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Thought its about time i joined this forum to share my recent experience! I have a 2020 Kingham which was stolen from my driveway at 2.50 am Sunday morning. We noticed it missing at aprox 6.am as had grandchildren staying so up early. It was fitted with a Melenco wheel clamp which they successfully crowbarred off! they also managed to deactivate the immobiliser and gain entry, also unlock steering lock start and drive away!! The steering wheel lock was not forced so somehow they must have used a key.Thankfully we have a tracker so i fired up my laptop and we located it only about 10 miles away!! My two sons drove over to the location while i liaised with the police and kept watch over it until they arrived. They were unable to find the tracker so apparently left it parked up to see if it gets picked up then they know it has one fitted. Anyway damaged to the interior mainly plastic mouldings ,"where i guess they were looking for the tracker"! and the front wing where they forced the wheel clamp off, but at least we have it back. I think the moral to this is not to rely on the vehicles locks, and immobiliser and certain wheel clamps for security, and also if it wasn't for the tracker we would not have got it back!! Hope this helps as wouldn't want any one else to think that they have enough security devises like i did and get it nicked!!
Regards Tom
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You located it on your laptop, not the monitoring company?
Sorry for all the questions but this is information that can help us protect our vans.
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is a steering lock any good NO
is a pedal lock any good NO
is a wheel clamp any good NO
I have been out to help when people have lost keys and I have remove these items in a very short time
the tracker is a must as this was what they tried to find. so best not left as to the position A/S fitted it and I have a second tracker so even if they find one I have a good back up
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You say a built-in alarm. Alarm is not standard from build, so if you've had from new, and not had alarm installed yourself , there is no alarm.orac wrote:There is a built-in alarm of course. I suspect from the tale of woe on this thread however, that as with any professional determined theft (or theft to order), the criminal can overcome just about anything.
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glyne lock wrote:so this is a good post
is a steering lock any good NO
is a pedal lock any good NO
is a wheel clamp any good NO
I have been out to help when people have lost keys and I have remove these items in a very short time
the tracker is a must as this was what they tried to find. so best not left as to the position A/S fitted it and I have a second tracker so even if they find one I have a good back up
Fit them all to your van with a decent alarm I know a thief will get through the locks but with the alarm blaring they wont want to hang about hacking 4 locks (you forgot an OBD lock)
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Seems that is an urban myth.
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These thieves seem to get past every other lock so they will probably get past the OBD lock just as swiftly.Fontie wrote:(you forgot an OBD lock)
What about mixing the wires up on the OBD socket so their gadget will not work?
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