My mates White 55 plate UK STi was stolen from his home in Tamworth, Staffs last night. It was standard apart from an aftermarket stereo, gloss black 18" Prodrive PFF's and a full black leather interior..

Probably long gone by now, but the leather interior being pretty unique may be offered to someone somewhere. Contact Tamworth Police on 0845 330 2010. Thanks

 

Just out of interest..taken with keys or without?

 

These topic of post are getting a bit too frequent for my liking!

sorry for your mate brynO, hopefully the insurance payout will sort him out a nice new motor!

Lee

 

Tracker!?

 

He's had a few incidents which seem to have been people checking out this and his last Impreza in the past, which he reported to the Police, clearly it was a planned theft and yep, they took the keys.

It has a Tracker but he's told that they can't Track it whilst the keys are in it :/

Like anyone else who has been in this sort of situation he's now questioning wether to bother with a nice motor again...

 

Thats rubbish about the Tracker - on 3 different false alarms on my Tracker they told me were I'd come from and where I was - you do wonder about our Police force sometimes........

Sorry to here this btw...

 

not sure the tracker has anything to do with the cops at all. Its the tracker company.

Original poster sorry to hear about your mates loss. hope he gets it back.

 

B@stards.

I've stuck this on SIDC as well, just in case anyone overthere knows anything.

 

I seriously suggest he gets back on to tracker. Someone is talking pish.

 

Bloody W@nkers!!!! Im not to far in Walsall, So I'll keep a eye out, as you dont see many white newage scoobs about!!

 

Sorry to hear of this m8, hope everything gets sorted for you .

Marty.

 

If it's a UK STi, surely it's fitted with RAC Trackstar?

Who has told him that you can't track it while the keys are in it?

You might want to get the reference number for the incident and put it on your first post. If someone does spot it and rings up they're going to have no idea about the details of the job and it'll take forever to search through 2 days worth of stuff.

Hope he gets the car back, will keep 'em peeled on the motorway

 

Sorry for your mates loss, but as the others have said thats a load a pish about the tracker Maybe trackstar might want to replace his car??
Cheers
Colin

 

Sorry for you mates loss, is it a Hawkeye?
I live in Aberdeen and saw a white MYO6 STI drive past my window last night it was heading in the BoD direction which is north wards of Aberdeen, not saying it was your mates but it was a white my06 STI. Will keep my eyes open for it agene.

bagpipes

 

Ok, just put my official hat on and spoken to a manager at Trackstar.

They can track it if it's been twocced with the keys, the only exception being if the unit has gone to sleep. Like I said, he needs to be asking some questions of Trackstar if that's the information he's been given.

If your mate wants to confirm this with said manager at Trackstar, PM me and I'll supply you with her details.

 

sorry to hear that i live 10 mins from tamworth so if i hear or see anything i ll post asap i have scoob to and my girlfriend said someone was looking over my wall on the same night not sure if they were looking for my car, i was at work with it but it scrared my girlfriend hope your mate gets it back
regards
daniel

 

Thanks guys, TDT, he spoke to Trackstar again this morning, as you say it has 'gone to sleep' and they can only track it when it is started/moved again.. as it is probably now in a container somewhere that seems unlikely...

Bagpipes, yep it was a hawkeye.

Daniel, may have been same, as I mentioned my mate has had a few cases of people taking an 'active interest' in his motors before..

 

i know what you mean i have had few people looking abit to closely for my liking i have a bad feeling someone is going to have a go at mine soon not to happy only had it 3 months almost considering selling cause my girlfriend uses it more than me don't want anyone having a go when shes got it or when shes home alone if i hear anything i will post asap

daniel

 

Thats horrible. I actually live in Tamworth, cant say i have seen a white sti about, hardly see any subarus here to be honest. Sorry to hear about that

 

WTF! Gone to sleep! Er, what does that mean? If you've got a tracker then you've paid good money for it to be tracked, yes?

TX.

 

The Trackstar system goes to sleep after about 3 hours (IIRC). It can't be fired up remotely as it is in effect switched off.

So, you have to wait for the car to move again before it can be tracked.

Just a though Bryn, might be worth getting your mate to check with Trackstar that the motion centre was activated properly (they forgot to do it on mine so when it was taken away on a truck I didn't hear a squeak from them).

 

Comisserations to the Poor owner

i would be utterly amazed if there is any Theiving Scumbags in the UK that doesn't know that tracker devices are fitted as STD to Scoobs bar from oppertunists

1) Steal the Keys
2) Find the "Tracker"
3) Sell the Car

All Tracking Devices recieve GPS for positioning but it's the Signal Output to the tracking Center the Crims want to stop

GSM (mobile phone based) are great very small and harder to find but outputs are the easiest to stop, with a mobile blocker, find the unit and in their own time and remove the Sim.

RF types harder to block but require a far far bigger Aerial and not much metal between it and the Sky so much easier to find aerial and not the unit and cut the Co-ax.

Either Signal Blocked, Sim removal or Cut Aerial would put the unit "To Sleep" permently.

IIRC


Tony

 

Strikes me someone needs to design a tracker that constantly transmits then as soon as it stops transmitting the centre should inform you that it is probably being imobilised though I can see some problems with this if you can't get to the car quickly enough to catch the b******s