Why New Cars are EASIER to Steal
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2022
- So it turns out car thefts are going up? And is it because the cars are easier to steal? Well it turns out, it kinda is.
Look at this - it’s a graph of - from 1990 to last year. It’s been coming down - but then what’s happened in the last 5 or 6 years? It’s increased?
So what’s happened? Are new cars easier to steal? Or is something else going on?
I’m no detective, but there could be a number of reasons for that recent uptick in car thefts. Covid definitely hasn’t helped when a considerable amount of people began working from home - leaving their cars parked for days and weeks on end without using them. Thieves were able to pick and choose their targets like they were shopping in a supermarket.
Due to new car shortages, many used cars have also seen a dramatic increase in value over the last 18 months, making them hugely popular among criminals looking to make a fast buck.
Whilst increased security with modern systems caused the initial drop in thefts, could it [now] be making modern cars easier to steal?
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haha best theft prevention on my car ... manual transmission
True, I have a big lock that I have to unlock before drive. 0 chance to stole it.
FACT! 🤣
but that only works in America
if it’s a pre 2000 model, EWS has your back 😈
@@bencarpendale my best thing, have an old automatic in the UK. Dead safe (I hope now lol!)
1:44 "expect it PROBABLY won't be Nicolas cage doing it"
Remember the chances of Nicolas cage stealing your car are low BUT NEVER ZERO
Tbf If Nicholas Cage steals my car I wouldn't be too mad about it
This actually made me laugh out loud.
😂😂 Faxx
@@kyledavis4890 me too
Is he broke again?
Lol watching this from South Africa and had a good laugh. Here in South Africa, it is very common to have your car stolen, but instead of breaking into it, they highjack you at an intersection and then drive off with your car. These days it happening more often where the highjackers will take the drive/passengers with them, scary stuff.
Hahaha south african here too
I'm like, "you guys car thefts have been going down?"
That's called carjacking here in the states...
@@Choruseffect hahahaha
Thats what happens when you have so many poor people. Europe and the USA are catching up, we will be there shortly. When the middle class shrinks, crime goes up!
Where I live I can leave my car unlocked with my wallet and phone inside. House unlocked too. No one is poor, so no one steals. That simple.
@@salovila5328 your outlook & perspective are that of a 6 yr old. No offense. Go visit an extremely well to do area in Chicago & see if car theft happens there, or if it only happens where poor brown skinned people live in Chicago.
Yes, there's absolutely no rich people in South Africa whatsoever....remember that Elon Musk guy? His blood diamond rich parents are from South Africa. I'm sure all of the racist, former apartheid politicians in South Africa are dirt poor as well. Guess that's why there's thefts there? Why aren't they safe in their mansions? Politicians steal more than anyone, (like how apartheid era pieces of shit tried to steal a country from its own people), but yes...only poor people steal!
Here's a bit of news for you....roads to wealthy areas are connected to poor areas. You understand thieves can drive an extra 20 miles or minutes & be in your rich, ultra safe neighborhood, right?
Do you think the equipment to carry out electronic car theft is cheap or carried out by uneducated people? Do you think people in organized crime rings are poor? Perhaps they started poor, but guess what? They're not now! No amount of money can make an ignorant person become enlightened. At least a poor person can work themselves out of poverty, as long as people stop thinking like you that is.
Not trying to be harsh, but that needs to be said even though these words will likely fall on deaf ears.
Honestly putting a tracker in your car is probably the easiest way to get your car back or to have a kill switch and the obd hidden somewhere
if old enough, fuel pump switch, lock out the fuel pump when not in the car so only someone who knows where the switch is can start the car, then its only someone who really wants that car that will bother to steal it
@@refraggedbean i have a truck with an inertia sensor, so if that is disconnected or if it is activated, like in a crash, the fuel pump gets turned off
My car has a GPS tracker and a fuel pump kill switch 👍
@@refraggedbean my Sentra spec v has both ignition and fuel kill switch because they are shooting in price like cobalt ss
@@ajp4248 Spec vs are awesome cars. Keep yours. My biggest regret was selling mine.
You show the typical misconception about how keyless systems work and how relay attack works.
If the relay metod were to work as you describe, the key fob would have to constantly emit the "here I am" signal, effectively draining the battery in a very short time.
