It's been many years (been married to same female for 39 years, and this 
was while I was still single). Leaving a bar (pub) walking her to her 
car, probably a 1966 Chevrolet, she was carrying a package, and I 
volunteered jokingly to open the trunk (boot) using my 1966 Buick key. 
To our amazement, the key worked. :)

For Keeloq case, I would think if a police report was filed, then the 
consequences of filing a false police report would prevail and the 
insurance would pay up. Was a police report filed??

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Howard Winter wrote:
>
>   
>>>> The thing that strikes me about that article:  If Insurance companies
>>>> are claiming that a car with a transponder-key cannot be stolen,
>>>> howcome the premium includes an amount for the risk of theft?  Surely
>>>> if it can't be stolen, and they are going to deny any claim that it
>>>> has been, they are taking money under false pretences, since the risk
>>>> is zero?
>>>>         
>>> It might stop the car be driven away (in reality it won't), but it
>>> doesn't stop the car being stolen by towing it or hoisting it on to a
>>> flat bed truck.
>>>       
>> In that case why wasn't that possibility considered by the insurers? 
>> Why jump straight to "It can't have been stolen"? 
>>     
>
> Because in that case, IIRC the expert concluded that the car has been
> driven. From which (with the wrong, but still, assumption that without the
> right keys it can't be driven, together with the insured's affirmation that
> he still had all keys) they concluded that the story of the insured was
> wrong. From which they concluded that they don't have to pay (probably
> according to the insurance contract).
>
> Gerhard
>
>   
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