Save yourself £23.99 and get a biscuit tin.

There is such a thing as lockable gates, which are better for keeping prowlers out of your grounds altogether, and no we don't lie about our 3 cars being on the drive instead of in the one car garage....though none of our cars have keyless facility and none ever will.

This is a typical example of the modern trend to complain about the secondary issue...the first issues here are poorly designed cars preferably avoided which HJ has correctly listed, plus low life thieves with no intention of working for a living who if ever caught are seldom punished hard enough, but in modern Britain we'll tackle the secondary issue instead as the first are ignored, in this case its apparently the fault of the owners for not garaging their cars if they get stolen, you couldn't make this stuff up.

I am affected by this stupid piece of design. I keep my keys overnight in a metal cashbox.

I believe some manufacturers are now installing an on/off switch to the key. Why this wasn't a feature right from the beginning is anyone's guess.

I believe a couple of manufacturers have fitted motion sensors to the key fob so that if the key has been motionless for say 40 seconds the fob is turned off and only reactivates when the key is moved. Simple idea that pretty well solves the problem.

Its one thing having a metal can at home but what about other times, on holiday, overnight stay or whatever, Im not carrying a can about with me all the time and if like me you have other key and a dog whistle on the keyring it may not fit anyway.

That deactivtaion by a movement sensor won't work if they key's in your pocket whilst out at the shops, where quite a few cars are broken into (far easier for the thief to hide in plain sight in a multi-story car park by pretending to be another shopper).

What they should have, as FP says, is an on/off switch (which also deactivates the same in the car) so that it goes back to an 'old-style' blipper key. I'd also rather pay a bit more for the car to have a proper lock and key as well (even if it's only for the driver's side - what - £100 more when new [woo!]), in case the key battery dies and for some reason I don't have the spare to hand. It's not as though we've been hearing of a spate of thefts from or of modern cars with that feature.

I'd save the difference in lower insurance premiums in a handful of years.

Get a preventer key fob wallet.

A tin box will not prevent the the key fob being 'read by the thieving scumbags . I tested mine and the car still opened,( there is a small rubber button in the handle as an alternative to pressing the key fob).

I tested the key/mobile wallet (Arivealive Defender, and no I have no connection to the company) and it successfully blocked the signal.

I'm not sure a microwave will work either, I once 'tested' my mobile inside and phoned it from another and it rang. Not sure it's the same but I then tried it when purchasing a new microwave in a large electrical store, and the mobile worked in all 4 microwaves tested. Yup I know I'm banal n the extreme.

Edited by nailit on 24/06/2019 at 10:45

One simple solution is to drive a car which no-one wants to steal or break into .... :-)

Yes, 'bangernomics' rule!

One simple solution is to drive a car which no-one wants to steal or break into .... :-)

Yes i know that's meant tongue in cheek, but sadly that is how many people have to live their lives depending to some extent on where they live, again a secondary solution because as a society we have failed to fix the first problem, that being criminal scum who make everyone's (not in the elite or political class* club)lives a misery.

*One Boris Johnson and girlfriend have just found out what its like to live among an enemy, but in other ways.