In reality, there are two different signals at play here and they both have to be properly handled by thieves for the method to work (and therefore the equipment is usually paired to the typical set of frequencies used by both methods in a car). The key fob is normally just listening for an incoming radio signal. Only when the door handle is pulled or the trunk cover is manipulated the car responds by sending a signal "are you there?" on one frequency to the fob. If the fob receives the signal (which by design should designate that the fob is within a short range from the car) it responds - often on another frequency - "hey, here I am". This signal in turn is received by the car which concludes that the owner (or any other authorized person holding the proper key fob) is nearby and unlocks the door. Some cars can then send more of those query/response messages to check when the signal comes from inside of the car (not allowing you, for example, to turn on ignition if the car is outside).
So the relay attack works both ways - firstly it relays the signal from the car to the near vicinity of the key fob (and amplifies it so that it can be received by the fob, possibly being behind a door or somewhere within the house). Then it receives a response from the fob and relays it to the car. After the car has been started, the key is no longer needed since the car, due to road security concerns, will not stop and turn itself off even if the key fob is no longer "present". It will signal an error, it might sound some alarm, but it will not stop going.
This type of attack is either a pre-planned theft indeed but can also be an opportunistic one (for example in my neighbourhood there was lately a wave of Toyota/Lexus thefts apparently because some gang bought equipment working well for Toyota-manufactured cars).
The OBD attack, luckily, with modern cars is way harder because the OBD interface simply won't work without proper key/fob present. So it's no longer as weak spot as it used to be. It's also worth noting that due to the CAN-BUS architecture it's not strictly necessary to attach to OBD port. The thieves can attach themselves into any point where the CAN-BUS is present. Which resulted in some interesting points of entry like external mirrors in some older Mazdas if memory serves me right (the mirrors were electronically controlled so the CAN-BUS endpoint was in the external part of the car and it was way easier and less conspicuous to break a mirror than to smash a window.
My car's mirrors open automatically when I approach it with the key. I think the fob must be emitting something as well. Do you have an idea how this one works?
@@mukulingle2690 That's interesting. What car is this? Anyway, I'd expect that the car emits a beacon signal to which the fob responds.
@@SpadajSpadaj It's a Hyundai i20
Thia channel is always wrong about bearly anything technical.
In some cars if you drive away without the key inside the cabin and the car is in parked position, the engine will turn off
Imagine not taking the injectors out of your engine when leaving your car alone🤡🤡🤡
I take the wheels off and prop the car up on cinderblocks to make sure no one can steal it!
Just take the engine out and bring it on a stand with you through tesco
@@whale4565 why carry the entire engine around when you can just take out the gears from your transmission?
Why not just put the car in your pocket and carry it where ever you go?
@@random_bs_goo9154 Then be careful of pickpocket thieves that could steal your car and ride it into the sunset.
Will anything beat the old Vauxhall Nova/Corsa/Astra "Remove the hazard light button, put it back in upside down, and bump start the car" for ease of stealing?
Or all the cars in the 80's that you could steal with a flat head screwdriver?
@@Alystasscissors were a favorite of mine. I've since payed society and found god.
@@Alystas Back of a teaspoon! 😂
I saw that on Top Gear, blew my mind.
I'm Surprised a Kill switch wasn't mentioned.. just hook it up to cut power or fuel from the system in a discreet/hidden place within the vehicle
I have GPS trackers in all my cars. Had my 86 f350 stolen but the tracker did its job and I found the truck being driven by a crackhead. I followed my truck till he parked at a Walmart and I called the cops. He was arrested the second the grabbed the door handle to my truck on his way out.
Wich GPS do you use ?
@@dimmacommunication Apple AirTag
of course he went to WalMart
How did he start/gain entry to the vehicle? I was just curious.
@@dimmacommunication I use an Optimus tracker that I wired into my car on a switched power source.
Imagine owning a car that someone wants to steal.
At this point, I can only imagine that 😑
Unfortunately, they might want to steal any car or parts from any car if it works or not. Although some more likely to be stolen than others.
Imagine owning a car
Yeah my cars always 13 years old an not worth much, cost more to go on a cruise
MX5 came with factory installed rust direct from Mazda 🤣
So did the Ford Courier (Mazda) and the Datsun 240Z; 260Z
haha
I remember my teacher in auto school unlocked and started my brand new car with his laptop…..he never taught us how to do it but it’s not hard if you have the tools
You have to realize that this still eliminates a huge potential for theft. If the person stealing your car is smart enough and has the means to own a laptop and the tools to do this, dont you think they might have bigger fish to go after than your broke azz pos car? Most theft is low tier trash people.
I wouldn’t be surprised if u could google how to.
