Yeah, sorry we've been a bit lapsed, but we'll talk all about
that in a bit. So a new Thursday night action.
Obviously we've got me, my beautiful wife Jane.
First one of 2026. Yeah, and we've got Reese and
Reese's mom is going to be joining us in a few minutes,
which I'm sure you're very excited to know.
She's just finishing with the rugby team.
In fact, we have Dips who's slightly late, he's just working
and he's on his way here now. So right in 2025, car theft is
sky high. And the question I get asked a
lot is what can you guys do to prevent your car from being
stolen? And over the last couple of
years we've done a lot of videos of car thieves and we have
learnt a lot. So today we're going to share
everything we know about protecting your pride and joy.
So have had a car stolen. No, happily not.
And never. I'm putting that out there.
It's never going to happen. And should we quickly talk about
you've had a new car yesterday? Yeah, we can slip that in there,
tell everyone. Got an FATM free and new.
One well, the jazzy. Yeah, very, very nice in one
piece at the minute, but I'm sure.
Yeah, that won't last. That won't last long.
It needs to last long. It definitely needs to last
long. So to know the limits, you must
first exceed the limits. If we get that out of the way
early, then I'll know the limits much faster.
So have you done it already? Not yet, but just time.
On your way home tonight. Yeah.
If anyone sees an orange M3 in a Bush, don't ask.
So have you ever had a car stolen?
No, I've had a car broken into but not stolen thankfully.
What did you have next? The stereo.
Oh, back in the day then. Back in the day.
Yeah, I've had, I've said that Porsche stolen, which we did a
video all about, but that was slightly self-inflicted because
obviously I left the keys in the in the ignition with the car
running and I wasn't stood by the car.
So to be fair, although it's bad and it's not my fault, it also
technically I didn't help myself.
I'd say you're to blame. Yeah, I'd probably agree with
that. You're.
A waste of blame? Oh no, I just.
Put it out there. Thank you.
That's all right. Right, what we've been doing.
Loads. We've been on holiday and that's
why. So we've been on holiday.
Father Christmas came, didn't he?
You know what? I mean.
So Senna got a BMXI, got a BMXI thought for Christmas as well.
And we went to, we went to Mexico for a week, didn't we?
We did. Which was yes mate was a good
driver, but daddy. Hasn't.
Learned yet? So he is still OK.
So apparently I'm no good on a BMX.
But the weather's not been good enough, really, for you to get
out, has it? No, we only got out of Christmas
Day. We went to a pump track in
Kidderminster which was really, really good fun and yeah, it's,
it's, isn't it weather rubbish. Horrible.
It's like, you know, that's probably why there's probably
going to be quite a few people watching this tonight.
It's been 4 minutes and somebody's asking when Viron.
There is there's another Viron video come in this coming
Tuesday which we're working hard on now, which it will be ready
for Tuesday, wouldn't it? Well, it depends.
I might. I might have a few days off to
drive back my new car. Or you might be in a hedge.
Yeah, or in hospital. I was gonna say 2 broken arms,
like the old Carry On films where you'd be like that and
somebody comes in and they're in control and your legs going up.
And down. But Callum can work a compute
with his nose, can't he? Yes.
He's he's paralyzed his. Neck down.
Yeah, the notes go. He's had a lot of practice, but
no, not. Like that, you have a dot put on
your nose. It's very clever.
Very, very clever. Very, very clever.
Somebody's commented saying the black one's not in Roman's
showroom anymore. Question mark.
Yeah, that, that.
Is my mum. Apparently I'm.
Here. Yeah, Reece's mum has just
arrived. You'll all be glad to hear.
Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think Carl has listed it
as sold, hasn't he? Has.
Both of them I think. Yeah, they're both listed as
sold, so. Carl's not Romans.
Oh yeah, they've messed that up. Yeah.
So they're they're messed up. Hello.
Here's the table there. Oh my.
Gosh, I've been been running around like crazy today.
Honestly, I'm soaked through as well.
Happy New Year, come right? Here, come closer.
Closer, closer. It's.
An Internet. Yeah.
Otherwise it looks like you're 1,000,000 miles apart, so.
OK, cool. Is that all right?
Yeah. Has that been a stressful drive?
Yes, I looked at the, I was doing a job and then I finished
the job and I looked at the navigation.
Normally it's like one hour, 30 minutes.
It said one hour, 50 minutes because of traffic.
And I was like, oh gosh. But you've obviously only driven
to the speed limits. Oh, yeah, of course.
Yeah. 70 miles an hour. Good.
Yeah. 30 bang on time. Happy New Year.
How are you guys all all good. Yeah, all good.
All good, good. Have you ever had a car stolen?
No, but I have had my car broken into.
What was next? So I used to do car audio.
So I used to do like all the big in stores Max power days and
they took everything. They literally ripped the the
casing, the amps, the head unit speakers, they took absolutely
everything. That was a while ago, same as
Jane's then. Yeah, it was like 205 days.
Yeah, yeah. And sitting.
Saxo Days. Yeah, yeah.
So they literally took everything.
And the worst part about all of that was I bought the sound
system on finance, so I still paid.
Yeah, I was still paying for it all, but.
Not having. It we did find out who had it,
and then we had words. Did you get it back?
Yeah. Did you love it?
Did you put it back in your car? Yeah.
Yeah, got it all back. We had to have words with them,
but yeah, we got it all back. No fair.
First happy ending of the year. Yeah.
Oh, I thought you wouldn't have had that happy ending.
Mark, I'm. Going to say that definitely
isn't the first of the year that should be on strike if you were
like. In a bit.
So right, what we want to do dips is basically sort of
educate people and we get a lot of times questions on Instagram
and stuff like that asking obviously everyone's worried
about their cars, rightly so. And really just I suppose tips
we've got, which we, you know, is a lot of it's common sense
which we can talk about, you know, is this problem fixable,
where's the end and all that sort of stuff.
So I think we'll start off with the most obvious to me and that
is layers just add increasing hurdles, try and slow them down.
Yeah. So depending on whether you've
got a driveway or not, I think a really, really good one is
bollards. Yes.
Because the bollards are just, they're perfect.
Do you know what I mean? They do what they're supposed to
do if someone from a thieves perspective if it's got bollard
they might distinct know and move on.
Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I think, I think that's
what we're trying to do, which people have got sort of learned
that. Visual deterrent.
They they are taking a car that night.
Yeah, they are taking a car. And yeah, ideally what you wanna
do is, which is. Not nice to think, but they're
going to take one. Yeah, they're going to take one
and ideally it's not going to be your own.
So the sort of like the, the harder you can make it for them,
the more chance they've got of going obviously somewhere else.
So bollards, You think it's a good one?
Bollards, obviously. Ghost immobilisers, I think they
are good. Again, I've always said this.
People ask me a lot about ghost immobilisers and I've always
said it's only as good as the installer.
So if the and when you install these ghost immobilizers, you
have to put them in certain places so you can let auto watch
know where they're installed, but if they've done it properly,
you won't actually see the device itself.
Same with having like a crook lock on the steering wheel.
For vans, you can actually get locking mechanisms that sort of
lock the clutch pedal and the brake pedal.
And the accelerator would go for all of them.
Yeah, yeah. So 'cause somebody have said to
me about a ghost, there's a few things with a ghost.
People have said to me that a lot of the times the thieves
know where the ghosts are. Yes, because they're only when
it's like with most immobilisers that are sort of run by another
company when you, when the installer installs it, they have
to mark on the sheet where it's installed.
