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A very odd thing happened last night...
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08/01/2017 16:55
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Parked the Bravo up outside a church in deepest darkest Herts and returned to it three hours later. Plibbed it, opened the driver's door, and Anita couldn't open her door; nor did the internal lock release although the handle did.
On starting the engine the system complained of Anita's door being open. It wasn't.
At this point we had a look around and it was apparent someone had been in the car; the centre cubby was open and a phone cover was missing from the driver's door pocket.
Mutter mutter mumble... tried to lock the car at home and no joy; it insisted that the door was open when it clearly wasn't. I assumed that the microswitch in the lock had died, preventing the doors locking, and that some passing miscreant has been trying the doors on the row of parked cars and found his way in.
This morning I discovered, upon further investigation, the the rubber cover on the door loom was cut - and so were eight wires out of the bundle of a dozen or so. The shape of the cuts (I have a *lot* of experience with how wire looks when it's cut!) indicates a sharp heavy knife has tried to cut the loom in a single stroke.
Repair has been a pain - I should really get a new loom - because the breaks are within half an inch of the door metalwork. Strip, solder, heatshrink. Two hours for eight wires, meh. At present everything seems to be working with the exception of the window - possibly a fuse I haven't yet located.
But I'm baffled. If you're going to break into a car (how?) and don't find anything worth stealing in it (and they didn't open the glove box or the boot as far as I can see) why on earth would you try and cut that loom?
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Re: A very odd thing happened last night...
[Re: barnacle]
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08/01/2017 17:23
08/01/2017 17:23
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Is the aim for the miscreant to disable the door by (with perhaps knowledge of the design) shearing this wiring loom? Perhaps this person was disturbed and was intending to return later for a more extensive rummage.... Bad luck, but anyway glad you had a productive Sunday
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Re: A very odd thing happened last night...
[Re: Jimbo]
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09/01/2017 08:30
09/01/2017 08:30
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Was the cut made from the outside with the door closed (cut through the door shut line) or from the inside with the door open?
Maybe it's a way of breaking in, cutting through the loom and shorting the door unlock solenoid wires as you cut? This is what I was wondering; were the cables cut down the shut line?
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Re: A very odd thing happened last night...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
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09/01/2017 13:12
09/01/2017 13:12
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Was the cut made from the outside with the door closed (cut through the door shut line) or from the inside with the door open?
Maybe it's a way of breaking in, cutting through the loom and shorting the door unlock solenoid wires as you cut? Was the cut made from the outside with the door closed (cut through the door shut line) or from the inside with the door open?
Maybe it's a way of breaking in, cutting through the loom and shorting the door unlock solenoid wires as you cut? This is what I was wondering; were the cables cut down the shut line? That makes three of us!
BumbleBee carer
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Re: A very odd thing happened last night...
[Re: barnacle]
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09/01/2017 16:43
09/01/2017 16:43
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Seems that's now going to be the smart way to break into cars now deadlocks are pretty universal.
Scum should go and work for what they would like, not bugger up other peoples' property stealing it.
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Re: A very odd thing happened last night...
[Re: barnacle]
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10/01/2017 15:53
10/01/2017 15:53
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Does central control of central locking have a safeguard built in , just in case in an accident all power is lost with occupants inside and the doors locked (and so with losing power, the locks disengage) ??. And therefore slicing a knife down through the shutline guarantee a door opening ?? Curious.
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Re: A very odd thing happened last night...
[Re: JonH]
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10/01/2017 17:16
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Does central control of central locking have a safeguard built in , just in case in an accident all power is lost with occupants inside and the doors locked (and so with losing power, the locks disengage) ??. And therefore slicing a knife down through the shutline guarantee a door opening ?? Curious. Actually this point was raised recently in a C4 programme about Extreme Weather 2016, when a car was caught in a dip under a railway bridge in a flash flood with the owner still inside......the car was eventually tipped up (all caught on mobile phone footage), the electrics having shorted out and stopping the doors opening If it wasn't for a guy chucking a brick and smashing the window the driver would have drowned.
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Re: A very odd thing happened last night...
[Re: JonH]
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10/01/2017 17:53
10/01/2017 17:53
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Does central control of central locking have a safeguard built in , just in case in an accident all power is lost with occupants inside and the doors locked (and so with losing power, the locks disengage) ??. And therefore slicing a knife down through the shutline guarantee a door opening ?? Curious. Not sure if it was an urban myth but many many years ago i was told that the door locks would unlock in the event of the collision sensor deploying the air bags!
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