STOLEN - 04 Silver VXR
STOLEN - 04 Silver VXR
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monkfish2

Original Poster:

269 posts

244 months

Thursday 19th April 2007
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One of our customers has had is 2004 VXR stolen from his house, with the thief getting the keys by breaking in the house.

The car is a 2004 VXR Monaro, Reg No AK54 OLP. Its silver and has AP Brakes, performance pac with headers, ripshifter. Mileage around 38K. It was stolen from the Bicester area of Oxfordshire.

Please note that there is another silver 04 VXR Monaro in the same area so check the reg, dont want some innocent party getting pulled.

It also has the drivers seat back missing as the clips had broken.

If anyone is offered the car, or spots the car, please inform the police.

Thanks

Andy


Edited by monkfish2 on Thursday 19th April 14:35


Edited by BO55 VXR on Thursday 19th April 17:01

BO55 VXR

4,373 posts

273 months

Thursday 19th April 2007
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Cross-posted on General Gassing section and also onto VXROnline - and a few other forums...Max Exposure

Edited by BO55 VXR on Thursday 19th April 12:33

rocket

1,282 posts

306 months

Thursday 19th April 2007
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From what area was it stolen?

anonymous-user

76 months

Thursday 19th April 2007
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monkfish2 said:
It was stolen from the Bicester area of Oxfordshire.


Quite near me - my eyes are peeled.....

greeny12

337 posts

241 months

Thursday 19th April 2007
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No tracker then...Gotta say that's an omission on a car like these. Was a condition of my insurer anyway.

Cautionary tale for other owners relying on the alarm/immobiliser to keep the tea-leafs out.

That said, of course I'm keeping my fingers crossed he gets it back OK...

moylcgb

78 posts

228 months

Thursday 19th April 2007
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That seems a bit harsh, they did break in his house and steal the keys.

not like they where clever enough to get past the alarm etc

BO55 VXR

4,373 posts

273 months

Thursday 19th April 2007
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Is the [unfortunate] owner a member of HSV.Org.Uk?

ringram

14,701 posts

270 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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A good argument to be had for a valet mode.

s55shh

519 posts

234 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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ringram said:
A good argument to be had for a valet mode.


confused. What do you mean a valet mode? Does this stop people breaking into your house to take your keys/car?

phrich

549 posts

245 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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no but it stops them from out running a cop on a pushbike

s55shh

519 posts

234 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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aaah, you mean like a Clifford Blackjax. I've got one on my Elise. I understand.

GTS 029

195 posts

235 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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phrich said:
no but it stops them from out running a cop on a pushbike


No such thing anymore. They'll be hiding round the corner with a speedgun waiting to send the poor unfortunate real owner a nice photo and a fine for the thieving toe-rags making their escape. But then again it won't be their fault its just that they come from a deprived background and didn't get a PS3 for christmas. Or am I just too cynical for my own good.

Hope it gets found and the damage is minimal and that the scum who do this get locked in a small room with a sex starved mountain gorrilla

Raggyman

2,317 posts

265 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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Yeah, you kind of wonder what they would do with it. Surely they would have changed the plates on it already I would have suspected. Probably one thing though is that it wouldn't be long before they need fuel. How much fuel was in it? You might be able to work out service stations they would have visited if there wasn't much in it. I use to go through a phase with the old VN (which were piss easy to steal) that I would only have minimal fuel in it. Atleast then the bastards would have to fuel it up somewhere before they drove it any where.

GTS 029

195 posts

235 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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Also cross posted onto Autobahnstormers forum, we have a lot of members in that part of the world.

phrich

549 posts

245 months

Friday 20th April 2007
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GTS 029 said:

Hope it gets found and the damage is minimal and that the scum who do this get locked in a small room with a sex starved mountain gorrilla


I can't watch the cop show about car theft because they report at the end of the show how the scum get off scott fee.

Boyce

204 posts

233 months

Saturday 21st April 2007
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Seems like someone went to a lot of trouble to steal this car, they had to assume the owner was in if the car was there, either that or they had been staking the house out for the owner to leave without the car, either way a lot of trouble.

Unlikely then it was oppotunist's or joy riders, far more likely it was stolen to order.

In which case given how few of these cars there are in the UK, it was either going abroad, or going to be re-plated with another car. Which makes me wonder if there has been any 04 silver VXR's written off recently which may have been acquired by someone to do a plate swap!

Not sure how easy it would be to find out, chances are its not anywhere in oxfordshire, but a call round breakers yards that specialise in these cars might shed some light, a crash damage vehicle may have been sold on.

Maybe the Police can contact DVLA or insurers to find out if a car has been written off,

Just a thought,

well_fans

4,193 posts

246 months

Monday 23rd April 2007
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you mean like the 04 silver VXR that was up for sale for months from the breakers yard in the north of England for about 7k - the one missing the front and rear end. Was on ebay for ages but never made its reserve

Boyce

204 posts

233 months

Wednesday 25th April 2007
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well_fans said:
you mean like the 04 silver VXR that was up for sale for months from the breakers yard in the north of England for about 7k - the one missing the front and rear end. Was on ebay for ages but never made its reserve


Yeah, thats where I'd start, but remember still innocent til proven guilty !

mr_annie_vxr

9,270 posts

233 months

Wednesday 25th April 2007
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Most of these cars that are stolen are taken straight to a container port and parked up. Most tracker devices (in particular gps ones) do not work in containers. GPS is lovely but is only good whilst you get the signal. Thats why the radio triangulation method is currently still the most used.

If its not been found yet its most likely on the way out the country. As pointed out this is too small a community. Even if they cloned it you would only need one spotted and the 'true' owner of that plate would smell a rat.

crisisjez

9,209 posts

227 months

Wednesday 25th April 2007
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mr_annie_vxr said:
Most of these cars that are stolen are taken straight to a container port and parked up. Most tracker devices (in particular gps ones) do not work in containers. GPS is lovely but is only good whilst you get the signal. Thats why the radio triangulation method is currently still the most used.

If its not been found yet its most likely on the way out the country. As pointed out this is too small a community. Even if they cloned it you would only need one spotted and the 'true' owner of that plate would smell a rat.

But they will work all the way there, untill the container door goes `slam` giving the bib a search area of about 30 square metres.
Don`t follow you reason on a `spotted` I always thought the idea of a ringer was to put your reg no on the stolen car.
Needless to say we are all on high alert.