Van Stolen… but how?
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We had our van stolen in the week from a premier inn car park
In Doncaster.
They had others away too.
There was CCTV (not bothered). Window smashed and van gone within 30-seconds. Naively, I thought that stealing vans with without keys was a thing of the past.
How are they doing this??
Really frustrating as the van is worth peanuts, but we ordered it new as it was a bespoke build with a tail lift, only has 50k miles.
A new one will likely be the only option.
In Doncaster.
They had others away too.
There was CCTV (not bothered). Window smashed and van gone within 30-seconds. Naively, I thought that stealing vans with without keys was a thing of the past.
How are they doing this??
Really frustrating as the van is worth peanuts, but we ordered it new as it was a bespoke build with a tail lift, only has 50k miles.
A new one will likely be the only option.
Cats_pyjamas said:
Likely via obd2 port.
I have an obd relocation loom in my van, it has a dummy located in the standard place, which provides power but no data transfer. IE it will waste their time and hopefully they'd foxtrot Oscar when they can't get the machine to connect after a while.
I wish I knew how they managed to connect so quickly! The few of these that I look after for our fleet, half the time it won't let me connect because it needs wifi, or there is a security process. All I normally want to do is find out why the stupid things have gone into limp home mode or put the EML on!I have an obd relocation loom in my van, it has a dummy located in the standard place, which provides power but no data transfer. IE it will waste their time and hopefully they'd foxtrot Oscar when they can't get the machine to connect after a while.
Sorry, I cannot help with how they had the vans away so easily but how did they know your van and other were there? A mate booked into a Premier Inn under a group booking for a motorbike club. He was the first to arrive and during booking in (10 minutes) his bike was nicked. The scum obviously knew about the booking and were waiting, got it into the back of a van. The manager was a hero and allowed all the other bikes, about a dozen, to park in the ‘events room’. Mate got his bike back; someone saw said scum push a bike into a lockup and contacted the police.
Rick
vaud said:
Hugo Stiglitz v2 said:
Why would they steal it though? Who would it be attractive to?
Just for parts? When my cars were stolen they only found the parts in a chop shop in Birmingham…untakenname said:
Not very helpful after the fact but maybe for the future or for others reading, a cheap battery isolator/kill switch with keyfob arming would likely have prevented this and costs around £30.
How many modern vehicles support the use of battery disarming as a regular feature, most have alarms that will activate on battery 'removal' as standard.untakenname said:
Not very helpful after the fact but maybe for the future or for others reading, a cheap battery isolator/kill switch with keyfob arming would likely have prevented this and costs around £30.
If they can get into the car, they can get into the engine bay. Granted it would take them longer to faff about with removing this than it would just getting in and driving off, but no one is going to question someone looking like they're trying to fix a broken down van I'd have thought.Cats_pyjamas said:
Likely via obd2 port.
I have an obd relocation loom in my van, it has a dummy located in the standard place, which provides power but no data transfer. IE it will waste their time and hopefully they'd foxtrot Oscar when they can't get the machine to connect after a while.
Would be good if you could set it up for the dummy port to activate a hidden camera and/or call the police when someone tries to connect to the dummy port...I have an obd relocation loom in my van, it has a dummy located in the standard place, which provides power but no data transfer. IE it will waste their time and hopefully they'd foxtrot Oscar when they can't get the machine to connect after a while.
Or just waits for 10 seconds after connection and sends a couple of thousand volts through the dummy connector to fry their equipment...
Fatboy said:
Cats_pyjamas said:
Likely via obd2 port.
I have an obd relocation loom in my van, it has a dummy located in the standard place, which provides power but no data transfer. IE it will waste their time and hopefully they'd foxtrot Oscar when they can't get the machine to connect after a while.
Would be good if you could set it up for the dummy port to activate a hidden camera and/or call the police when someone tries to connect to the dummy port...I have an obd relocation loom in my van, it has a dummy located in the standard place, which provides power but no data transfer. IE it will waste their time and hopefully they'd foxtrot Oscar when they can't get the machine to connect after a while.
Or just waits for 10 seconds after connection and sends a couple of thousand volts through the dummy connector to fry their equipment...
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