Jimny was broken into - need advice

Sorry to hear that.

Where I live used to be crime central, the whole area, in the 90s I had every car I owned broken in to either to steal or one one occassion to nick the HT leads, nearly every time they disabled the alarm.

I used a variety of locks and ended up with a wheel lock, but I also wired a cut out switch in to an unused button on the dash (e.g. fog lamps or driving lamps). I caught 4 kids in it one morning with a screwdriver in the ignition key and starter motor spinning (they didn't find the cut out). The cut out worked.

Fortunately it seems to have reduced over the last 20 years and I never hear of anyone getting the car broken in to other than to nick fuel or the sat nav.

I would therefore fit an alarm and buy a dash board switch and fit it as a cut out in one of the spare slots (next to the fog lamps).

facade wrote: The OBD theft is often used to steal Fords, especially keyless versions of the Fiesta and Focus. The thief stands outside and pops the drivers window - which doesn't set off the alarm, then reaches in and plugs a laptop into the OBD port. They then read the VIN number, and use a hacked database to defeat the security, open the doors and start the engine.

I suppose they could put a Jimny into key learning mode and get it to recognise any key.

The best deterrent is the Disklok mentioned before- but the makers know it, and it is massively overpriced @£120, keep an eye on ECP and you might get one for a bit less with a discount code.

www.eurocarparts.com/p/disklok-steering-...lver-small-549991210

Fit one, keep the inside tidy and it stops opportunists breaking in.

Thanks I'll look into that today, makes sense about the OBD stuff.

FYI I found this code to work today ICY80 on Eurocarparts, it would save you a whopping £2.40 on a Disklok!

Sorry for any confusion; the rotor arm is on my classic car, its in the distributor.

Not at all, my mistake!

If the loser had undone some bolts, he obviously came with tools. What stopped him I wonder? Were they disturbed during the attempt?

I'm unsure what stopped them, unfortunately I was unaware that it had even taken place until the following morning.

Perhaps a secretly hidden battery isolation switch? Though these can easily be found - anything to slow them down though. Other simple things would be pulling the HT leads off the plugs - but doing this every night and refitting them every time you want to use the car soon becomes a huge PIA.

I think a (slowly) flashing led coupled with some personal attack alarms on the doors would be a cheap solution in the short term. Choose an attack alarm WITHOUT a flashing light - you dont want the retard to find it too quickly and stop it sounding off.
Its a pity Maplins went under - they had loads of components to build these kind of things.

THIS is the type of alarm I have on my outbuilding doors' I've mounted mine onto an aluminium bracket that I made, angled so that the pin gets a direct straight-line pull (thin para-cord). It's very loud and I've accidentally set it off myself when I've forgotten to unhook the line, and its a pig trying to get the pin back in in a hurry.
The only drawback is that you can almost mute the sound by covering your palm over the device, but they'd have to be able to see it or know it was there in order to do that quickly.

Thanks again, I'll have a look into whats going to be best for us, certainly some good food for thought. I really appreciate your's and everyone's help here.

DrRobin wrote: Sorry to hear that.

Where I live used to be crime central, the whole area, in the 90s I had every car I owned broken in to either to steal or one one occassion to nick the HT leads, nearly every time they disabled the alarm.

I used a variety of locks and ended up with a wheel lock, but I also wired a cut out switch in to an unused button on the dash (e.g. fog lamps or driving lamps). I caught 4 kids in it one morning with a screwdriver in the ignition key and starter motor spinning (they didn't find the cut out). The cut out worked.

Fortunately it seems to have reduced over the last 20 years and I never hear of anyone getting the car broken in to other than to nick fuel or the sat nav.

I would therefore fit an alarm and buy a dash board switch and fit it as a cut out in one of the spare slots (next to the fog lamps).

Thanks, sounds like a good idea, do you have any suggestions?

facade wrote: The OBD theft is often used to steal Fords, especially keyless versions of the Fiesta and Focus. The thief stands outside and pops the drivers window - which doesn't set off the alarm, then reaches in and plugs a laptop into the OBD port. They then read the VIN number, and use a hacked database to defeat the security, open the doors and start the engine.

I suppose they could put a Jimny into key learning mode and get it to recognise any key.

The best deterrent is the Disklok mentioned before- but the makers know it, and it is massively overpriced @£120, keep an eye on ECP and you might get one for a bit less with a discount code.

www.eurocarparts.com/p/disklok-steering-...lver-small-549991210

Fit one, keep the inside tidy and it stops opportunists breaking in.

visible deterrents is the way i think. And to park the car either out of way or very visible directly under the street lights if possible.

Amazed if a thief that has the resources to do the OBD choose to hack into a Suzuki when he can steal a valuable car.
If the thief has these skills, he/she should be capable of getting a real job actually.. -In a perfect world...

I think probably the less resourceful thief breaks into a suzuki for the stereo or something visible or that he didnt know that the car cannot be hotwired like the thief that stopped inside the steering column on happybaisakhis car.

No-one seems to have skills anymore

The Ford OBD thefts are easy because you can get the complete kit for a few pounds and it is a few button presses.

The rest of the thievery just involves smashing stuff.

I was watching a video about breaking into houses by snapping the lock in half, which is how they literally break into houses round here. I assume the numpty demonstrating was deliberately slow (Like Parker breaking into the Bank of England in Thunderbirds), because I've seen skilled people pick locks like those in a fraction of the time, without any grunting or loud noises.

Still, the insurance will pay out if there is clear sign of violent entry, if they bump or pick the lock, the insurance would drag their feet claiming it wasn't locked or something.