googe
08-27-2007, 11:27 PM
Wondering if anyone has heard of this, or if I might be missing something...
My car (G35 Coupe) was broken into Friday night in Seattle, parked in a "secure" parkade with a fair bit of traffic. I return to the car and both the driver's and passenger windows are down (no chance I left them down), not damaged at all, and the lock on the drivers side door was smashed up a bit along with a pretty big dent around it. The lock is messed up enough that my key doesn't fit in it anymore (never used it anyway, since it has keyless). Also, the hood was popped. It doesn't look like the vehicle was turned on or the ignition was tampered with, and I don't see signs of anything done under the hood. Battery compartment was closed, terminals were on, horn was still connected.
So it looks like someone messed with the lock, caused both windows to go down, then reached in and unlocked it. I am guessing popping the hood was accidental, maybe going for the trunk release (but the trunk was closed, so I dunno).
The windows dont even normally go down unless the key is turned, so it's really weird that they both went down with no key at all. If they could have got them down with a remote (pretty sure this is possible, I forget the key combo) then they wouldn't have had to smash the lock. If the lock got them in, they wouldn't have had to put the windows down. Also, they hit it hard enough to break a piece off the handle and leave the dent. So it's like they hit the lock to cause the windows to go down? :dunno:
Ideas?
My car (G35 Coupe) was broken into Friday night in Seattle, parked in a "secure" parkade with a fair bit of traffic. I return to the car and both the driver's and passenger windows are down (no chance I left them down), not damaged at all, and the lock on the drivers side door was smashed up a bit along with a pretty big dent around it. The lock is messed up enough that my key doesn't fit in it anymore (never used it anyway, since it has keyless). Also, the hood was popped. It doesn't look like the vehicle was turned on or the ignition was tampered with, and I don't see signs of anything done under the hood. Battery compartment was closed, terminals were on, horn was still connected.
So it looks like someone messed with the lock, caused both windows to go down, then reached in and unlocked it. I am guessing popping the hood was accidental, maybe going for the trunk release (but the trunk was closed, so I dunno).
The windows dont even normally go down unless the key is turned, so it's really weird that they both went down with no key at all. If they could have got them down with a remote (pretty sure this is possible, I forget the key combo) then they wouldn't have had to smash the lock. If the lock got them in, they wouldn't have had to put the windows down. Also, they hit it hard enough to break a piece off the handle and leave the dent. So it's like they hit the lock to cause the windows to go down? :dunno:
Ideas?