Free 'Kia Boys' Locks to Thwart Hyundai and Kia Theft Sprees Are Junk

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Certain Hyundai and Kia vehicles have been making the news recently because they're so easy to steal. If you're unfamiliarphenomenon, you'll want to catch up. These vehicles aren't equipped with an immobilizer, which requires a key with a security transponder inside it to operate the starter. Without that security features, all thieves need to do is remove the ignition lock cylinder and use something like a USB cable to turn the switch behind the cylinder.

While that cross-shaped keyhole might look tough to defeat, the jiggler takes advantage of loose tolerances on both the bore holes for the key pins and the strength of the spring force applied to those pins. A key jiggler is not uncommon in the world of theft and you can buy many types of jigglers for many different types of locks on sites like the one LockPickingLawyer mentions (

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