Becks loses 2 X5's to geeky keyless entry thieves

[e30sd]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/03/becks-loses-two-bimmers-to-laptop-toting-thieves/

lol

[KrisHolloway]

Funny, rich people have to suffer to, haha

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

thats not gonna put a good name on BMW's security

is it?

[BimmerToad]

gotta love how now it takes a laptop to jack a bmw, where as in the 70s, it took half of a tennis ball

[grapedrink]

thats not gonna put a good name on BMW's security

is it?

Up until model year 95 with Porsche you could jump/start the car in about 15sec.

[AndrewBird]

With a philips head screw driver, I can start and drive my car off with no damage to the ignition lock in less then 5 minutes. I had to do it once when my ignition lock got jammed.

I wonder what kind of wireless unit they are using? Somehting custom or bluetooth perhaps?

[AndrewBird]

gotta love how now it takes a laptop to jack a bmw, where as in the 70s, it took half of a tennis ball

Was this a joke/exageration, or was it really that easy?

[parkerbink]

I am sure he is fully insured.

[kansas-ix]

makes me want to steal my boys e90 for fun and park it around the corner to see the look on his face.

[Jand3rson]

I despise people that fuck with other people's cars, much less stealing them, but that's pretty damn cool.

[Streetspec_iS]

i like the fact pasha is up to date with beck's private life. ;)

[e30sd]

i like tha fakt i called him becks.

[BimmerToad]

Was this a joke/exageration, or was it really that easy?

I've HEARD (read: haven't tried) that half of a tennis ball, placed over the locking mechanism and squeezed, can throw off the hydralics of older BMW locking mechanisms and pop open the door.

[e30sd]

dude thats wrong. you cut a tennis ball in half, hold it up to the door lock cylinder of an e21, and pop it real hard once. the lock cylinder pops out.

noob

[e30vert]

I've HEARD (read: haven't tried) that half of a tennis ball, placed over the locking mechanism and squeezed, can throw off the hydralics of older BMW locking mechanisms and pop open the door.

Hydrolics? HAHAHAHAHA - Thats oil!
Who in thier right mind would ever run oil lines and oil up through a door locking mechanism?