How secure is the Keyless Entry and Start system?

[n0m0h0s]

Originally Posted by neutron256

Notice they don't mention anything about cars other than BMWs. It looks like a 3rd party has developed a device for programming BMW keys into the car. This doesn’t exist for most newer cars.

Many cars you need an existing key in order to program a new key, otherwise you have to replace the whole immobilizer.

I also wonder if they were actually programming the keyless start or just keyless entry. Notice how they push the car off in the video rather than just get in and drive it away. I know in Hondas and many other cars these are separate functions that have to be programmed separately even through they're in the same key.

I am a toyota tech and I approve this quote.

[gt8613]

This BMW breakin thing is very old ingormation. Like at least 4 years.

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[Brzetto]

Originally Posted by os86

with the obd port easily accessible I think it will be targeted. At the end of the day If your is a target there is only very little you can do to protect it. just make sure you have insurance that way you can sleep in peace.

In Australia you're helpless, in the United States you're not. There is one very good reason why.

[bucket]

Originally Posted by SeattleJeremy

This article about thieves stealing BMW's in the UK makes me worry about the keyless entry and start system in my mom's Prius, and by relation the system in the BRZ Limited.
http://autos.aol.com/article/keyless-bmw-theft/



Is the Toyota/Subaru system vulnerable to the same tactics the thieves used in this article?

It can be hacked...pretty much everything can.
It is massively easier to just drag the car onto a flatbed if somebody wants to steal it though. The high-tech solutions are generally too much of a pain in the ass to be better than the low-tech.