ... bloody clever.
BBC wrote:Sturgeon's husband arrested in SNP finance probe
How very unedifying.
And the new Scotch First Minister is her protégé.
So in the same way that Sturgeon must have known about Salmond* being a sex pest is it reasonable to assume that the current Glorious Leader knew about the financial problems? Maybe Ash Regan is in with a chance? Interesting and amusing times. Amusing as for me it's funny to watch all the main parties shit the bed and all those opposing them make the same points and accusations, and all to no avail.
Count Steer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:14 am
Bit of a sideways thought but some cars used to have a foot operated dip/main beam, which actually seemed quite a good idea. (Bit irrelevant now cars can decide - quite often rather late - when you need to dip the beam).
My new car has adaptive headlights that can dip a portion of the beam so that you have high beam on your side of the road but not in the face of incoming traffic ... bloody clever.
Mine goes one further than that. It's got megapixel resolution on the beam (the reflectors are arrays of microscopic mirrors) so it can draw boxes of dark around oncoming cars. It's bloody witchcraft, you get daymaker highbeam with little squares of black tracking the other cars.
Not sure who makes the system, several of the OEMs use it now under different brands.
