OBD sorted / moved 

immobiliser added 

disklok

 

is this sufficient enough until a later date ??? 
or do I need to fit a alarm as well ...

 

 

I would think that will do !! 👍

 

Unless of course you live on the Meadow well estate 🤣

I’m just thankful I got my car back ...over £1000 spend on recovery and added security This week 

insurance ,,not worth claiming as got a £450 excess 

Alarm ...quoted £300 and I just have not got that at the minute unfortunately 

 

I just want to feel that my car is secure at night ..I can’t sleep as it is ..and my stomach constantly turning with nerves 

 

they also damaged a ball joint , that will need done in near future..quoted £300 for that ! 

@Chainsawcharlieit might be worth speaking to @Jo100001about how he moved his obd port

1 minute ago, Jonro2009 said:

how he moved

oh dear ........ I already got told off for that !!! 😀

42 minutes ago, Jo100001 said:

or do I need to fit a alarm as well ...

Doesn't your car already have a factory fitted alarm.?

I've certainly not seen an option to not have an alarm in any of the ford car configurator options, I thought they'd been standard fitment for many years now?

 

38 minutes ago, unofix said:

oh dear ........ I already got told off for that !!! 😀

Oops, 'assumption is the mother of all f' ups' lol

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Just been thinking this OBDII port movement idea over, and conclude there maybe a better option.

Pins 4 & 5 are the vehicle ground (negative) connection, and pin 16 is the constant 12V positive.

If the negative and positive wires going to the OBDII port were interrupted at some convenient point (out of easy sight) and a double pole switch fitted, and say positioned inside the glovebox as an example, then the port would be effectively dead.

Any device that plugged in to the OBDII port would be unable to draw power from the vehicle if the switch was in the off position. Even if the potential thief's device had its own power source it would still be unable to connect because the Canbus system of the vehicle would not be sharing the same power source.

 

1 hour ago, Jonro2009 said:

@Chainsawcharlieit might be worth speaking to @Jo100001about how he moved his obd port

Lol he is a she ! 
 

girls like fast cars as well ... well I’m not a girl as such ..I’m 52 😀

45 minutes ago, Chainsawcharlie said:

Thanks but Jo10000 doesn't respond to any posts i put up 😞

Sorry but I’ve had so much on since getting car back 

 

how can I help ?

1 hour ago, Blatto said:

Doesn't your car already have a factory fitted alarm.?

I've certainly not seen an option to not have an alarm in any of the ford car configurator options, I thought they'd been standard fitment for many years now?

 

We thought it had a alarm ..It doesn’t ...

If you have a Disklok fitted with the wheels turned to full lock nobody is going anywhere with your car alarm or no alarm.

 

2 hours ago, unofix said:

I would think that will do !! 👍

 

Unless of course you live on the Meadow well estate 🤣

I’m a sandancer .. car is in Hull most of the time , that where it was stolen from on Monday 

53 minutes ago, Chainsawcharlie said:

I believe it was easy to move an obd port on any model up to a 7.5 version, but 8 onwards they changed the port to a great big chunk of plastic which is hard to hide, so nobody making extensions for anything over 7.5 fiesta versions.

 

The OBD Port must be integrated with the Gateway Module on the later models. If so then it is quite chunky.

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Personally, I'd wire the 12V power to the CANBUS signal wires. that should fry their cloning device nicely.

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1 hour ago, Marky146 said:

Personally, I'd wire the 12V power to the CANBUS signal wires. that should fry their cloning device nicely.

CANBUS is extremely robust that's one of the reasons why it's used in vehicles. Connecting the CANBUS signals to either 12V or GND won't damage the BUS signals....now a much higher voltage (greater than 50V) is a very different matter 😈

3 hours ago, unofix said:

Just been thinking this OBDII port movement idea over, and conclude there maybe a better option.

Pins 4 & 5 are the vehicle ground (negative) connection, and pin 16 is the constant 12V positive.

If the negative and positive wires going to the OBDII port were interrupted at some convenient point (out of easy sight) and a double pole switch fitted, and say positioned inside the glovebox as an example, then the port would be effectively dead.

Any device that plugged in to the OBDII port would be unable to draw power from the vehicle if the switch was in the off position. Even if the potential thief's device had its own power source it would still be unable to connect because the Canbus system of the vehicle would not be sharing the same power source.

 

CANBUS is a differential signal bus system and as such doesn't need to be referenced to the vehicle ground so in all likelihood would work whether the vehicle ground is connected or not. As long as the vehicle ground and the external device ground are within the same common mode voltage range bus communication would still occur without invalid data transfer....

6 hours ago, Jo100001 said:

I’m just thankful I got my car back ...over £1000 spend on recovery and added security This week 

insurance ,,not worth claiming as got a £450 excess 

Alarm ...quoted £300 and I just have not got that at the minute unfortunately 

 

I just want to feel that my car is secure at night ..I can’t sleep as it is ..and my stomach constantly turning with nerves 

 

they also damaged a ball joint , that will need done in near future..quoted £300 for that ! 

which robbing swine quoted 300 for a ball joint ???????

 

9 minutes ago, JImpster said:

which robbing swine quoted 300 for a ball joint ???????

 

Most likely a Fraud Stealer, I mean Ford Dealer. 

 

@Jo100001my apologies, it's a bad habit to just assume gender.