[Autox] On-Star makes car theft impossible?

[Tom Holt]

I'm not sure what year the Solo truck was, but Ford was insanely slow about 
adding any sort of theft protection to the SuperDuty trucks. They are the 
number one stolen vehicle in Texas these days, for use in human smuggling 
from Mexico. We've had about 5 stolen from my work parking lot in Austin. I 
believe Ford didn't add chipped keys until about 2007 or 2008, and the door 
locks are laughably easy to defeat... My F250 stays home a lot more now.

Tom


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From: "Kenneth Allan Mitchell" <nokones at kenmitchell.com>
To: "'John Lieberman'" <jlieberman37 at comcast.net>
Cc: autox at autox.team.net
Sent: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:13:56 -0700
Subject: Re: [Autox] On-Star makes car theft impossible?

> Then my question is:  How did they steal the truck? Did someone leave the
> key in the ignition?  If the Fords have an anti-theft system like the GM
> trucks how did the thieves were able to start the vehicle and drive it off?
> Either they had the appropriate key or it was towed. Hotwired, I doubt it.
> 
> Kenneth Allan Mitchell
> nokones at kenmitchell.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lieberman [mailto:jlieberman37 at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 16:10
> To: nokones at kenmitchell.com
> Cc: 'Greg'; autox at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Autox] On-Star makes car theft impossible?
> 
> Ford trucks have this, too,  I had a duplicate key made for my '03 F150 
> shortly after I bought it -- only to find that it would unlock the doors 
> and the tailgate but it wouldn't start the truck.
> 
> John Lieberman
> 
> Kenneth Allan Mitchell wrote:
> > Also, I believe the GM vehicles have a factory anti-theft system and the
> > keys are coded keys thus, the vehicle cannot start unless you have the
> coded
> > key in the ignition.  I'm not sure if the Ford trucks have any electronic
> or
> > anti-theft technology for their vehicles like the GM vehicles.  
> >
> > I'm not a Ford person so I'll leave that question to a Ford person.
> >
> > Kenneth Allan Mitchell
> > nokones at kenmitchell.com
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