Easy break in technique for a Raptor.

[NickPic83]

Get a pop n loc and you use it even less.

I like how the ignition will continue to crank when you let of the key really. Shows that it is truly just a physical muscle memory and that electronics is really doing all the work.

Yukon Joe
www.RUNRAPTORRUN.com

Thought about doing that. I gotta wait I got enough mods waiting to go on. Nothing to exciting mostly small mods but I have NO time right now

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[COBRA90GT]

FWIW - Trent Woods PD in NC has allegedly confirmed that this tactic does work (a Ford product was defeated, a Raptor was NOT mentioned - the info is LE sensitive).

YMMV

 

[debate]

owned my truck for over 2 years and the only thing i use the key for is the ignition and the tailgate lock lol

I key opened the door only once. Got in and the "truck voice" stated that the alarm would go off unless the engine was started with the key in 15 seconds.

 

[Harblar]

From the manual:

Anti-Scan Feature

The keypad will go into an anti-scan mode if you enter the wrong code seven times (35 consecutive button presses). This mode disables the keypad for one minute and the keypad lamp will flash.

The anti-scan feature will turn off after:

• one minute of keypad inactivity

• pressing the unlock button on the remote control

• the ignition is turned on.

There are exactly 3,125 possible code combinations (yes there are 10 numbers, but only five buttons. The key pad doesn't know if you're pressing for a 1 or 2. It just knows that button was pushed.)

If the pic in the first post holds true and the key pad only holds the last 5 key presses in memory then we can deduce that one would be able to try 31 codes before the anti scan feature kicked in. You then have to wait 1 minute to try again. Say you're really fast at pressing the correct keys and can do 1 a second. That puts it at 95 seconds from the time you start pressing keys, before you can enter the next 31 codes, and so on.

Sooo... 7 minutes? Maybe if you get lucky and get the code in the first 175 key presses, but that's not too likely. Let's assume the correct code is the last 5 button combinations you try. That's approx 2 hours 39 minutes and 37 seconds. Chances of getting it that late in the game are pretty small too.

So let's just say, using the posted method and taking the anti-scan feature into account, it could take a reasonably talented and prepared thief anywhere from 5 seconds to 2 1/2 hours to crack your door code

Just for comparisons sake, if all 10 numbers actually counted, there would be 100,000 possible 5 number combinations and a max of over 85 hours to try them all. What if letters were included? 60,466,176 possible 5 character combos and a max of over 5 years and 10 and a half months.

Ok... Math lesson over! Hahaha.

 

[Deleted member 12951]

Ford needs to keep the keypad but also add a fingerprint scan to it. Two user authentication better way to go.

 

[Harblar]

Ford needs to keep the keypad but also add a fingerprint scan to it. Two user authentication better way to go.

That's all fine and dandy till it's -40 below and the scanner won't work because the frostbite has removed your fingers from the equation!

Hahaha

 

[Evilmonkey]

There are exactly 3,125 possible code combinations (yes there are 10 numbers, but only five buttons. The key pad doesn't know if you're pressing for a 1 or 2. It just knows that button was pushed.)

If the pic in the first post holds true and the key pad only holds the last 5 key presses in memory then we can deduce that one would be able to try 31 codes before the anti scan feature kicked in. You then have to wait 1 minute to try again. Say you're really fast at pressing the correct keys and can do 1 a second. That puts it at 95 seconds from the time you start pressing keys, before you can enter the next 31 codes, and so on.

Sooo... 7 minutes? Maybe if you get lucky and get the code in the first 175 key presses, but that's not too likely. Let's assume the correct code is the last 5 button combinations you try. That's approx 2 hours 39 minutes and 37 seconds. Chances of getting it that late in the game are pretty small too.

So let's just say, using the posted method and taking the anti-scan feature into account, it could take a reasonably talented and prepared thief anywhere from 5 seconds to 2 1/2 hours to crack your door code

Just for comparisons sake, if all 10 numbers actually counted, there would be 100,000 possible 5 number combinations and a max of over 85 hours to try them all. What if letters were included? 60,466,176 possible 5 character combos and a max of over 5 years and 10 and a half months.

Ok... Math lesson over! Hahaha.

I hate math! To me it's like this.

 

[ZBoater]

A brick through the window is a lot faster...

 

[kdyjonbama]

All I could think about when reading the comments of this was this episode of Top Gear US.

Top Gear US - Break in Challenge - YouTube

 

[Jordan@Apollo-Optics]

Get a pop n loc and you use it even less.

I like how the ignition will continue to crank when you let of the key really. Shows that it is truly just a physical muscle memory and that electronics is really doing all the work.

Yukon Joe
GREAT LAKES RAPTOR EXCURSIONS

When I get in rental cars this gets me every time. I'm so used to just rotating the key to "start" and releasing instead of holding it now. Makes me look like a doofus when the car actually requires you to hold it in the "start" position fire up lol