So and they have to submit that to like auto watch or whoever
the immobiliser company is. The reason for that is, is if
that company ever folds, then auto Watch will know where it's
installed. You see what I mean?
So a lot of these thieves will know that, OK, they're, they're
going to be like, for example, Range Rover, they'll know that,
OK, it's either going to be on the rear, at the back, or in the
front near the OBD or behind the dash, depending on where it's
going to be. OK so problem when we had the
car, the last car the XXX 5. The Big White.
One the big white, one, the big X5.
So we obviously didn't realise there was a ghost on there and
we well, so we realised the ghost in the end, but we didn't
have the code because we didn't see the code, Yeah.
We did. Yeah, until Jane Filer.
But I rang up Pandora in, in Redditch, great people and they
said bring it down. We can get the we can cancel
remove the ghost very easily. So that is if they can you.
Know they know where they're gonna be installed.
But surely these thieves, they're not stupid, are they?
No, they're usually one step ahead.
But you've also gotta remember that when a thieves coming to a
car to take that car, if it's got a ghost immobilizer
installed on it, how long is he going to spend even if he knows
where it's installed? Still time.
Yeah. How long is he going to spend
trying to figure it out? Like I had a customer who had a
BMW1 Series, 69 plate. They came into his house, they
stole the keys. And with the BMW, what happens
is you can put it into gear, it will let you move forward about
maybe a foot, and then it will flick it back into park.
And they managed to get his car continuously doing that off his
driveway down the street. Yeah.
And then they literally just gave up.
And he woke up in the morning, obviously found that his keys
were missing. And he looked outside, and he's
like, where's my car gone? And his car was on the middle of
the road, literally on the middle of the road.
And he's like, what the Hell's going?
So that saved it. It saved the car, so I have to
go there, obviously make new keys and yeah.
OK, so another problem then, which I see, well, not a problem
with ghosts. Like you know, there's, there's
never a perfect solution. What worries me, I say there's a
ghost in a car and it's my car and I'm not here and there's a
ghost in the car. The thieves come.
They want the car. And at what time?
And they then drag Jane out of bed to say yes, I'm not saying
that I'm not in. You spend all day in bed.
I was trying to say I definitely wouldn't be in bed 2.
O'clock in the afternoon, that's.
What's happening? K that you know.
There's that fine line. This is a code, isn't it?
So basically, if you don't know what a ghost is, a lot of the
time it's like left hand indicator twice gear up like so
there's there's a sequence of movements around the steering
wheel. That's right, yeah.
Which allows the car to then work fully.
Yeah, The thing is, so I had this conversation with my
cousin. He's got a BMW.
Well, he had a BM WM5F-90. And we had this conversation and
I says make sure you put your keys in a Faraday pouch and make
sure you take your keys upstairs.
And he goes, I'm not going to do that.
He goes, I leave the keys near the front door and he goes, I
would rather they take that car then enter my house.
So it's that fine line of like, do you just let them take it?
Because obviously he's got a little child as well.
And he's like, I'd rather them just take the car because it's a
piece of metal. Yeah, that's is that me eyeliner
pen? Has anyone seen me eyeliner
pens? Definitely bring it.
There's two highlighter pens on there, but they're there over
there. Somebody's tied it up.
Yeah, right. This is an interesting one now.
So Faraday patches, patches. So a Faraday patch when you've
got a car which has got. Keyless entry.
So basically your key, it says
it omits a signal. So when you go near your car,
your car goes, that's the owner and the doors open and then
you're allowed to start the car without putting a key in the
ignition. So it's basically what
convenience or whatever you'd call that, it's a feature which
saves you getting a key out or whatever, wherever it is.
Now obviously what the thieves do then they have a transmitter
where they stand by your house, they pick up that signal from
the key and they boosts the signal towards your car and then
they stand there of a box and the car thinks that your key is.
Extending that signal. Basically, so the the car thinks
that that box they're standing with is the key.
They then get in the car thinks that that box then is the key
starts and then they drive off your key.
Now there's two there's very there's various ways, the
Faraday patch, which obviously is almost like a metal lined
piece of equipment, whatever which stops the signal being
emitted or quality St. Box.
Not your microwave. Not your microwave.
You can actually get. They're called sleeping
batteries. Yes, that's the other thing.
So yeah. Sleeping batteries are actually
quite good as well. So the So the other thing is now
a sleeping batteries. You basically put your key on
the side and after a few minutes it stops emitting that signal
until you. Move the key.
That's right. Which is isn't a way to do it.
But big one do. Is it safer these days for them
to come in your house? Take your key and the car's
gone, which is a terrible situation.
Is it better to let them have the car?
Well, in my eyes, that's what we pay insurance for.
Yeah. But it depends on, OK, so now
think of it from a different perspective of it's not just a
car, but it's somebody's work vehicle.
Yes. So now you've got somebody's
worked like a builder, for argument's sake, if they've got,
I don't know, thirty, £40,000 worth of equipment inside the
back of that with all their drills and saws and all the rest
of it, the minute they take that van, he can't work.
Yeah. Do you see what I mean?
Yeah. Different circumstances.
So it's so full for someone who's using it for work, they're
going to want to protect that. Nothing.
That depends on the individual as well.
Yeah, I think if you're one of those individual or just think
they're not having it, this is my home, this is my castle.
Of course, if you own that car, you're going to have to come and
get it off me. But then it depends on the
situation, doesn't it? You know, for some people,
they'd be so scared that they don't want that interaction.
And I think these days as well, the people who are stealing the
car, sometimes they've got nothing to lose.
So when they, you know, sometimes that interaction can
be extremely dangerous and I think that whole situations is
unfortunately getting worse. So you know, I've heard now you
know that sometimes leave the keys in a place where.
But it's so horrible to think that, and it's just crazy to
think that that it. Is Ryan, could you just get me a
highlighter pens, please? Yeah.
It's crazy to think that that that, yeah, is the world which
we're now we're now living in. Every every time you go home and
you lock your car that you've worked hard for, you go.
Where am I leaving my keys tonight?
Do I want to risk getting dragged out of bed or am I going
to play it safe tonight? Where am I leaving my keys?
That's the world we live in. What what would you say to that
Jane of being a like a female in bed at 2:00 in the afternoon?
Basically, if anybody comes to our house. 12 gauge shotgun,
yeah. What you're not allowed to say.
I've been practicing my shooting skills.
Yeah, but that's nerf. Guns don't count.
All they do is target practice 3 in one go.
About what? Well then, bruises are on.
What? Yeah, have we drawing a black
dot? Honestly got the nerf guns.
That was me. Yeah, re Sports Centre to.
Semi automatic. Semi.
You could buy. And the first thing she does is
just pop everybody as you walk in.
Tell everyone the very first shot that she did.
Point blank range in my yard. The very, very first shot, of
course. Panic hurt.
The very, very first shot on Christmas Day caused a massive
argument. Very, very I like I know my gift
has done exactly what I was intended to do of.
Course chaos ruin our Christmas, right?
Dave, Oh yeah, Dave Jenkins says bollards cost a lot when you
forget that they're there, yes, they.
Do. Oh yeah, that's true.
Yes, they definitely. Give it what?
What? Are you looking at me like that?
For no, not like ours has been taken.
Yeah, three Times Now. Yeah, but they serve their
purpose. Yeah, they do.
