Thursday 19th January 2006

Stolen Recovered

270 grands worth of Rolls Royce Phantom Tracked Down

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A Scottish businessman helped TRACKER make history shortly before Christmas when the company swiftly recovered his stolen Rolls Royce Phantom.

At £270,000, the Rolls Royce is the most valuable vehicle ever recovered by TRACKER since its inception in 1993.

Phantom... gone in 60 seconds...

It is believed an organised gang of car thieves targeted the vehicle when it was parked outside the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, London. Fortunately for the owner, it was equipped with Horizon system which raises the alarm the moment a car is being illegally moved. The police then followed the signal to the missing Rolls Royce which had travelled less than seven miles.  The car was recovered undamaged.

 

[mk1fan]

Seven miles away through Central London. They must have had it most of the day then!

How exactly did the Businessman help Tracker? Other than paying them for a service, which they then provided.

[ubergreg]

mk1fan said:

Seven miles away through Central London. They must have had it most of the day then! How exactly did the Businessman help Tracker? Other than paying them for a service, which they then provided.

He lit a fire under their arse by saying "find my car or I'll buy your company and sack you all."

I presume.

[huge]

Police told a mate who'd had his car nicked that the scrotes just leave it parked for a day or two.If its still there then no tracker and bye-bye car.The whole system relies on
quick response.The article doesnt say how long it took to recover...the tracker companys interpretation of "swiftly recovered" may be different to yours and mine ?

[t0ny99]

mk1fan said:

How exactly did the Businessman help Tracker? Other than paying them for a service, which they then provided.

"...helped TRACKER make history..."

Most expensive car recovered, and all that.

[chickensoup]

Where do you discreetly park up something the size of a thames barge

[pdV6]

huge said:

The whole system relies on quick response.The article doesnt say how long it took to recover...the tracker companys interpretation of "swiftly recovered" may be different to yours and mine ?

article said:

Fortunately for the owner, it was equipped with Horizon system which raises the alarm the moment a car is being illegally moved.

Missed that bit, did we?

[vinceh]

Shame they found it before the Taste Police got it to the crusher.

[fwdracer]

vinceh said:

Shame they found it before the Taste Police got it to the crusher.

[polarbert]

the bastards still couldnt find £36k's worth of mercedes ML though could they? could they? COULD THEY!!!!!


im not a friend of tracker, could you tell?

[kkk]

How did they steal the Roller? - surely RR must have pretty unbreakable systems?

[dimsum]

Wow!!!!!

TRACKER got it back did they??

I thought it was the police..............

>> Edited by dimsum on Thursday 19th January 17:05

[TSS]

kkk said:

How did they steal the Roller? - surely RR must have pretty unbreakable systems?

Maybe they just lifted into a truck?

[dimsum]

And nobody outside the hotel thought that was a litte bit odd???

"Its alright mate... Tax expired last month, taking it to the crusher"...

>> Edited by dimsum on Thursday 19th January 17:05

[aeroresh]

What were the gang planning on doing with it?

Surely Phantoms are so rare they're not the kind of car you could ring or even export to another country without raising a few eyebrows!

[pentoman]

It seems that the thieves know that really expensive cars will have a tracker fitted, so as you say just they leave it parked up for a couple of days and come back to it if it's still there .

Maybe there should be more of a system where you can see where your car is using the tracker, then go and wait by it yourself for the thief to come back!

[xxplod]

Pentoman - there is. I-Mob have such functionality. I've just fitted one of their systems to my car. You can also immobilse the car remotely, even if the theif has the keys. Jolly clever.

[jas16]

lol, i'd like to meet the ppl who nicked the car in the first place.

maybe this was all planned to make 'Tracker' look good coz i cant believe that a RR could get nicked. Maybe the guy left the keys in the car...dumbass

[R988]

aeroresh said:

What were the gang planning on doing with it? Surely Phantoms are so rare they're not the kind of car you could ring or even export to another country without raising a few eyebrows!

Certain countries tend not to look too closely if a little grease is applied to the wheels of black commerce. Pretty much anywhere that isn't a first world country really, most of africa, east europe, south america, central asia, they wont ask too many questions in those places with a few $$$ in their hand, they aren't the sort to give it back without a gunfight either.

[cdp]

chickensoup said:

Where do you discreetly park up something the size of a thames barge

In the Thames.

Or the Dome, nobody's going anywhere near that.

[jambon]

Seven Miles! Must have run out of petrol!