 Luxury cars
It is time to discuss the disadvantages of connecting automobiles in a little more detail. Would you have thought that the functionality of your car depends on space, whereby we have now simply added the space in which
satellites orbit our earth?
It all started when immobilizers were installed in cars. As an auto mechanic, you would think that the ignition and/or fuel injection lines would simply be made dependent on a reader..
This may well have been the case for the first retrofits, which could have been circumvented relatively easily. However, this does not apply to locks that were ordered from the factory at the outset, i.e.,
even if these were initially optional.
Fortunately, we had ordered something like this at the time for just under DM 400, and it proved its worth on a trip to the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, for example. The door lock was slightly damaged and the windshield
wipers were on, but the thieves were unable to start the engine.
Immobilizers have long been integrated into the engine control unit, meaning that even replacing it would not be successful. It simply needs to be programmed for the receiving vehicle. So far, so good.
But in the case of more expensive cars, the thieves probably used more sophisticated methods or, for example, put the entire car on a trailer and drove it away. The car was now gone, but the owners and
the police wanted to know where to look for it.
Apparently, only the satellite network is dense enough to do this with any degree of success. The technology became increasingly sophisticated, because it was no longer just a matter of watching, but suddenly it was
possible to intervene, i.e. to be on site to spoil the thieves' plans.
If you can receive the internet via satellite, then you can also order things that are then delivered to you, of course by parcel service. So you can operate from inside the car. But conversely, the car can also be shut down from
the outside.
It will then no longer start, as it has neither ignition nor fuel supply. The only thing that helps owners of more expensive cars is a second car. Why only for luxury cars? Because it is only worthwhile to register them and have
the opportunity to know their respective whereabouts.
And rest assured, if a method is found and established for getting the car running again, then you can be sure that, if there is a certain number of cases, the factory will take remedial actions Over The A
ir here.
In addition, these (usually very cumbersome) methods also have the disadvantage that they must be repeated before each engine start. Very clever thieves may try to locate and remove the transmitter and receiver in the
car.
But it's like the attempted theft of our car. There is a connection to the immobilizer, and it only responds to a very specific control signal. Removal should be possible, but whoever invented and implemented this
workaround is charging a hefty price for it.
Such individuals should not expect factory support, but in the case of Porsche, the factory has indicated that the device can be opened and repaired without having to be replaced, presumably at the factory itself and not at
any branch office.
This is little consolation for Porsche owners, but should we feel sorry for those who, despite EU sanctions, managed to obtain a Porsche via neighboring countries but cannot start it because the satellite network is blocked
due to the war?
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