Hi,

Really sorry to hear your news. Did you have the car in a garage on was it on your driveway?


Neil

 

LL,

Really sorry to hear this mate, hope you get things sorted soon.

You might be able to get a discounted P1 now, I'm sure Rum* would be able to sort the insurance out for you.

I hope the gang responsible get a good f**** kicking.

rgds, Alex

 

It was on the drive.

Alex - couldnt afford to insure a P1 now !! would love one though..

 

Jase,

Sorry to hear about this real bunch sh1tes coming to your house. A little while ago a ring of car thieves was busted in Essex who specialised in this type of thing, perhaps they have been let out and gone back to their old ways

Seems there is nothing much you can do these days to protect your pride and joy, if they want it they WILL take it regardless of how they much grief they cause you.

Hope you get looked after properly by your insurers.

Yex

 

oopps double post Dohhhh

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Lord L, think I know how you feel.

At the end of the day a car is just a lump of metal. But for most people it is their second most substantial purchase and for enthusiasts it is much more than that.

Many years ago after endless months of searching (and saving) I bought my Sierra Cosworth. Had it four weeks when it was taken off the drive, totally devastated for weeks.

The insurance pays out, the NCB dissapears and you can't afford to run the replacement

I've now made my new year resolutions:

I will set the house alarm at night.
I will hide the keys, (spares already out of the way).
I will get an imitation set.
I will put the baseball bat back under the bed.....no smiley, I'm serious.

 

You can have all the security in the world but they can still get in as a dealership found out, they by-passed the alarm system, got passed to ram posts, got into the safe for the keys and took 100ks worth of car.
The best form of security is an angry dog like mine, he weighs 5 stone and does not like people coming with out an appointment !!!

Sorry about your loss Lord L I hope you get things sorted.

Darren.

 

Jase, sincere sympathies M8.

I think that it goes without saying that the ****ing ****ing miserable lowlife bags of ****e should one day become a cropper. Hopefully they will come across one of Robski's friends, perhaps he can fit that piece of scaffolding somewhere different...

It's been mentioned before, but it is an absolute crying shame that our society no longer respects anything of value or other people's property.......

What more can be said?

Jamie

 

Sorry to hear of your loss. Hope the cash gets sorted and your scoobied again real soon

Sunil

 

Sorry to hear about this ....

Hope that it gets resolved as quickly and as painlessly as possible

 

Sorry to hear about your loss. Glad you're alright though. Don't give up on the marque just yet!

 

This sort of thing makes me sooo mad.

Sorry to hear your story Mr Lucan.

If you get a good pay out why not buy a second hand Scoob and put a little money towards the higher premium. Second hand Scoobs very cheap at the moment.

Lee

 

Jase,

Sorry to hear what happened.

I know this won't get the car back, but talking to a policeman about stealing from houses, he suggested that house alarms make a significant difference. In our rural county, last year there were only a handful of breakins where house alarms have been installed. If the car keys are in a house where an alarm is installed, then chances are they will target another poor scooby owner down the road who doesn't have an alarm. I guess it also helps to alarm the garage too if that's where the car is.

Another possible way to stop the scum is to fit an anti-hijack device which will stop the car a suitable distance away from your home if you don't enter a valid PIN.

On the subject of how they targeted you, it's possible they got your home address through something like

 

Thanks guys, yes now I am thinking about a house alarm, if not definately some decent fake boxes for the house.

Jase

 

Jase,

I know it's a cash thing, but aren't fake alarms susceptible to the same result as your
tracker stickers? I know it's a grand's worth or more to get both, but the peace of mind they bring
is more than that. Although thieves have ways round everything, you've still got a better
chance of foiling them if they have to deal with the real thing, IMHO.
Nevertheless, really sorry to hear the news - i know i'd be bleedin' furious...

Terry

 

Get something like one the Response radio house alarm if you can't be bothered fitting all the wires etc of a "real" one - they work pretty well IMHO (as long as you change the batteries in the sensors every now and again - the wall box is re-charged by solar panals), very cheap, and dead easy to fit.

They don't reduce your home insurance premiums like a professional fit alarm, but they make just as much noise if someone trips a door or PIR sensor!

