Brother arborists - Stolen Ford Transit

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Mick, Its stole to order. Smashed the side window, cut the chain I had on it and hot wired it I imagine. If not, its a standard ford transit - keys can't be that different. Either way we have a number of groups down here (cant mention their minority grouping as they seem to be precious) who are good at knocking us all off. 

 

Edited April 10, 2019 by [email protected]

[Conor Wright]

Mick, Its stole to order. Smashed the side window, cut the chain I had on it and hot wired it I imagine. If not, its a standard ford transit - keys can't be that different. Either way we have a number of groups down here (cant mention their minority grouping as they seem to be precious) who are good at knocking us all off. 
 

Knackers. Thieving knackers. Precious me hole.

[scbk]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Bad news, hope you’re back working soon.

 

Out of curiosity how do the thieves get a key to unlock and start it up?

 

Aren't the locking systems a bit more sophisticated these days?

Probably done through the OBD port, this is a weak point, is best to secure or immobilise the socket in some way.

[Mick Dempsey]

5 hours ago, scbk said:

Probably done through the OBD port, this is a weak point, is best to secure or immobilise the socket in some way.

So where might that be? (2008 owner here)

Edited April 11, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[Jcarbor]

Cheers for messages fellas. The Kent Rural Team (old bill - who have been great tbh) found the remains burnt out not far from Canterbury. They'd stripped it of everything and torched it. Clearly a local crew of the usual types we all know. 
 

Sorry to hear that. They are the scum of the earth.

[Mark Bolam]

They are, and they are out of control down here.

They seem untouchable.

 

Really sorry to hear this Howard.

Torched. FFS.

[Wedgebanger]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

So where might that be? (2008 owner here)

Edit : they have other vids about upgrading locks on transits.

So I doubt it’s just the obde, but guess the inmoboliser is deactivated via the obde 

Edited April 11, 2019 by Wedgebanger

[tree-fancier123]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

So where might that be? (2008 owner here)

the post above this shows how easy the door locks are and can be replaced with one that has no pick on sale,

but the Vehicle is still vulnerable even with the door lock changed,

the on board diagnostics OBD port below steering wheel allows starting of the vehicle by bypassing the immobilizer - companies are marketing devices to block the port. eg here. Search Transit OBD blocker.

there seems to be 2 sorts a metal box that covers it and a sort that plugs into the port, not sure which is best, but the one below requires a matching tag for the blocker to start the vehicle, presuambly the steel guard boxes could be removed by a determined thief

a few minutes googling Transit OBD attack, or Transit OBD protector shows how common this method of stealing vans is,

there are no doubt dark web tutorials for the criminals to learn this miserable retarded trade.

It's a shame it isn't legal to hunt and kill these criminal primates that ruin people's livelihoods

 

 

 

 

 

[woody paul]

Locks make no difference if they just smash window and get in all we can do is make it hard for them but if they want it they will get it some way and at some point when your guard is down. 

[dig-dug-dan]

Why are we not allowed to say on here who is responsible? By giving them this protection, we are just encouraging them even more