Guess how long it took to get into a locked 2017 Dodge Charger?

[Elixer]

Long story short, person locked* keys in the car, and they called the wrecker to unlock it.

The guy took 7 secs to open it with a long blue flexible wire. 7 secs.
I had no idea it was so easy to basically break into the car, and no one would be wiser.


*turns out they didn't actually lock their keys in the car, they dropped them at the store, and someone turned them in.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[Red Squirrel]

Modern cars are hilariously easy to break into because of all the wireless electronics crap. When a non tech company implements tech, they don't even consider security. This IoT world is creating very insecure products. Though in this case it sounds like even the physical security is pretty crap lol. Though it's always been possible to unlock a car that way and it's kinda by design. Normally you use a slim jim. It still requires some level of effort though. The issue with the electronic stuff is that it can be done remotely without anyone seeing you, then you can just walk to the car and take stuff out like if you own it. Nobody will even realize you "broke in".

It's easy to get into a Ford... and pretty much any other modern car.

 

[XavierMace]

Cars have always been pretty easy to get into. Had a friend with an early 90's Neon, always loved showing how easy it was to break into using the antenna which practically just falls off the car. Not really seeing how the "wireless electronics crap" has really had any affect on this one or or the other.

 

[Elixer]

I thought they were going to go the digital route to unlock it, but nope, he went old school, and the alarm never even went off. It wasn't a slim jim though.
Guy was actually pretty cool, he was mad that he didn't get it unlocked in 5 secs.

He said usually it takes under 30 secs for most cars under $60K.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Cars have always been pretty easy to get into. Had a friend with an early 90's Neon, always loved showing how easy it was to break into using the antenna which practically just falls off the car. Not really seeing how the "wireless electronics crap" has really had any affect on this one or or the other.

The issue with the wireless ways is that it can be done remotely, so even someone more timid who would otherwise not risk getting caught could easily break into a car. You walk by casually, spot something you like inside, go back in your car, run a script on your laptop, walk back to the car like you own it and grab the item, and walk away. insurance also won't cover this because there won't be any signs of a break in so they'll rule it as neglect as basically it looks like you just forgot to lock your doors.

 

[XavierMace]

That requires some level of expertise. Just about anyone can get into an older car in minutes even without any past training or experience. If you think people notice that sort of thing you are drastically overestimating the observation skills of the general public.

 

[Six]

A skilled thief can also open your sub-$50 home door lock within seconds and then your sentry safe within seconds.

 

[boomerang]

Locks are in place to keep honest people honest.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Modern cars are hilariously easy to break into because of all the wireless electronics crap. When a non tech company implements tech, they don't even consider security. This IoT world is creating very insecure products. Though in this case it sounds like even the physical security is pretty crap lol. Though it's always been possible to unlock a car that way and it's kinda by design. Normally you use a slim jim. It still requires some level of effort though. The issue with the electronic stuff is that it can be done remotely without anyone seeing you, then you can just walk to the car and take stuff out like if you own it. Nobody will even realize you "broke in".

It's easy to get into a Ford... and pretty much any other modern car.

I used to work in the car rental industry in the late 80s and early 90s and we had fleets of American cars from that era. Most of them were ridiculously easy to get into with a slim Jim. I could pop the lock on any of the Chrysler/Dodge products in a couple seconds.

We won't even get into keys working in other more than one car.

 

[RLGL]

We won't even get into keys working in other more than one car.

Years back I was part of a group of three that had the same key for our cars.

 

[purbeast0]

DOGE

 

[MtnMan]

Locks are only good at keeping honest people out.

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[amdhunter]

Ugh. You want to break into a car easily? Just start pulling the weather stripping off from the top, then put your finger through the gap that was just made and wiggle back and forth and bring the window down.

I can see no one here really robbed cars for the hell of it when they were kids.