Criminals are becoming increasingly able to able to plug into a vehicle’s OBD Data Port and duplicate a key in which to disarm a car, open the doors and drive off, probably never to be seen again. All by using electronic equipment and data reading machines,
The OBD Data Port is the ‘Achilles Heel’ of many high-end vehicles. Models including Range Rover, BMW, Ford RS, Audis, VW’s and even the Mini have all been affected.

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The fact that motorists could be losing up to £40 million in the latest vehicle tax disc controversy is hiding a more sinister issue of easier car theft, reports car security enhancement specialists, DATAbloc.
Doing away with the round perforated tax disc is meant to save the Government around £7 million in printing and administration costs and to make things simpler for motorists. But there is a flaw in this move that has played right into the hands of car thieves.

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