Somebody needs to look into your teacher a bit
@@CrunchyTire spot on
If you are really worried about theft you take the fuel pump fuse with you, and have as many different security lugs as lugnuts.
Unless you have a Tesla.
@@shreddder999 electric cars are usually less stolen
@@keisuketakahasi4584 Not to worry! I'm sure the government will make a holiday for them to raise awareness and achieve parity.
@@shreddder999 EV equivalent is pulling the fuse for the high-voltage contactors, or removing 12V battery.
@@shreddder999 Ev's also have important fuses that will stop it from working if pulled.
My car was stolen a few years ago, it was a 95 Accord wagon
I did have a steering wheel club. I had just dropped off some groceries at my house: I was in and out, and I did lock the car
Everyone told me it was already in pieces
The police found it a few days after it was stolen
They didn’t actually tell me they found my car
This led to me having to pay impound fines to get my stolen car back. I did get it back
Sadly someone lost control on the highway and slid across 3 lanes and t boned me which led to me hitting the median head on, going across the highway and back over to the shoulder and my wagon being totaled
holy shit mate that's some bad luck
I drive a 96 accord sedan. Shit scared of it getting stolen seeing as when i got it we didnt have keys so i had to oull the ignition out. Shockingly easy considering i was trying my best to keep it all intact someone who didnt care if it brok or not wouldve just ripped it out
@@quinncampbell5803
I bought a 95 accord sedan from an auction for $$140.00
It needed a battery. But also someone had switched the ignition so the dealer’s key didn’t work.
I bought a new lock but I didn’t realize how hard it would be to just switch out the locks.
My dad took the key that came from the new lock,
He put that key in the cylinder from the accord, and he got it to work
That key was what I used till I sold the car.
I would recommend you get a kill switch you know?
I couldn’t believe how quickly they were able to take my accord wagon. We’re talking less than 5 mins
glad you survived the crash though
Damn, sorry to hear about the accident. Just had my ‘97 accord wagon stolen a couple weeks ago at 4am. My girlfriend spotted it down the street at around 8am. Only listed stolen for 2 hours officially.
Thankfully recovered it with no damage at all, just a missing skateboard that was inside. Clearly they had a skeleton key of some sort.
I do have a killswitch, but it wasn’t engaged the night it was stolen. Needless to say, I’m going to start using it more often now 😬
*In a world filling up with EVs, owning a vintage car alone is the best anti-theft system.*
Not really lol, watch utg gone in a lot less than 60 seconds and you ll see how easy it is for an old ride to be jacked
Owning a Korean car is the best anti theft system.
@@maxthrust976 Yeah, cause no one wants them.
wouldnt that make an ice more desirable?
They be like: I can’t start it! I don’t know how to use a manual choke!
Dear whoever stole my rusted out, falling apart old truck in Detroit, I'm not even mad, I just want to know why and what happened to it. It never turned up 3 years later, and wasn't worth it's weight in scrap. I'm just confused. Like I get it, if it had turned up after being used in some crime or something, but just straight up vanishing?
Damn man how sad is that. When you lose something that's basically worthless but it's got sentimental value to you, thieves will never understand, they are the shit of the world. Can't have shit in Detroit
@@timoarrg I mean, It was a fun truck and had some good times, but wasn't super attached. Mostly I just want to know what happened and why they bothered... like I suppose someone could have wanted the new tires on it, but you'd think the rest of the truck would have turned up at some point. Usually stolen old beaters show up pretty quickly, having either been stripped of anything valuable, or simply used as a 'get away' vehicle in some other crime. It's just weird that it vanished off the face of the earth.
@@johngaltline9933 yeah It happens. I'd bet the leftover is somewhere in a farm or the middle of nowhere, burnt or just the chassis, who knows. I miss the cars my family had when I was younger, luckily none was stolen and are still on the road according to the government website, but I'd love to see where they are and how they look
Some thieves use tow trucks and straight up drive away with them. Once the car reaches a specific angle the alarm shuts off.
I always install a spring loaded toggle kill switch hidden under the dash to prevent theft. If you don't hold the switch down while trying to start the vehicle, the vehicle will not start. Old school tech solving new tech problems.
You do realize you have given car thieves in the comments another thing to check out for, right?
@@zayedfareed9850 If a thief gets in a car and it doesn't start right away, they likely won't spend time searching for the kill switch especially as it can be wherever the owner chooses
@@AlexTunstall Chances are it will be within easy access of the driver, otherwise it would be a pain for the driver.
