Stolen Ford Vans Alert

[mab01uk]

A friend of mine had his late 2 year old Transit Van (also used for towing his Mini's) with all his work tools stolen in London today, despite it being securely locked and immoblised like most other modern vehicles. Turns out Ford vans have a security weakness detailed below.......if you know anyone with one please warn them to take preventive action before it is too late........

"Thieves have discovered a new way to steal your Ford van via overriding the manufacturer’s immobilisation system by connecting a Laptop/PDA into the OBD socket and programming a new key into the ECU.
They start by decoding the manufacturer’s door lock which unlocks all the doors, disables the alarm and gives them the key combination for your van so they can get a key cut with a new chip.
Once the key is cut they return to the van, unlock the doors with the new key and then connect their Laptop/PDA into the OBD/ECU connection where they can program in the new key, start the vehicle and drive it away — All without causing any damage."
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Transit Forum - loads of thefts have been reported here on late Ford Transit vans :
http://fordtransit.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 4&t=112409

[woodypup59]

I beleive this is a problem across a wide range of modern cars, in particular, higher spec models with key-less ignition.

Keyless means the pikeys don't even have to get a key cut.