Reminds me of a former colleague of mine who got an alert from his phone (I believe he got a call from a BMW support center); there was an attempted break-in of his car. He had a BMW that had an air pressure sensor in the cabin, which was triggered because someone had broken the window.
No trace of course once he got to the car / once the police was around, just a broken window. But the would-be burglars made a mistake; they went into the frame of the car (between the driver and rear passenger doors) through the plastic to disconnect a bundle of cables, but didn't fit the plastic back properly.
This bundle of cables went to the antenna that was required for the phone home functionality; if he hadn't had that addressed, the thieves would have been back a day or a week later to get into the car, with the pressure sensor / phone home alarm not being able to contact BMW HQ.
Organized crime has enough money, time, opportunity and incentive to buy cars and take them apart to find weaknesses.
I feel like for most car break in's there's nothing you can do. The crime can take 10 second and only needs your tshirt wrapped around your fist. Or a spark plug. Or the air bladders tow truck drivers use that you can find at the hardware store.
Plus when the alarm does indeed go off, people are liable to ignore it because these alarms are always going off for nothing.
> frame of the car (between the driver and rear passenger doors)
FYI, that would the "B Pillar". The A Pillar is the one between the windshield and the driver door, the C Pillar is the one behind the rear passenger door.
No trace of course once he got to the car / once the police was around, just a broken window. But the would-be burglars made a mistake; they went into the frame of the car (between the driver and rear passenger doors) through the plastic to disconnect a bundle of cables, but didn't fit the plastic back properly.
This bundle of cables went to the antenna that was required for the phone home functionality; if he hadn't had that addressed, the thieves would have been back a day or a week later to get into the car, with the pressure sensor / phone home alarm not being able to contact BMW HQ.
Organized crime has enough money, time, opportunity and incentive to buy cars and take them apart to find weaknesses.