GEN 2 Lost Key Fob - Bad Guys May Be Able To Track It To My Address
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In Cali, shotguns are legal, but I think if they're in a vehicle they have to be unloaded. And no, unloading it when the bad guy shows up is not playing by the rules.
P4SHOCAT
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. Nj. May be worse than Cali. Right across the bridge from me.
chrisuhl797
Full Access Member
Way too dangerous. Don’t do it. Just get new fobs programmed.It would be stupid and dangerous to loosen all of the lug nuts on one of the wheels every night, but it might work.How about a club while you wait to see if the fob turns up? You're going to get r a p e d by the dealer for new fobs.
tomcruise
Active Member
Rental car company probably put it in lost and found. Did you call them yet?
This! I've left plenty of items in rental cars. They even shipped me a pair of expensive sunglasses that I left in one of them. Call them and ask
yes checked with Hertz no keys got turned in.
No they cant get my address from a FOB, but if someone found the FOB in the car i rented they could have looked at the receipt found my addy and send the fob to a buddy in NJ
I wasn't concerned but the other night my truck factor alarm went off twice within 10 mins in the middle of the night. my house is far off the street and the truck is not visible from the street, my mind was racing and i thought maybe someone hit the panic button to figure out where the truck is so they can come back later and grab it.
No they cant get my address from a FOB, but if someone found the FOB in the car i rented they could have looked at the receipt found my addy and send the fob to a buddy in NJ
I wasn't concerned but the other night my truck factor alarm went off twice within 10 mins in the middle of the night. my house is far off the street and the truck is not visible from the street, my mind was racing and i thought maybe someone hit the panic button to figure out where the truck is so they can come back later and grab it.
eRicRic
Member
I know it’s hard when something emotionally dangerous happens but I think you have a greater chance of winning the lottery (and I hope you do!).
For there to be a problem you have to line up a whole bunch of highly unlikely events in perfect order. You have to assume:
1) that you actually lost the key in the rental (it didn’t fall out of a pocket, get kicked out when removing items from the rental, left somewhere else, misplaced, accidentally thrown away, left at tsa at the airport, etc).
2) the rental cleaning crew did not locate the key while ensuring the rest of the car was completely clean
3) the rental cleaning crew also missed discarding your rental agreement/receipt (they must be really bad cleaners)
4) the person who legitimately rented the car after you is a legitimately bad person (instead of being a relatively good person like yourself and 99.999% of the other renters).
5) they somehow found both the fob AND the receipt (that the cleaners missed).
6) that they have the time, resources, and motivation to travel literally across the country to lift your car. That the bad guys have the resources to do this but aren’t good enough at their normal bad things to be too busy or unmotivated. In other words, that this is both their best option AND they have the means to execute on it.
7) that the bad guys don’t assume you’ve already visited the dealer and had the fob codes changed/reprogrammed.
8) that your insurance will somehow blame you for the theft and refuse to payout.
The good news is that if all of those things were both true and successful, they will be actually taking your truck and not just trashing it on a joyride (you don’t want a trashed truck back; joyriders scare me far more than thieves).
I know how these things create anxiety, especially with your alarm going off (which wouldn’t be from the thieves since they have a working fob), but you have to remove the emotion and get out of your head. We are all often our own worst enemies. If you must do something, call you insurance agent and have him lower your deductible to $0 for the next 30 days.
For there to be a problem you have to line up a whole bunch of highly unlikely events in perfect order. You have to assume:
1) that you actually lost the key in the rental (it didn’t fall out of a pocket, get kicked out when removing items from the rental, left somewhere else, misplaced, accidentally thrown away, left at tsa at the airport, etc).
2) the rental cleaning crew did not locate the key while ensuring the rest of the car was completely clean
3) the rental cleaning crew also missed discarding your rental agreement/receipt (they must be really bad cleaners)
4) the person who legitimately rented the car after you is a legitimately bad person (instead of being a relatively good person like yourself and 99.999% of the other renters).
5) they somehow found both the fob AND the receipt (that the cleaners missed).
6) that they have the time, resources, and motivation to travel literally across the country to lift your car. That the bad guys have the resources to do this but aren’t good enough at their normal bad things to be too busy or unmotivated. In other words, that this is both their best option AND they have the means to execute on it.
7) that the bad guys don’t assume you’ve already visited the dealer and had the fob codes changed/reprogrammed.
8) that your insurance will somehow blame you for the theft and refuse to payout.
The good news is that if all of those things were both true and successful, they will be actually taking your truck and not just trashing it on a joyride (you don’t want a trashed truck back; joyriders scare me far more than thieves).
I know how these things create anxiety, especially with your alarm going off (which wouldn’t be from the thieves since they have a working fob), but you have to remove the emotion and get out of your head. We are all often our own worst enemies. If you must do something, call you insurance agent and have him lower your deductible to $0 for the next 30 days.
GCATX
King Dingaling
Is wrapping the truck in tin foil out of the question? Faraday cage?
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