Tools stolen and van stolen (Transit Mk7) Please Read

[Pepsi Max]

Hi

Just a warning to ALL TRANSIT MK7 Owners.

In the early hours of Thursday morning my 59 plate Transit was broken into whilst parked on my drive. The vehicle was deadlocked and the keys were in the house. When I came out at 7am in the morning I found that the passengers side door and the rear side loading door were ajar. I always check the van and my other vehicles along with the house every night with no exception. IT WAS DEFINITELY LOCKED!!! I hasten to add that there was no damage whatsoever to my van, glass, looms, doors etc all in perfect condition so how the hell did they get in???

Having lodged the crime with the local constabulary, I proceeded to work.A friend of mine just up from me (300yds) was standing outside his house. He owns a Transit. I wound down the window and warned him what had happened. His reply was that I had been lucky as his had been actually stolen from right outside his front door, with all his tools in it that very night. We narrowed down the time to between 1am and 4am on Thursday morning.His van was an 11 plate. There was no glass on the road, their bedroom windows were open and the van was parked 10 feet from the front of the house.....LOCKED!!!

I contacted the supplying dealer of my van and they said there is no way of entering the van without the remote or the key.......I have both keys supplied with the van and THE VAN WAS LOCKED!!!! Either they are lying or the crims are brighter than Ford.


Similarily, my friend has both too!!!!! But he has no van to use them on now.

It appears that the thieves can now pick the locks and override the PATS too making the security system useless. No noise, no mess no damage!!

I will be contacting Ford at some point to discuss this. Any Ford guys out there got any inside information???

Please beware, if you cherish your belongings you may need to look at alternative security....like a Rotweiler in the cab!!!

I really was lucky!

Paul

[whitemice]

There's a thread here on it all, commiserations dude.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=105178
and here,
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=111881

[Mike]

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=102288&hilit=+Cobra

[TIMO]

Hi

Just a warning to ALL TRANSIT MK7 Owners.

In the early hours of Thursday morning my 59 plate Transit was broken into whilst parked on my drive. The vehicle was deadlocked and the keys were in the house. When I came out at 7am in the morning I found that the passengers side door and the rear side loading door were ajar. I always check the van and my other vehicles along with the house every night with no exception. IT WAS DEFINITELY LOCKED!!! I hasten to add that there was no damage whatsoever to my van, glass, looms, doors etc all in perfect condition so how the hell did they get in???

Having lodged the crime with the local constabulary, I proceeded to work.A friend of mine just up from me (300yds) was standing outside his house. He owns a Transit. I wound down the window and warned him what had happened. His reply was that I had been lucky as his had been actually stolen from right outside his front door, with all his tools in it that very night. We narrowed down the time to between 1am and 4am on Thursday morning.His van was an 11 plate. There was no glass on the road, their bedroom windows were open and the van was parked 10 feet from the front of the house.....LOCKED!!!

I contacted the supplying dealer of my van and they said there is no way of entering the van without the remote or the key.......I have both keys supplied with the van and THE VAN WAS LOCKED!!!! Either they are lying or the crims are brighter than Ford.


Similarily, my friend has both too!!!!! But he has no van to use them on now.

It appears that the thieves can now pick these Tibie locks and override the PATS too making the security system useless. No noise, no mess no damage!!

I will be contacting Ford at some point to discuss this. Any Ford guys out there got any inside information???

Please beware, if you cherish your belongings you may need to look at alternative security....like a Rotweiler in the cab!!!

I really was lucky!

Paul

Pm sent

[judder]

I've got an old disk lock that I'm using on the steering wheel. Hope it deters them, but am thinking about my tools in the back.

[Gurj51ngh]

I could not be bothered to read those long threads, but just wanted to know from the guys that have read them what seems to be the problem here?

I am thinking of upgrading my alarm and getting a tracker fitted.

[eco den]

Hi all,

found this forum while trawling the net to find out how the hell my 60 plate transit and all my tools was stolen so easily. was assured by the guy from ford that they'd rectified previous security flaws, (knife through cable loom) etc. just got standard locks, no alarm, as last van they drilled out my deadlocks anyway.....

was taken from near clapham common last monday or tuesday, KE60AXB, sign written, "Ecological Heating Ltd" in green on a silver van. Didn't know it was missing until got back from holiday until late wednesday. neighbours say it wasn't there tuesday lunchtime.

so many tools in the back, for gas work, solar pv, solar thermal, bags of fittings, electrical, plumbing........

If anyone knows where these "drop and retrieve later" areas are, I'd love to see if at least some of my stuff is in the back.

Is this some kind of design flaw or loophole? are all vans this easy or just transits?

cheers in advance,

Den

[Altransit]

Hi all, ....................

Hi Den, I take it that you still have both sets of keys

[eco den]

Yes, both keys. Thought the immobiliser was based on a chip in the key that had to match the one in the van......

[Altransit]

Yes, both keys. Thought the immobiliser was based on a chip in the key that had to match the one in the van......

The current thought is that they're overriding the immobiliser by connecting a device to the ECU via the OBD socket, unless someone knows differently

A separate stand alone alarm is beginning to look like a good idea

[belly]

This is worrying We need to try and find out how this is happening, time to ask all the dodgy types if you know any !

[Altransit]

time to ask all the dodgy types if you know any !

I know of a few, but you're all on here anyway

[t2myd]

Breaking in , snapping barrel then towing them off , that's what there doing near me

[Mike]

Breaking in , snapping barrel then towing them off , that's what there doing near me

The pikey method isn't the one to worry about.

[t2myd]

You can have all the security you want but if they want it theyle take it