STOLEN MK4 GOLF R32 - HOW!??!?!?
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My mk4 deep pearlescant blue 3dr golf R32 was advertised on ebay and pistonheads last week and one morning i woke up and the car was gone!!!
It was stolen between 1am-2am on Wednesday 16th March (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) from Carlisle in Cumbria. The car has been spotted numerous times heading south and was in Coventry at 5am!
It was parked on my drive, no sign of break in - it had just disappeared!!
Registration plate is FB53 ELH. Here is the link to the advert:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
First question is - how the hell do you steal a car without a key these days? I didnt even think it was possible!
If anyone has seen the vehicle please let me know ASAP.
I can't believe it - i am absolutely gobsmacked!!
It was stolen between 1am-2am on Wednesday 16th March (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) from Carlisle in Cumbria. The car has been spotted numerous times heading south and was in Coventry at 5am!
It was parked on my drive, no sign of break in - it had just disappeared!!
Registration plate is FB53 ELH. Here is the link to the advert:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
First question is - how the hell do you steal a car without a key these days? I didnt even think it was possible!
If anyone has seen the vehicle please let me know ASAP.
I can't believe it - i am absolutely gobsmacked!!
Well it is possible, I can bypass a few aftermarket immobilisers and alarms without damaging anything, Can't get in the car though, but the AA et. al can get in most cars pretty easily. But its the time they have done it in. Obviously Pro's as you wouldn't want to be on someone's drive for any longer than a few minutes.
Sorry to hear about it, I know the hassle from now will not be good for you.
Sorry to hear about it, I know the hassle from now will not be good for you.
Well
1) from your registration an undesirable can get your address.
2) Mk4 Golfs have "that" problem where you can deactivate teh alarm with a bit of brute force
3) Once alarm off, steering lock gets broken, car gets pushed somewhere away from your house. Then lifted onto a low loader and away.
Most probably to a waiting shipping container.
If they REALLY want any car you cannot stop them
EDITED TO ADD
AS Above, your address is in the advert!!!! Why did you think this was a good idea????
1) from your registration an undesirable can get your address.
2) Mk4 Golfs have "that" problem where you can deactivate teh alarm with a bit of brute force
3) Once alarm off, steering lock gets broken, car gets pushed somewhere away from your house. Then lifted onto a low loader and away.
Most probably to a waiting shipping container.
If they REALLY want any car you cannot stop them
EDITED TO ADD
AS Above, your address is in the advert!!!! Why did you think this was a good idea????
Edited by Rich_W on Monday 21st March 21:56
Sorry to hear of the theft, when caught fingers should be removed imo....but back to the point..i just looked at the ebay ad and at the bottom it has your name and address, ebay is full of thieves and scammers and its very poor of them to allow full details to be shown, also you have the registration showing...name, address and car reg, i'd guess they had a key.
My address was shown on bottom of advert because i am a business seller - i can not stop it showing.
To be honest i didnt think that would matter. Yes someone could come to my house but you can drive around aimlessly and come across lots of other nice cars at other peoples houses too - doesnt mean you can steal them any easier.
The car was not put onto a trailer, it has been spotted numerous times by cameras driving down the M6!
How on earth can they have a key? Apparently you have to "map" any newly cut key to the car itself?
To be honest i didnt think that would matter. Yes someone could come to my house but you can drive around aimlessly and come across lots of other nice cars at other peoples houses too - doesnt mean you can steal them any easier.
The car was not put onto a trailer, it has been spotted numerous times by cameras driving down the M6!
How on earth can they have a key? Apparently you have to "map" any newly cut key to the car itself?
MkIV platform cars are incredibly easy to break into, Crimewatch did a feature on it years ago and inadvertidly showed how to break in, my Mums mkIV was broken into twice in about 2 years of ownership (parked up in a nice area, haven't heard of any other car crime on our road before or since).
As for how they started it and drove away, I don't know, but I can't imagine its too difficult if you know what you're doing.
As for how they started it and drove away, I don't know, but I can't imagine its too difficult if you know what you're doing.
Which dealer/garage has the car been into recently then?
As a joke a while ago someone I work with coded another remote fob to another employees car. Went outside turned his car around 180degrees. Moved all the seats about. Changed the radio etc He was none the wiser until he went to the car 8 hours later. It's not hard at all to do.
As a joke a while ago someone I work with coded another remote fob to another employees car. Went outside turned his car around 180degrees. Moved all the seats about. Changed the radio etc He was none the wiser until he went to the car 8 hours later. It's not hard at all to do.
Years ago, a friend advertised his BMW on ebay - (not ebays fault) Someone test drove it and later the same night it was stolen. The thief, the guy who test-drove it, asked to see all the paperwork and spare key. He stole the spare key and cleverly replaced it with another key. My friend didn't notice the swap, why would he ! It only came to light when the car was found by the Police and the second key was noticed to be a different.
Sounds to me like a gang of "professional" car thief's have been searching eBay for high value fast cars. They've seen your address and headed up from the midlands to collect it.
The fact that they've managed to bypass the immobiliser/alarm and drive off without alerting anyone suggests they know what they are doing. Being so close to the M6 made it very attractive unfortunately.
I hope you get it back mate, it's a nice car.
The fact that they've managed to bypass the immobiliser/alarm and drive off without alerting anyone suggests they know what they are doing. Being so close to the M6 made it very attractive unfortunately.
I hope you get it back mate, it's a nice car.
Jo Po said:
I know of THREE R32's stolen in Glasgow since the start of February.
"R32s seem to be flavour of the month for car thieves"http://www.adrianflux.co.uk/news/story/279/
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