Relay theft
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 5:03 pm
No not my car, fortunately, but my friend has just had his Range Rover stolen overnight via relay theft.
If you have keyless entry on your car, please please please don't keep your keys anywhere near the front of the house where scumbags can 'access' the wireless signal.
Personally I use a faraday wallet (RFID blocker) for keeping keys in, but tin foil-lined tins etc should work just as well. Don't let the opportunistic b*ggers have an easy theft.
(Apologies, I'm still a bit sensitive after my Fiesta ST was stolen from a hotel car park in February - admittedly not via relay theft but via a 'weakness' that exists in the Fiesta, but still...I am still wishing a plague of locusts consume their testes from the inside out.)
Just look at this if you don't believe how ridiculously easy and effortless it is for them to get cars in this way:
If you have keyless entry on your car, please please please don't keep your keys anywhere near the front of the house where scumbags can 'access' the wireless signal.
Personally I use a faraday wallet (RFID blocker) for keeping keys in, but tin foil-lined tins etc should work just as well. Don't let the opportunistic b*ggers have an easy theft.
(Apologies, I'm still a bit sensitive after my Fiesta ST was stolen from a hotel car park in February - admittedly not via relay theft but via a 'weakness' that exists in the Fiesta, but still...I am still wishing a plague of locusts consume their testes from the inside out.)
Just look at this if you don't believe how ridiculously easy and effortless it is for them to get cars in this way: