M5 stolen from Shropshire.

[alsaautomotive]

Hi guys - please could you all be aware that a good friends M5 was stolen yesterday during house robbery.
Details are..............E60 M5 Silverstone Blue with option 5 spoke wheels black leather and factory DVD in headrests

Reg FH57KZC

Location Albrighton Near RAF Cosford Between 11:45 AM and 5:30 PM Monday 10 January.
Any info etc etc please either call your local BiB or contact us via the website link on our profile.

Many thanks all, Al & Sarah.

[ecain63]

The M5 seems to be the thieves choice at the mo. We are seeing too many of these threads on the forums. My keys stay with me at all times.

[DennisCooper]

Hiya

Sorry to hear about the house robbery and resulting theft of the car.

No tracking device fitted to the car?

Cheers, Dennis

[groucho]

Not another? Why don't they get a job like evrybody else and then buy one?

[WARDCLEAN]

same as you my vectra vxr was stolen when keys taken from home(august) insurance paid out car was found and is now for sale on autotrader as hpi clear i asked hpi why my car (still call it my car i loved her)was not on the register they told me they are not obliged to tell the public when a car is stolen/recovered, will tell everyone who check a reg everything about that car. YR09JVC BLACK VECTRA VXR BE VERY CAREFULL SHE COVERED 5K MILES IN 10 WEEKS, HOPE YOU GET YOUR CAR BACK

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Edited by Big Al. on Friday 14th January 09:07

[BDR529]

Will keep an eye out for it!

[alsaautomotive]

Cheers for the comments, support & heads up guys.
Thankfully the car was recovered yesterday from a council lockup in Birmingham.
Some damage - trying to find the tracker apparently! But with SOCO at the moment.

Thanks again all, much appreciated, ATB, Al.

[Roop]

alsaautomotive said:

Cheers for the comments, support & heads up guys.
Thankfully the car was recovered yesterday from a council lockup in Birmingham.
Some damage - trying to find the tracker apparently! But with SOCO at the moment.

Thanks again all, much appreciated, ATB, Al.

Glad to hear it. How did they find it...? Tracker...? Either way. Good news.

[groucho]

Well done!

[alsaautomotive]

Roop said:

alsaautomotive said:

Cheers for the comments, support & heads up guys.
Thankfully the car was recovered yesterday from a council lockup in Birmingham.
Some damage - trying to find the tracker apparently! But with SOCO at the moment.

Thanks again all, much appreciated, ATB, Al.

Glad to hear it. How did they find it...? Tracker...? Either way. Good news.

Vigilant neighbour in the vicinity of the garage apparently!
Cheers, Al.

[groucho]

If they damaged it trying to find the tracker, I can only assume they didn't. How come it wasn't found via the tracker? Surely a simple thing like being inside wouldn't negate the tracker, would it?

[Skrambles]

groucho said:

If they damaged it trying to find the tracker, I can only assume they didn't. How come it wasn't found via the tracker? Surely a simple thing like being inside wouldn't negate the tracker, would it?

Some trackers work on GPS.

[ecain63]

They all work on VHF transmissions, but the monitor type versions also have gps. GPS is useless if the car gets put into covered storage. VHF is useless if (and most do) the thieves have a vhf jammer. They are dirt cheap on the net and are the car thieves best friend. I do wonder why insurance companies rate the tracker so highly when its so easily beaten. I'd rather have a 'remote kill' system fitted which renders the car inoperable once sent by an agent like trackstar or tracker. This should make the car easy to find, especially if it sounds the car alarm and flashes the hazards.

Does this system exist already?

[groucho]

I like the sound of that.

[NickXX]

ecain63 said:

I do wonder why insurance companies rate the tracker so highly when its so easily beaten.

Tracker are owned by RBS. Directline and Churchill are owned by RBS too...

[alsaautomotive]

Cheers for the above info on Tracker........makes VERY interesting reading & explains a lot of why there was seemingly a considerable confusion from the BiB!
Have seen some pics of the car recovered, (now back with it's owner) & although the body damage isn't horrific, the amount of wanton damage to the interior & inside the boot is grim.
It is still unclear whether the car was stolen for further criminal use or 'to order', my feeling - given the lack of major damage externally - is that it would have ended up being shipped abroad.
BiB have prints & a blood sample...............so here's hoping they get the scum

But as one comment above says.........keep your keys with you at all times.
Cheers again all, really appreciate the feedback & info, Al.

[thegreatdogwood]

I had one of the early Cavalier GSI's used to homolgate for the British Touring Car Championship back in the early 90's. First time it was stolen for a ram raid, they kindly stabbed holes in every seat before throwing all my posessions in a lake. Some people are just scum and I will happily continue to pay high taxes if it means that they can be locked up rather than given namby panby community service!