Stolen Golf R & Touareg R
Discussion
AW111 said:
Help! My house doesn't have stairs - what am I to dominate?
It was mentioned earlier by 'castroses' that you dominate the drive area."As to the driveway - yes that is a space easily dominated! Are you even aware that with a little planning there are everyday objects that can easily be used as weapons"
JDTD
AstonZagato said:
Many years ago in Germany, some burglars broke into our house by drilling the patio doors. They did several and opened others. We didn't hear a thing.
Same here, people find it hard to believe that we didn't hear the drilling, it was the yappy dog that woke us albeit too lateoobster said:
Ok, but has the Touareg turned up?
Touareg not turned up or seen since the day after it was stolen. It was parked up by the thieves ( tracker check ) and a member of the public watched it all day ( outside their house ) then reported to police when they turned up in a taxi and drove it away! 
Whilst the insurance have agreed to proceed with a total loss they haven't as yet agreed a deal with VWFS
Golf is in for repair and I went to see it last week. Pleasantly surprised that aside from the front wheels it appears fine
Work on security improvements almost complete
FourBranch said:
"Four men arrested after £750,000 car chop-shop probe raid" Headline from today's local paper. Wonder if this is the gang responsible for the Golf & Touareg thefts?
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14883614...
This is about 4 miles from me but police reckon nothttp://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14883614...
Alan_I_W said:
Bloody vile, the Touareg can be replaced as a 16 plate at least but the fact those runts came into your house is what would make me beyond mad. How's the Golf looking?
Got the Golf back yesterday. New front alloys, tyres, minor wing repair, drives fine No Touareg, insurance settled
duckson said:
Only read a few pages of the thread but noticed you are also in Lancashire.
Since June I've had 2 attempted break ins and one snooper.
First occasion they had the beadings off 3 windows but couldn't get the glass out. Only found out in the morning, we didn't have an alarm but the locks had been changed to anti snap bump type.
After that we had multiple upgrades; added interior door locks, more security lights out of reach, and a house alarm fitted that's always on at night. Main difference was the fitting of some Netgear Arlo cameras as they work on IR motion detection and are battery and wifi so no cuttting of cables. They notify you on your phone or tablet when they are triggered and hence you can then take action.
The second occasion was someone snooping about on my property at 1am, cameras alerted me but due to me having been out on a stag do during the day I didn't wake right away on notification but I had a video recorded of the person.
Third occasion I was alerted as 4 balaclava wearing individuals tripped one of cameras so they didn't even get the chance to break in as I made them aware I knew they were outside (they ran a off). They had previously tried to break into a couple of houses before mine (one of them after a Golf R) so were 100% after my high performance car.
These cameras are worth their weight in gold and easy to install. Ok the local cat sets them off at times but well worth it, nothing is going to get near my doors or windows without being detected.
We have upgraded alarm, anti snap exterior locks, installed interior door locks, more lighting, HD cameras with IR, the list goes on.Since June I've had 2 attempted break ins and one snooper.
First occasion they had the beadings off 3 windows but couldn't get the glass out. Only found out in the morning, we didn't have an alarm but the locks had been changed to anti snap bump type.
After that we had multiple upgrades; added interior door locks, more security lights out of reach, and a house alarm fitted that's always on at night. Main difference was the fitting of some Netgear Arlo cameras as they work on IR motion detection and are battery and wifi so no cuttting of cables. They notify you on your phone or tablet when they are triggered and hence you can then take action.
The second occasion was someone snooping about on my property at 1am, cameras alerted me but due to me having been out on a stag do during the day I didn't wake right away on notification but I had a video recorded of the person.
Third occasion I was alerted as 4 balaclava wearing individuals tripped one of cameras so they didn't even get the chance to break in as I made them aware I knew they were outside (they ran a off). They had previously tried to break into a couple of houses before mine (one of them after a Golf R) so were 100% after my high performance car.
These cameras are worth their weight in gold and easy to install. Ok the local cat sets them off at times but well worth it, nothing is going to get near my doors or windows without being detected.
Sign of the times unfortunately, been at the property since 1999 and nothing previously.
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