Security Alert!

[DaKidd]

FYI, A fellow MSP/forum member and I did some work to our cars the other weekend at my place and found a disturbing issue. The wheel lock and lock keys are not individually unique. they are all cut the same so one key fits all MSP stock wheel locks. I will be changing mine with some from the local auto store ASAP!

 

[t3ase]

If someone steals my wheels, then that means I get cash from the insurance company for new ones... Maybe I should take the wheel locks off completely..

 

[alexlitov]

Look at it this way. If they try to steal your wheels and can't...they will **** your car up totally. I have $7 wheel loocks they are pain to remove even with a key..

 

[redmption]

Thats BS dude, I tried it already. There may be like 20 different keys spread out among the 3000+ cars but there is not just one cut. Turboge and I went on a trip to Vegas, I thought I had lost mine so I told him to bring his. Needless to say it didnt fit

 

[Heathen23]

DaKidd ain't BSing you. My keys are an exact match to his. Granted you and turboge may have different locks but two different MSP's bought at two different dealers had identical locks.

 

[Vapor]

Hehe.. wait till they figure out that there are only 100 or so different keys for each model of car....

 

[fkmp5]

If someone steals my wheels, then that means I get cash from the insurance company for new ones... Maybe I should take the wheel locks off completely..

you can always send your wheels to me and tell the insurance someone stole them.. hehe..

but seriously, there are probably more than 1 set of lock/keys.. there is always the chance that you and your buddy do have a matching set, but test it out on a bunch of MSP before believing this thread!!

 

[Striker187]

i don't know if the car companies do this still but from what i understand, they use a set number of keys for their cars (meaning the actual car keys) so it's possible that your key could fit someone else's car perfectly. there was a case of this happening in houston....crazy story too. family thought somebody was in the hospital but not and weird messages and stuff....all because of a mistaken identity in cars and the key happened to fit the other car.

 

[oliver2000]

sames goes with most keyed locked....there are only so many combinations of keys that are made...if they made every keyed lock in the world different the manuafacturer will have one hell of a time setting up a assembly line.

 

[Scott]

sames goes with most keyed locked....there are only so many combinations of keys that are made...

Exactly. The key to my dad's 1995 Nissan pickup works in my friend's 2001 Saturn sedan.

 

[9394]

I had my dealer throw in another set of wheel locks so now I have two for each wheel!

 

[unwound]

my factory alarm remote opened a trunk on a 2k1-2k2 Caddy STS, thought it was kinda funny.

 

[sundevilMP5]

security is overrated......but last month i noticed that my garage door remote opens the garage across the street...haha...it was funny playing around with it for a while...i unplugged my openers and just started to open my neighbors while he was washing his car...started to freak out...it also helps that we don't like them very much

 

[Heathen23]

my factory alarm remote opened a trunk on a 2k1-2k2 Caddy STS, thought it was kinda funny

My friends Spec V remote can lock and unlock my MSP. Very odd but only so funny