Insurance fear for stolen BMWs

BMW owners are being warned insurance companies may refuse to pay out if their car is stolen by crooks who reprogram a new set of keys.

Autoblog reported last week on the BBC Watchdog story that revealed thousands of BMWs – built between 2006 and 2011 – were easy targets for crooks who had worked out they could break into the cars, plug a device into the diagnostics system and reprogram a new key in minutes.