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Car robbed in West Midlands
Adam0604:
Yeah he may well look into getting a tracker installed.
Looks like the theives ripped all the boot up trying to find one
Only damage to the car apparently, plus a kerbed alloy ... Which they managed to do in the space of 48 hours !
r5gtt:
--- Quote from: Callum45 on February 06, 2016, 05:41:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Adam0604 on February 06, 2016, 12:34:33 pm ---Thankfully the power of Facebook helped my mate find his car
Lad who had seen the post shared on facebook walked past the car abandoned outside a park about 5 miles away from where it was taken
Apparently they leave the car for 3-4 days, and if it's untouched/still there they know it hasn't been tracked.
Mate doesn't really want to keep it anymore though, in case it happens again
Will have knocked value off car now as well, as HPI check will show it as stolen and recovered.
--- End quote ---
A HPI check will come back clear mate.
Stolen recovered isn't stored on the database
--- End quote ---
What makes you say that Adam?.
LUCKO:
you are lucky to see that again must of been amateur night
me and my mate both had new mk7 r's 2nd March 2015 his got stolen after 25 days same thing as yours (keys from house in early hours)
this was in Willenhall 15 miles from Birmingham and vehicle has never been recovered
as its a lease car ths insurance coughed up and he ended up losing the £2400 deposit he paid
so thats £2400 for 25 days approx 375 miles and has to disclose a £25K+ claim on his insurance for 5 years
these cars attract the worse kind of thieves
Adam0604:
--- Quote from: r5gtt on February 06, 2016, 11:51:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Callum45 on February 06, 2016, 05:41:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Adam0604 on February 06, 2016, 12:34:33 pm ---Thankfully the power of Facebook helped my mate find his car
Lad who had seen the post shared on facebook walked past the car abandoned outside a park about 5 miles away from where it was taken
Apparently they leave the car for 3-4 days, and if it's untouched/still there they know it hasn't been tracked.
Mate doesn't really want to keep it anymore though, in case it happens again
Will have knocked value off car now as well, as HPI check will show it as stolen and recovered.
--- End quote ---
A HPI check will come back clear mate.
Stolen recovered isn't stored on the database
--- End quote ---
What makes you say that Adam?.
--- End quote ---
Just thought that was the way it worked tbh. If it would register as stolen a check, why wouldn't it register as stolen and retrieved.
Adam0604:
--- Quote from: LUCKO on February 07, 2016, 02:51:36 am ---
you are lucky to see that again must of been amateur night
me and my mate both had new mk7 r's 2nd March 2015 his got stolen after 25 days same thing as yours (keys from house in early hours)
this was in Willenhall 15 miles from Birmingham and vehicle has never been recovered
as its a lease car ths insurance coughed up and he ended up losing the £2400 deposit he paid
so thats £2400 for 25 days approx 375 miles and has to disclose a £25K+ claim on his insurance for 5 years
these cars attract the worse kind of thieves
--- End quote ---
No way :sad1:
I spoke to my mate this morning and he said he is getting rid of it after the ordeal.
Has n desire to keep it anymore.
Becoming more and more frequent in the surrounding areas to Bham now to see vehicles going missing.
My mates mk2 golf was nicked about 2 months ago. Again, heavily modified.
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