Each time the vehicle it's tried to get in has tried to get in,
it hasn't got. In and.
The trouble is, we knew all three people.
And even when I came in right now, the gate opened and I was
like, is the bollard down or up or?
Actually, it's been hit forth because because.
Danny did it. I didn't.
Share everyone's hit him so yeah.
So Faraday Patch, do you think as well?
You can turn that's entry, you can turn it off if you get on,
there's a thing called YouTube which you can go on there and it
tells you what to do really. You can go on YouTube and put
how can I take my like feature off?
Or worse comes to worse, go into a garage and if they do try and
charge you, tell them they're a bunch of idiots.
Or you ring P1 auto keys. You can do it as well.
Obviously you don't charge. Hey.
But if you've got a car, yeah, off a main dealer and it's the
newest car, yeah, they should be able to come out, yeah, do a
quick fix and and get you on your way.
Chris Ryan STS Put the best way to prevent your car being stolen
is moved to Dubai. Chris, I actually disagree with
you. The best way to not get your car
stolen is to not have a car in the first place.
But then they'll get your bike do.
You know what that that is 1 deterrent is to buy a shit car.
And that's what you know that that is people are doing that
they're they're they're having their the cars they've worked
for the cars they've dreamed for.
It's being stolen. In the end, they've just gone.
Not anymore. Is that which is.
Is it like a wolf in sheep's clothing though?
Do they look shit from the outside?
But they've got like, amazing. Engine.
Pretty the engine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We always wanted to get the old rock box wrapped so it looked
like it had been lost outside. Looking rusty didn't.
We. But like, it's, it's a shame
that people have to like, you know, they, they've reached the
stream, fulfilled the car they want, and then they have to
like, sell it and not have the car they ideally want because
they're so scared. Yeah, of that car, which which
we've heard a lot, haven't we? What about detachable steering
wheel Archie Long? Yeah, BMW's asking.
Yeah, you can get the. Yeah, well, we used to do it,
didn't we? The old rally car.
Slot you need I you're. The what?
Yeah. You're gonna have to explain.
What was the Oh, the slut was the Clio.
Mutley. Mutley the because it had a it
had anti lag. Used to have a Fiesta which was
basically a rally car which we used to pretty much daily.
But I used to have to take a massive bag out with me
everywhere to put this steel. Wheel in it's.
Like the old pull out stereos, you used to have to take the
stereos with you but. It had no key, you couldn't lock
the doors. It was like a proper rally car
thing. We used to We had headphones.
It was that noisy. We used to have headphones to
drive crazy. Well probably the ultimate way
to stop your car from getting stolen and still have a car is
every night. It will take a while if you just
pull up, get some axle stands out, take the wheels off your
car. You can't keep the wheels in the
house to break the house. You'll have to take them off
site somewhere and that way it'll make it much more.
But finding the window thing broken down.
But that's. What we used to have to do?
When I raised the buggers and the buggies were here, if we
like, I literally used to come back from racing, Clean them,
take all the wheel nuts off. They're a special wheel with a
special tool. Take all the wheel nuts off and
out and somewhere else. So if they did come and take
them, like as soon as they turn the steering wheel, it would
fall over like a clown's car. But we.
Used to do that, but that was that was the thing we.
Had But isn't it mad though? The measures that you have to go
through to to like. It's very dangerous because I
can remember very, very vividly shouting my head off out the top
of the house from the landing window stop to load it because
he's gone to load it and he's forgot about putting the wheel
nuts back on. Oh no.
Which we're doing bad on a Saturday morning.
Wouldn't we? Yeah, it's been a lot of extra
work for years. Just.
Before a race meeting. So yeah, relay attack.
We can turn that off now. Sorry.
Go on. What about?
I've seen quite a few adverts recently coming up on my feed
for the it's like a steering lock that goes around your
steering wheel and then clicks into your seat belt.
It doesn't click it I. Think it does something to stop,
that's what I thought. So yeah, we'll leave that where
it is then. That one's been.
So something that I've been looking into, I haven't, I'm
still working on how to figure it all out and get it working
and everything and I've already got all the bits that I need.
But it's like, you know, jewellery shops when they get
broken into, they have smoke screens.
Yes. So every 5 seconds it fills the
car up with thick smoke. Yes, continuously.
And it keeps doing it until you turn it off.
So I've got all the bits that I need to create that I'm just in
the process. I'm trying to figure that out.
Mainly for vans. It's mainly for like van owners
and stuff like. That Have you ever have you ever
been in an office with a smoke cloak with no work?
Is that what? It's called.
Smoke cloak. Yeah.
So it takes obviously the office, you can't get to it
immediately. So by the time you get there,
it's it's obviously just for the computers.
It's. Got to have been you that set it
off if you're going to tell a story about it.
Going no, the bloke come and showed us like it was a test
thing so he he filled it up and then there's a strobe light on a
smoke cloak which flashes really big like like fast and I not
disorientation like literally that you can't see yeah and then
obviously for us you disorientated I could probably
get out the office but if you a thief you're not getting around
the office you've got no idea where you are so very.
Very. And it takes quite a while for
the smoke to clear as well, doesn't it?
Yeah, we've got it in our in our offices.
So like anything like that. I know it works really well so.
But that's what I wanted to try and create for vans and cars.
But the only concern that I've got is the last thing you want
it to do is when you're driving. That brilliant.
Suddenly goes off and you're just like you can't see nothing.
At out the window. You mean like when you're
driving? Someone would be in the wind,
Cheech and Chong in the car or something.
DIPS Urban 89's asked Can you install 2 ghosts, one for the
engine and one for gearbox? I'd say that's a no.
I don't know, it's something I'd have to look into.
That's another way you could remove your gearbox every night.
This is all fantastic. I've seen a great one in South
Africa where what they had was on the side of underneath the
side sills. They had a flamethrower there.
So as soon as someone goes with the handle, these big
flamethrowers just come out and just completely ban them.
Well, let's go to that one next, within which which I think is
maybe the scariest, Yeah, which obviously is a South Africa
thing and it's definitely coming to the UK now, and that's
carjacking. Oh yeah.
So this is this is definitely one of those where it's
happening in London to to Bury. There was famously was it a guy
in a Bugatti who tried to drive off?
Yeah, he tried to break the window for his watch or.
Something. Oh, was that his watch, Jack?
I said. They weren't trying to steal his
car. But I've actually done so I do a
lot of work for the police. So police and soccer.
So it's like serious crimes vehicles that have been involved
in murders, rapes and armed robberies.
And I actually had to go to a vehicle that would that have
been picked up where a woman was in the car.
She was, she had the baby in the back as well.
And she, she, she got in, started the car up and before
she even like, you know, on new cars, you start the car up and
the doors automatically lock. She started the car, someone
opened the door instantly and dragged her out, drove the car
off, realised there was a baby in the back, left the car there
and then they ran off. But she was in like, absolutely.
I actually spoke to her as well and she was like, it was the
scariest thing she's ever been through.
But luckily they because they noticed there was a baby in the
back because if they took it, if they took the car with the baby
and if they got caught, it would have been.
Yeah, that would be Public Enemy #1. 100.
Percent. So that woman who do you
remember That woman who put the cat in the bin?
Yes. I'm not going to laugh.
I shouldn't be laughing at that. But yeah, I remember seeing
that. Like she was public and it's
just a big house. There was the next door
neighbors that was obviously pooing in the garden and she
picked it up and chucked it in the wheelie bin so but they
found it on the CCTV. Yeah, it's the CCTV.
