Would you belieeeeeve it!

[Becky]

Took the starter motor off yesterday and placed it in a trolley to transport back to the car. It is reconditioned, 2 months old and unpainted. A small leak from the watercooling on the engine has caused it to rust somewhat, so we planned to clean it up and paint it with the appropriate paint. But someone nicked our trolley from beside Cornish Maid with the starter in it!

We only left it for a short while, while we were packing up, and there was no shortage of trolleys at the time. Lost our £1 coin as well.

So, that is about £200 down the drain.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! What I would do to the perpetrator isn't printable!!
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[Sgeir]

Nice neighbours!

 

[phatcat1]

Is there no CCTV where you are, if so get the tapes quick, before they get wiped!

 

[StugeronSteve]

Have you checked the skip? Could well have gone in there.

 

[PIGLETSDREAM]

I am sorry to hear that, think you should name the marina, harbour or location.

To give you faith in humanity, I managed to leave our cool box for the whole weekend by the back wheel of the car, still there on Sunday evening when we returned, you might say lax security, lucky [--word removed--] or something else, to be honest I was gobsmacked. I don't think I shall try it again!!

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Keep an eye on the online For Sale boards, etc, too.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

 

[cliff]

BigNick is selling one for a moody37, reconditioned 2 months ago - unpainted so a bit rusty - see the forsale forum - £200 - would not wait too long though.
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"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"

 

[Becky]

Thank you everyone for your commiserations.

However, I telephone ASAP this morning and was quoted £214 + £95 surcharge for not having one to send back for reconditioning. But I also called Thornycroft who made our engine, and they have charged me £148 + vat; of course I ordered from them.

We both checked the bins, and the trolleys and reported it to Haslar staff, who although being very sorry to hear of the theft, admitted that there was little they could do. Ben (the manager) did immediately go and check some of the bins himself.

It was awful in that we were peering into all the 'in-use' trolleys to see if any contained the bag with our motor in it, so several Haslar customers might have wondered what two apparently nosy people were doing staring at their luggage!

C'est la vie, or as we say in England sh*t happens!