Notes on cars

[Triumph Man]

This shouldn t have irked me, but it did - I received this note on my car



I got back after an extremely long day (work meetings, visiting my granny who has just gone into a hospice) at 10.30 last night and the note wasn t on my car, but it was this morning. Which means someone walked up my driveway in the dead of night and put the note on my car - the tone of which I found quite rude.

My house isn t on a road you drive through, and my car isn t particularly visible.

I rang the bloke and he was mono syllabic at best - didn’t even apologise

Just ranting - you ll probably say I m being a knob. If it was me, and I d somehow seen my car, and I d probably have made a note of its location and knocked on the door at a sensible time!

[TheInternet]

I've just called him back and apologised for my earlier comments and said that on second thoughts I would be interested in selling. Says he'll be over about 8pm. Hope that's ok.

[Triumph Man]

Haha brilliant

[GeniusOfLove]

Looks like he was trying to go for a fun tone, although his response on the phone suggests otherwise!!

[Triumph Man]

I really have had a sense of humour failure with various things going on recently

My subsequent text to him



I think it s also the fact that someone was wandering around our property rattled my wife.

Edited by Triumph Man on Saturday 10th January 16:17

[uktrailmonster]

I would install CCTV if guys were creeping around the house in the middle of the night. We have a bunch of Arlo wireless cams which have been really good.

[21TonyK]

I've read and re-read this, still have not clue. Did he want to buy your car or what?

[Triumph Man]

I rang him and said I m not interested in selling. He said. Ok . I said how I wasn t happy he d been creeping around and he hung up

Realised that didn’t answer your question haha. I guess he wanted to buy it, but how he found it I have no idea - apart from him skulking around…

[Triumph Man]

uktrailmonster said:

I would install CCTV if guys were creeping around the house in the middle of the night. We have a bunch of Arlo wireless cams which have been really good.

The house came with cctv, might see if it works…!

[FilH]

Old , slightly rough looking bmw will atract random notes. Always had notes left on my Old E38 on my drive asking to buy it.

Never paid attention to the time.

But i would think nothing more then , there nutters out there that love a crsty old BM.

Probably visiting friends, asked them about itand on the way home to a chance to leave a note.



PS at the time i didnt want to sell, kept the no.s . And sold it in a bad way fully disclosed for more than i bought it for 8yrs previously

[clive_candy]

TheInternet said:

I've just called him back and apologised for my earlier comments and said that on second thoughts I would be interested in selling. Says he'll be over about 8pm. Hope that's ok.

Early days yet but I don't think this will be bettered all year.

[uktrailmonster]

Triumph Man said:

uktrailmonster said:

I would install CCTV if guys were creeping around the house in the middle of the night. We have a bunch of Arlo wireless cams which have been really good.

The house came with cctv, might see if it works !

Only useful if it alerts you when someone is lurking about. We use ours mainly for keeping foxes out of the garden because we have rabbits. But if a burglar entered the garden at 3 am they would get treated to a full-on light and sound show along with alerts pinged straight to my phone and internal alarm ringer We have one on the driveway too.

[Ed Boon II]

I’d be fking seething, cheeky , wandering around your property in the dead of night

[Road2Ruin]

Ed Boon II said:

I d be fking seething, cheeky , wandering around your property in the dead of night

Crikey, what about all the people creeping around you don't know about. You must fumin', too.

[Sheepshanks]

I live in a quiet village - few houses have alarms etc. Next door neighbour has a security camera and he's forever telling me people are trying the doors on the cars and the garages during the night. He's panicked the old couple across the road into having a camera fitted that has bright led lights at night and follows people and cars going past.

[Super Sonic]

21TonyK said:

I've read and re-read this, still have not clue. Did he want to buy your car or what?

He wanted to swap it for an Xbox, some games and other tat.

[Triumph Man]

Ed Boon II said:

I d be fking seething, cheeky , wandering around your property in the dead of night

Yeah quite - it’s not that a note was left - I’ve had them before - it’s that it was left in the dead of night, had a weird tone, and on calling/texting the guy didn’t even have the good grace to say “you know what mate, im sorry”.

[uktrailmonster]

Triumph Man said:

Ed Boon II said:

I d be fking seething, cheeky , wandering around your property in the dead of night

Yeah quite - it s not that a note was left - I ve had them before - it s that it was left in the dead of night, had a weird tone, and on calling/texting the guy didn t even have the good grace to say you know what mate, im sorry .

Not likely to be that sort of reasonable guy. I would have ignored the note as a starting point. I wouldn’t have been calling or texting them back. I would have just searched the number and made a note of it.

[CoolHands]

Put a steering lock on and maybe even a cheap tracker. Unfortunately scrotes seem to decide that what’s yours is theirs.

[vikingaero]

In my town there are a bunch of cars - sheds, resto-wrecks, campers etc that have signs in/on them - "Not for sale". I guess they are fed up with constant enquiries.