Near Theft of my S3
Discussion
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.Security needs upping and car hidden out of sight is the best deterrent
Premiums around our neck of the woods are higher for garaged cars than driveway cars.
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.Security needs upping and car hidden out of sight is the best deterrent
Premiums around our neck of the woods are higher for garaged cars than driveway cars.
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. 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.
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.
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.Security needs upping and car hidden out of sight is the best deterrent
Premiums around our neck of the woods are higher for garaged cars than driveway cars.
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...
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...
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 wageI 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...
but i'm guessing it's £500 for the car? usually people don't steal them solo so does that money get split?
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
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
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 lolGap 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.
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
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