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12:08 "Called the police, didn't even bother to come out"... Meanwhile, next door's just had bailiff accompanied by 2 uniformed coppers for, wait for it - non-payment of tv license!

Thank you for spreading awareness of van theft Mark

As a tech in the Dealer, I've seen an average of 8 wires or less on an OBD port. What I've done is insert a dummy port and move the factory port. The dummy port has battery power and a ground but no communication lines to "talk" to the vehicle.

Fun fact: Toronto Police told its residents to leave their keys at their front doors to avoid coming in contact with car thieves 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mark, I bought a focus rs mk3 from copart which had no keys. Ford said that it's not straight forwad and the cost could be £2000. They have to change everything. I went on the Internet and purchased for £299 a box that plugs in the obd port. This box takes 20 seconds to programme a key. I can also remove the previous owners key data as well. Bloody crazy. I ve been in the car industry for 35 years now, and at the end of the day you'll cannot beat a hidden kill switch. Cost absolutely nothing to install. I also think the police are to blame. These expensive cars are going abroad in containers. It's not rocket science for the police. They just need to get out of their cars some times and do some footwork.

I saw a FANTASTIC sticker on a van once, it read: Please do not break into my van and steal my tools, I need them so that I can pay your benefits. 😂

Maybe it's time for a class action suit against all car manufacturers?

@markmcCann64 Thank you so much for inviting me over for part 2 , it was an absolute pleasure to be part of this video. I really hope people take extra measures for securing their vehicles.

Using vin and ordering a key from Mercedes....gone in 60 seconds right there

the information you've provided in the last three/four vids is actually brilliant, nice work Mark!

Great video, I rewired my OBD plug right away. I can now shift down using my heater buttons and operate my windows by pressing the cruise control buttons.

I had a fuel pump go on my jag, which gave me the idea to fit a kill switch to the fuel pump on my next car. Works a treat!

Thanks for having me on the video wish I could have told you more but that level of information shouldn’t be in the public domain. 👍

Your videos recently have been very engaging and you're doing an excellent job of exposing car related issues in the UK - keep it up

What needs to change is a shift of the liability to the manufacturer. A bit like how banks are responsible for keeping your money safe. If all manufacturers were added to league table of most stolen cars, they should be made to contribute towards the insurance claim based on their performance in the table. This would make the manufacturers responsible and they’d suddenly need to offer a competitive level of security. Nice vid 👏🏼

Thank you for making this series Mark👏🏼👏🏼 We are having the same problems here in the US. But no brand is doing anything about this. So glad you are shining a spotlight on this!!

Was about to put my money down on a Ferrari, but gone for a Clio after seeing this 💰

This is great content, not just for the entertainment factor, but for the genuinely useful information being shared too. You've shown us the problem and given us a solution, absolutely cracking journalism!

People will value your property more than your life, in todays world. So sad. Stay safe and blessed everyone!

Mark is a true inspiration to the car world! If anyone can put a stop to this crap it will be him and his crew. Keep up the good work and also spreading awarness.

You can send off a vin number and get a replacement key, that's is wild! If car companies won't do anything about it then we need our Government to step in and force them.

ITS A JOKE THAT OUR COURTS DON’T HAVE HARSHER SENTENCES FOR THESE CRIMES

What a great video! Thank you for taking the time to do this! I have had my tools taken and its horrid!

Absolutely the best video you have ever done (although i do love your other vids). What a great use of your platform. I knew it was relatively easy to steal a car but i didnt realise it was this easy!!!! Now we need every other car guy on youtube to share this video to spread the word and start lobbying car manufacturers!!! GREAT JOB Mark!!!

Some really nice and great quality videos recently mate! Thanks for spreading awareness on these types of thefts within the UK!

reaching the right people even my mum has just mentioned that she saw your video and it massively opened her eyes to the car theft world !

Brilliant !! Sheer incompetence from every car manufacturer. The fact they want to sell more cars to replace your stolen vehicles is beyond a joke.

Been watching since the start! Great to see you smashing it! These videos have been great thank you for spreading awareness

Another great video Mark, the recent content has been a real step up and some great journalism. Your videos are the first ones I look for now, keep up this fab work.

i had my Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT Stolen and Insurance only paid out most of it knowing i love that car very much, they were never able to track it and i ended up getting paid around $190,000 insurance payout and i had a very well fully specced out one in artic grey, after my first one was stolen we had to end up moving into a gated community to prevent this and i've hired other tracking companies to help me! Thanks for the video Mark!

But if car manufacturers refuse to do anything, won't they eventually lose customers? Why should anyone bother buying/financing their dream car (or even a normal everyday car), if it can be stolen in seconds?

As I always said to anyone, the cheapest and safest way to secure your car is to add a switch on/off linked onto a wire for your car to start for example fuel pump earth/power wire, ecu earth or power, starter motor solenoid wire, gear selector switch, crank/camshaft sensor the choice is endless. All you have to do is to slice a wire and add a switch placed somewhere you only know about it, take your time and hide it properly and hard to reach out, you can even get a remote powered switch to on/off the signal carried by that wire and you're done, you can't take the car if it doesn't start. Yes they can damage stuff around the car trying to find it, but it will cost less than having the car completely gone and insurance pay discrepancy prices.

