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mattant
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20th Sep 13 at 16:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426692/Commuter-returns-station-carpark-thieves-stolen-HALF-car-including-panels-radiator-headlights.html







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SVM 286
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20th Sep 13 at 16:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Because of scum.
Ben G
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20th Sep 13 at 16:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thats not half....

Anyway, it's far easier to hide a few parts than it is a whole car.

[Edited on 20-09-2013 by Ben G]
Nic Barnes
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20th Sep 13 at 16:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
They haven't taken the engine gilbert
Ben G
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20th Sep 13 at 16:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Apologies, meant front end. Trying to work and browse internet at the same time.
Haimsey
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20th Sep 13 at 16:50   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Sucks but then again, I'd never park my car somewhere that looks like that :-/

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Ben G
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20th Sep 13 at 16:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Looks like a normal car park to me, except it's dark and has leaves on the ground.

Where do you park? Buckingham palace?
Nath
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Leighton Buzzard. Nuff said.
3CorsaMeal
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20th Sep 13 at 17:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Seen the head light thefts. Bit crazy. People just cutting them out with a grinder.
AndyCorsaSport
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20th Sep 13 at 18:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Simple. To fix a damaged one.

Looks like a facelift one judging by the wheels. The front bumper alone is near £500 by the time you include all the grilles etc. plus headlights slam panel bonnet rads etc.

Taking £1k in parts easy.

Not saying it's right, but it's why it's been done.
AndyCorsaSport
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20th Sep 13 at 18:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
And it won't have taken a lot of time and effort. Half hour max.
Brett
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Similar to that time just the dash was stolen out of the 500 iirc
VegasPhil
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20th Sep 13 at 19:56   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Repair job that. Those parts would never get tracked down.

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20th Sep 13 at 19:59   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Although it happened in broad daylight. Between 0830-1630

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AndyCorsaSport
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20th Sep 13 at 20:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Mid day no one around. Van parked in front. No one would see.
AlexW
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I thought about the broad daylight, However I then thought about how often I take cars apart (to work on them, fitting stuff) in random places, without anybody batting an eyelid. A sign written van, or even just a fan full of tools and parts looks good enough.
Haimsey
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21st Sep 13 at 00:51   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
Looks like a normal car park to me, except it's dark and has leaves on the ground.

Where do you park? Buckingham palace?


No, I don't.

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M2RTY
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21st Sep 13 at 01:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Remember when tts had their fuel caps cut out with a grinder?
Bonney
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Happens all the time around here, Usually with Transit vans. My dads work has had a few done, whole front ends, doors even a full interior and dashboard, plus steering column!

Went past a Vauxhall dealer the other week with an Astra VXR with a missing front end on a forecourt!
MatthewR
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Its for the facelift bumper init, someones pinched to upgrade their own one or as mentioned quick sell on ebay minimum £500 for everything, 2 of them a week is good money for little work for some toerags
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More the likely to repaire a bumped car without expensive bill or going through insurance (if they had any)
DaveyLC
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Its like a more extreme version of when Laguna splitters were all the rage and every station car park was littered with Laguna's minus their splitter
Paul_JC
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Alot of the new caddy vans have been hit by front end thefts recently from what i've read/heard.

Like said it's a quick and relatively easy job.

 
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