Should you be offered.....NB

[steve_cronin]

Should you be offered any of four doors, bonnet, bootlid (all Topaz Blue) for a BMW 3 series saloon or the dash, GPS, phone, SPS airbag & steering wheel audio controls or an automatic gearbox or the cylinder head or aircon pump or four leather seats (grey), then please let me know.

My neighbour had his stolen a couple of weeks ago (oh yes they took the Tracker main unit too!) and all the police called him to identify was the stripped shell - but the locking wheelnuts beat the thieves so his alloys were still there! It was only when the Tracker secondary unit chirped up a week and a half later that a police helicopter picked it up in Nottingham.

The thieves had broken into their house (whilst they slept)stole the keys and rolled the car quietly from the driveway. Apparently the gang also have a Hiab lift on a recovery vehicle so they are able to lift your car over a wall using wheel-slings

Having a similar car myself with only 2500mls on the clock, I now sleep (rather shallowly) with MY keys under my pillow!

Nessun Dorma in Ratae!

Steve Cronin



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[mirabriani]

Commiserations.
Thieves have moved on smashing locks. These days they need the keys of a car.
Others have found a market for other vehicles. My son had his digger stolen from a locked building site, (they even stole the fuel) It was then used to break through two fences and two hedges before driving a mile to a waiting low loader. Good business as it was worth £20,000.
A tip off resulted in the recovery of 17 items of this nature (but not ours)
Worth thinking about security if you have an expensive yacht.
Briani

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[steve_cronin]

Funny you should say that.....

On my last week in Kalamaki Marina Athens, my steering wheel was pinched and a very sorry one left in it's place.

Now we are at the much more laid-back Gouvia Marina and I get some strange looks from those who see me padlock the new (€850 plus €200for a new cover) replacement onto the boat when we leave her. Others leave all sorts of kit on display.

Steve Cronin



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[Peppermint]

Re: I sailed with an

ex special forces guy who generally could disable a traker in five minutes.

He was taught in the Army by a 17 year old kid.

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[longjohnsilver]

Ah, surely can't be so, crime is down by 25%, and that's official, Home Office minister Hazel Blear has told us so.

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[Cobra]

No problem Steve!

Commandant B.Liar has decreed that his 5 year plan will stop this sort of behaviour...no one will be able to afford BMW's!!

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[Sybarite]

Way back when I worked in Belfast (before the "Troubles") somebody used to overnight his new Jag in an entry beside our office.

He found one day that it was not running so well. On having it checked, he found a clapped out old Jag engine ....

John

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[steve_cronin]

BMWs are the cheapest cars I\'ve ever owned.....

having lost £20,000 on a Ford Scorpio Estate in 30 months eight years ago, I bought my first BMW. I COULD have exchanged that like for like 30 months later for £2750 but I incresed the spec. on the replacement vehicle. I cannot afford to own anything else even though the CA campaign to lower new car prices in this country caused me to loose a much larger amount on the last but one car due to it's precipitating a massive drop in secondhand prices! They meant well though.

Steve Cronin

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[TonyR]

They don't always get away with it, a couple of years ago we had a rib c/w 25hp Yamaha stolen from our front garden, the boat was on a trailer which was chained to a stake concreted into the ground, then my car was parked in front and also locked/alarmed.

They cut the chain, broke the car window (didn't hear the alarm) pushed the car forward and made off with the goods, we reported it to the police the next morning without much hope but were incredulous to get a call from them the same day saying it had been recovered, apparently the little tinkers had left the boat on the trailer in the middle of a field of maize presumabley to return later, however that very moring the farmer decided to cut the maize and found the boat, we collected it later that day, I would really loved to have seen the faces on the pond life that nicked it when they came back to an empty fieldHO HO HO

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