And it went obviously all over the Internet.
Somebody put in my next door neighbour's done this and she
had like death threats and she's had to have a crazy.
Why would someone even do that? Yeah, crazy, isn't it?
Only somebody who stole their neighbour's cat.
What, like walks into the house? Never let it back out?
They should have had a ghost immobiliser on the cat.
Why did they steal a cat? I think they didn't like the
neighbor and like the cat just came round and they knew it was
a neighbour's cat so they just kept hold of it.
Did the did the neighbor not see the cat there?
Because they kept in the house. Forever.
Yeah, but then you've got to send.
The only way that works to me is sending the neighbor pictures of
the cat. You've got to like, let them
know what. Guy not got a chair.
With a ransom, though. See this is a great story so
totally off topic, nothing to do with cars but there was some
lads who were on holiday in say Majorca and they were having a
laugh, making a lot of noise. The next door room complained to
the hotel and they got the lads who were on a lads holiday
kicked out. So they broke into the family's
room, who'd done the complaining, took their
toothbrushes, struck them all up their bottoms.
The family's toothbrushes use the use the camera of the
family. So when they got to record it,
so when they got home, and only when they got home and got the
photos developed, this was years ago, they realised that their
toothbrushes, which they've been cleaning all week, had been up.
These lads, Oh my God. Was.
That anything to do with you. It's not so nice.
And look how clean to clean the teeth after I was on the
receiving end. Oh my God.
Somebody's actually commented that maybe the best deterrent to
have your car stop your car being nicked is to leave a baby
in the car all. The time that's really genius.
Who is it that he needs a shout out?
Raiders that's. True.
There'll probably be a an upselling newborn baby dolls,
toy stores or other alternative shops within the next week or
so. When I had that Porsche stolen
years ago, when I eventually got it back after my dad and my
brother smashed into it and it was fixed, I had then a button
put in which after 30 seconds it cut the car out.
So every time I had to, it was behind the carpet and there was
just a thing you had to push. Like, is that still a thing of
you? So the other thing we did, we
spoke about this on the video that we did a while back is
having the OBD obviously the adapter for the OBD.
So they can't when they plug in it doesn't have canvas wise so
they can't code a key or anything.
The other thing is like kill switches like you know, just a
separate kill switch that no one knows about and it just.
Almost like a rally car. Yeah, and you could have it so
that it's run to the starter motor for argument.
'S sake, right? So not the electrics of the car.
Just literally to the starter kills the starter.
The fuel pump or? The fuel pump or just something.
Sometimes you've got to go back to basics.
Yes, you know what I mean? Like you've literally got to go
back to basics, basics with and a lot of people I know, people
that have got these kill switches in their cars.
That's a great idea. Yeah, on some of my rally cars
and stuff like you have to flick the fuel on yeah.
So if you made it like a normal button like your.
Screen, you know, your screen here to demister and stuff like
that, yeah. That's a great idea cuz right
OBD for anyone who doesn't know. So that's a plug which is the
same in every single. Car.
Yeah. And that's used to plug in by
mechanic by yourself. Yeah, but that's a weakness,
isn't it? Yes, because, and I'll touch on
that in a second as well. But those OBD ports, what they
have is they have power, they have canvas running to the back
and those canvas wires communicate with like the body
control modules, ECU's. So when you're doing a
diagnostics on the car, you can actually communicate with the
whole vehicle, see if there's any faults, do any programming.
Same when we code keys and all the rest of it.
Those OBD adapters, if you don't have canvas wires on the back of
that, they cannot communicate with the car, which means you
might have power to your programmer, but they won't be
able to actually program any keys or do anything like that.
Now the problem is, is a lot of these cars, they're running
canvas to every single thing on the car, including headlights,
radars, like, you know, your front radar to all of that.
Alfa Romeos are, are notorious for getting stolen because what
they do is they pull the radar out.
Yeah, And you can buy a device and you can connect the canvas
device to it. You can code a key, unlock it
and drive away. Yeah, I've heard that.
Like, wasn't it on a Lexus as well?
Something beyond the. You can pull the headlights that
you see she sees. Something.
Let her put Scott Forest has put.
I just leave my wife in the car. It's been stolen twice with her
in it but they brought it back within 5.
Minutes. These people have got a
brilliant idea you're. Going to need a lot of wives for
that. Flipping genius, Do you know
there's been a couple of other people comment as well about can
you mate your car so that if somebody touches it, it shocks
them? It's yes, but it's illegal.
Why? Because if they they they die,
you're responsible. What happens if you like bump
into it with the trolleys? Then you shut.
Never. Thought that.
What about the school gates if some kids trying to get in the.
I wasn't thinking about a car being nicked outside the school
gates. Yeah, great idea.
But yeah, I don't know if that would work.
Right. Tell what you could do.
You could have something under the driver's seat that as soon
as they break in, you just go straight up.
Just like bars them out the road.
No, not even straight up the things, straight up the ball.
One of the one of the the thing, yeah.
Thing that Mark's mom's got a lot of.
We saw some, didn't we? We saw.
Which leads me on. Quite a few people have been
asking how your mum is. Well, let.
Me. Just.
So the car's not getting stolen. So we went to, when we went to
Cyprus, we went into a shop, didn't we?
We were waiting for a dealership to open and we went into a shop
and it said shop which sells various items for adults.
And why did you 2 go into that? Because we had nothing to do for
20 minutes and this dock was open and we all we did was
giggle like score kits for the time we're in there Matey was
like, look, this thinking just go just get out of our shop.
But we saw some shapes and things some shape.
You were like, where's that one? Like I get that bit.
And I understand there is one time 2, there's two, but then
there was like that's it was physically impossible.
Wasn't it? It was a big It was like a Tesco
sized shot with all sorts of different shapes and sizes and
combinations and everything. But some combinations wouldn't
fit, would that? Like it might.
Depends. It was well, not unless there's
something going on, which I don't know about, but yeah,
right, let's go back on to what we're doing.
Alarm now, like an old fashioned alarm.
I feel like now if an alarm is going off, people think that
there's something wrong with your car and be alarms faulty
rather than somebody that obviously noise does have the
chance of somebody looking. Yeah, but I feel that people are
not. Ignored.
Too common. Yeah, you see, you hear an alarm
going off, and you're just like, oh God, who's alarmed?
Shut it off, Yeah. I don't think you even look in
that direction anymore, do you? It's sort of.
Is it called white noise? Yeah, like people just don't
hear it in it. Like if they do hear it, it's
just it's annoying for them. Yeah, so maybe alarms.
Alarms. So there are systems out there
which are alarms and immobilizers all built into one.
So yes, they're good because you can get a 2.3 point immobilizer
and then you can cut, do fuel cut, starter cut.
If you get 3 point you can do like ignition cut as well.
So if that alarm's going off, it does other things.
It in the background, it's stopping everything.
So even if they break into the car, they break the ignition
barrel, the OR even if they code a key to it, they still won't be
able to steal that car. Some cars have immobilisers
built in, don't they? So how?
How do they? Single car.
So how do they still get nicked all the time?
There no. So all the cars now have to have
a Thatcham approved alarm immobiliser.
Sorry. What a standard.
As standard from factory. So do you know when the Range
Rover stuff was going out? And do you remember the guy said
to us, he goes, he gave them the report saying that this is, this
is in future. But he he presented that to them
and they were like, well, OK, we're just going to do the
basic, which is basically doing your single point
immobilization, which is ECU cut and stuff like that.
