Stealing A Classic Porsche Is About To Get Really Tough
Porsche has announced a raft of anti-theft measures designed for its older cars, as values of old 911s in particular continue to shoot through the roof.
It starts with a satellite-monitored tracker, adapted from the one already available on brand new Porsches and capable of following a car anywhere in Europe. A series of sensors are placed around the car making it extremely tiresome work to find and disable all of them. There are various versions offered, suitable for everything from the 356 to the Carrera GT.
Going forward, the tracker’s functionality will expand with a smartphone app that will receive instant alerts if the system thinks anything is wrong or that it’s being tampered with. It has its own battery and won’t deactivate if the main battery is disconnected – a common trick among thieves.
In fact, with this system installed, disconnecting the main power source just triggers an alarm anyway. The system can also optionally engage an ignition cut command via wireless instruction. Stop the engine and you won’t be able to restart it unless you work for the remote security team contracted by Porsche.
If a thief does get past the system and manages to move the car from its parking place, the team will be alerted. They automatically call the owner to confirm a theft, liaise with local police and begin the hunt for the thieves. It’s all quite reassuring and costs around €1000 (£900) fitted, with a roughly €20 (£18) monthly subscription after that.
Equally well-hidden but much simpler is the Bear-Lock. It fits inside the transmission tunnel and physically locks the gear linkage in place. A hole is drilled in the tunnel skin so that a bolt can push into place out of sight beneath the lever and prevent a manual gearbox moving out of reverse – or an automatic out of park. The simple key-operated system can’t easily be attacked with tools, either, and costs €250 (£225).
Looks like it’s bad news for anyone graduating from a classic Porsche theft course at college, but it’s clearly great for anyone trying to protect their old Carrera.
Comments
Thanks for the heads up I’ll be sure to double down on the amount of jobs i do now
Well looks like I will have to rethink my technique lol I will find a way
Good work, Porsche!
Aww
How will the team be alerted of the car moving if the thief got past the system?
Probably with coding the system can tell if alternative routes were taken
How could this post get approved without a cheeky Disklok comment?
They ded
I absolutely love Porsche’s attitude towards their heritage and classics, we need more companies like them
Disklok what do you have to say about this?
I haven’t seen a disklok comment for about a year hope they are still in business and doing well
It seems to me like it’s all fun and games until you try to work on the car yourself and trip the alarms.
Yeah accidentally tamper the tracker and Porsche send a private army to your location
Just tow it away on a flatbed and use a frequency disruptor, expensive but effective.
I had a similar Idea
pfff amateur, we need three cargo choppers, a couple containers and a dozen RAM 3500 with trailers, this is gonna get loud my brother, very damn loud.
Seriously though, how do you steal a car silently? They’ll notice its been stolen anyways and bypassing the alarms is just expensive, putting a hole through the wall is not.