Someone has been in my Zed overnight . . . .

jamie_z4 · Post by **jamie_z4** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:32 pm

you can wire a dash cam into the fag lighter which is a permanent live- if you use the car on a daily(ish)basis it wont drain the battery.

Rusky · Post by **Rusky** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:50 pm

Could be that who ever took the keys out tried them on your door, with the hope that they could possibly get in and get the car keys.

Bumpy · Post by **Bumpy** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:24 pm

jamie_z4 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:32 pm you can wire a dash cam into the fag lighter which is a permanent live- if you use the car on a daily(ish)basis it wont drain the battery.

And then you would have had to claim for a stolen dash cam. just sayin'

Back in the Old Daze (early 60's) I lived in an apartment building and my friend's father drove a Porsche 356.
That meant very little to me at the time, except that his dad never locked it. Plus he always left money in it.
I thought that was crazy in underground parking until I understood the logic.
If the car was locked, the theif would break something getting in. Problem solved if the door is already open.
Money inside ? A thief get pi$$ed if they receive nothing for their efforts. They take it out on your car, so make sure there is something.

It seems to have worked cause I can't recall his car ever being vandalized or stolen, but that was then. I always thought that car was noting more than a squashed VW, so why would anyone want to steal it?

Smartbear · Post by **Smartbear** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:39 pm

You've been sleepwalking & visited your car in the middle of the night, check your pockets for the few extra pounds missing from the car

Rob

Pbondar · Post by **Pbondar** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:42 pm

Maybe a space / time dislocation caused by leaving the wine bar prematurely?

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:47 pm

If the cars parked on the drive at night than locked away in the garage then an external security cam is a must, first thing I did when I got the 140i. I don't think a dash cam would be much use as you ideally need something watching the car and surroundings. Unsure it's a great idea keeping spare house keys in the car even if they won't know which house they're for. I would certainly be on your guard as they might have been testing your security and will take the car next time, hopefully just an opportunist.

Tim.

IRD · Post by **IRD** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:56 pm

Really sorry to read about your unpleasant experience. Leaves you feeling uncomfortable and worrying that they might come back again. The only saving grace is that they didn't take anything of value and that there was no damage.

blackabbot · Post by **blackabbot** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:59 pm

Glad there's no damage done to your car Marlon, With my OCD my Z could never be left unlocked overnight, I have to go and check it a couple of times along with my front and back doors even though I know I have locked them

chrissrush · Post by **chrissrush** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:18 pm

I use remote controls to turn off the mains to the kitchen & bedroom TV's as I prefer not to leave them on standby.

I used to come home sometimes to find the TV on, eventually sussed that I'd not put the TV into standby when using the remote to turn off the mains and that next doors remote unlocking was switching the mains back on.

Now I always put TV to standby before turning the mains off with the remote so I'd say there is definitely some overlap of frequencies for different things but isn't the car suposed to have some kind of code transmitted to "authorise" the transmitting source to lock/unlock it?

Yorkie Z · Post by **Yorkie Z** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:33 pm

Shocking, you got driving gloves

Smartbear · Post by **Smartbear** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:48 pm

Does the ash tray insert look like this Marlon?

: IMG_0861.JPG (424.37 KiB) Viewed 1589 times

Rob

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:59 pm

Smartbear wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:48 pm Does the ash tray insert look like this Marlon?
IMG_0861.JPG
Rob

Yes, thats the one

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:00 pm

Yorkie Z wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:33 pm Shocking, you got driving gloves

update - checking glove box again before and no, they were nicked too

Loved them - supple leather and fitted like . . . er . . . a glove

Smartbear · Post by **Smartbear** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:05 pm

Marlon wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:59 pm
Smartbear wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:48 pm Does the ash tray insert look like this Marlon?
IMG_0861.JPG
Rob
Yes, thats the one

Il bring it to shepshed if you can wait that long (will post if desperate)

Rob

z4pilot · Post by **z4pilot** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:12 pm

ronk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:20 pm I'm told by the Electronic boffins that there is a very narrow band width for stuff like alarms/door bells etc ?
I had a car with an after market alarm that I could not disable between 0720 and 0740 each day ? It all started to happen after the install of a sub station with dish type devices. I suspect they were streaming data - they pointed towards the police HQ
As the frequency fobs use is low powered - they told me it was easily swamped by other signals.

I hope somebody will correct me if I've been fed some duff info

I had a similar experience... Parked up and when I got back to the car, some delivery wagon was delivering building materials. The guy was using a hand held remote control to operate the grab claw thing and the signal completely swamped out my key fob. Bastard knew exactly what was going on as well and watched me try several times to unlock the car with the fob, only to have to resort to the key, which set the alarm off when I opened the door.

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