So. And I'm guessing those sort of
immobilizers are always in the same place on the vehicle.
No. Oh.
They're not. No.
The good thing about those aftermarket immobilizers like
Clifford and Pandora and stuff like that is technically you can
put them where you want. So if you really wanted to go
all out, you could actually take the whole dashboard out and have
it installed right behind the dash.
Um, with the old cars like Peugeot days and stuff like
that, Um, you could, when what these would know is that the
ignition cut would be at the barrel.
So where the, where the ignition switch is, you'd normally see
like the wires coming off it. So people would RIP the casing
down, cut the wires off, join them back up again and then just
that's it. And you can start and drive
away. It's crazy because we, we had
remember that message from that guy who was an old school car
thief. Yes.
And he was saying that he saw himself like real, like amazing
bloke to speak to. He saw himself as A and and
skilled, A skilled expert. So he knew back in the day that
to steal a Peugeot 205, you needed a 13 mil spanner, a piece
of wire this size, and you had to do this and do this and do
this. And every car was different.
But he knew how to. He said it was a skill to start
break into. But he said, but now obviously
you need a computer and like, you know, it's very much more
accessible for anybody to steal a car who's willing to spend the
money on the tools to take that. But yeah, that was one thing
which I want to talk about, which this is not a paid advert,
Global Telemetrics smart track. Now we've done some work with
these guys and they do trackers and they've got, they're always
innovating, very, very clever company.
And they've got some new stuff out which we've seen now, which
is next level. But what is amazing, what people
don't probably know about this company, is when your car gets
stolen, they know before you know, but they send people out
to go get that. Car.
I think that's brilliant. They don't charge you.
Yeah, so say it's so good, but that part.
Of like your subscription. Part of your subscription, which
obviously you don't know about, but then like we've we've seen
cars retrieved, they don't charge you a single penny for it
like they have. They charge you for sort of
getting the car back from where it's stolen back to your
premises. Which is understandable.
Understandable. But As for, you know, they send
the guys out and if the car gets stolen and it's in, say,
Singapore, it's in Holland, it's wherever they get on the plane
and they go get that car. That's so good.
Like it's like the bounty hunters, it's absolutely
amazing. And like when we found out they
did this and we sort of get we've got to see it first hand
like it's. I think it's really good that is
that would be the ideal system that yes, OK, it's secure, but
if it does get stolen, we're going to send someone out to get
it. And you get your car.
And you get your car back. That is like the perfect, the
perfect system in my eyes. Yeah, I I agree.
So, you know, and I think they've got the ability, while
they have they've got ability or so to turn the car off remotely,
like next time it stops at traffic lights or whatever.
Obviously you've got apps on your phone.
It does all sorts of stuff, but very, very, very clever.
Company can they can they remotely set the airbag off that
would you imagine they're driving up I'm.
Desperate for an airbag to go off.
I've never had an airbag. On Oh, we have been on Matt's
SVR. Oh my God, it's loud.
We've done it in the back garden, haven't we?
We've like we did it. We did it for Jordan's birthday,
didn't we? Put it in a cake.
Put it in a cake, yeah. Put an airbag on you, yeah.
I tell you what, it went off, it went everywhere you got.
Something's wrong with you, Laura.
In a cake. Where's the timing that wrong?
He goes for a bike. Yeah, blow the candles out.
Yeah, he he steering wheel, Yeah.
Steering wheel up. Yeah, we got sent one which I
asked you to bring back. I have bought it back and.
Where is it at? The bottom of the stairs right
in front of you. You've walked over it at least
four times this evening. But that, that was dis lock,
wasn't it? So basically they've sent.
Slipping heavy. Like, because I think a lot of
the time when I've read about when I've read about steering
wheel locks, a lot of the time if they're a good lock, they cut
through your steering wheel. So yes, you've knackered your
skiing wheel, but well, they are, but they've still got your
car. But this is a thing which.
So how do you drive a car then like that?
Like so basically how so? That's what it is.
Obviously it you've got to drive around with it on like that
forever. It's a modification.
How does that work then? So basically so that long arm,
does it stop the steering? So when it I'm guessing that
when when it turns that hits your dash.
Doesn't it? Yeah.
Dash or door. So if you were to turn right,
that long bar would flick over and hit your door.
See how I see a lot of steering wheel locks and it's almost like
the long bits on the windscreen? Yeah, you can.
You get different versions of them, some of them are like
that, but. Can you not just kick the
windscreen out? Good, cool.
But it's when it rotates. Well, just turn left.
Just go round in circles. You see, that's that's why you
turn your steering all the way to the right first and then put
it on so. Then oh, I didn't know that.
But I think that dislike was different way.
Like even if you obviously you can't cut the steering wheel so
you put that on as a rather condom, whatever.
You could just take your driver's seat out every night.
That's a really good idea. Just don't know what your seat
every night and take your driver's.
Seat you could. Yeah you can.
There is so many ways you can help yourself, but all of it is
just getting like ridiculous, isn't it?
To, to safely, you know, we're all now blocking cars in we're,
you know, making sure that the expensive cars parked beyond the
van. So that doesn't that doesn't
work. So I actually did is there's a
video on my YouTube channel when I first started doing my channel
of a customer who had a defender.
It was on like a 72 plate and he parked the defender on his drive
in front of it was one of his other cars behind it was a sayat
and they rammed that car up. They did a relay back on it.
They rammed that car out the way.
They got down the road and the first they literally stopped at
the bottom of the street because the CCTV footage of it.
They got to the bottom of the road, they opened the rear door,
ripped the telematics unit out and drove off.
And then they the guy put it out on on socials to say, oh, can
you, has anyone seen this car? This that the other the thieves
contacted him and said if you want your car back, you have to
give us 10 grand because the insurance company, he was like,
oh, I'll just go through insurance, rang his insurance
company up and the insurance company said we're only going to
give you 40% of the value of the vehicle because it was a Range
Rover like a Defender. And that's so many of them are
getting stolen at the time. So he ended up contacting the
thieves again and he paid them, I think it was 8 grand and got
the car back. So I had to make new keys and
then my friend did a dark side, did all the bodywork and
everything. How does that exchange work?
Oh, no. So what they did is they sent,
they said to him, you're going to meet someone, give him the
money, and then he's going to tell you where the key is.
But then they could just say, by the way we lied, thanks for me.
No, I, I think they, they were more than happy to, just because
they were going to sell the car anyway.
So I think they were happy just to like, Yep, we'll take the 8
grand and your car's over there, which is I think it's just
mental. That's crazy, isn't it?
But that like we talked about, OK, let's go on to let's quickly
let's go on to OBD ports like just because we didn't finish
that port relocation. Yep.
So you can move that and hide it.
Yep, put a dummy port in dummy port in original location.
Or there's a port lock, so you put something in there.
But obviously I'd imagine all achievable to get round.
But again, just yeah, slow in. Yeah, all you're doing, all of
these systems are not going to stop a thief.
All they're going to do is slow them down.
South alarms, steering locks, the anything that you can think
of is not going to stop the thief and it's all it's going to
do is slow them down. Because I said this on BBCTV,
didn't I got invited, invited to breakfast TV.
So and I said exactly that. All it's going to do is slow
them down. And I said what you want to do
really is sort of like get them to steal your next door
neighbour's car, not yours. And if you don't like your next
door neighbor or the bear. And then I said conspiracy
theory as well. If they if the manufacturers get
a car stolen, what happens? They sell another car.
