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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Gulfstream11 on 01 August 2017, 08:51
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Only last week I read on a forum this happened in the UK. 22.15 last night while watching Peter Kay.
Before.
(http://i.imgur.com/FQh0dER.jpg)
After.
(http://i.imgur.com/sC0CdFz.jpg)
It looks like the front end is secured with 4 torx bolts.2 nrside and 2 offside then just clips. They only managed to undo the offside bolts before been disturbed by my neighbour,
bolt pics.
(http://i.imgur.com/KFzVtQc.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/tjEkDuI.jpg)
they then ripped it off leaving nearside fogs and headlight washer.
(http://i.imgur.com/P5QrKRJ.jpg)
other side.
(http://i.imgur.com/51fcWUL.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/int5zA9.jpg)
I Had my white one stolen,broke into house and took the keys and a forum member recently had is 66 plate stolen. So this is minor compared to that. Just a heads up to you guys. I have a garage full of crap. Not for long..
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Wow! :shocked: Thieving scum!
That's just mindless, pointless vandalism. Makes me really angry when I see this.
Someone must've desperately wanted a mk7 GTI Tormado Red front bumper!
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That's shocking :sad:
Scumbags. :angry:
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WOW! They completely savaged your car. They are absolute Scum for doing that to your car. Where do you live, your estate looks like a nice enough pleasant area in the photos. :shocked:
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Christ that's bad. I can't believe that happens so close to home as well. I have been leaving my car out last few days as I am away 1st in the morning but think it's going in the garage tonight.
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F*ckin scum.
Once upon a time not too long ago.... I had to go into A&E (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) in Birmingham and when I got out I got back to my car to find someone had stripped all of the bumpers, wing mirrors trim bits etc to my nearly new Astra SRI. I was furious but assumed I could find some evidence due to the fact it was parked in a new car park and must have had CCTV. After speaking to multiple people it turned out the cameras weren't working!
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WOW! They completely savaged your car. They are absolute Scum for doing that to your car. Where do you live, your estate looks like a nice enough pleasant area in the photos. :shocked:
Bessacarr Doncaster. Lot of high end cars stolen from my area. I popped home yesterday afternoon,parked on my driveway and a green vw transporter did an incredibly slow drive by as I was entering the front door. Really looking hard at the house. Figured he wa s looking for a house number to drop off stuff. I'm waiting on the police and insurance to get back in touch. I did'nt know it was so easy to remove the front bumper,maybe I,m wrong but 4 exposed torx bolts?????
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Happens loads to motorbikes.
Datatag is what you use to mark every piece of commonly removable components - fairings, tanks, wheels etc.
Wonder if anyone has ever done this for car parts.
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Wow, that is pretty shocking!
I wonder if it's possible to mod the bumper?
Normally you'd expect some hidden bolts under the headlights or similar.
4 exposed bolts only, that's pretty dodge!
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What the f**k is the world conning to when even the bumper isn't safe. It is not even like your house is tucked away in a corner and not overlooked by other houses.
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Jesus! Never seen that before although I've now seen a couple of mk7's made to look GTi ish
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WTF that's outrageous :angry:
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Never seen that before although I've now seen a couple of mk7's made to look GTi ish
I have walked past a Mk7 that looked identical to a GTD except for the single black tail pipe. Xenon lights, bumper, grill, 2 GTD wing badges, front and rear GTD badges, but 1 black tail pipe. I wanted to have a look at the seats and steering wheel, but there were 2 young men in the car.
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I had a friend who in his youth, knew some people in Nottingham who would strip parts from cars to slap on to their lesser models so they would be unique and customised. Even my friend was unsure about staying with us in Cornwall once as these associates were threatening to steal his car before he got back home. Well the story ends by them stealing his wheel arches instead, not the entire car. Some people will steal absolutely anything. :shocked:
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I can understand stealing a car, even parts from a rare classic but a bumper off a GTI? I know they're not that cheap but is it really worth getting caught for? Mind you I suppose it's hardly a hanging offence.
I do hope the OP gets this sorted quickly and the idiots that did it get their comeuppence very soon.
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I didn't think Tornado red was a red that any other VW Golf used? I suppose they could respray it to another colour, but...
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Thanks all.. Wheels in motion,or not. :wink:
(http://i.imgur.com/Vcjn6qm.jpg)
My first Jap.
(http://i.imgur.com/C6WVYla.jpg)
Had to jump in the golf while he was lifting it. Needed to recode the headlight washers to work.
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Glad it's at least being sorted. mine is going in the garage tonight for definite.
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WTF!!?? :angry: Glad you are getting it sorted though :smiley:
Strange there are so few bolts though :undecided:
My old A3 and the A6 has a 10mm bolt hidden behind the wheel arch liner along with several bolts on top of the grill
Surely VW haven't been cost cutting that much...... :undecided:
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Bizarre. What goes through these a$$hole's minds? The bumper is hardly a hugely desirable item on the "black" market is it?
A spate of this went on in my area a couple of years back. A mate had his wheels + rear LED lights taken - which is a bit more logical (for want of a better word) than the front bumper!
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Unfortunately this is a sign of the times, we had my GTD and the Mrs's MK3 Beetle go in January off the drive. Within two days the Beetle (well its shell !) was dumped in Birmingham minus everything except the rear wings, exhaust and chassis. Yep that's right they had stripped everything including engine, gearbox etc.
We found the wheels on eBay within 3 days (was 70's edition model so only 30 registered in the entire UK with those wheels) and could see in the images little kerb marks I knew and was wearing the same make of non-brand cheap tyres we had put on her a few months before (mrs is tight on tyres !). Anyway sent all info to police, do you know what they did about it ? Yep, nothing, not a thing ! They just don't have the resource to do any investigative work for things like this anymore ! Sad state of affairs.
Anyway, sorry to hear your woe's. As already suggested get a marker system (smart water etc.) and mark up them parts ! Already done my new cars on most externally removable parts.
Bets of luck !
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Should have told the police that someone had been nasty to you on twitter, that's their main area of concern these days...
Whilst tagging or smart water is good, it does need them to actually bother to check...
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What a weird and incredibly annoying theft. :angry:
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Had this done to me on a 3 series, stolen front M sport bumper.
It's facking sh!te and nothing the police can do about it.
It started off with them stealing the indicator lights (e36 - separate headlamp and indicators) replaced twice over the course of a month then a week later the front bumper had gone. Car was sold the week after.
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Well like most of you have mentioned,the police rang to say unless I know who has done it then there is no need for a visit and it is on file pending further evidence. I expected that to be honest,they did the same when my other GTI was stolen. Clearing my garage out this weekend for the cars return. New front light for the house and maybe a CCTV. One of the main reason for this post was a heads up to the members. Thanks. Gulf.
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Spot on gulfstream and if it makes you feel any better I put in cctv and an alarm the week after this happened to me. Well worth it as 3 weeks later the tw$ts came back to have another go at the new cars but we're obviously blind as got clear close ups of both of them. One is now spending 6 years at her majesty's pleasure ! IMO cctv and alarm are no brainier and not the expensive nowadays !
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Mate that is awful thing to happen, thieving a-holes, unbelievable!!.....hope you get sorted ok
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I've never seen a front end stolen like that, have heard of catalytic converters and apparently Mercedes Sprinter rear lights are common. Sorry it happened to you, but I suppose there's not a lot you can do - at least they didn't take the car.
We had an attempted break in at 01.30 Wednesday morning, they had a go at the double french doors at the back of the house, snapped the handle off and attacked the Euro lock with tools (this is the standard way of getting into houses now) and butchered it. Thankfully the doors have a cylinder guard as well as an anti snap cylinder so they didn't get in - I have the whole event on CCTV, they were there for 20 minutes. The Police have said they were definitely after the car keys.
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I've. Filled one of my front bumper torx head nuts with waterproof gorilla glue to see if it will make a thiefs life more difficult, it's hammering down with rain at the moment so waiting to do the other 3.
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I've. Filled one of my front bumper torx head nuts with waterproof gorilla glue to see if it will make a thiefs life more difficult, it's hammering down with rain at the moment so waiting to do the other 3.
Exactly my plan on return of the car. Though I was thinking of making them useless without been drilled.
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Almost the same thing happened to me with my new van, parked outside big macs and returned to the van, it had the front bumper torn off and they had cut out the power steering pump about 2.5k of damage to a three month old van and no cctv to catch them.
I hope its as good as new when you get it back.
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The same thing has been happening to Focus ST and Fiesta ST :cry:
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Is it people stealing these parts to make their 1.0 litre variant look like a performance model?
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Shame. :cry:
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Gutted for you I remember some sc@te stealing Nath's Ed30 votes splitter before Inters back in the day, this is a whole new level
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Is it people stealing these parts to make their 1.0 litre variant look like a performance model?
Either theirs or someone elses who they sell it too.
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This is exactly why every dash cam I have had has Parking Mode to catch these scrotes doing it.
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Was in traffic this evening and meet a tungsten sliver(I think) R with a diesel engine. Nearly everything was there, lights front and back, bumpers, exhaust and Prets. Not sure on the interior but the brakes and diesel noise gave it away.
I wonder where all those bits came from?
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Last weekend I saw a car with Golf R double U lights but a GTI badge :huh: It had no GTI wing or rear badges. It had a double exhaust like a GTI, but they were ovals. :rolleyes:
Last Friday I saw a GTD with Cadiz alloys and a GTI style exhaust. :laugh:
The best I say was a car that looked like a GTD in every way except for the single black exhaust pipe.
There certainly seems to be plenty of people modifying their cars to look like the GTI/GTD/R.
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Last weekend I saw a car with Golf R double U lights but a GTI badge :huh: It had no GTI wing or rear badges. It had a double exhaust like a GTI, but they were ovals. :rolleyes:
Last Friday I saw a GTD with Cadiz alloys and a GTI style exhaust. :laugh:
The best I say was a car that looked like a GTD in every way except for the single black exhaust pipe.
There certainly seems to be plenty of people modifying their cars to look like the GTI/GTD/R.
Yeah but where are they getting the parts?
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I read on another forum someone had the same done to their car as I had. Underground car park,returned no front bumper. I'm pretty positive he said the replacement was £1600.
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159973591225082&set=gm.1063403373799533&type=3
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I metal filled the 4 bolts holding it on and park nose to garage door. I'd put it in the garage but my house was built mid 60;s and does'nt fit. Weirdly I know the guy, has a regular order with me for A1 footrests.
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Absolute scum,
I live in Doncaster, the company I work for has a fleet of lease vans, last week four brand new corsa vans had bonnets front bumpers and headlights all stolen from our car park between 8pm and 11pm,wonder if this was the same crew that done your golf?
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Donny here too. It seems the parts trade is more lucrative then stealing the motors.
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Donny here too. It seems the parts trade is more lucrative then stealing the motors.
No keys to steal, no VIN's, no registration numbers, no ANPR and whats a front end of a car go for second hand?
Got to be at least a grand in selling all of those parts with little risk of them being traced as stolen.
10 minutes for a few guys to strip those bits if they have done it before a few times?
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Mentioned it earlier in this thread, only four bolts hold it on. Then carefully unclip as you go around the bumper. Quick and easy.