@@KimonFrousios yes, but they're still going to have to look for it, and connect two and two and figure out it's the kill switch that's not active and not that the car just isn't starting
The best theft prevention in cars is not owning one
Nah the best prevention is driving some dodgy 1996 hatchback that is worth 150 bucks tops.
@@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042 Those are the best ones to steal for joyrides or when committing a crime.
Exactly! No one can steal your car if it was actually just someone elses car that you had already stolen.
@@archygrey9093 lol
If you remember Wartburg, old car from East Germany, they were almost not stolen at all. It is because it had manual locking for all doors, but it was made so when caps are up, car was actualy locked, not unlocked. When caps were down, then car was unlocked. Thath is the reason why Wartburg was stolen very rare.
security through obscurity?
@@rooboty7137 no, Wartburg had metal body and real chassis, Trabant had plastic body
Seeing as i own 2 rust free mx5's I am now very worried 👀
Whats your address? Leave them parked outside
@@cuddlemuffin.9545 one for you, one for me
@@mrwhips3623 leave me a hard top. Those are worth half the car nowadays
Same, kill switch saved one just last week
You own 2? *THATS ILLEGAL*
I hot-wired my 1980s car when I was in college and lost the keys at the beach, took me 10 minutes without knowing what I was doing. When the steering wheel locked I had to call the tow truck.
I saw Javier Bardem brake a steering wheel lock in a movie with his arms. No way in hell you can pull that off!
The cheapest way to put an immobiliser on the car is a hidden switch connected to the fuel pump. It's a bit finicky to wire it, but once done and hidden it will be in detectable to anyone who does not know about it.
I think you mean undetectable not in detectable.
Preventing car theft is very simple. Just remove two spark plugs when u park your car. Problem solved 😌 👌
Or remove the whole engine
@@Zer01211 I like to have my tires removed and the car propped up on cinderblocks. :)
Best way is to pierce your own tyres. Thieves won’t know what hit ‘em 😁
My I3 has no spark plugs.
1: wire in a simple on/off toggle switch between your battery and starter
2: hide switch somewhere within reach of driver's seat
3: turn off the starter when leaving car parked
4: enjoy not having your car stolen
total price $10 for the switch and maybe 15' of wire
5: get a trunk monkey
If you have a manual to push start or a screwdriver to short the starter solenoid, this doesn't work. Best place to cut power from is the coil pack or fuel pump
I live in a quiet cul de sac in doncaster. Very ordinary street by all accounts. But for some reason it's a hot bed for organised criminals parking cars up for a few days to check for trackers. I know of 4 high ticket car thefts that have occurred, one of which i managed to alert the owner after a plea on facebook. One was even a mclaren, i took a photo because it was a flash motor, looked out of place. Police were all over it next day. Not sure how they though they were getting away with that one.
That might make the case for a temporary ANPR system discretely installed somewhere...
@@armadillito not sure why we get picked. So far a bmw xdrive, an audi, a merc and the mclaren. Just in past few years alone.
Here's a few ideas:
-lock on the door(the Mr. Bean method) 😆
-leave a snake un the car(Gone în 60 sec method)
-put in a camera with 12v or independent power supply and a built-in tracker/motion sensor
-relocate the OBD port and connect the old one to a high discharge source so it fries their laptop/scanner 😈. Just make sure to notify the mechanics when you Take it into the Shop. 😁
Last one is genius 😂
didn't Mr bean also takes the wheel off sometimes? that is by FAR the best method.
@@moe5427 improvement: keep the port location, but add a switch between port and killer...
I like the James Bond Lotus Esprit method. Smash the window and the car blows up =D
@@foxtayle683 that could be abused though...
Biggest theft prevention on your car? Buy a quick release wheel or just remove the battery if you're not going to use it for a long time. Or maybe install a hidden kill switch....
Or maybe buy a beater as a daily. And store your precious ride in a secured location.
Quick release wheel Mr Bean style!
Of unplug the fuel injection fuse
What's the point of having a precious ride if you don't drive it lol
I remember my mothers Mazda 323f being stolen, she owned it for 2 months. My dads coworker said "huh, *Name* is up early" until they talked and my dad talked about it and the coworker said that he thought that it was weird for her to be up that early. It was found a couple of weeks later crashed by the thieves and from what I know they didn't get caught. (This was like, 14 years ago)
this really makes me appreciate garages that are to heavy to unlock and open without mechanical help(while they are powered)
At this point with all kinds of accessories and extra locks you need to have, I feel like it would be more convenient to just have an old-fashioned key or one of those older ones where you'd have to insert the key into some slot.