And then they couldn't. They just went like that,
straight to an ad break. Oh, did they?
Yeah. As soon as I said conspiracy
theory, I was cut straight up. Oh.
No. Yeah, you shot yourself in the
old. I'd had me a moment of fame the
last night and we stole them all.
Yeah, we did, yeah. No, it's on a long term loan.
Yes, but. If you want it back, you can get
it. I did fill them up.
I just wanted a breakfast TV mug.
They wouldn't give me one, so we stole it.
But to be fair, we were supposed to get expenses like a hotel of
fuel, and I didn't put any of that in because I'd stole the
mug. So I felt like that was.
Lynn Bellamy Cars ask Reese's mum where the port is.
Dan Dan said cheapest way to pop a relay out of the fuse box when
you leave your car. Would that work?
Yes, I actually do that when I go to certain places.
If I'm going to like Bradford, yeah, if I'm coming to update
the relay, I've got it in my pocket.
No, I Bradford. Bradford, Birmingham, London.
No, so I've done that in, I've actually, I've actually done
that even though I've got all my immobilizers, alarms, trackers
and all that stuff in there. I actually went to a shopping
centre and I normally, even if it's I don't care if I get a
ticket, I'll park it as far close to the front as possible
and I had to park it really far back because there's no parking
spaces. So I actually just took the
starter relay out. Because that's enough thing as
well like when you are parking away from home.
What like to me advice would be look for a CCTV camera.
Lighting. Make sure it's lighting, you
know, make sure that you're not the one which is parked in the
corner next to the hedge, you know, try and make it.
In the problem with the street lighting is if you park on the
street lighting, all you're doing is making it easier for
them because they can see what they want, they can see what
they're doing. So this is what I mean that's.
Your theory out the window. There, no, but there's so much
like you can see both sides of it.
Yeah, definitely. No, it's definitely sort of like
a double edged sword and obviously at home, you know,
this is great CCTV and Ring doorbell footage and stuff like
that, but we have so many messages of they bring a jammer,
signal jammer. It's Wi-Fi jammer, so all it
does is it jams the Wi-Fi system.
So unless it's wired. So they look and they go hang on
a SEC like my car's gone, I'll check the Ring door.
And they go, no footage. It wasn't working for that split
minute. Yeah.
And they literally come as they arrive, gets jammed as they
drive off it comes back on again.
Right off the subject a little bit.
There wasn't a video this week. There's been quite a few people
commenting. Yeah, there seems to be a lot of
people wanting this next video, yes.
It's in the making, isn't it? It's in it's it's definitely in
the making. So yeah, Tuesday is a definite.
Tuesday, 6:00 PM. 6:00 PM Pretty exciting.
A lot of big choices in our family.
The last. And let's see the people that
who are asking you don't know our posting schedule on the main
channel. We do every other week.
And then normally in the gaps, if we've got a video, we put one
out on the 2nd. Channel, yeah, because we we
very much used to do every Tuesday, didn't we?
On the main channel. And we found that it was well,
we all made a decision of quality over quantity, didn't
we? We decided to make bigger, more
enjoyable videos which took a lot of time to make and
obviously the downside is we haven't got the facilities or
time to do 1 every week. Just make Reese work harder.
Like I totally totally. I mean, just lock him in the
lock him. In the.
There isn't, there isn't a lot of time left.
Is that so like we all, we are to the limit already, aren't we?
That that's the trouble and these lives, I think obviously
it's not everyone's cup of tea, that's for certain.
But let's face it, it's raining and it's a Thursday night, yeah,
so there's probably not a lot. It's raining, so the roads are
slippy. Right, here we go.
Here we go. We haven't had any news.
Yes, right. Let's go with the news, please,
Ryan. Welcome to this week's news.
Right then, here's one for you. Auto car 1970s rear wheel drive
Skodas are dangerous in handling.
Now, would you have been happy knowing that your wife, your
daughter or perhaps your young sales Rep was going to undertake
a long motorway journey in it? So they've just decided that a
1970s car rear wheel drive is dangerous.
How long has that took? I've got the article here and it
says 15th of January 2020. 65656 years to figure out a real
world. Drive.
But in the 1970s my dad used to drive with a fag in his hand.
A canopier didn't have the seat belt on, me and my brother were
in the back and I think I was in a baby carrier just across the
the back seat. There was just nothing back
then, was there? I've got a picture of the
aftermath of driving your Skoda. 1917 Skoda.
That looks like. Good, this will definitely
happen every time you drive it. Wow, wow.
So go on. Was she gonna say?
Something I know. So they're on the ball.
They've given us some useful information.
Basically, don't buy 1970s Skoda.
I could have told them that. And in the 50 years we'll know
about real drive Beam to be able to say that.
Absolutely, Absolutely. They bought a picture of Reese's
up there. Next one UK's pothole problem.
New data has revealed a drop in the number of pothole related
breakdowns in insurance claims. So in 2025 the A A attended
613,630. I'm not saying it again.
600,000. Over half a million power
related breakdowns, that's a lot that.
Is a lot. Now a drop of 4 1/2% over the
previous year, but that's still 1700 calls a day.
What? What that's Have you ever have
you? Ever unacceptable for modern
roads, especially with our UK Rd. taxes.
Have you ever been the victim? Of a I do you know that Like a
magnet to me, I see it. I tried to miss it but I'm bang
on. It you gotta do, you gotta look
the other way. That's that's like car racing
technology. Yeah, don't hit the tree.
Don't hit the tree. Don't hit the tree.
I got down the lane here, I got a a wheel wrecked and it was
quite an expensive wheel. So I, I thought I'd challenge
the council and said like, you know, and they said to me that
it had to be like, like they said, take some measurements on
the up there with me camera and it was 200 and say 40 mil.
And they said, oh, no, the, the limit's to like 250 mil.
And I'm like, well, then the limit's wrong because me car
tyre is ruined. So like, it's like whatever
you're saying it is that parameters doesn't work.
And yeah, they, they wouldn't do anything.
But this hole was that bad that if a like, you know, somebody on
a little chicken chase a moped, because the wheels are so small,
if they'd have gone in there straight over the underboss.
Oh, no, it was it was bad. But we haven't bad here.
And the reason we haven't bad in the UK is a bit of science for
you. Weather extremities.
But how? Why?
Salt. Hot and cold.
OK, so this is good. So our tarmac is laid in layers,
the water gets in between the layer, then freezes and pops the
tarmac up. Oh.
Really. There we go.
I think that's only one layer. Some of the potholes are like
that, deep. Keeps going, but yeah, that's
that's that's why we get so many here is because of water
freezing. I think it was just the salt on
the road, but no. Probably is.
I probably made that. One tarmac roads like they used
to do they they. Don't even do anything.
Can you remember? By work, when they did that road
dressing, I think they call it, and they must have done it at
like 7:00 at night. And I kid you not, people waking
up the following morning must have just been absolutely out of
them. Yeah, literally dust buildings,
cars. It was just grey dust
everywhere. They almost, like, put some glue
down, Chuck a load of gravel on it, and whatever excess gravel
there is ends up in somebody's windscreen.
Yeah. Like, it's, it's crazy how they
do it. Like it's, it's not.
Yeah. We have a donation from Tom.
He's donated 15 of a currency that looks like a fingerprint.
I'm not sure what that is, but he says donating for a second
color wrap on the Bugatti so it won't just be black.
