Front end of car stolen.

[backwoodsman]

Sorry for the wail link, but it now seems that they are not content to just steal the headlights.

It must have taken over an hour to strip it this much, they must be really brazen.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426692/Co...

Edited by backwoodsman on Friday 20th September 17:19

[hornetrider]

Insane.

[callmedave]

Parts to repair for someone whos had a head on i suppose?!

That must of been at least an hours work.

[Negative Creep]

You sure they weren't just trying to change the sidelight bulb?

[Rupert Rigsby]

Cant help but think if you were going to that amount of effort you'd pick something better than a Corsa.

[backwoodsman]

Rupert Rigsby said:

Cant help but think if you were going to that amount of effort you'd pick something better than a Corsa.

As said above, probably stripped for parts by a back street garage repairing on the cheap.

[LeoZwalf]

Jesus I hate the Daily Mail!

Half the car? No.
To dismantle the car, they used "used spanners and other tools". No st sherlock. Anyway how would the reporter know? Was he/she there?

Knew I shouldn't have clicked that link. Piss is now boiling, nuking from orbit, and so on and so forth.

[Superhoop]

backwoodsman said:

As said above, probably stripped for parts by a back street garage repairing on the cheap.

The only thing I find odd, is that after going to all that effort, they didn't take the airbags too

Some dodgy body shop is going to get paid by an insurance company for the repair, and parts have probably cost them just enough for a couple of junkies to score

[orangesrule]

Surely it would have been less conspicuous to have just dragged the car onto a low loader and done one?

[aspirated]

Perhaps somebody who wanted to carry out a facelift conversion on their own Corsa? But most likely just someone who's had a head-on.

[backwoodsman]

Would insurance cover the cost?

Would this be a write off due to dealer prices for parts?

[trashbat]

This comment is wonderful:

Pedro said:

Why bother vandalizing the car. There are only 12 keys to all the Corsas, so you can drive it away with a set of blank keys from any key shop. My main surprize is that crysler still have done nothing about this problem after 40 years of producing the Corsa. My sister in laws car was "borrowed" so often she had to fit scurity locks to the doors and boot. Thieves drove it away some 35 times in 10 years.

[backwoodsman]

^^^^That has to be a troll.

[Crafty_]

Rupert Rigsby said:

Cant help but think if you were going to that amount of effort you'd pick something better than a Corsa.

Bit awkward trying to fit the front end of a jag to a corsa though.

One can only assume that the thieves were cruising around car parks, looking for a suitable victim ?

[Pistom]

Half a Corsa stolen. The value of the theft is thought to run into tens of pounds.

[mp3manager]

Daily Fail proof-reading hasn't improved.

[marshalla]

Ban spanners (and other tools) immediately!

[dowahdiddyman]

Think Halford`s boy has gone a bit ott just to change a headlight bulb.

[Mr_B]

Anything were the hot version of the car is just added on bumpers and bits of trim to a stock car , has always been a target like this. Nicking bit of the boggo bottom of the range is a new one though.

[Drive Blind]

look at the fence in the background, the poor corsa is parked down the far end of a secluded station car park i assume.

Park a Merc sprinter or other equivalent size van a few spaces up and you've got all day to strip it, hidden from view.

And typical DM accuracy, the locking wheel nuts and front wing are still intact.