I bought a manual transmission car specifically to make it harder to steal my car.
Can you drive it? 😂😂😂
I reckon that would actually make it more of a target as manual transmission cars are often more valuable especially the older ones.
@@archygrey9093 nope. IIHS study shows that the likelihood of your car being stolen in the US is cut in half if it is a manual. The vast majority of people who steal cars do not know how to drive a manual transmission car.
@@shreddder999 of course I can. What kind of idiot buys a car they can't drive?
@@sheldoniusRex one who hires a driver, I suppose
I know many people who have installed a secret killswitch, even 2 or 3 in different places, and that helps a lot sice not many thieves expect one
In case of a rare/highly valued car this may lead to switch from the "ordered theft" to assault. But that's an extreme situation.
In case of a "normal" car and opportunistic theft preventing a thief from stealing your car when he's already inside might (and often does) lead to the thief damaging your car just because of frustration.
@@SpadajSpadaj where I live they usually lit them on fire if they can't get away with them, to not leave any evidence, really sad reality :(
In a broad sense, the best protection is good insurance. Theft doesn't generally cause your rates to go up by much -- it's being in an accident that really gets you (even if you're not at fault). It sucks having your car stolen (I know firsthand) but a theft policy with gap coverage is the way to go.
Try having an older car for which you have cared for all his life. Let's say a 10-years old one. It's still a great car to drive but on paper it's worth next to nothing. You can't insure it with gap and if you insure it to "market value" you'll get some peanuts which will not allow you to buy anything comparable in decent condition (not even starting the topic about buying a used car and not getting a lemon).
@@SpadajSpadaj That's where hidden Killswitch and GPS tracker comes in handy.
Insurance only helps if you don't have an emotional connection to _your_ car and it has a decent market value.
Yeah that's great if you have a brand new or newer car. I have an MK3 Supra that on paper is already worth nothing (even though their values are high and rising) and I've put a lot of money into it. Insurance would pay jack.
Car theft is defiantly on the increase I’ve lived in the same area my entire 37 year life, and although we’ve had smash and grab style thefts over that time, I have had 5 attempted break ins over the past few years, as well as my neighbours. The police will do nothing either.
Cheer up mate! I found a rust free 2000 NB Miata in Florida with only 63k miles for $7k us, completely stock from a retiree, and I love it! Perhaps shipping one to the UK might be worth it. (at least u can claim to have the only rust free Miata in the UK) 😅
Its funny seeing all the car resto videos in the Uk, 80% of the videos are just them dealing with and cutting out all the rust.
In Australia cars barely ever rust unless they are used on the beach or just left outside their whole life. I assume it would also be the case in many parts of America.
I might start buying up all the cheap Nissan Skylines we've got here and send them to America, my friend got a cheapo 2 door turbocharged Skyline for free from another freind (who offered it to me first but i wasn't interested) and posted it up for sale as a joke on a Facebook site in America and immediately got hit with offers over $25,000 for it.
@@archygrey9093 if you live in an area in the US with snow its impossible not to have rust on your car since we use salt to prevent ice patches on the road
Probably one of the only Miatas in the UK full stop... they're just called MX5 here
Best theft prevention : project car on jack stands
I put a kill switch on the fuel pump relay circuit on all my keyless entry and push-button start cars. On my Genesis, I put it on the crankshaft position sensor. So the engine will just keep turning until the battery dies or the started motor burns up LOL
First time stopping by and will surely coming back again, well done mate🐶
For those that have a key fob that does not go to sleep, you can place it in an empty metal cookie tin. It works the same as the Faraday pouches except you get to eat some delicious cookies first. Also if someone breaks into your home, they are likely to spot the Faraday pouch and drive off with your car. With the cookie tin, unless they totally trash your house or they get the munchies, if the tin is in a place where one would expect to find a cookie tin, they won't find your keys.
The fact that OBD-Attacks are so successfull is because auto-makers suck at IT-security. Yes. Modern cars are just computers on wheels. And not just Teslas. All of them.
Also: aren't there laws that mandate the place of the OBD port?
Also: please use zero-indexed graphs. looks like cartheft when from LOTS to little, but when you said it halved, I noticed that the low line was at 200-ish!
