Jesus Christ.... aftermath of stolen headlights!

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Speaking to one of the parking attendants at my regular haunt and he told me of some poor bugger having his headlights nicked the night before.
Car was still there so had a walk to it to take a look.

Brand new Scirocco, left overnight and the owner only found out when his day shift mates came in asking him about the crash he's had. Company car, so he's not too upset, but feckin hell...

Edited by Fastra on Wednesday 31st July 11:35

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Mr E said:

What did they remove them with, hammers?

Brute force and ignorance!

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GreatGranny said:

They fetch £200 a pair on Ebay.

Not so much as that - a couple of pairs went for £77 and £99 over the last week.

I'd have thought they were worth a lot more than that for the effort put in here.

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N Dentressangle said:

Fastra said:

GreatGranny said:

They fetch £200 a pair on Ebay.

Not so much as that - a couple of pairs went for £77 and £99 over the last week.

I'd have thought they were worth a lot more than that for the effort put in here.

As the Porsche article linked above says, they're not being stolen just to flog on Ebay.

It suggests they're nicked to provide heat and light sources for cannabis farms - much more plausible.

Given the area (very close to Moss Side, Manchester) then this is definitely more plausible!

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Remagel2507 said:

Those will have been standard halogen ones, the xenon ones can fetch way more than that, I was looking at some xenon ones for a Mk6 golf and they are around £250 each. It seems VAG cars are always a victim of thefts like these, always see stolen recovered ones for sale with wheels, sat navs and interior pieces missing.

Ah - I stand corrected.
Yes, they were indeed standard lights.