As you know, I bought the black one.
Has he been watching? I've had so many messages saying
congratulations on on the car. And I'm like, what makes you
think that? You know, that's But obviously,
yeah, one massive problem for me is obviously when you get your
car stolen, which is like, oh, have we?
Finished the news now. Oh, have we finished this?
No. I've got one more thing that I
wanted. To say.
Ryan, you're going to like this one.
Ryan's in the broom cupboard tonight, but yes.
Hello, Ryan. Say hi.
So he stops there all day. You.
Haven't got your elf costume on right?
Honda's unveiled a new hot Prelude concept at the Tokyo
Auto Salon, which gives us our best look yet.
A potential new Type R? You got a picture race.
I've got pictures of something. You tell me if that's the right
picture. No, definitely.
I've actually seen it. That looks like a test I've
seen. The pictures of it, it looks
amazing. It's it's basically looking for
a Prelude type R concept. In the prelude type R.
Could you spell prelude? Yes.
Good, well done. That she is that white one.
There we go, There she is. That looks like your old NSX.
Yeah, it is a bit NSX, isn't it? You into that Ryan?
No. OK, there we go.
He's moving on. Ryan's got the.
What generation is it? Generate there was 5, there was
4 before that. What was that?
The one that I seen was a bit different.
But Ryan's is is like so the wing is orange, the bonnet's
blue, the bumper's a different shade of blue.
And it's got cold stickers on it.
And he bought it from Birmingham have.
You kept the number with Ben? Yeah.
Right. Also just want to say last
week's video comments. You like doing your comments?
Oh, we need a comment section. Comment section.
This week's funniest comments. Right.
One thing which I wanted to just say is when we when we do videos
and we don't know, like obviously we see them that many
times and we work through them. It's very difficult to know.
We have an idea that's gonna be a good video.
We have an idea, don't we, that it's gonna be a well watched
video, a well enjoyed video. And the way you can usually tell
is well, unfortunately for us, we get to watch it like 7 or 8
times before it goes live. So it's very easy to sort of
like get a little bit lost. But when you watch it all those
times when you get to 7 and 8 pin, it's still OKish.
You know it's going to be a really good video.
But there's two people who message me quite a lot.
If there's and it's Yanni and Tim Schmid.
And if they both message and say love the video, you know?
It's a big. One, it's a big one, like
because they obviously watch Tim always says that he always he's
a Tuesday, 6:00 PM, which is amazing that he watches our
videos. But yeah, those are those are
comments, right? Comments.
Everyone seemed to like Carl's magic seat belt.
Yeah. So we had a bit of a problem.
OK, so we filmed. About it as well, didn't we?
Oh man, so obviously we did. We took the video, we test drove
the car. It was amazing.
We then realized when we look back at the footage, that car
didn't have a seat. Now I had no idea reset.
No, nobody had any idea. Like we can't go and reshoot it.
That was the feelings I had. We can't can't redo and fight
the reaction. And.
The feelings and what the car was on that time was what it was
and we were like, what the hell are we going to do?
I was laughing when. I said oh man, we were like what
do we do? So like, oh God, it was it.
But so yeah, so we made Carl a magic seat belt.
I thought it was really good on AIA lot as well about your your
tyre comment as well. Jane said about round tyres
around tyres. That was so funny.
It's roommate. That was so funny but I
remember. Oh God.
And Mark saw L 7266. If Mark was driving my Bugatti,
I'd think I'd put my seat belt on.
Which is a good shout, to be fair.
Definitely, yeah, we've got AC4414 in it.
It's me under score 400 CC that are whining and sulking a little
bit. Comments aren't being read out
by them and apparently you have to pay to have a comment read
out. No you don't.
You're just not really throwing anything worthy into the
conversation. This is what this is what I
have. This is what I have to like.
His leading post was Tom selling some lovely rally cars.
Very similar to yours pal. Yes, we know.
So Jane's going. It is difficult because
obviously if we just read out everybody's comments.
You wouldn't have a show. So we have a comment from
somebody. Mark, how do you feel about
Front Wheel Drive? I have an I-30 and myself and
love it. Would you would love some Front
Wheel Drive comment? You donate £4.99.
So like, yeah, it's like, please don't donate money.
Like just, we'd much rather you say something funny,
entertaining, something relevant to the topic.
But please don't send us money. We don't, we don't want to be
reading. Send me money if you want.
We don't like, we don't like if there's a charity box, put that
money in the charity. Box you did actually send £4.99
on so I think you need to answer his question.
Let's say that's like I love front wheel drive cars.
They're great. You drove Chris Slicks.
Oh, that I-30 was brilliant. That's what he's got.
That was a great. Somebody did say I feel sorry
for you because you've got a Hyundai.
Oh no. So he's paid to get rusted by
the chat. No, Chris's car was good, but I
just smashed the front bumper off, didn't I?
And someone's asking Dips, how's your Ferrari?
I'm just collecting all the bits for it and it's hopefully in
about maybe a couple of weeks we're going to start pulling the
engine out and checking the framework and everything so.
Exciting time I'm. So excited.
It's my first supercar. I never in my life thought I
would own a supercar, so it's a big moment.
Yeah, it is absolutely crazy. How did the first day go?
Yeah, not so well. Yeah, go and check the videos.
How? It didn't go too well.
I destroyed it more before we even got it back so.
My first day was very similar because I had my car stolen,
didn't I? So we've both had bad
experiences. It's.
So. To have all that expectation,
all that employment to be ruined, yeah, straight away was.
And it is. It's so you just, you get
heartbroken, isn't it? Because you're like, yeah, it's
not nice. Everyone's supposed to go
subscribe to P1 altar keys or subscribe as well.
Yeah, definitely. You weren't subscribed.
This is the second channel I'm logged into.
OK. And Air tags, yes, Now air tags
in cars is is 1, which is it's a difficult one because Apple Air
Tags because I think of the bad things that people do and I
guess I don't have track people who should be tracked.
That tells you there's an air tag in your car, doesn't it?
So that doesn't always work, but there is various which aren't.
Yeah, you can. You can get.
Like from Amazon or whatever.
Yeah, exactly. You can get them where they have
a proprietary app for it and it's not, it won't alert anyone
else if unless they've got that app.
Do you see what I mean? So like most people on Apple,
Samsung and stuff like that won't have that app for a
separate tag. Yeah, cuz when we met with the
one car thief, they were saying that they showed us this app
they've got and it shows the location of every air tag in
that car, whether it's yours or not, and it can play the tune to
that air tag even though it's not theirs.
That's crazy. So like you as.
If like, people put an air tag on your car because they're
trying to store it, so it's for your own protection.
But obviously if you're trying to use your air tag to track
your car, it's probably not going to work.
Yeah, you need to get like a proper global telemetric
tracker, like it's made-up for. What do you know, what's the
interest as well is the on the let's go like start, let's start
going towards the insurance. When we looked at insurance,
because of the relay theft, the keys getting stolen, it was
cheaper to insure your car on the road away from your front
door than it is to insure on your driveway.
Really. How does that?
Work I'm guessing because we were thinking about this and
we're thinking maybe it's because they're not quite sure
where the car keys are like, you know is it that car so it was
cheaper which to me like if you're sending in your insurance
you'd be like even if you didn't park your car on the on the
driveway you might put it in and that leads me to this next one
which we've been talking about today is insurance is expensive
and then you sort of say, you know you sort of try a few
different names of your job you try a few different things you
you say you park on the drive you don't you put less miles on
whatever. From what we've learnt now, I
think the the point is you tell the absolute truth.