OBD port location has to be around the driver area, but this rule is only for manufacturers.. .Once you buy the car you can move it where you want. You'd probably confuse a machanic if you forget to tell them where it is though. I know of people that have tucked in the real obd port and installed a dummy one. Bonus points if you give it voltage as to really confuse attackers.
I still use a steering wheel lock. I feel like that will deter most car thieves.
You need to watch LPL lock picking lawyer.
I had the CLUB for almost 20 years through multiple vehicles.
If it's an older car, thieves use them to break the steering lock
@@supersix-four9509 what?
@@manuelsilva1999 I know they can be broken but It deters some thieves. The last thing they want to do Is sit and wait even a few seconds more then they have to.
I really love the videos you make on this channel. Please don't stop
here in argentina happens all time, except they corner u so u can’t escape and then they carjack your car. there’s been many times where the drivers get the thieves run over.
Just use the Mr bean method:
padlocks on the door.
And removable steering wheel.
I knew somebody who used a quick detach steering wheel back when I was younger as an antithetical measure. Nowadays with airbags in the steering wheels, probably not as easy to do.
this was very informative, your videos rock man!
One of the few good things about older cars is that you paid less money and you can modify it without saying "Oh man i don't want to ruin this new interior/exterior/mechanics"
If you buy a new car for 70 000 USD you won't really think of modifications while when you drive a car for 4k you won't mind modifying it...
One of the modifications you can do is a kill switch. It's... one of the most basic technologies. Even if you don't understand mechanics and electronics, you can understand a kill switch.
It's simply a switch that can turn electronics on and off. That kill switch can cost coins... or maybe a buck or two if you get a fancy switch... there are kill switches that are controlled remotely and they can be a little bit pricier, but believe me... you cannot find a kill switch that costs more than 20 bucks... It's a fucking kill switch, it's so basic that if you're enthusiastic enough, you can make your own out of wires...
BAM - kill switch and nobody is stealing your car... unless they know about the kill switch and they know well how to operate it... but why would you do that? Why would you tell anybody about your kill switch.. ?
Kill switch - the only thing better than it, is being violent and scary:)
This was fun to read. I think I will buy one. Thanks!
one of my friends moms had a kia van, had this system where the fob had to be inside for the button to start. she drove down to a hockey arena a few blocks away, turned the car off, left it a few minutes and came back without realitizing she had no keys. idk how safe this is
Love your videos man keep up the hard work
Thank you for guiding
I grew up in a bad neighbourhood, my parents cars were stolen frequently, recovered, then stolen. But in the past 20 years, I haven't even heard of someone I know having a break-in or stolen car. I live in an inner city area, so cars just don't seem to get stolen as much.
Best safety measure is the habit to take your car key to the bedroom - that is to say if it is at least six metres from your doorstep.
Even the tractor brand Fendt made a password on the 800 favorit series back in the 90's, so is it that difficult?
thank you ill try these out
Great video!
Ain't nobody gonna steal my car because I don't own one.
I just have a sign on mine that says, "This is not my car." Problem solved.
"Pre-planning" isn't a thing. It's just planning. Anything you plan ahead of the deed is all included. There's no planning for the plan. Ugh...
Correct, a good example of a stupid word. Another example is "proactive."
Mr George Carlin over there
If someone tries to steal my old Volvo first they need to know that it takes 3 proper cranks to get the fuel pump going so it will start. And they will need to know how to operate a manual choke, and they will need to know where the gears are on the shifter as you're pretty much in neutral in every gear and you need to know kung fu to even get into gear once you find it. Then you need to also find the hidden ignition button to start it. Think my car is fairly safe. If they manage to get it rolling they'll probably end up stalling over and over again due to not knowing how to work a choke.
I love the ending..
"Don't tell Jackson what to do"!
1:00
My older sibling once had their car stolen like that. They’d gone inside to grab something for 30 seconds, leaving their car running and one of their friends STANDING NEXT TO THE CAR… someone still jumped in and drove off lel. The car ended up getting bullet holes in it cause of gangs and stuff. The saddest part about it is that all the plants they had in their car died :(
lmao
Most steering wheel "club" locks can be defeated with a simple lock-picking kit -- as long as you know how to use it.
instead, get a quick release steering wheel and put the wheel in the trunk when you get out lol
When a car is stolen, the owner gets money from the insurance company and he buys another car. This enables car manufacturers to sell more cars. They will say they don't do this, but cars are designed with anti-theft features that car thieves can figure out a way to defeat.
If the car makers REALLY wanted to stop car theft they would invent some kind of a valve that would open when the car is stolen and the exhaust gas would flow in to air the thief will breathe.
