potential address of your car
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This is a little off topic but I thought I would post this ‘potential address of your car’. I was watching a program the other night and it was on top 10 car crimes or something like that, one was on using a gardening kane and piece of wire and hooking car keys out of the letterbox.
There is however, a potential problem to some of us that post on this site could be giving our addresses away and not knowing it. We all love our TVR’s and want to protect them, and the hi tech thief will have your car at any cost etc so read on…
Anyone seen ‘The fast and the furious’; guy hacks into the mainframe and gets addresses of cars. I noticed that when I registered on this site you can enter your details and I for one entered mine.
Now here is my point.
If you have an unusual surname and you give your town away where you live, it is very easy for someone to look up your name on the electoral roll and get your address on the Internet. www.192.com allows you to search for people and also maps your address to directory enquires. So not only are you potentially giving your address away, you can give your telephone number away so they can phone to see if you are in!
Petrol Ted, delete this message if you think it is out of place, and I apologise, but I for one will be deleting my surname from this forum.
Keep you car safe, and enjoy it.
There is however, a potential problem to some of us that post on this site could be giving our addresses away and not knowing it. We all love our TVR’s and want to protect them, and the hi tech thief will have your car at any cost etc so read on…
Anyone seen ‘The fast and the furious’; guy hacks into the mainframe and gets addresses of cars. I noticed that when I registered on this site you can enter your details and I for one entered mine.
Now here is my point.
If you have an unusual surname and you give your town away where you live, it is very easy for someone to look up your name on the electoral roll and get your address on the Internet. www.192.com allows you to search for people and also maps your address to directory enquires. So not only are you potentially giving your address away, you can give your telephone number away so they can phone to see if you are in!
Petrol Ted, delete this message if you think it is out of place, and I apologise, but I for one will be deleting my surname from this forum.
Keep you car safe, and enjoy it.
d's that are out there. 
Well mine is safe as I can make it. Someone could come to a meeting posing as a potential buyer etc and find out where you live that way. Or follow you home. TVR's are not hard to spot. You could have a devious git at the DVLA giving out info.
Graham, where is your safe and whats the make/code?
Graham, where is your safe and whats the make/code?
If you have an unusual surname and you give your town away where you live, it is very easy for someone to look up your name on the electoral roll and get your address on the Internet. www.192.com allows you to search for people and also maps your address to directory enquires. So not only are you potentially giving your address away, you can give your telephone number away so they can phone to see if you are in!
Ha ha ha, they would never get mine. After beeing hit in the Oughs by some stupid cows and bitten by numerous dogs they would probably reach the hut in vain before beeing shot by the farmer who protects my TVR wreck. Try it once, your relatives will never forget... try to crack Fort Knox, he, he...
'Or follow you home'
Very true. Some people three doors away on this quiet peaceful estate had their Shogun stolen - they reckon they were followed home, then the thieves came back and broke into their garage to steal it. The scary thing is that it's a split-level house so the integral double-garage is actually under the living room!
Gotta go and feed the dobermanns...
Very true. Some people three doors away on this quiet peaceful estate had their Shogun stolen - they reckon they were followed home, then the thieves came back and broke into their garage to steal it. The scary thing is that it's a split-level house so the integral double-garage is actually under the living room!
Gotta go and feed the dobermanns...
simpo one said: 'Or follow you home'
Very true. Some people three doors away on this quiet peaceful estate had their Shogun stolen - they reckon they were followed home, then the thieves came back and broke into their garage to steal it. The scary thing is that it's a split-level house so the integral double-garage is actually under the living room!
Gotta go and feed the dobermanns...
NNNOOOOOO Dont feed them, keep them Hungry for there them thieving scrots
BB
Without being too specific... It is very easy to disable the car so that any thief could not drive it.. even if they had the keys. Any good mechanic would be able to quickly figure out what I had done, but then they would have to find the missing part somewhere amidst the rubble in my garage.
and all that if they managed to get past my wife's man eating shitzu.....
and all that if they managed to get past my wife's man eating shitzu.....
A few years ago, a friends neighbour was followed home in his fancy Golf by some aliens in another Golf. "Funny" he thought and drove onto another driveway rather than his own. 2 days later the garage of the house where he had driven to was broken into. Could be coincidence or as they say "there are forces out there that we know nothing about".
ps who needs neighbours like that though, invites the scrotes to rob your house!
ps who needs neighbours like that though, invites the scrotes to rob your house!
Well, I'm called A Smith.
Wanna www.192.com that? You could be there for a while
Besides, who says you keep your car where you live? I don't.
And if they get past the swipe card access to the garage where it is, they'll need to find and disable the tracker.
*phew*
I think there are easier targets
Wanna www.192.com that? You could be there for a while
Besides, who says you keep your car where you live? I don't.
And if they get past the swipe card access to the garage where it is, they'll need to find and disable the tracker.
*phew*
I think there are easier targets
Had my Chimp nicked afe years back. Used to go to the same gym most nights of the week between 7-8pm. Came out one night, chimp was gone. CCTV footage revealed a tow truck jacking it onto the back of the lorry (even caught about 5 people walking right past not paying any attention). Plates on the lorry were unreadable.
Informed Tracker, car was never found. Police reckon it was taken to an underground car park, tracker found, then shipped out the country the same day.
Mate just had his 2001 WRX STi nicked (serves him right, I know :-). He was selling the car, guy came to view it in broad daylight, sat in the drivers seat whilst car was on the drive, and then just drove off in it!!!! Insurance won't cover him either as he "gave hime permission to be in control of the car"
If some bas***d wants your car, they'll get it one way or another, leaving us poor sods to lose out on the insurance too!
Informed Tracker, car was never found. Police reckon it was taken to an underground car park, tracker found, then shipped out the country the same day.
Mate just had his 2001 WRX STi nicked (serves him right, I know :-). He was selling the car, guy came to view it in broad daylight, sat in the drivers seat whilst car was on the drive, and then just drove off in it!!!! Insurance won't cover him either as he "gave hime permission to be in control of the car"
If some bas***d wants your car, they'll get it one way or another, leaving us poor sods to lose out on the insurance too!
Friend of mine had several of his cars stolen from his garage... even lost one with a tracker on it!
Then he installed a thing called "dis-car-nect"... it screws onto the battery terminal, and allows enough power to feed the alarm... but not enough to turn over the engine... you need the widget to do that.
They've tried to nick it one, but couldn't take it, so left it... no damage either.
He's gone for the tidier option of a battery cut-off switch now though...
Then he installed a thing called "dis-car-nect"... it screws onto the battery terminal, and allows enough power to feed the alarm... but not enough to turn over the engine... you need the widget to do that.
They've tried to nick it one, but couldn't take it, so left it... no damage either.
He's gone for the tidier option of a battery cut-off switch now though...
Fourwheeldrift said: I had a great alarm system on my Cerbera, if it was started at night all the lights went on in the street and lots of people started shouting. Excellent.
Reminds me of a friend who's very tight with his money. When his bedside clock broke he didn't go to Comet or Argos to get a new one he took to keeping his brass trumpet beside the bed. Now if he wakes in the night and wonders what the time is, he blows the trumpet out of the window and this is quickly followed by a shout from one of his neighbours "Who the fcuk's blowing that effing trumpet at 4:30 in the morning"
:boom boom:
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