Rental car crime in Tenerife - a warning.

[Du1point8]

Never like to leave the hirecar anywhere for long if it has the luggage in it.

When out on day trips, myself and the B&C make sure the only valuables that are with us, are the ones we intend keeping on our person, if its going to be left in the car and has greater value that £100 then it stays in the rental villa as its not necessary for the day trip.

Not worth the hassle and at the moment my travel insurance is hideously expensive as an official non resident of the country Im in.

[acer12]

King Herald said:

Silver993tt said:

Why do you ever leave anything of value in any car, even your own car in the UK? I never leave anything, not even in the boot or under the seats as that's exactly where thieves will look, even when my car is locked up in my garage. I cringe when I see people leaving laptops, phone and expensive sunglasses in their cars and when they get stolen they are so surprised that someone could actua;y do that.

Jeez, where do you live, Hells Kitchen? I bet you don't leave valuables in your house when you go out either, take the telly and microwave with you?

Thankfully that argumentative jackass poster has permanently left the building

[LuS1fer]

King Herald said:

Maybe employees of the car hire company carry a large sack of labeled spare keys, and simply cruise until they see one of their own?

I'm pretty certain that the second theft was perpetrated by the two males with what looked like iPhones in the car that pulled up next to us. That is on the basis that they pulled up and parked right next to us in a huge and largely empty car park then both appeared to be on their "devices", one in the car and one out, when I locked the car and in the very short time we were away, no cars came in to that car park and they had left when we returned.

As you can imagine, the car park for the Palmetum (a collection of palm trees - like a zoo without any animals) was not exactly busy.