Funny how due to something being designed to be easy to use, it will require you to install a steer lock everytime you leave your car somewhere... Then you'll realise how a traditional car key was pretty easy to use as well.... maybe you can put a padlock on the door like mr. Bean instead
0:24 Who left his car parked for days and weeks on end without use??
Why not just install your own wireless fuel cut off (or equivalent for electric)?
I would advise against using pouches. I tried several and they seem to loose their protective effect after a couple of weeks of usage. (maybe due to material wear due to bending)
I am now using a full-metal case which is more cumbersome, but since it's mostly just sitting on a shelf it doesn't really matter.
I am testing it regularly and it still prevents a connection between the key and the car reliably, even if I am standing right next to the car.
keys should just have an off switch. how come nobody think about that. would be so easy
You could try wrapping the key in kitchen aluminium foil.
@@nocensorship8092 better yet, how about using the damn button on the damn key as an *on* switch so no funny business with sniffing and cloning signals can happen
@@georgiishmakov9588 Because it is no longer a keyless entry system if you do that. While it would make cloning attacks nearly impossible, it'd make the day-to-day ease of getting into your car--particularly when you're carrying groceries and/or a fussy toddler -- much less so. I'd much rather deal with the slim chance my car gets stolen, than have to fumble through my purse for my keys, and hitting the panic alarm instead of the unlock button occasionally.
My company had a meeting in Houston, the executives all drive loaded gmc and Chevy trucks on the company dime. Three of the 6.2 litters were stolen out of the parking lot. Police said the thief’s use a rf wand to scan fobs as people walk by and clone them and drive away with zero damage
6:25 the problem is more that the lock of such devices is opened in seconds with the right pick. sometimes even as fast or faster than when you would use the key itself.
My best security device is disconnecting the fuel pump relay and spark plug wires
It has saved me from getting my car stolen
Driven, is there any list available where we can find out if a particular model of car is easy or hard to steal? I have a 997 with the pill thing (transponder?) on the key and I always thought my car would be quite "theft proof". Now you have me questioning if that is true.
there's a list of which cars are most commonly stolen. its scaled against the number of that car produced.
nothing is theft proof. Especially when here is wireless communication involved.
In theory you could steal any car. They can hack the ECU or push it off a hill, then put it into gear thus starting the engine.
There are other methods of theft prevention, one I've been thinking about installing in my car is a fuel pump relay, which is just the addition of either a hidden physical switch or a remote switch which controls the power sent through the wire to the fuel pump. This will stop any kind of theft unless they are to find the physical switch because even if they turn the car on it will not start because the fuel pump will not turn on until the switch is triggered, it is also more convenient and looks better than other theft prevention methods as it is hidden.
You can also put a tracker on the car and even a remote fuel pump kill switch
Because all you need is the key, break into the house get the key and your sweet.
That's why I love my old rig, there not going to expect for it to shut down halfway down the street and be GPS tracker
My mom had her q7 stolen off of the park way of our house in a closed neighborhood by one guy during a week night. We woke up wasn’t there. It seemed to be a mix of organized and impulsive because it seemed organized in the way they did it. But the car was found months later in the side of the road like it was used for resale
Love your videos bro
Was just gonna say that ford fixed it. 😂
I got a 2022 Focus ST, and my fob doesn't look as fancy as the one you displayed, but the owners manual also says that it'll stop sending if it hasn't moved for a while. Crazy how stuff like that isn't more widespread. Guess manufacturers got little interest in fixing it, because usually 1 car stolen means 1 new car sold..
They implement something super advanced that'll track if it's moving when they could have just given the key fob an off switch
@@nocensorship8092 "something super advanced" made a gyroscope and an accelerometer will do the job. Both super cheap, pretty simple and much more effective than an off switch since it's fully automatic. What's the point of a keyless entry system if you have to manually activate and deactivate it all the time?
My sister borrowed my mom's mini countryman. She came back from the train station to find 2 man sitting in the car. They acted like they didn't know it wasn't theirs. The car locked the wheel so she couldn't drive anymore
8:00 - "Drive it like you stole it...twice."
Just buy a 1970's manual gearbox car, it will be far too complicated and require far too much physical effort for today's car thieves to steal!
