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BMW X6 gets broken into and...

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  • #2
    Popoutman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Popoutman


    Known issue with all BMWs from about 2005-2006 onwards with the start button ignition. Alarm design flaw that allows access to the OBD port, allowing the car identity to be read, allowing a clone key to be generated in <1 min, allowinghte car to be driven away without the owner's keys.


  • #3
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Yep there's a blind spot with the factory alarm sensors in the car, which means you can break a window and reach down to the OBD port without setting off the alarm. Then there's the lax security on the OBD port itself.

    Solution? Well apparently BMW have a fix, a software patch that plugs the hole in the keycoding software. From what I gather it doesn't fix the sensor issue. Me, I'd be adding a premium aftermarket alarm which will solve the sensor problem and get one of the alarm immobiliser cuts to the OBD port itself. So even if a way is found to bypass the patch, it won't matter as when the alarm is armed the OBD port is dead. TBH I'd do that with any make of car, just in case other vulnerabilities are found.

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  • #4
    laffindevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭laffindevil


    Insn't that crazy, sounds so easily done yet the manufacturer didn't change it asap. How they are allowed get away with it? Is there no committee to oversee automotive industry interests? Wait a sec, we saw how that worked with the banks....lol...nevermind....


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