TEAM M

Your probably an easy target for them to steal your car and ship it. You shouldve pulled up on the car and take a picture either they gonna run or u run lol either way u have some of there info and finding them shouldnt be hard if u got there license plates chances are they got pulled over in the last 3 months and police has info on driver and passengers.

Krozi

I recommend planting land mines in your driveway...I still have some left over from WWII. PM me for a good price.

omaralt

lol i remember when i got my first car (88 honda civic) i loved that thing to death. as you get older you realize it's just a car. dont get me wrong; i love my e60, but if i saw somebody stealing my car i would not risk my life by running out there. i would activate alarm and call the cops. at the end of the day things can be replaced.. lol and i wouldnt mind getting my car stolen at this time; the insurance money would allow me to get something nicer

btw, you said once you heard the noises you parked it in the garage; why dont you park in the garage all the time?? it's a lot safer and better on the car

kreveta

There's no chip in the plastic spare key. Any chip requires a source of power. There's no battery in the plastic key. For this reason I believe it's completely mechanical and has to be tied to the central locking mechanism. Also, everybody knows where the alarm is placed (rear left wheel). Within 10 seconds, the loudspeaker can be cut.

I can think of a few reasons:
1) Moment of surprise for the thief
2) No easy way to find out about the system when the thief enters the vehicle, thinking he's good to go
3) Car stops in a vulnerable (for the thief) traffic area where he can be seen
4) The immobilizer needs power from car battery (you need to turn on the car first, otherwise it would drain the battery) and time to interchange dozens of hash keys between transmitter and receiver, and so initialization can take up to 50 seconds. If the device can not be found or hashes don't match, the control unit and the fuel system are disconnected
5) When you're gun-forced to step out of the vehicle, the thief can see the engine running or a key inside, but doesn't know about the additional security system. Your chip is in the wallet, you step out, he drives off and stops after a minute.

There's a known security bug in all coded keys, which BMW did not address to date. BMW keys can be replicated wirelessly. The hacking system allegedly comes from Bulgaria.

Many BMWs have been stolen without the original key and were not lifted. In my very small country about 10 BMWs get stolen every day. The stock fabric security measures are totally useless even on the newer models. A company personally close to me has bought 3 X6's for their executives, when X6's were just released, 2 of them got stolen only 3 weeks later from the company's private parking lot on a white day. Maybe an inside job, but still, DOH...

That is true, but since it's so easy to disable the stock alarm, it has no effect. The worst thing is that even if the car is lifted and the alarm triggers, people don't pay attention to it, it looks normal.

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Skybrake. It certainly has serious holes and I will put it into the trash the day I find out it's useless. Just putting some ideas for forum members to help out. Any system on the market can be disabled, but when stealing cars, the amount of time and resources required to disable it is essential. Thieves run away if they can't drive off within 2-3 minutes.

pjinca

Basically, as Rudy and others said, if they really want your car there isn't much you can do about it. Relax, enjoy life and don't worry so much about it.


BTW, I don't have a plastic spare key, my spare is identical to the original. Am I missing something?

tuffluck

the likelihood of someone stealing your car altogether is pretty low. the likelihood of your car being broken into and things stolen from it is higher, though if you keep your car clean inside and literally nothing is available in plain sight (including a radar detector hot wired), you are probably fine 90% of the time.

just to elaborate on that last point, i had a used alternator in the back seat of my camaro z28 and 3 guys broke in to get the alternator. while they were in there they found my stealth 1,200 watt stereo system and took it too. 2 of the guys were caught. as they were running off they only ditched one thing, the POS used alternator. i had lived in that complex for 2 years and these guys consistently broke into cars, but never mine. my car was always spotless and i left nothing in it, and the stereo was literally unnoticeable from plain sight.

it just goes to show you, even the stupidest and worthless things like a used, broken alternator, can appear valuable to a thief if they can see it. hide everything and leave nothing in your car for them to second guess the value of, and like i mentioned earlier you will be fine 90% of the time. i have even heard of thieves breaking in for spare change in cars and never believed it until this happened to me. also i had a neighbor in the same complex who later had his G35's window shattered and had Seinfeld DVDs stolen from his car, though that seems a bit more justifiable than a used alternator because Seinfeld is awesome.

Luxurytax

My car came with two remotes AND the plastic key with the adapter for it in the glovebox

Rudy

This is absolutely false! The plastic key DOES have an embedded chip and it gets it's power from the car. Learn more about Passive RFID technology here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-f...identification

Regardless of this flaw in your argument, clearly, any car can be stolen, with or without the latest and greatest technology. For most people in most places, what BMW provides is adequate but obviously, your mileage may vary depending on where you live and how badly someone wants your car...

NguyenAzn

lol thats wat i do every fking friday with my tl-s when i was 17 , sold it but still have some love for it though

NguyenAzn

If you dont have plastic key then ur having a comfort access am i right ? only ppl that dont have comfort access that have plastic spare key !