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Originally posted by P250UA5:
Rogue & a1 suggestions above would be my guess.

Agreed. It’s what they’ve been doing around here. They’ve broken into our cars numerous times without setting the alarms off or breaking windows, both at our house here and the townhouse we lived in a half hour north of here. It’s quick, quiet, and easy.

I watched them do the neighbor’s van a few doors down while I called the police last summer, this after hearing something outside my office window around 11:00 one night. The gal hopped out of their car (headlights off), and ran up to the van and opened the door like she owned it. Went through the center console and glove box in a hurry, left the doors open, hopped back in the car and they took off. Took maybe thirty seconds.

In our case, I’m pretty sure it’s addicts looking for stuff to sell. Which means the tech can’t be all that expensive, or difficult to find. So I have zero problem believing a new Porsche got nicked by someone who knows how to get it into a shipping container and headed overseas.

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Originally posted by SigM4:
I’m shocked that someone that owns a car like that can’t afford a garage to put it in.

My neighbor parks his MB G63 at his weekend home outdoors. It has 577 HP and hits 60 in 3.9. I think its around $175K. All while a car of mine that the value varies with how full the fuel tank is, sits snugly in a garage.

I was discussing the performance of his G Wagon, and he said come get the keys and take it for a spin. I said thanks, but no thanks.

My $50k (MSRP) Mercedes gets parked in the driveway, my wife's 7 year old Flex is in the garage along with 2 motorcycles.
3rd garage bay has the kids' bikes/toys & some projects that I haven't had time to address.

That said, I do miss having the car in the garage.

Easy, the key was cloned or they defeated it. Some Car thieves have very high technology to steal just about any car. It could be shipped overseas, but chances are it went to a chop shop and they remove ALL saleable parts and cut up the body and things that aren't saleable.......people then use those parts to fix a rebuildable wrecked/stolen recovery vehicle, or a body shop to fix a customers wreck.

Word is someone put an order out, an order for 50 top end cars....

Thieves are a sophisticated as the locking systems. And of course there are chop shops, and around here, relatively close to the border, cars are sometimes sent out whole. But mostly they are chopped up.

No need to speculate about repos, insurance fraud, etc. The simple explanation is likely the correct one. Just plain stolen.

I have had two cars(vetts) stolen in broad daylight. They backed a wrecker up to it, hooked it up, and drove off. Nobody thinks a thing about a car on a wrecker.

I used to sell Real Estate and many, many times I would show a house in a high end area with a Mercedes or Porsche or both in the drive way, and then get inside the home to discover they had no furniture. Often just a mattress on the floor and no other furniture in the house because they could not afford it and the big house and fancy cars too.
Rod

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Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
I have had two cars(vetts) stolen in broad daylight. They backed a wrecker up to it, hooked it up, and drove off. Nobody thinks a thing about a car on a wrecker.

We had an employee's GMC Sierra (2016, IIRC) stolen, at our office, in broad daylight.
They were in/out in about 20 minutes. Guy parks toward the end of the lot & just out of sight of the majority of the lot-facing offices.
They got it open & drove away in it.

I have a Macan, keyless, if you can use the signal from the fob to unlock the car, you can start it. I don't know what you will do after you shut if off. I'm sure the engine and tranny would fetch a fair price and be easy to unload. Wheels and tires as well.

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Originally posted by SigM4:
I’m shocked that someone that owns a car like that can’t afford a garage to put it in.

Probably because their garages are packed full of junk. That’s what I see mostly. Just boxes and totes of stuff or clothing while a car $30k+ sits outside.

My truck sits in the driveway because, well, it's a F250 that won't fit in the garage. If I could park it in the garage, I would; though right now there is A LOT of shit in the garage.

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Originally posted by 08 Cayenne:
I have a Macan, keyless, if you can use the signal from the fob to unlock the car, you can start it. I don't know what you will do after you shut if off. I'm sure the engine and tranny would fetch a fair price and be easy to unload. Wheels and tires as well.

My only guess is just leave it running until it gets to the chop house or shipping container. *shrug*

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Originally posted by hile:
My truck sits in the driveway because, well, it's a F250 that won't fit in the garage. If I could park it in the garage, I would; though right now there is A LOT of shit in the garage.

Not to belabor the obvious; you could move or redistribute some of the shit. Or does the truck literally not fit? My grandparents lived in a house where the garage would not have closed on an F250.

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Originally posted by SigM4:
I’m shocked that someone that owns a car like that can’t afford a garage to put it in.

I'm sure their place has a garage but most people are junk collectors. I could never do that myself and when we built our house 5 years ago I made sure I had a big garage and I keep it super clean.

Theoretically, what's the defense against a fob booster signal device? Store the fob in a foil bag?

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by hile:
My truck sits in the driveway because, well, it's a F250 that won't fit in the garage. If I could park it in the garage, I would; though right now there is A LOT of shit in the garage.

Not to belabor the obvious; you could move or redistribute some of the shit. Or does the truck literally not fit? My grandparents lived in a house where the garage would not have closed on an F250.

My guess is that it physically doesn't fit.

When I had my F150 (short bed, crew cab) it would just barely fit in the garage, and that was only with the hitch ball removed.

My mom had their garage custom built so their long bed, crew cab F350 would fit in the garage. It's quite a long truck.

I think the fobs have limited range. If you have an upstairs bedroom, keep the fob there when you're not in the car (or in your pocket when you go up there.) Don't leave it by an outside door.

If you want to keep it close to an outside wall, get a metal key box.

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Originally posted by Fredward:
Theoretically, what's the defense against a fob booster signal device? Store the fob in a foil bag?

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Store the fob in a foil bag?

I put a metal keybox in our pantry to shield the keyfobs from communicating with thieves.

Also, before the keybox, the van (in the garage on the other side of the wall from the pantry) always thought we were going somewhere whenever I went into the garage.

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Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
I have had two cars(vetts) stolen in broad daylight. They backed a wrecker up to it, hooked it up, and drove off. Nobody thinks a thing about a car on a wrecker.

A coworker had a car stolen that way years ago. "Anybody see it?" Everybody saw it! They all assumed his car broke down.

Where do they go? I found an article that says over 1.2 million used cars are exported to Africa each year. European and Japanese cars are preferred.

Last week there was a fire on the RO/RO car carrier Hoegh Xiamen, with 2000 used cars, getting ready to go to West Africa from Jacksonville, FL. Just an example.

What a great way for a used car to disappear completely, with no risk of ever being found.