If it makes you feel any better, I had an experience kinda like yours that left me equally as befuddled.

I drove over to pick up a buddy for a day trip, and as we were loading his stuff into the bed I noticed that the front two pins on my 5th wheel hitch were off the rails. These can't just pop off, they have retainer pins... someone had to have removed them. They were in the bed, but had definitely been removed. I have no idea what scared them off or how long it would have taken them to get the rest of the hitch out, or even when exactly they attempted to steal it... but that day I went and bought some locking pins for the hitch.

 

OOPS! Nu-be screw up.

 

Why put yourself in the car or truck to search for something? Passanger side, easier for glovebox..

THINK THINK

 

To date my 2004 F250 SD (as of last night) has been burglarized four time using the same method, through the plastic door latches. Although nothing was taken, I assume the alarm scared them off or someone came by, all the previous three time have been "dine and dash" robberies. The alarm goes off but they must break in grab what they can and there off. I have looked at the jimmi jammers but what concerns me is the the destruction of the door before they realize they can't get in. Although it protects the contents of the truck, fixing doors can get expensive.
Does it not make sense for someone to manufacture a stainless or metal (powder coated) door latch with a little more flange. This problem affects many years of the Super Duty trucks. This has been a problem for some time and I am unclear (I do have my thoughts ) as to why Ford won't correct this problem.

Thoughts?

 

Sorry to hear your pain...Hope things works out for you..

Around here, go to any shopping center, no one looks at the cars who's alarms are going off...

And the Police are chasing the false alarms going off at houses...

Anyway, car alarms are just that...Make aloud noise, make a large dent to bust the door open....

 

Maybe the scumbag stoled the code card prior to getting in the vehicle (at dealer, car wash, etc.)...and you just happened to notice the card was missing that morning...Sorry about the break in man, hope the SOB gets caught soon.

 

Here's another twist .......... not with my 2011 but when I bought my 2003, I went to dinner and reluctantly used valet parking ........ I got out and left truck running, my wife gets out (and must have hit the power door lock on the armrest) .... before I walk away, the valet asks me for my keys ......... I told him the truck is running and the keys are in the ignition .....he says, yeh, but the doors are locked!!! I asked him if he had a lot of Ford keys on the board ........... he did, I told him to bring them over ...........THE FIRST KEY WE TRIED OPENED THE DOOR!!! I'm retired from AT&T, and we did this often when someone in the garage locked their keys in ........... we almost always found another vehicles key would open the door.

 

Damn!!!!!! That isn't good. This is just going to make me disconnect my locks!

 

Just this weekend the same exact thing happened to me, only they took just 1 item and didn't take my keypad code card. Do you happen to live the in Dallas area? I have a strong suspicion that someone at the dealership I bought the truck at just 2 weeks ago paid me a visit and either had the master code or had programmed one in before I took the truck home. 3 other Ford trucks on my block, literally next door to me, had unlocked doors and lots of stuff inside and weren't touched. Only my truck, only one item, and it WAS locked, I'm 100% sure. It seems it was very targeted...

 

Just as easy as the valet at the restaurant can make a copy of your house key and get the address from your glove box papers.

We keep a spare truck key and remote just for the valet guys, no other keys on that keychain.

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Do you have a cat? Our cat stepped on the FOB for my Jeep GC and opened the rear window hatch. Lucky I saw him standing on it and decided to check. That would have been an open invitation for a raccoon to tear things up.

 

This is why I use a MyKey; no remote and limited so that they can do little with the truck.

 

I've seen GM () vehicles with a valet key, which couldn't unlock the glove box or trunk, so you could at least put stuff out of sight and easy access.

 

No, it's not, Don. You have better odds of hitting the Powerball than some dude hanging around a parking lot looking for your truck with the kind of equipment that can break rolling codes. Don't be silly.