Are electric cars being stolen?
Are electric cars being stolen?
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Huzzah

Original Poster:

28,973 posts

212 months

Yesterday (22:06)
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Plenty of car thefts, in the Midlands typically Landrover and German performance stuff. Are electric cars being stolen or just ICE?

M4cruiser

5,155 posts

179 months

Yesterday (22:12)
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Not worth trying, the police can just follow a lead.
wink

Mammasaid

5,557 posts

126 months

Yesterday (22:23)
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Not currently...getmecoat

Sebring440

3,204 posts

125 months

Yesterday (22:26)
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No more impedance from you lot!

DoctorX

8,225 posts

196 months

Yesterday (22:28)
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Sebring440 said:
No more impedance from you lot!
Watt?

ShortBeardy

1,022 posts

173 months

Yesterday (22:29)
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Given current policing I doubt anyone would get charged

bigandclever

14,354 posts

267 months

Yesterday (22:29)
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My mate had his ioniq 5 stolen by someone using the Gameboy key emulator thing. He had 4 airtags in it, found it in Tooting and stole it back but the damage they'd done ripping it apart looking for trackers meant Hyundai had it for 3 months fixing it. Hyundai then offered to sell him the software update that prevents it for (I think) 50 quid, cheeky bds.

bigandclever said:
found it in Tooting
Oh, erm, Sherlock Ohms. FML.

Edited by bigandclever on Monday 21st September 22:36

cliffords

4,308 posts

52 months

Yesterday (22:37)
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Not far from me there is a couple of roundabouts on a dual carriageway where Police are actively trying to stop stolen cars being raced , at the weekends.
It's a filmed event on social media with drivers in Face coverings and hoodies, you get the idea .
The police report in the local paper said it was predominantly EV's.

SteBrown91

3,126 posts

158 months

Yesterday (22:43)
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Mate of mine had his L494 RRS and Ioniq 5 nicked on the same night. He thinks they discovered they could get into the Hyundai by accident while trying to relay his RRS.

They spent 45 minutes trying to steal the Range Rover with a steering lock and eventually succeeded by driving down the road with the lock still on then cutting the wheel to get the lock off. The contents of the Range Rover (car seats, documents etc) were found dumped in a lay-by but the car was never seen again.

They did find the Hyundai about a few miles away with a completely flat battery, the interior trashed and the windscreen smashed from the inside. Assumed used to ferry the crims round for a few nights before it went dead.

Insurance wrote it off I believe in the end.

geeks

11,626 posts

168 months

Yesterday (23:08)
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cliffords said:
Not far from me there is a couple of roundabouts on a dual carriageway where Police are actively trying to stop stolen cars being raced , at the weekends.
It's a filmed event on social media with drivers in Face coverings and hoodies, you get the idea .
The police report in the local paper said it was predominantly EV's.
So they were resisting arrest?

Fireblade69

636 posts

232 months

Yesterday (23:20)
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Loving the puns smile

Garett

1,682 posts

221 months

Yesterday (23:26)
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Its just a phase

ShortBeardy

1,022 posts

173 months

Resistance is futile

DukeDickson

4,982 posts

242 months

Talk about amping up a problem.

Wacky Racer

41,302 posts

276 months

I'd imagine finding your car had been stolen would be a great shock.

quigonjay

1,855 posts

250 months

watt?

Geertsen

1,897 posts

88 months

quigonjay said:
watt?
We’ve had that one, I think we are going round in circuits now.

dxg

10,726 posts

289 months

Geertsen said:
quigonjay said:
watt?
We ve had that one, I think we are going round in circuits now.
You can rectify that by driving over the bridge.