S

PS. I've got an Ice Axe under my bed ... will probably make more mess than a baseball bat

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It's a very sad story, it's becoming harder and hareder to continue down the road of owning such nice vehicles as we all know that they always attract the wrong sort of attention, bitter taste in ones mouth is my first thought.......there's now a lot to be said for running a "normal" car these days, I'm currently having a scooby that I recently purchased for £4k "done up" with roll cage , stripped interior and other mods just to use as a fast mean dont give a **** if someone scratches it car.........
All the best Mr L.

 

Deepest sympathies mate, hope they get the little fukcers real soon

Simon

 

Yeah, know that feeling all too well. I had a Cav GSI (not Koni equipped) 10 days before it was nicked from my drive. Got up Sunday morning, filled my bucket with washo only to find empty driveway and a few bits of plastic door handle.

He abandoned it after wrapping it round a lampost the same day. Apparently he had taken mine to go and pick his mates up (who were on bail for TDA) then trashed it.

The police caught the git, but only after he'd killed a friends daughter in a head on crash (another one he'd stolen later).

Think he got a year in the nick for it.

F

 

Sorry to read your story LordLucan.

It's this sort of incident that makes a mockery of the Government's current patronising adverts on car crime ("Crime, Lets Bring it Down" etc).

I would guess most, if not all, the folks on here have worked long and hard to get to the point where they are and afford a nice car (be it a Scooby or something else). Seeing one of the benefits of that hard work disappearing is heart breaking.

The Government should be spending our money permanently clearing our streets of these low life, not on naff adverts.

Sorry, I'll get off my soap box.

Chris.

 

According to my alarm installer, but then he would say this, the thieves know which alarm boxes are genuine & installed by professionals & which are the fakes/DIY jobs. The fake/DIY ones are sadly less of a deterrent.

 

Big regrets on the whole saga Mr Lucan. I hope it resolves itself to your liking. (Don't leave the scoob fraternity!)

If proper punishment was dished out to the thieving scumbags, people wouldn't have to spend 1,000's on security to protect their hard earned pride and joys.

 

I always hide my cossy keys in a different place to all my other keys.

bren

 

Just wanted to highlite my previous post which was made at a slightly anti-social hour. It might help someone going on holiday etc
Cheers

 

LordLucan

Very sorry to hear about this. I guess its a double shock to realise they were in your home as well as your car.

Hope it all turns out OK.

FYI to everyone else - you can also "super set" the alarm/immobiliser on the MY00 moels, so that, even with the fob, you also have to disarm it at the PIN keyboard.

But I think this is only suitable for "going away on hols" as it means the alarm goes off when you open the door. But it does at least mean that it can't be driven away, even if they have the fob.

Though I suspect the average scumbag would respond by trashing the car.....

 

Just read this thread quickly so hope I'm not repeating advise, but.....

<B>If you have a uk Scooby with sigma alarm, you can disable the signal from the key fob meaning the PIN has to be entered to overcome the alarm. To enable "super-lock" turn on the ignition, give the remote fob button a quick press, type 9 on the key pad and immediately turn off the ignition. This is one of the best features of the Sigma and plenty of people don't know about it. This will offer you a certain amount of protection against scumbags breaking and entering then knicking your keys.</B>

 

Nothing is safe... some scum broke into my 1984 Fiesta 1L GL (station car) last week on Tunbridge Wells Common. Just bent the window frame to get in. Did the Metro in front of me as to. Bust the ignition and windscreen wiper switch. £150 to get it fixed. Not the same as my scoob, but annoying all the same.

Clearly not joy riders as there is little joy involved in driving my Fiesta.

Dave

 

Jase,
Just read the article in the Courier. Did you actually say that you thought it was taken to south africa to be exchanged for drugs, or was that the 'artistic licence' of the Courier?

 

this whole lot sucks I am toying with the idea of buying an STi5/Evo 6 but because I don't have a garage the car would have to go on the drive. I am worried about my WRX as it is, even though it's got a *good* alarm, tracking device and steering lock.

All of this talk is making me wonder if the STi5/Evo 6 would be an invitation to the scum

I also sleep with my keys and a genuine detroit baseball bat and like to think that I would give as good as I get but the thought of a knife in the gut isn't very nice.

I live in a village, which was seen to be 'safe' but I think it is changing. A friend only two roads away had some scum try and nick his standard alloys from his 306 S16 and one of the little scum from the village decided it would be a good idea to try and nick another guys car...