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They took a lot longer to steal yours than mine. Did you find any glass? Didnt look like they even broke a window like they did for mine. I even found a site where you buy the kit they use after some googling :-( £350 will get you a programmer that you put a blank key in. Plug in to odb and it...

My next car will have glass protection film for sure. something like this. https://www.tintyourglass.co.uk/supaglass.html my dad's car used to have this stuff in South Africa to try and stop smash and grabs. can be smashed but is going no where. you can smash it and push it pretty easy from...

Mine was stolen a couple of weeks back so I feel your pain. You can buy the equipment online at garage suppliers and such. These devices are part of an EU mandate that 3rd parties must be able to supply replacement keys for cars sold in the EU. This means devices exist that can be plugged into...

As I have been researching this I was amazed too just find instructions on how to program a new key in a b8 platform car if you have lost all the keys. I’m not going to link to it but I thought it was interesting that you can apparently download the BCM data and create a “dealer key” with out...

Might have look into that and a tracker.

I didn’t have keyless entry. My key will be the same as yours. They smash the window. The alarm doesn’t sound for 15 secs. In that time they plug in and delete all the keys and add their new key and drive away.

well I thought I might update this. The police arrested someone. No sign of my car though (I am sure it's in pieces). The thieves were smart enough to drive up in a car one of them legally owned. So they got caught escorting my S4 out the area on ANPR. From reading another thread...

I know what you mean. I’ve trying to think about getting a GPS/VHF tracker for when I replace the car. Sounds like they loaded my car into a container on a truck. So even if it had full time GPS tracking it would be blocked now. The cops told me a lot of the guys now have gps noise boxes. So...

Doesn’t surprise me. It would appear my car was loading onto a truck in Dudley near Birmingham. I locked the RSNAV unit remotely so when the car turns on at will put a message on the screen saying “this car is stolen” but won’t stop them chopping it up for parts. Such a waste. It was spotless.

I thought the same thing. But clearly they are a target! One of the cops I spoke too said there has been a mad rush on stealing S4 in the last month. All the same thing. Shamed window and then stolen in 30 seconds :( This is what I want now more than anything. Gutted that the police almost had...

I wish I had a garage. And I wish I had a steering lock now.

I would say you could cut in the can bus wife’s on the back of the port and put in a switch(or switches). Just leave it off when the car is not going to a garage or what ever. Then the odb port is basically dead unless someone knows where the switch is.

the cops showed up 6 mins after the engine was turned off and no sight of it. They think it was loaded onto a truck :( gutted. really thought I was getting her back for a second.

They turned the car on!!! I am live tracking it for the police right now!

I walked it at lunch and there is a couple of houses with CCTV so going to knock on their doors later this evening. I talked to the house next door and they heard nothing either. I am certain they broke the window and plugged into the port. The ironic thing I was actually looking at 24/7 GPS...

more than anything I want the prats caught. Makes me sick to think someone was targeting me and my family.

For sure the next car I will be at the very least doing this. I wish I had done some research and realised these things suffer from port attacks. I have RS-NAV unit in the car and that looks to have not been on since last night. I was hoping that it would update on the android find my phone...

At least like you say no one was hurt. I am just amazed at how quietly they got away with my car. Really disappointing that there are so many car stealing scumbags out there. Makes you really question getting nice things for yourself.

came out this morning and my Avant was gone. just a tiny bit of broken glass. I assume there is tech out there to quickly steal these? It was on my drive. In a quite cul de sac (dead end). No one heard a thing. So I can only assume the alarm went off for a few seconds. I parked it up at 17:00...

I was going t go the whole MMi3+ route eventually but RSNAV seems like far less hassle!