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Offline mcmaddy

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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #30 on: 29 March 2019, 20:03 »
Jesus!! Buy a Faraday pouch and stop worrying about something that may never happen! People wouldn't get out of bed if you weighed up all the dangers that might happen during a typical day. I've got better things to worry about than my car maybe possibly could be never being stolen. What do I pay my car insurance for??
« Last Edit: 30 April 2019, 20:03 by mcmaddy »
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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #31 on: 29 March 2019, 20:04 »
Thanks-I cant say I like the sound of all this!!

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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #32 on: 29 March 2019, 20:06 »
Jesus!! But a Faraday pouch and stop worrying about something that may never happen! People wouldn't get out of bed if you weighed up all the dangers that might happen during a typical day. I've got better things to worry about than my car maybe possibly could be never being stolen. What do I pay my car insurance for??

Have you ever had a car stolen? I have had 2 nicked over the years,its not quite as simple as that.

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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #33 on: 29 March 2019, 20:09 »
Yes I have as it happens thank you. I just can't see the point in worrying about something that may never happen. Taking simple preventative steps like a cheap 5 quid pouch will stop relay theft. At the end of the day if the raggy lads want to steal a car then they will.
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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #34 on: 29 March 2019, 21:02 »
Fair enough, I absolutely hated it both times, I just cant feel as relaxed about it as you do!

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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #35 on: 01 April 2019, 12:54 »
Luckily having keyless/KESSY is no longer that much of a security risk on the Golf 7.5, because it can be disabled. Lock the car with the fob, then within 5 seconds press the keyless button/sensor on the door handle. That switches off the keyless-entry system until the next time you unlock the car with the fob. Perfect for when leaving a 7.5 overnight or if in a particularly vulnerable place.

Shame the keyless disable system doesn't work on my Mk7.Just tried your method there, just in case it might work but no chance.
I thought this was the case too, but I was on VWROC at the weekend, and some MK7 owners have said it works on their cars...

https://www.vwroc.com/forums/topic/31307-can-you-dissable-kessy/

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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #36 on: 30 April 2019, 20:02 »
This makes a lot of sense, simplest of ideas but they are always the best ideas  :smiley:

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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #37 on: 30 April 2019, 20:11 »
I can't watch any videos with that clown in them but 117 euros is day light robbery for that.
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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #38 on: 01 May 2019, 09:04 »
Why don't they use biometrics on the door handle? So you register, say, up to six thumb prints with the car and only those thumb prints can open the car. Same as unlocking your iPhone.

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Re: Keyless repeater thefts
« Reply #39 on: 01 May 2019, 09:11 »
Why don't they use biometrics on the door handle? So you register, say, up to six thumb prints with the car and only those thumb prints can open the car. Same as unlocking your iPhone.

One possible future I guess, but finger print readers struggle with grease and the outside of a car is a dirty place covered in road film. Likely as not you'd not get in.

The next thing is likely to be using your mobile device as a key. The tech is there now, so just another ten years and the car manufacturers will stop using a vulnerable security system and replace it with something more secure.
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