gonein60s

i never tried to drive it without the key in the car. But I know that there is no way the car could be started without the key being inside the vehicle.

Anyways, thank you all. It's been a long day. I'm going to bed. I'll log back in tomorrow morning and maybe someone will have something by then.

Good night all!

2k2 R1

I dunno why anyone would wanna steal a 2IS and you're the first case that I heard of on CL. sound really fishy to me...could be inside job, which I doubt or insurance fraud.

pbm317

SC's have smartkeys???

aznboi27

maybe you just got really drunk yesterday and left it downtown. and you think it stolen!

dotkong

no they dont..loll good pointing that out i didnt even notice lol

crazybuggy

damn that sucks! sorry to hear this! =\

juice14

wat the crap. lexus should have, like mercedes benz, when they try to tow the car it locks the wheels. so you would have to pick up the whole car to take it away.

MoLexus

You are allowed two FOBs per vin to my understanding. This is fishy though it is virtually impossible to steal it without a key. Keep us posted I am honestly stunned.

MoLexus

I'm sorry I am a bit skeptical. I would encourage mods to take a closer look at this thread because in the past three years I have been here I have yet to see something like this.

Dogmeat

my buddy's 2007 GS got stolen a few months ago. In front of his house. towed. they found it in south LA stripped to the bone a few days later.

2slow

iTrader: (5)

If they get into the car they can stick a flat head into that shift lock to unlock the gears and then tow it. If not they would need to tow the entire car.

hihi410

Actually, his situation has happened in asia. I've read a post from TW IS forum site. Smart key cars are being targeted, although people believe that its not possible to steal it, it has been done.

The metal shaving is where they drilled the key hold to manually open the door. However how it was taken away was never confirmed. Same as what RTIS250 described.

Reyngel

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I, too, started getting suspicious of this thread after reading through just the first page.


The facts:

-He has no history on this site, other than this thread

-There isn't a single case anyone's ever heard of where a 2IS was stolen

-His username is the name of a movie about hacking and stealing cars


I'm sorry, I'm going to go ahead and call this guy out. Unless he posts some pics of his username written on a piece of paper sitting next to his key fobs, this guy's only fishing for answers on how to steal his neighbor's car.


So there you go, bro. Post a pic of your username next to both of your key fobs, and I'll take back everything I said and offer you a sincere apology. And don't even think about pulling the old "I don't have a digital camera" crap.

EJC

You may be right.
The shavings make no sense but,....
I do believe the key transmission can be intercepted by someone with a laptop and used to take the car. Unles they've increased the the security coding of the fobs, I believe the coding was only 28bit

Jefe's IS

Flat bed tow truck. Pull tow truck behind car. Tilt flat bed. Hook car to winch. Drag car onto flat bed. Lower flat bed. Leave.

I've seen it many times. I have a retail business on the DU campus. Parking, like most universities, is limited. Many people park in our lot. We have them towed continuously. They back the flat bed up. Use the grappling hooks to pull/drag the car onto the flat bed. They can do this in under five minutes in a tight parking lot. I'm sure it can be done in a driveway in less.

The metal shavings is confusing. I would think that if you drilled out the locks the alarm would still go off when you actually unlocked the door. Try it. Go out and lock your car w/ the windows down or with your self in the car using the fob. If you attempt to manually unlock the door the locks relock and the alarm goes off. You would have to disarm the alarm before you could unlock any of the doors w/o the alarm sounding.