Audi RS5 stripped at roadside?

[shovelheadrob]

Specsavers for me, I read it as VMU, it's been a long day!!

[maxdb]

Seems very odd. It would make sense to just take the whole thing on a low loader rather than performing some sort of A-Team madness on the side of the road. I suspect a 2nd one has been had and parts swapped over with the left overs dumped at the side of the road.

[Faxo]

maxdb said:

Seems very odd. It would make sense to just take the whole thing on a low loader rather than performing some sort of A-Team madness on the side of the road. I suspect a 2nd one has been had and parts swapped over with the left overs dumped at the side of the road.

This

The engine and gearbox on these weighs an absolute ton, so to get it out, with the car on the deck and possibly underwater, I very much doubt

[crosseyedlion]

Faxo said:

maxdb said:

Seems very odd. It would make sense to just take the whole thing on a low loader rather than performing some sort of A-Team madness on the side of the road. I suspect a 2nd one has been had and parts swapped over with the left overs dumped at the side of the road.

This

The engine and gearbox on these weighs an absolute ton, so to get it out, with the car on the deck and possibly underwater, I very much doubt

Apparently not, a friend of a friend on facebook lives 100m from it, allegedly it stayed complete for ages then it just started getting lighter and lighter very quickly. I took from that the car was never actually removed.

[rallycross]

Some more pics here

http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/2014/01/27/abandon...

[Blakewater]

From not long after the floods occurred pictures of this car were all over the Internet along with its location so plenty of people who were so inclined would have seen it as an invitation to see what they could get.

[Polarbert]

rallycross said:

Some more pics here

http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/2014/01/27/abandon...

They look like the same pictures to me.

Very strange that no-one would report it missing.

[djfaulkner]

Impressive stripping.....

I see why someone who take the gearbox and engine, but why the front chassis?
Would it then be welded onto another car?

[JonnyxM]

Pie Keys.

There is a settlement not too far from where that is. If it was left longer I bet it would have disappeared completely.

[foxmeister]

djfaulkner said:

Impressive stripping.....

I see why someone who take the gearbox and engine, but why the front chassis?
Would it then be welded onto another car?

The quick way of removing the engine/box is to unbolt or cut necessary attached items, exh etc and just cut off the front end, saving time of unbolting engine etc, then prob HIAB it away!

That is gut wrenching to look at, not even my car but imagine how it would feel if it was mine that i returned to, nightmare!

[V8forweekends]

I love being English and living in England (not in a BNP way, just love it) but one of my least favourite things about this country is how it's seemingly impossible to leave anything lying around for ten minutes without some bd coming along and damaging and/or stealing it. It really is noticeable when I go to (some) other countries how they don't have to nail/chain/hide everything.

[Schermerhorn]

Who took the pictures? And why didn't they report it as vandalised in the first instance when just the windows were smashed?

[Dave Hedgehog]

V8forweekends said:

I love being English and living in England (not in a BNP way, just love it) but one of my least favourite things about this country is how it's seemingly impossible to leave anything lying around for ten minutes without some bd coming along and damaging and/or stealing it. It really is noticeable when I go to (some) other countries how they don't have to nail/chain/hide everything.

chavs, theirs millions of them

[anonymous-user]

What a lovely world we live in. So nobody saw any of this over the days it was stripped? Public, police and insurers. It's unbelievable.

[S0 What]

That was removed stripped and dumped back there IMHO, either that or no-one noticed the generatior and angle grinder going half the night

[J4CKO]

V8forweekends said:

I love being English and living in England (not in a BNP way, just love it) but one of my least favourite things about this country is how it's seemingly impossible to leave anything lying around for ten minutes without some bd coming along and damaging and/or stealing it. It really is noticeable when I go to (some) other countries how they don't have to nail/chain/hide everything.

Yeah, what is the amount of time you can leave a half decent Mountain Bike outside the newsagents without it getting robbed, I reckon its minutes in most places. Not sure why, as a nation there are so many that feel stealing, just because they can, and it wasnt nailed down, is acceptable ?

Half tempted to leave a bike outside our shops and lie in wait, have been parking mine up with two scrotes hanging around who looked dissapointed when I locked it. Have been stood in a shop looking through the window at my unlocked bike and a kid clocks it and does an exagerted carefree saunter towards it, he reversed his cap, couldnt have looked more shifty if he tried, I just shook my head as he saw me and he grinned and did the saunter back towards his mates, not sure how he would have had it away, it was too big for me at 6ft and he was perhaps 5 ft 3, it had been there thirty seconds or so.

So, we are a nation of theiving s.

[Howard-]

I saw it myself on January 4th. So it's been there a while. I'm wondering if something was dodgy to start with, i.e. it was stolen or something, and either dumped there intentionally prior to the flood appearing, or it was indeed driven through the water and damaged (deliberately or otherwise).

I would suggest that the interior strippage and vandalism was done prior to it being lifted / trailered away and stripped down to its current state and by different pikpeople (look at the way they've cut out the panels and even cut through the windscreen - not something you could do at the roadside) and then just dumped the skeleton back where it now rests.

The whole situation is a bit weird IMHO. I'd put money on it not being as simple as the rightful owner accidentally flooding it and then abandoning it.

[V8forweekends]

J4CKO said:

Not sure why, as a nation there are so many that feel stealing, just because they can, and it wasnt nailed down, is acceptable ?

All part of the culture that believes it's only wrong if you get caught (and only then if your brief can't get you off it).

[Polrules]

crosseyedlion said:

Faxo said:

maxdb said:

Seems very odd. It would make sense to just take the whole thing on a low loader rather than performing some sort of A-Team madness on the side of the road. I suspect a 2nd one has been had and parts swapped over with the left overs dumped at the side of the road.

This

The engine and gearbox on these weighs an absolute ton, so to get it out, with the car on the deck and possibly underwater, I very much doubt

Apparently not, a friend of a friend on facebook lives 100m from it, allegedly it stayed complete for ages then it just started getting lighter and lighter very quickly. I took from that the car was never actually removed.

Shell left in place as shown because tracker???

[iphonedyou]

That's really sad. But as said, nothing to do with the owner - it's the insurer that'll have left it there.