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BMW alarm issues
My car was recently broken into and various items in the glove box etc. were stolen. The car was parked on my drive and locked. When I discovered the theft (my neighbour suffered the same situation and believes the incident happened in the early hours,) the car was still locked and no damage at all had occured. No alarms were triggered. How is this possible? Are BMW aware that this can happen. It begs the question can the car actually be driven away?
Asked on 12 April 2012 by Johann Sebastian
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Honest John
BMW remote locking is on the 800Mhz band rather than the 400Mhz of almost everything else. Quite a few similar reports. But whatever they are using they don't seem to be able to drive the cars away.
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