With my fiesta st, I removed the fuse powering the obd reader, and then unclipped the obd connection and tucked it up the back of the dashboard, so any one breaking into it would have to find the obd then try and get power to it.

Nobody is talking about how those cars are exported from uk. Exporting container need lot of documentation. Unless goverment officials are involved its difficult to steal those cars.

this is some truly good content, i hope this gets to all the manufacturers and gouvernments! great work mark!!

Excellent video Mark, thanks for speaking out for us all.

There’s one simple solution that would stop this in a heartbeat. 2 factor authentication of the OBD. Use your mobile number or email when you buy the car to lock down the port. The dealer sets the code, the user is the 2nd authentication.

Great video Mark. You really care about workers with vans & tools & that's commendable. And what the hell do the police think they are doing by ignoring someone who's been threatened with having his house set on fire. "To serve & protect." Not in the modern world.

Watched your videos from the beginning, happy to see the channel growing so well, fair play

My new favorite channel, amazing stuff Mark!!!❤❤❤

I used a simple switch in between the power wire to the fuel pump. They may get to to crank, but good luck getting it running or spending time to find that switch. Better then any dealer update you can get !

The merc key ordered pre coded has been like that for donkeys. Supposedly was a dealership in Essex involved in ordering keys without log books for thieves.

Proper content. I rate you for going deep into this massive issue

This is important work Mark. Something MUST be done. Thank you

I was speaking with a knowledgeable insurance broker earlier today who only deals with HNW clients. I asked about the current situation and his reply was quite interesting. Whilst he confirmed that thefts of latest generation JLR vehicles had dropped significantly, the problem was far from resolved. Apparently the number of attempted thefts is still very high and due to cost of parts and the damage that can result from the attempted theft, many of the resulting claims can still be in excess of £20,000. So the insurance values for JLR are unlikely to drop any time soon. He also told me that the number of thefts of Porsches is rising significantly. The only reason that the premiums haven’t risen as significantly is due to the size of the vehicle park, so the number of thefts relative to the number of Porsches on the road, still hasn’t reached JLR levels.

That F1 car Box topiary is simply beautiful!👌

I just have love for this video, amazing, thank you! I'm spreading the video as much as I can, to update family and friends I don't need it, my car is too cheap to steal apparently

My car doesn't have keeless entry, this has made my life easier. Then I installed an immobilizer on the OBD plug! Without overcoming this immobilizer, the OBD will not work! I covered the Windshield Vin and now I sleep more restfully! It's not bullet proof but it will make someone's life more difficult!

the only way way to avoid a car been nicked is buy a car that no one wants to take

Outstanding Video. This needs to be seen by every manufacture Mark! Well done mate.

I remember when my parents were in Nigeria almost 40 years back they had a lock on the side of the gear shifter which needs to be locked when ever you park the car . This lock literally cuts off the fuel supply from the tank to the engine. So even if someone takes the car, it will not travel more than a mile and it stops due to no fuel. The lock was placed in such a way in between the driver seat and the center console which is unnoticeable and not easily accessible. Every company should come up with something like that..

Mark, some great content!! How can we go about getting our OBD ports rewired?

BMW need ID/logbook for when ordering new keys in the Uk. So I guess the comment from the person is towards other countries or am I missing something?

Mark I'm really starting to enjoy your videos with this new informative spin. Just don't burn yourself out going down this path and take the fun out of doing what you're doing! I've seen many of my favourite KZfaqrs go on a hiatus.

best security ive found is a dead man's switch stashed in the car. £2.99 switch £2.99 meter of 12v cable ....

Really good content. It’s a nice idea about the OBD port and changing the pins about. It will certainly be a major obstacle. However, saying that the combination is a really big number is misleading. It assumes the thieves don’t know what the colour codes are of the original wiring harness. It’s not like all the wires are same colour. If you know the colour codes, you know the combination.

I would Love to have that OBD Port fitted to my car

Really awesome topics you are picking on Mark! Great work on this, changing the obd port and interchanging the wires seems like a easy solution

Keep up the good work Mark these car companies need exposing

16:59 that's very easy system to beat, all you need is a laptop, each pin has its own values, you can decode that very quickly, also you can canbus exploit from any part of the car easiest is the headlights or rear lights

Only 17 minutes long, that’s not going to cure my boredom Mark we need more content

Appreciate you making this content Mark. It is definitely an issue that needed more exposure.

Well done Mark, good on you for taking up the challenge to make things better for owners and worse for thieves. The OBD adaptor is genius and would be especially good if they were kept at the dealer which would stop the thieves breaking in and threatening the family.

I had to give proof of ownership before Mercedes would order me a key

Or how about police stop going after pointless things like mean words on the internet and actually go after criminals?