Doesn't matter in the third world, my 2017 civic manual was tried to be stolen 3 times. its not even the sport one or touring its the normal EX non turbo lol.
install a kill switch to the fuel pump relay, ez
I drive a 1981 VW Rabbit Pickup with a naturally aspirated diesel in SF. I was worried it would get stolen, but it's got a terrible manual transmission, and you need to use the choke and glow plugs to start it. The glow plug button isn't where it's supposed to be either, the PO drilled into the dash to install a new one since the old one broke or something. It's a tiny unlabeled button lol. And it probably has 40hp (literally) so they're not going anywhere fast
I accidentally left my key fob in the car when i parked and left to take care of something. Turned out that business was closed on that day, so I got lucky and got back before an opportunist managed to find it.
Best anti theft device is a hidden fuel pump switch
bro ur a genius, where can i find one?
@@skydive7054 you can make one by yourself, it's just a switch between the relay and the ecu, or the relay and the pump, mine is between the pump and the relay, i think Chrisfix did a tutorial on this
I think Car thefts went up in 2020 because of police defunding, making it much harder to be arrested, and alot of cities, especially more liberal ones , let ALOT of criminals out of jail. There was one guy in LA who was let out of jail after stealing a car 3 times IN ONE DAY.
Just think, if he did it about a hundred and a score or two years earlier, he would've been hung for horse theft the first time. Believe it or not, California wasn't always liberal.
My car was broken into and they stole my laptop, when they returned my book bag w the laptop still inside is when I realized I needed a new laptop
this bloke sounds just like Tom Scott, got me hooked :), also one thing i find that is never mentioned is whatabout the steering lock, on older cars yeah break it with the old trick but new cars, man talk about a step backwards
New generations already have answers on how to reduce car theft:
• Not buying cars;
• Eliminating poverty.
The second one works also against theft and violence in general.
Thieves will take your car either by their own knowledge or by kidnapping the driver (very common in undeveloped countries.) So, there isn't much to do in order to prevent car theft - although new technology makes cars almost impossible to steal.
Woah woah woah that MX5 line hits home hard 🙁
It's the garages as well. Went in for a check. Camera failed not long after and alarm was quieter. 1 week later they attempted to steal the car. They ask you to fill in your details including your address.
Was at a restaurant yesterday and someone stole a car from the parking lot after someone left it running to go pick up their food. I own 3 vw golfs a mk1 rabbit racecar that is getting a 300+hp 1.8t and haldex AWD system so I'll have to figure something out for security myself. I also have a Mk4 base golf with the 2.slow not super valuable but is a blast to drive and would be fairly easy to steal so I'm going to put a kill switch in it. My third golf is a mk6 GTI with a dual clutch and the Autobahn package that has been upgraded to stage 2 so is somewhat valuable and has keyless entry and start so I should probably figure something else out to keep it safe.
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Someone tried to steal my 1999 Mazda MX-5 after I sorted it out. Hand reupholstered the interior, got the rear main seal done. They killed it two days later.
Another way is installing a secret switch for the fuel pump. No fuel, no driving off.
It's a very good point about the price and car shortages. Maybe more old cars are being sold which are easier to steal and therefore that's why the rise in car thefts has happened, not because newer cars are easier to steal but because there is more old ones.
My neighbor had his golf R stolen 3 times.
meanwhile my vw MK4 golf with a 7K dogbox and 6K motor never ever gets looks at.
Yes the golf R looks amazing , my golf looks like a beat up war beast with skid plates.
The v40 i own currently, has the standard cryptographic lock so is fairly secure and the OBS port does not allow firmware changes, but the ECU is literally behind the wheel protected by 4 screws which can be accessed without the alarm going off so they can just roll up jack the car and put their own firmware on the ECU and simply drive off with their own key..........
My car was stolen one year to the day from the first attempt. Super annoying but I lucked out with insurance giving me more than market value.
I remember on our old 2016 corolla my das had 3 security systems installed,no body ever tried to steal the car,but the electronic lock(aftermarket added for safety) ended up smoking the entire cabin,it was unnoticable fog at first then the entire cabin was filled,luckily insurance covered us,my dad got a new car n never used electronic locks of any kind
Extending the fob's range to start a keyless car is a pretty slick technique. But Ford's counter technique to turn off the fob if it's stationary is even slicker. Might be a bit annoying if the remote is sitting in the car for a few minutes and then you get in to go and can't figure out why the car won't start, though.
Any older VW 80's thru mid 90's you can literally switch the lights on and pull the high beam lever back (like flashing it) and it switches on the ignition. No key
I liked the part where he said, "Move your OBDii port".
Forest Whitaker did the remote unlock in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, thats a good movie.