Mate's R8 stolen and heading along the M42

[Extra 300 Driver]

Tracker removed, I assume Tracker will be ansering this? I thought they were so well hidden well?

[David87]

Extra 300 Driver said:

Tracker removed, I assume Tracker will be ansering this? I thought they were so well hidden well?

There's only so many places you can put them and I guess your professional car thief knows them all by now!

[Adenauer]

The thing that's really puzzling me is that the Police weren't able to chase it as it's too quick, but when asked about using a chopper, they said that they don't fly before 8am?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

pad58 said:

Not locked up in the garage then?
It seems this type of crime is on the up I've noticed on other car forums nearly every day some one has their PJ stolen in this way.

Can be considered as worse, crims then have a nice shelter to find the tracker & remove before its even off the property

[Extra 300 Driver]

Adenauer said:

The thing that's really puzzling me is that the Police weren't able to chase it as it's too quick, but when asked about using a chopper, they said that they don't fly before 8am?

I hope ANPR picks it up.

[Adenauer]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Can be considered as worse, crims then have a nice shelter to find the tracker & remove before its even off the property

Stolen in Burbage, Hinkley, tracker removed in Nuneaton.

[Shambler]

I dont think I would want the car back after some idiots have stolen/driven it. I would rather the insurance to buy another one. Is it just me?

[ritch7]

R8's seems as good as gone. If they are clued up enough on how to remove the latest hi tech trackers then they seem to know what they are doing, no chance you will be seeing that again. It's most likely getting shipped over in a container overseas as we speak.

Same thing happend to my mates DB9 last year.

[Champhill]

Extra 300 Driver said:

I hope ANPR picks it up.

Afraid to say, they will have probably done the plates at the same time as they removed the tracker. Shame

[Adenauer]

Shambler said:

I dont think I would want the car back after some idiots have stolen/driven it. I would rather the insurance to buy another one. Is it just me?

Difficult one really, you'd only want it back if nothing was damaged, if there were damage you wouldn't want it back, but you'd want the people caught.

[CAPP0]

slopes said:

Surely removing a tracker is not a quick job, or easy? I suspect your mate has lost his car for good.

My thoughts exactly. If they have managed to locate it and remove it, they WANT that car and it's not coming back unless they get caught red-handed. Sorry....

[markcoznottz]

ritch7 said:

R8's seems as good as gone. If they are clued up enough on how to remove the latest hi tech trackers then they seem to know what they are doing, no chance you will be seeing that again. It's most likely getting shipped over in a container overseas as we speak.

Same thing happend to my mates DB9 last year.

Yep it will have cloned plates on do wont trip anpr. Maybe you will get lucky and the police will pull over any blue R8's heading towards the coast, but its a long shot.

[Jandywa]

fkin ell

Removing the trackers a new one. I hope they lose it at very high speed and say hello to some woods.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Adenauer said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Can be considered as worse, crims then have a nice shelter to find the tracker & remove before its even off the property

Stolen in Burbage, Hinkley, tracker removed in Nuneaton.

understood, i was answering the poster who suggested that cars are safer in a garage as in some cases thieves prefer it.

i think the only positive in your mates case is that they found the keys easily & didn't resort to any violence to get hold of them.

[Sargeant Orange]

wkers. At least no-one was hurt

[TinyCappo]

Also if they have smashed their way into the property. A garage door is hardly likely to stop them! Especially if they have the keys to the garage which are on the same keyring as the car keys no doubt.

[Kudos]

Any luck?

[BE57 TOY]

Has it been found yet?

[FurtiveFreddy]

I don't think trackers will work if the car's inside a container, so probably the MO was to drive it to a waiting container on the back of a truck and drive that away to storage or straight onto a ship.

[Fubar1977]

Nothing to add but commiserations.
Stuff like this is usually stolen to order so it's probably on cloned plates and being driven sensibly to avoid attention, as much as you can in an R8 anyway.
More likely already in a shipping container or lockup waiting to go into a shipping container these are not joyriders they are proper crims with the ability to remove the tracker, has professional job written all over it.

You have my sympathy.