What normally happens in these situations is they gain access to the vehicle either by physical IE smashing a window or using a repeater. They then connect to the OBD port and program a new key so the rolling codes don't make any difference.
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What normally happens in these situations is they gain access to the vehicle either by physical IE smashing a window or using a repeater. They then connect to the OBD port and program a new key so the rolling codes don't make any difference.
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If they went legit they could make a few quid. I need the logbook and a palaver to get the code for my Astra and it is ten years old!!!
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but thats arson very bad if you get caught
on the other hand nicking a 100 quid dash cam it would lightly be a police crime number and theyed not even bother any more
a steeling crime under 800 or a 1000 comes as a lesser crime with a lot less time in jail even if its the 7 th time they done it
bloke at work has a problem with fly tipping been done at his 3 times in the last year he said he cant understand it he said there are loads of places to throw stuff out round his road but its all council land if they tip there the council would have to clean up and cheak over stuff thats been dumped and after a while might set up a sting op to try catch them
but on his private land its his problem and the council are not worried and if he caught them its a civil case that he would have to bring aganst them
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Just recently we have discovered my Minion's partner has had her car cloned. When he called the police to report it, he was told that he/they were not the victims but the council who issued the fines were, deprived of the revenue.
We are fekking doomed!
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Trying to get my head around the above.
Cloning your car is "identity theft". Surely you are the victim.
I am sure you would feel a victim - when the speeding/parking/zone tickets started landing on mass.
Yeah you would be the victim - you are gonna waste hours of your time proving you were not speeding/parking or even there.
Doomed...
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I’d put personal plates on the car now, couple of hundred notes but save all the hassle. You never know if you tell the DVLA the reason you’re having to do this they may give a discount! Plus if the fake plates are seen by plod they’d show up invalid.
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As much as I disagree, they are right - it’s to do with who is the ‘Loser’. Victims Charter sets it all out.
Sh1t state of affairs though. The problem is that a lot of these institutions, such as the Police, GPS, etc, view all “service users” (and yea they apply that to the criminals too
) as a Hot Potato. Ie, stick it into someone else as quick as possible. There is very rarely any resolution as such, just move it on to someone else who is also doing the same thing. The aim is to get rid of things as quick as possible and if they can bury them so it is closed then all the better. I worked for them for a while and it amazed me how things are done and how little is actually achieved for such a massive organisation. If you ran a business like that it’d go bust.
Private plates is the cheaper quicker solution
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I do not understand how a private plate makes a difference.
i (maybe incorrectly) understood that when false plates are used they are fitted to an identical vehicle ( eg, silver miondeo estate) , therefore if I am correct a cloned private plate would again be used on an identical vehicle to the correct one.
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Just re read this but the edit has gone…As much as I disagree, they are right - it’s to do with who is the ‘Loser’. Victims Charter sets it all out.
Sh1t state of affairs though. The problem is that a lot of these institutions, such as the Police, GPS, etc, view all “service users” (and yea they apply that to the criminals too
I worked for them for a while and it amazed me how things are done and how little is actually achieved for such a massive organisation. If you ran a business like that it’d go bust.
Private plates is the cheaper quicker solution
You don’t need to be a victim to report a crime, so if they just said he wasn’t the loser and took the details etc that’s fine, but if they wouldn’t get it started without the victim reporting it then that is wrong
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As much as I disagree, they are right - it’s to do with who is the ‘Loser’. Victims Charter sets it all out.
Sh1t state of affairs though. The problem is that a lot of these institutions, such as the Police, GPS, etc, view all “service users” (and yea they apply that to the criminals too
I worked for them for a while and it amazed me how things are done and how little is actually achieved for such a massive organisation. If you ran a business like that it’d go bust.
Private plates is the cheaper quicker solution
I had someone smash into a car and then ram my land rover out the way to speed off outside my house.
Just caught a glimpse of it as it got to the bottom of the road, passenger side completely wrecked but still speeding, at school time with kids all over the place.
Police wernt intrested In the slightest, just call your insurance
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If only an architect could design some kind of lockable building with a door big enough to get a car in and out of. It could even be attached to the house with a connecting door so you could take your shopping inside with getting soggy!
Edit; this isn't intended as a snipe/jibe, lots of people's situations couldn't accommodate a garage. But there does seem to have been a trend away from housing what is often the second most valuable thing people buy and trend of architects to make unusably tiny garages.
Edit; this isn't intended as a snipe/jibe, lots of people's situations couldn't accommodate a garage. But there does seem to have been a trend away from housing what is often the second most valuable thing people buy and trend of architects to make unusably tiny garages.
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Some dash cams have impact/motion detection and will record when car is stationary. Safer to rip them out and smash them rather than investigate whether or not they have that feature.
That's because keeping your vehicle in a garage is the worst thing you can do, once the thief is in your garage they have as long as they need to get your vehicle going without being disturbed.
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Maybe, but my insurance company disagrees. Can't believe they'd subsidise something that increased the risk of damage/theft.
Yes my bike insurance was the same but never my car insurance. Each to their own our vehicles are vulnerable where ever we park them as the punishment for twoc is none existing anymore.
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Sure that happens too, But in this instance the OP is talking about rolling codes.
