jthspace
Well-known member
As you know, the theft of expensive cars with keyless entry is huge (in the UK) with Range Rovers and similar disappearing by the hour. Key reprogrammers that the thieves use are available on the web for less than £100 and covers most of the cars out there (including ours).
The police recommend a "crook lock" type of device as stealing one of these types of car by reprogramming is relatively easy and done in minutes.
The reason that it is easy to reprogram a blank key by the thieves using the OBD port is that the PIN code for any given make of car is "standard" I am lead to believe. One of the options of using an ETACS programmer (to change door locking etc) is to change the re-key PIN code so it becomes impossible to reprogram a key unless you know the PIN to key in maually into the programmer.
Less convenient, but the crook-lock is probably an easier solution . . . just a pain to remember to use it!
I was thinking of one of these
Jeff
The police recommend a "crook lock" type of device as stealing one of these types of car by reprogramming is relatively easy and done in minutes.
The reason that it is easy to reprogram a blank key by the thieves using the OBD port is that the PIN code for any given make of car is "standard" I am lead to believe. One of the options of using an ETACS programmer (to change door locking etc) is to change the re-key PIN code so it becomes impossible to reprogram a key unless you know the PIN to key in maually into the programmer.
Less convenient, but the crook-lock is probably an easier solution . . . just a pain to remember to use it!
I was thinking of one of these
Jeff