Yeah, because when you do need that insurance.
They're going to try and find. Any way they can get out that
insurance and they employ people loss adjusters, they employ
people to ring you and try and get that like that claim kicked
out. So that's exactly right because
I had a years and years ago I had a modified Honda Civic, big
wheels and all the rest of it, body kit, sound system.
And this is when Max power days were out and I had an accident
in that car. So I went to claim for it and
they said your policy's void because your car's modified.
And after the accident, I quickly took all the wheels off
and put all the standard stuff back on.
And there goes we've seen a picture of your car in Max Power
magazine and it's got these wheels on it.
They actually sent me the picture from the magazine.
So they void the insurance. Which which I'm sure they
checked so. Now it's even easier because
they just go onto your socials and type the number plate in
and. I remember it was Peugeot 2O5
similar sort of situation. But when I spoke to loss
adjuster, this was years and years ago, he said what about
the special wheels you add on and he was literally trying to
catch you out so that they don't have to pay it which is
disgusting. Do you know what I mean?
But like, you know, you pay for insurance and realistically, if
you've paid for your insurance when you need them, they should
put their hands up. That's the the game they play.
They play this. What's it called?
Probability. Yeah.
So they charge us all on probability, same as gambling,
really. It's on the same sort of like
thing that, you know, they work out that for every 10 amounts of
policy they get, they have to pay out nine.
So on that 10th one, they make their money.
So they've already worked into the equation.
Yeah, the profit of the company and obviously the way they make
extra profit is to not pay out on claims.
And obviously sometimes you're sort of asking for trouble
because you've lied about your policy and.
But nowadays there are insurance companies that you can sort of
declare everything like for modified cars.
And I think it's, that's the way to go.
Like if you've got a modified car, get that insurance, tell
them about the wheels, tell them about the exhaust and all the
mods that you've done. Because yes, it's going to cost
a little bit more, but at least you know you're fully covered.
But I guess people are scared that then they're saying no, we
won't insure that and you've told somebody that if.
All money, money. And then you're sort of like
can't drive your car. So you can see why people do it.
We've all done it. We've all done insurance fraud,
let's face it, like. You know I haven't.
Just going back to just going back to Ghosts a minute, there's
been a couple of people have asked would you recommend meta
track over Ghost and others? So I don't install either of
those, but I know of people that do install them.
I think they're both good systems.
I to be honest with you, I know more about the ghost system, so
I can't really say much about the meta meta track, but the
ghost systems are actually good and like I've always said, only
as good as the installer. But I think they are a good
system because if you can't start the car, even if you've
got the keys, where do you go? The problem with the meta tracks
is if they're on about the ones where you get the card or the
little tag, most people keep that tag with the keys.
And that's the, that defeats the whole object of having that
system. Because the minute you've got
the keys and you've got the tag with it, Ferraris, they come
with the the Ferrari pouch and you've got your and you've got
your tag in it and they're on your key is on your key ring
with your keys. It's part of that.
It's a key ring pouch. Yeah, exactly.
This is what I mean. So people put that together with
your keys, with the keys and the amount of jobs that I go to that
I've got meta tracks. Not one person have I gone to
and they've said, oh by the way, you're going to need this tag as
well. Do you see what I mean?
People on the keys. It's all on the keys, so it it
in that respect I think the ghost is probably a bit better.
Yeah, yeah. So I think to to to round this
up, I think try not to confront them.
Yes, don't be brave. Yeah.
Don't risk your life, your family, your future.
And I know that's difficult when somebody's stealing something.
You've worked so hard. Especially in the heat of the
moment. To achieve, I think that
although like a lot of people watching this and probably
myself would just think, no, I'm like, you're not having it.
But yeah, it's, it's, I think it's good advice to make sure
you're insured and just let it go, let you know if they're
going to steal it. Let's not get anybody hurt.
Because I feel like the problem with when we've spoke to people
again, we've got to do a video on tool theft because it's like
a massive problem. But when somebody comes and
takes your car, it's not just your car.
Like they ruin your confidence, they ruin your home.
We spoke to people who literally have had to move house because
their, their, their, their little space is now ruined
because somebody's been in their house, took their keys or even
not even that much, even just been on your drive and took your
car. They can no longer sleep.
They want, they don't want to be in that that space anymore.
It's scary, isn't it? For a lot of people, because a
lot of people you're vulnerable at that moment because
somebody's been inside your house or someone's been on your
driveway and, or in your car. And a lot of people would not.
I think most people would just be like, I don't want to be here
anymore. Because like that guy that had
the, when you and they stole the keys from his house and he had
the lock on his, He had the little lock on the front where
they took the keys. They took the lock off and
everything. Not that scary that is.
Do you know what I mean? Like now he's going to obviously
constantly be thinking the minute you hear a noise, is
there someone there? Is there someone there?
Do you know? What I mean, but that's the
thing, the key safe, like when we saw that key safe, the
difference, you know, the difference between that key safe
and the key box was just unbelievable and sort of like
trying to iron out the vulnerabilities and, and and
make it. But I think I think the the
closing statement is let him have it.
Or buy an electric car because nobody wants an electric.
Car. Including the thieves.
Just buy a or buy a Renault Clio because no one wants them.
That's that's the greatest car the world, the best car ever
made. Renault, Clio, you're having it.
Everyone good then. Yes, thank you.
Very much, Yeah. Thank you.
Tips. Thanks for.
Having me and I'm sorry, I was a
couple of minutes late. No, thank you for joining our
Thursday night action. What you got coming up this
week? Oh, yeah, Quickly, right,
Quickly. Oh, I'm happy when you aren't I
Yeah. So we.
Well, there's two things. First of all, we're doing some
videos. We need actors, so send us some
emails. What?
Guess that we need some we need some actors so we need a lot of
actors to do some videos so we we need some you know we don't
need we're not asking for Tom Cruise.
We're talking sort of people who are amateur dramatics of things.
So get in touch through Instagram or the e-mail address
mark@markmccann64.com on that. But yeah, I'm filming with
hashtag. Really.
Yeah, on. Mate, that's.
Amazing give me goosebumps talk. About Hello Doggy.
That's so cool because I'm like I'm a big fan of this video.
That's so cool and like even this sound like I hope he's not
watching this now because he's going to think my friend Ed
Warren put me on to him going to do a video with him.
But my hashtag sent me a voice note, and I'm like, Jane, listen
to this because I've got his voice playing on my phone,
which, like, if he's hearing this now, he's thinking I'm not
going because Mark's a stalker, but he is.
When do you know at the end of the year, you do your top five?
Yeah. He was number 10 really on my
watch videos because he does videos.
Yeah. He's.
Hilarious. We were working ourselves
laughing at last night watching him in bed, weren't we?
Oh, like, like I was saying to Reese about the video, because I
do really enjoy his content and all he was doing and was
changing a tire on a van, right. Basically the whole video was
changing a van and changing a battery.
And you'd think if that was us, it would have to be a 22nd clip
of what was the people clip. And that's all it was pretty
much in the video. And it was hilarious because.
But how he gets through life, yeah, it's unbelievable.
And the stuff he was doing and like, yeah, really, really,
really looking forward to Monday and it's gonna be a great day.
Can I do a quick shout out? Yeah, that's all right.
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Exciting.