What they do is mousejacking look up on YT.
I’ve recently bought an Audi, the first thing I did was buy a Faraday wallet for the cles & rewired the OBD port 
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Another thing to look up on YT is how easy it is to start and steal a car though the OBD port no key needed
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Keys already stashed in a tin overnight, even for the S3. Thieves are wise to this though.
Golly, that’s quaint, thinking that they go for the OBD port in the car.
The attack point on modern cars is apparently the headlight as they are on the CAN bus these days. Or front grille mounted sensors. Lot’s of places fake CAN bus commands can be injected.
It took me 15 mins to rewire the OBD, for any diagnostics etc I have a converter. If you do this you will have warning lights on the dash when you reconnect the battery, don’t worry on Audi’s drive the car for a couple o’ hundred yards stop and turn the steering wheel fully left and right the fault code will acquit themselves.
Yours will probably be keyless but if they can’t get at the key…
Impressive.
For all the wrong reasons
You haven’t seen my new Range Rover, I just collected it from the Carrefour carpark 
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Sell it quick before it either breaks down or catches fire
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Or costs a really unaffordable amount to fill up with petrol…
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I hope you occupied four parking spaces.
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Security is a trickyish one.
I have a number of high performance, highly nickable motors and I do not take any additional measures at all. My view is that I would rather somebody took it than come knocking as after all it is a car and I can buy another …. I do live in the middle of nowhere so if someone came looking they already knew where it was.
Escalation is a very real thing. Only security I have considered (other than my 2 big dogs) is a tracker.
That SVR video is already out of date, JLR have done an incredible job on the series3 Range Rover/Range Rover Sport and the number stolen without the key is incredibly low and much lower than other manufacturers. Earlier models and some Jags are still very vulnerable to OBD cloning.
p.s. our Range Rover has been faultless for the years we have owned it and thanks to the hybridness averages 65mpg 
I would without hesitation buy another.
Which sounds like a few, when they were built better.
Fitting a tracker often reduces the insurance policy costs so can be worth it just for that alone. Adding a dashcam likewise. Hiding a kill switch that could take ages to find and theives may just consider it doesn’t start so give up without a tow away.
£20k more but the same 0-60 time and top speed.
So, that’s a no thanks from me even if I could order one. UK allocation is just 10 cars.
Nice colour though.
Forgive my ignorance, are these transverse or north-south these days. Last Audi I had was an 80E in 1990 and it was traditional Audi, north-south.
MQB platform is transverse mounted engine.
A5 is in line - currently on the PPC platform (ex MLB).
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I got the year wrong, it was '91. We really liked the car, excellent quality and more “appropriate” for a “young executive” compared to our GTI 
Here it is outside our 1991 summer holiday gîte. Probably the only time the sunroof was ever open in the two years we had the car.
The gìte had a tiny fridge but nevertheless my wife “lost” a tuna steak in it. It surfaced a few days later and she was delighted to declare her “à la recherche du thon perdu” had concluded positively. Happy days, it doesn’t take much to amuse you when on holiday with a ten month old 
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My boss had one in the early 90’s, brings back memories when driving up to Paris & back we’d be cruising at 160-180km/h on the autoroute
Groan 
Though by the standard of humour in the site quite good
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That’s something I used to love in the UK, but now shun. Our previous X1s had the full length sunroof, but thankfully also had an opaque panel inside.
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