You can have any OBD port you want but it doesn't get around ordering a new key does it? And 40 years in the trade mot time you'll need the OBD extension and in my experience most customers get dizzy finding a locking wheel nut key!

Great video, thanks for highlighting a major issue with the motor industry

As an insider, the problem with the automotive industry is they can't get and often don't want experienced engineers, they're hiring graduates, people who got everything from books, they often come from privileged backgrounds and they're just not suited to thinking like a criminal. The reasons are complex, firstly HR and staff agencies believe that anyone without a masters degree is a pleb, despite there being experienced engineers out there who followed the BTEC route because it used to be well respected back in the late 90's and early 2000's. Secondly fearful managers, don't want to hire people who are old enough to have a moral compass or know their rights. You essentially have young engineers who think very much within the confines of the box, they're arrogant and they think the criminals are too stupid, they live in a fake reality where they simply deny the problem.

When I had my fiesta ST (which was a massive car to get stolen) I had purposely broken the OBD port and I live on private land. I seen guys around my car and luckily they couldn't get it started due to the OBD being broken. Police didn't do anything. I bought an air rifle in the mean time I rapidly sold it!

Brilliant video mark. Keep pushing for upgrades on the manufacturers. You have the reach to really push this.

Sadly whilst changing the OBD port is a good idea, you don't need all 18 wires to be connected. A better idea is to remove your OBD port and hide it in the car somewhere, but fit another OBD port in its place. Some people deliberately mix the +/- wires to blow up unsuspecting computers plugged into that port, but you then run the risk of them torching your car! A better idea is to goto a scrappy, take an ECU with the plugs and decent amount of wires attached, and have it separately powered up and obviously not connected to the car, the replacement OBD port is linked to that ECU and it can be interrogated and probed by the thieves kit as if its the real one, they won't know why its not working correctly, just that they can communicate with it but its not actually doing what they want it to do. That way they end up suspecting its their kit not working, and as its taking too long to do what they need, they walk away and either target someone elses car or decide to abandon the rest of the night because they think their kit is duff. Surprisingly, its not many wires from the ECU that need to be active for the OBD port to be able to work, but it will "work" enough that the thief simply runs out of time and walks away.

Mark can u take me out in the Gt3rs please🤣pleaseeee.

Had mine stolen recently. Really frustrating and the fact that it was soo simple annoys you even more. Irony is I believe its a cottage industry. Car gets stolen, insurance charges more, manufactured gets another sale... and round and round we go.

Great video Mark we need more of these to spread the word 😊

Big thanks for the new video. Again Im left speechless. The Vin No.Key replacement was jaw dropping.

The channel we never knew we needed❤ cheers Mark👍🏼

This is amazing journalism. I don't live in the UK but this is eye opening

These recent posts have been some of your best episodes yet

Good job Mark !! Keep it up.

Thanks so much Mark 🙏

Mark genuinely one of the best series, and best individual video’s on KZfaq ever!!!!

So exactly what I said re obd port in the comments on the last video. Great work for getting the word out there.

Thanks for these videos mark, my mom messaged me a few days ago stressing about her car being stolen as there have been a lot of thefts in her area, it’s so wrong older people are stressing about being broken into. If there was proper punishment they wouldn’t be doing this sadly

Brilliant journalism, Mark. Thank you for this! What I want to know is, if you know where the teevs are at the docks, how come the police don't know? Or, do they know but can't/won't do anything?

Thank you mark for talking about our vans. I nearly lost my life after loosing it all twice it needs to be stopped

I worked for BMW back in the early 2000's. When a customer lost a key, it had to be ordered by BMW with the VIN. When it arrived, it could only be programmed to the car with an actual working key in the car at the same time. Then there was a set procedure of sequence of buttons to press only the dealers knew about. Those were the days :)

Brilliant video Mark. Please keep using your platform and fame to fight the good fight for everyone in the UK. And seeing as this is a worldwide problem, for the rest of the world also. You're a legend.

useful information that mainstream media does not provide. I thank you Mark!!

Can’t lie this video needs 40 million views the amount of awareness recently mark is unparalleled

Loving this style of content!

This gonna be my favourite channel for a while, new sub btw 😂

fantastic video Mark - unbelievable !!!

love your videos! excellent documentary!!

I love your passion for this Mark! I am a cybersecurity engineer and in the online world it's crazy what hackers can do. Seeing it in the automative world is craxy!!

I've had this worry since buying my car, i keep my key and spares in faradays at home, steering lock, and i've also had the obd relocated (hidden) and a dummy put in place. Helps me sleep that little bit better at night. Great awareness video though.

All you need to do is install an alarm system with a "starter kill". The only hassle is flicking the hidden switch every time you leave the car. I've had an alarm system in all my cars including the McLaren

Well done, Mark, these car companies have a lot to answer for. Especially ones who demand more and more cost for newer models.

Thanks for the post!

these videos are great Mark and the OBD plug change is a great start but i fear in doing this you would then start forcing the thief's to break into your home more often for the keys causing more injuries and trauma. keep up the good work!