He’s proved his lack of knowledge on many occasions in the past.
Fuel filler neck legit?
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Yep!
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. DNJ seems to completely ignore this.
I made no such claim. I know next to nothing about electronics and don't really want to know because I simply have no more space in my head for them. But I do know about device functions, i.e. what stuff are capable of or could be made capable of. Hence, I am able to tell you: if car manufacturers want to, they can lock things down. Since the referenced video was talking about locking things down, it's reasonable for me to believe the lock was in place. The current economics of the world also tell me the same: people, manufacturers are getting desperate. When desperate, they lock things down.
No need to learn something that doesn't happen where I am. Even if it I happens, I don't see the point of worrying over a £500 write off. The road tax will be more than that soon.
Probably true when you live in the ghetto. Feck all worth nicking.
Equally possible there are no poor people around who need to steal. People just politely walk up and ask if selling.
Yeah, some scrap merchants are more polite than others.
First thing you've said in a long time that I can actually agree with! You are, indeed, completely in the dark!
The new cybersecurity regulations adopted in the EU from 2024, will start making it much harder for third parties to get into car computer systems. Nothing to do with the manufacturers, just regulation. The UK has announced it will also adopt them (although most new cars sold in GB already comply. The manufacturers can't do right for doing wrong though. Ever since I was a kid and you could open every third Cortina with the same key, people have been crying about how easy cars are to steal. Every time car manufacturers improve security, all they get is moans about how complicated new cars are and how expensive it is to get another key when the owner loses theirs. We can't win!
The hypothetical 14 year old crackhead won't have developed the software. He'll just have been shown how to do it and given the equipment.
Every time car manufacturers improve security, all they get is moans about how complicated new cars are and how expensive it is to get another key when the owner loses theirs. We can't win!
Yep, replacement for mine is £300, and has to come from Germany.
20 years ago, when the local crackhead broke into my Fiesta to have a root through the glovebox and pinch my polo mints he used to smash the rear quarter light - it was either a £10 scrapyard replacement and an hour to fit it or a £50 excess. These days he has a magic door opening device so it costs me nothing after he's been in for a look at my window scraper and phone cables. I don't know whether it's progress or not.
I do feel sorry for local Facebook victims who've been storing things like "3 laptops", "a brand new mobile phone" and "all my kids Christmas presents" in their cars.
I do feel sorry for local Facebook victims who've been storing things like "3 laptops", "a brand new mobile phone" and "all my kids Christmas presents" in their cars.
Been going on for years.
Many years ago when our son was attending his very first festival, we were woken up in the early hours by a policeman knocking on our door. My heart was in my mouth when I saw them but thankfully they just asked us if the car on our drive was ours. Of course it was but they said it had been broken into and the door was ajar. Apparently half the street had had cars broken into. No cars were actually damaged and the police said they were following a gang that were using a converted mobile phone to unlock cars. I noticed that next doors car was ajar with the interior light on and told the police. They knocked them up too. Anyway, we were talking for a good ten minutes with the neighbours over a dwarf wall when the fingerprint lady turned up. The copper told her to do our cars first so we could go back to bed. She came over, screamed and jumped back when a black bloke dressed in black stood up. We had been talking right over the top of him for ten minutes and didn’t even notice him! He started protesting his innocence saying he had been chased by some youths and was merely hiding but a burly copper ran over, threw him over the bonnet of next doors car, cuffed him, Sweeny style, and said "You’re nicked, sonny" in his best John Thaw voice.
