Near Theft of my S3

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Efbe

9,251 posts

165 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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f1ten said:
A garage or off site garage is not always an option but if i move out of London I will have to garage my cars. I don't like how common place this burglary attacks are taking place.
Security needs upping and car hidden out of sight is the best deterrent
Actually I think garaging may be worse.

Premiums around our neck of the woods are higher for garaged cars than driveway cars.

andrewparker

7,898 posts

186 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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I have two Golf Rs and insurance is as cheap as any car I’ve owned. Having a tracker fitted and garaged at night makes no difference to the premium, there’s no saving at all.

Gareth1974

3,408 posts

138 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Efbe said:
f1ten said:
A garage or off site garage is not always an option but if i move out of London I will have to garage my cars. I don't like how common place this burglary attacks are taking place.
Security needs upping and car hidden out of sight is the best deterrent
Actually I think garaging may be worse.

Premiums around our neck of the woods are higher for garaged cars than driveway cars.
That's because people damaged their cars whilst garaging them http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article...

andrewparker

7,898 posts

186 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Gareth1974 said:
That's because people damaged their cars whilst garaging them http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article...
Ah, now that makes sense! I know so many people who have scraped their car getting in and out of their garage.

rallycross

12,744 posts

236 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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andrewparker said:
I have two Golf Rs and insurance is as cheap as any car I’ve owned.
Good cars why 2 of them at once? Your house is the jackpot for these low life car thief scum!



andrewparker

7,898 posts

186 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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rallycross said:
Good cars why 2 of them at once? Your house is the jackpot for these low life car thief scum!
Wife drives one, I drive the other. Never had any interest in them at all.

sausage76

350 posts

122 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Guy at work had his S4 taken the other night.

Smashed window and it was away of his drive in less than 1 minute.

He had cameras and when they where checked five guys in one cars dropped on off and he stole it.

Schermerhorn

4,342 posts

188 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Throw petrol on would be theives and set the c*nts on fire from top of the window if they come around again.

Rayder9

4 posts

87 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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I had a simular experience when i bought my Mk 2 3.2 TT, I had it about 3 months when we herd some one trying the front door, I went down stairs to check but there was no one there, about 10 minuets later my wife herd a car stop outside our house, when she looked out the window she saw 4 guys in balaclavas making there way up our drive, we turned on the house lights and pressed our the panic button on our house alarm, which sent them scurrying away.
After that experience we had a 5” square telescopic anti ram bollard installed on our drive way, I always keep the key seperate from the car key, and have had no problem since and it feels very secure, I have since replaced the car with a Mk 3 TTS have added a Stoplock Pro Steering Wheel Lock which I use whenever park the car, and a OBD Interface lock from Amazon, and I make sure my front door is locked properly. just make it as hard as posable for the low life car thief's.

jamoor

14,506 posts

214 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Paintball gun

emicen

8,558 posts

217 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Gareth1974 said:
Efbe said:
f1ten said:
A garage or off site garage is not always an option but if i move out of London I will have to garage my cars. I don't like how common place this burglary attacks are taking place.
Security needs upping and car hidden out of sight is the best deterrent
Actually I think garaging may be worse.

Premiums around our neck of the woods are higher for garaged cars than driveway cars.
That's because people damaged their cars whilst garaging them http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article...
It's because the car being in a garage potentially allows the thieves time to work on it without being visible to onlookers. Same reason as parked up on your driveway carries a lower risk than it being in a lockup a distance from the house.

ToothbrushMan

1,770 posts

124 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Is there anybody here with 3 x Golf R's?

andrewparker

7,898 posts

186 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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ToothbrushMan said:
Is there anybody here with 3 x Golf R's?
Haha, in fairness it is a temporary arrangement, and thanks to LV allowing me to mirror no claims across two policies insuring them both has ended up being remarkably cheap.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

117 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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ToothbrushMan said:
Is there anybody here with 3 x Golf R's?
A mate of mine has 2 or 3 Rs (can't remember), an M2 and something else I believe.


SVS

3,824 posts

270 months

Kkrussell

20 posts

96 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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My half brother lived somewhere in Yorkshire with a defender it was stolen. They had a rural house with wooden gates and fencing around it and the thieves removed the fencing and towed the car off with rope through a neighbouring field and it was never seen again...
I spent a short amount of time in an unsavoury place last year and one of the lads I met claimed to regularly steal fiesta st's focus's and transits all through the obd machine at an average cost of £500 it would be taken to a garage at night and dismantled by the morning for the parts and the shell was crushed he claimed to have stolen dozens. The people stealing the cars tend not to be the ones who make good money from this it is the person who asks for the cars. Most cars are stolen to order and it's never opportunistic they don't want to take the car for a drive they are taking it from a to b for a cash payment. 5 cars in a week would be no less than £2500 that each week for a month would be £10,000 that's a lot of crack and cocaine...

WCZ

10,492 posts

193 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Kkrussell said:
My half brother lived somewhere in Yorkshire with a defender it was stolen. They had a rural house with wooden gates and fencing around it and the thieves removed the fencing and towed the car off with rope through a neighbouring field and it was never seen again...
I spent a short amount of time in an unsavoury place last year and one of the lads I met claimed to regularly steal fiesta st's focus's and transits all through the obd machine at an average cost of £500 it would be taken to a garage at night and dismantled by the morning for the parts and the shell was crushed he claimed to have stolen dozens. The people stealing the cars tend not to be the ones who make good money from this it is the person who asks for the cars. Most cars are stolen to order and it's never opportunistic they don't want to take the car for a drive they are taking it from a to b for a cash payment. 5 cars in a week would be no less than £2500 that each week for a month would be £10,000 that's a lot of crack and cocaine...
£500 seems pretty crappy really but I suppose when you factor in the chance of getting caught (near zero) and the sentence if you do (mostly nothing) then I can see why you'd steal 4x cars a month for a nice untaxed £2k a month wage
but i'm guessing it's £500 for the car? usually people don't steal them solo so does that money get split?

ST Ford

291 posts

81 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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I seen something in the paper about this a month or so back some guy who is now a reformed character apparently saying what he used to earn etc.
It's pretty shocking I'm sure he said it was £500 per 30k and under cars and £800-1k for anything worth over 30kish like Range rovers etc.
There really is no deterrent for thieves really you can see why most scumbags would risk 18 months in jail to earn say 3k per month when they would normally be working in McDonald's on minimum wage

HedgeyGedgey

1,281 posts

93 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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ST Ford said:
There really is no deterrent for thieves really you can see why most scumbags would risk 18 months in jail to earn say 3k per month when they would normally be working in McDonald's on minimum wage
Give the mcdonalds workers £10/hr theyre campaigning for. Problem solved, cars wont get stolen then lol

Limpet

6,293 posts

160 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Gap between haves and have-nots increasing, and police resources stretched to the point that getting caught is increasingly unlikely. This isn't rocket science.

I reckon more communities will be driven to hiring private security to protect their stuff as the police become more and more ineffective through budget cuts. I also believe the chronic under-funding we are seeing now, and the resulting damage to police effectiveness is deliberate, and is a route to privatisation by the back door.


Edited by Limpet on Thursday 21st September 17:54