[Autox] On-Star makes car theft impossible?

[Jarrod Igou]

My 2003 Excursion had a chip in the key. The door locks are indeed an issue, though.

And Greg S, I'll be happy to stop by and work on stealing that yellow Chevy.  :-)

Jarrod


On 14 Jun 2010 at 9:25, Tom Holt wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> 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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