Had my car broken into on Friday night, they broke the drivers door window but were disturbed by the alarm (and me). The local police said that a few golfs and audis had been done for the integrated units over the past weeks around where I live! Keep vigilant people, I didn't realise an oem unit would be in such demand but a Google search reveals otherwise!
Attempted integrated sat nav theft
- Thread starter Razzario
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What the hell would they do with the screen? Lol it don't work unless it's plugged into the headunit in the glove box
They won't be useless in other cars otherwise they wouldn't steal them, it's just software which they'll crack and recode to use in other cars. They've cracked the ecu software hence aftermarket remaps, so the sat nav won't be a problem to unlock.
Its a shame as there was a time when you had to have the face off stereo in the dash to prevent theft and that all went away when car hifi got integrated. Now it seems the thief's have moved on to the integrated nav systems as they cost so much new. Where's there's theft there's also demand for the stolen items, I guess there's enough people with low end systems that are prepared to buy stolen nav systems cheap.
Gutted for the op, but glad you stopped them in the act.
That's the problem.
We (society) need to persuade everyone that by buying that cheap unit they are fueling the market for thieves.
Every chance their car would get broken into later to have the unit re-stolen.
Shame so many seem to let their morals go out the window as soon as the promise of getting something on the cheap appears.
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