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Lame
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Keep your key fobs isolated, folks.... to prevent stolen Bronco
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This is what I'm looking into for protection.
The Ravelco (pronounced Ruh-vel-co) Anti Theft Device is installed in an easily accessible place beneath or flush mounted in the dashboard of your vehicle. A removable 16 pin male plug (which when not in use connects to your key chain) makes all the electronic connections. A hidden armored steel cable protects the wires from the rear of the RAVELCO base on through to the engine compartment where all the connections are made and camouflaged. When the plug is removed from the RAVELCO, it is impossible to start the vehicle. There are more than 100,000 different combinations. NO MASTER PLUGS. An impossible obstacle for even the most persistent thief. No Bells or Whistles . . . Just Results!
https://www.ravelco.com/index.html
The Ravelco (pronounced Ruh-vel-co) Anti Theft Device is installed in an easily accessible place beneath or flush mounted in the dashboard of your vehicle. A removable 16 pin male plug (which when not in use connects to your key chain) makes all the electronic connections. A hidden armored steel cable protects the wires from the rear of the RAVELCO base on through to the engine compartment where all the connections are made and camouflaged. When the plug is removed from the RAVELCO, it is impossible to start the vehicle. There are more than 100,000 different combinations. NO MASTER PLUGS. An impossible obstacle for even the most persistent thief. No Bells or Whistles . . . Just Results!
https://www.ravelco.com/index.html
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The theft victim is on here and has posted in the thread.
Lol, huh? Someone is supposed to assume that the owner of property will kill them if they steal something? I love my Bronco, but I am not killing someone over it. That's insanity.
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Don't hold me to this because I was unable to open the 2024 Corsair WSM but I thought Ford was changing something with the keyless entry system that was going to make this type of hack almost impossible.
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Yes because if they have trespassed to get to my property then I have no idea of what their intentions are. If you see someone stealing your stuff please feel free to go and ask them questions. My wife or daughter may be home alone some night when that happens and I prefer not to take the chance that a vehicle or tools is all they are after.
Exactly what would you do ? Look out the curtain and hope that's all they want ?
Go confront them politely and hope they are not crazy enough to shoot you over YOUR property ?
What's more insane ? Lol
Yeah man. I’m pretty sure they just want the car. Lol
Plus, shoot to kill is kind an odd first step. Scare them off maybe? In any case, I guess I’m lucky that this decision will likely never come up for me.
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They're probably doing what they already do in Europe.
This type of attack is MUCH more common over on the other side of the pond, and a lot of European manufacturers have motion sensors in the key fobs. If the key fob doesn't detect movement for XX seconds, it'll effectively disable all communication. When you pick it up, it'll reactivate.
The hack would still be possible, but obviously it would prevent the "my car was stolen in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping!" sort of attack.
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Yeah - I'm in the FAFO camp on this.
have you seen the price of ammo? Not worth a warning shot lol
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Does this happen frequently where you live? Sounds awful.
We have enough law enforcement here that I don't need to live in constant fear of the scenario you just described.
It's never happened. Probably because I live 1000' uphill from the road and most thieves are too lazy or because they hear me practicing on my gun range and that's enough deterant.
From all the key fob paranoia in this thread it seemed to me everyone else had a problem, lol
Climb in quick lol
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The faraday boxes work way better than the pouches. Most of the pouches still "leak" a signal out. A faraday box creates a tight seal. An Airtag is good to hide inside the Bronco too in case they disconnect the battery or reset FordPass.
could you recommend a specific box you may be using? Thanks
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