Sorry - just realised I never replied to the helpful replies on this thread. Thanks everyone. I don't know how they nicked it. They didn't break any windows. They also worked out where the kill switch was. The PC I spoke with said they sometimes have a bucket full of key tags and drive slowly...

Thanks for that hint. I've also now got a ClutchClaw.

Hi Hippo, You were absolutely right - it was indeed nicked. Pinched from outside our house one night recently. The police found it 48 hours later, thanks to the tracker. So when you say, "upgrade the security", I'm really open to any helpful hints right now. It also has a hidden kill switch...

Hi folks. New to this forum. I have a Defender that I bought in 2014. I don't use it off road (here in south London) and don't know nearly enough about it but hope to learn more here. In some ways it was a nostalgia purchase as I owned a Series III back in the mid 1980s, when I was a student...