Cars that are hard to own because of theft?

[KM666]

Pablo68 said:

Useful stats:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/crime/

They seem to think my Astra is at high risk from theft.

[JD66]

Until this week I've not heard much about cars being stolen since the 90s,other than high value organised stuff and thefts from vehicles. The only 2 fairly recently that I've heard of were both getaway vehices. Someone near my parents house tried to nick a Peugeot 306 GTI a few years ago after they'd murdered someone down the road to get away from the police but it ran out of fuel in the chase and they got caught. The second one was this week where my next door neighbour's Mreg MK3 Golf, either a GTI or a VR6 not sure which but it was a 5door was stolen and used in an armed robbery, slightly unnerving as it was parked outside my ground floor bedroom window next to my car when it was taken. I assume they picked it due to being fairly quick but also having an older security system.

[4lf4-155]

Pablo68 said:

Useful stats:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/crime/

Interesting until I saw the figures for Morris - 36 thefts per 10,000 vehicles...........???

[hoegaardenruls]

Paul O said:

I thought Audi's were the theifs favourite these days? I have no factual information on which to base that though, just things I've read and cop shows watched, it seems they are well liked

Round here in SW London, they just seem to steal the bucket seats from the Audi and leave the rest of the car..

[Blakewater]

There's a video here of thieves stealing an Audi RS4 from someone's driveway in the middle of the night using a computer software device which fools the onboard computer into thinking the correct key is inserted in the dash. http://www.driving.co.uk/features/gone-in-90-secon...

The guy who's car it is talks a bit about it on this forum thread.

http://audisrs.com/archive/b8-rs4-stolen-in-90-sec...o_tt_48637.html

There are devices you can buy on Ebay which generally keep a step ahead of the anti-theft equipment manufacturers use in their cars.

[ZOLLAR]

hoegaardenruls said:

Paul O said:

I thought Audi's were the theifs favourite these days? I have no factual information on which to base that though, just things I've read and cop shows watched, it seems they are well liked

Round here in SW London, they just seem to steal the bucket seats from the Audi and leave the rest of the car..

Very much this at the moment, thefts of Audis as a whole are not as common as Mercedes and BMW's

Land rovers and Range Rovers seem to suffer from thefts of their spare wheel.

Edited by ZOLLAR on Monday 27th January 08:34

[Gixer]

KM666 said:

Pablo68 said:

Useful stats:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/crime/

They seem to think my Astra is at high risk from theft.

Also says Kent only has one City, Canterbury. What's Rochester then FFS.

[mcflurry]

Gixer said:

Also says Kent only has one City, Canterbury. What's Rochester then FFS.

AFAIK it's not a City anymore - ask the councillors why...

[Dave Hedgehog]

fast 4 seater's are popular with crims for get away cars but in reality the number of thefts is very small, especially to the good old days

the last lot of statistics i viewed showed it was diesel 4*4s that where top of the theft list for being exported, with black X5s being the preferred choice

[Sooty Zorsts]

Pablo68 said:

Useful stats:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/crime/

Clearly no self respecting criminal would be seen dead in an Alfa Romeo (presumably because of the risk of breaking down in the midst of a bank job), therefore I am classified as 'very low risk '

[SuperHangOn]

Every other W124 Merc in London was nicked for export/parts (mid to late 2000's). The police actually sent letters to owners warning them! The W123 before suffered the same fate.

[Dave Hedgehog]

mcflurry said:

Gixer said:

Also says Kent only has one City, Canterbury. What's Rochester then FFS.

AFAIK it's not a City anymore - ask the councillors why...

labour removed rochester's city status, removed the council and merged it into chavway i mean medway, gerrymandering i suspect

luckily i moved out of rochester shortly afterwards

[Dave Hedgehog]

hoegaardenruls said:

Paul O said:

I thought Audi's were the theifs favourite these days? I have no factual information on which to base that though, just things I've read and cop shows watched, it seems they are well liked

Round here in SW London, they just seem to steal the bucket seats from the Audi and leave the rest of the car..

its ideal for a thief, very easy to sell for a couple of thousand, hard to prove they are stolen, and can be taken out of the car without opening the door

normally writes the car off as well, a new RS3 had its buckets stolen like this and was written off

[hoegaardenruls]

Dave Hedgehog said:

hoegaardenruls said:

Paul O said:

I thought Audi's were the theifs favourite these days? I have no factual information on which to base that though, just things I've read and cop shows watched, it seems they are well liked

Round here in SW London, they just seem to steal the bucket seats from the Audi and leave the rest of the car..

its ideal for a thief, very easy to sell for a couple of thousand, hard to prove they are stolen, and can be taken out of the car without opening the door

normally writes the car off as well, a new RS3 had its buckets stolen like this and was written off

That example wasn't too far away from me, and I'm aware of quite a few others from RS246 and elsewhere - don't know what's worse, Audi parts prices or the fact that insurance companies will write a car off for the sake of a pair of seats.

Fortunately for a neighbour, he's got the comfort seats in his RS4.

[Dave Hedgehog]

hoegaardenruls said:

Fortunately for a neighbour, he's got the comfort seats in his RS4.

i'm fortunate in that being the size of shrek and spending 3 odd hours a day in mine i find the buckets very uncomfortable