Oh wow!...
I'm so tempted by CCTV but it's not going to stop anyone, and the evidence (according to a police officer friend) for identification is poor and almost useless.
The police officer friend recommended fitting one of those Amazon battery operated cameras with a 2 year battery life inside the vehicle, if it's parked at home and in-range of the WiFi then all activity is immediately uploaded to the cloud. It's all about getting a clear image of their face.
I just hope Vw don’t see fit to use these stupid keyless systems in the future. Scary when you see someone make off with a Range Rover without the keys.
Very! I was showing my partner all those key-less entry YouTube videos when they scan the house and relay the signal back to the car. She had no idea it was so easy!
The clever marketing people realised that the technology obsessed public could be persuaded that putting a key in the ignition was just too much hard work and it could be avoided if you buy the latest vehicle with the latest technology.
So the marketing people were happy with their bonus.
The public were happy that they could show off their keyless vehicle to their friends.
The car thieves were happy as it made life easier and even if caught, the sentence was much less because they didn't get done for the burglary that they used to do in order to steal the key.
The manufacturers were happy because when your car ends up in a container bound for another country, what do you do? You buy another!
And we all pay a higher insurance premium because of it!
That's progress???
I’m too tight to replace the defective key switch on my battered A4, it has an Ebay 3 quid push button switch to activate the solenoid.
I challenge anybody to find it.
Like @DaveD says new technology doesn't result in progress, having worked in an industry for 25 years where graduate rocket scientists were trying to prove their worth by reinventing the wheel I tend to lean the other way where possible.
I challenge anybody to find it.
Like @DaveD says new technology doesn't result in progress, having worked in an industry for 25 years where graduate rocket scientists were trying to prove their worth by reinventing the wheel I tend to lean the other way where possible.
So just to offer a slightly different point of view, I am also very careful where I leave the keys at night. I leave them somewhere where they could not be grabbed from the front or back doors using a fishing rod for example and not in plain sight so they can't be seen by looking in through a window. However, they are somewhere downstairs that would be fairly obvious to an intruder if they started mooching around. I would never have them upstairs, let alone in the same room where I was sleeping. Once you know someone who has been broken into at night where the intruder(s) could not easily find the key downstairs so decided to come upstairs to extract it from them physically while they were sleeping and their kids were in the room next door, you will understand my point of view. I'm very precious about my van; but when push comes to shove I'm more precious about my loved ones. Hard to swallow, but if someone is canny enough to get into my house without me realising at night (no easy feat in itself as I am extremely security conscious, alarm is always set without fail, all round CCTV and all round security lighting) then I'd rather they just took the van and be gone with it as quickly as possible.
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Very good point!
