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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: jpo on 12 February 2016, 17:00
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My beautiful, night blue gti was stolen in the middle of the night. They put the back door in and stole the keys, along with the wife's bag and purse. 2000 miles on the clock and absolutely loved that car.
Insurance have said they will swap like for like and have asked for a Carbon Grey one. I took out the alloy protection, minor scratch cover and service plan and vw were utter pains in letting me transfer it across to the new car.
Got in on PCP
Gutted. Just gutted
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Awful news mate but on a plus side nobody was hurt and the cars getting replaced.
Where abouts roughly are you based to give others the heads up.
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Saddleworth near oldham. Nothing i can say just gutted.
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Would be exactly the same buddy.....
You considering any added security features on the new one?
How come the colour change?
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Not sure mate .Don't have a courtesy car as part of insurance which is utterly stupid of me. Just always liked carbon grey.
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Gutted for you mate. I've had security lights fitted and am installing cctv very shortly in readiness for my GTI arriving.
I'm also going to buy a new disklok.
None of it should be necessary but the worlds full of scumbags unfortunately.
Hope u new car arrives quickly and hangs around a lot longer.
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Sorry to hear this bud. Same happened to me 4 weeks ago today - GTD taken.
I've added a bunch of new security at the house - but still don't feel I've the balls to get another decent car....
Good news your replacement is on the way - I've a 6 week wait till it gets written off and I can choose what to do about replacing it.
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So sorry to hear of the theft of your GTI. Hope you and family are ok.
Hope the replacement gets sorted quickly and as painlessly as possible. Carbon Grey is beautiful and I think it's a good idea to start afresh with a different colour.
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I don't blame you for getting a different colour, I would too, seeing an identical car everyday would wind me up. The new one is less likely to be reminding you every time you see it.
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I too would be destroyed such sad news. Chin up nobody got hurt, fingers crossed the new one lasts longer. There have been a few burglaries near my parents house and now they are paranoid and it wasn't even their house.(not taking cars but Jewellery).
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Gutted for you. Total scumbags.
Happened to me 9 months ago. My new car now has tracker, disklok and is garaged every night.
Hope everyone is ok.
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Thanks guys. Always had a really cheap car and for the first time thought I'd treat myself :sad: Barely driven it but loved it. Everyone okay but shaken-stole the wife's bag and purse but nothing else. My golf clubs were in there too. Can't believe how much there is to organise. My thought process about colour was like people said-would always look at it if I got the same colour and think what had happened. No garage so not an option, but will look at a tracker. Top place this.
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My tracker was done by CJ Auto Electrical. £270 fitted. They're not too far from you and fit it at your house.
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Gutted for you mate, too much of this happening these days!!
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Sorry to hear. These pigs need to find your keys to steal the car. Best thing to do is put the keys in a safe in the house or take them with you everywhere.
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Sorry to hear. These pigs need to find your keys to steal the car. Best thing to do is put the keys in a safe in the house or take them with you everywhere.
That is when they come into your bedroom looking for the keys. I will stand up to anyone but not for the sake of a dam car. Myself and my family are worth a lot more than any car.
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Sorry to hear. These pigs need to find your keys to steal the car. Best thing to do is put the keys in a safe in the house or take them with you everywhere.
That is when they come into your bedroom looking for the keys. I will stand up to anyone but not for the sake of a dam car. Myself and my family are worth a lot more than any car.
agree with you there leave the key in view and let them take it :smiley: car can be replaced
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Sorry to hear. These pigs need to find your keys to steal the car. Best thing to do is put the keys in a safe in the house or take them with you everywhere.
That is when they come into your bedroom looking for the keys. I will stand up to anyone but not for the sake of a dam car. Myself and my family are worth a lot more than any car.
agree with you there leave the key in view and let them take it :smiley: car can be replaced
Yeah, that is what GAP insurance is for.
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Installed a 4 camera CCTV system at the weekend ( for all the good it will do ) :undecided:
I think good security lighting is still the best deterrent and I'm defo going to buy a new Disklok.
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I would think a securely locked garage with the car out of sight is the best deterrent.
Doesn't security lighting coming on all the time just highlight where the car is kept?
After a while people tend to ignore security lights and alarms going off.
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Yes but it's not an option for most people.
Thieves love the dark, everyone knows that surely.
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I am no expert on what thieves like, personally I am not convinced with security lights as after a while people just ignore them. You can't go out to investigate everytime they light up, particularly if there are local cats.
If thieves love the dark, how do they see?
I would think they need light, if things are suddenly lit up, even by torch light, that change from the norm can be noticed and may attract attention.
I don't know the answer, but if serious thieves want a car, I guess they will take it.
The disclock and other anti theft devices makes more sense to me as that has to take time to tackle, so may discourage the opportunist.
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I am no expert on what thieves like, personally I am not convinced with security lights as after a while people just ignore them. You can't go out to investigate everytime they light up, particularly if there are local cats.
If thieves love the dark, how do they see?
I would think they need light, if things are suddenly lit up, even by torch light, that change from the norm can be noticed and may attract attention.
I don't know the answer, but if serious thieves want a car, I guess they will take it.
The disclock and other anti theft devices makes more sense to me as that has to take time to tackle, so may discourage the opportunist.
The whole idea of security light is so that when you look outside at night, you can see.
Serious thieves will probably not be put of by a light suddenly coming on but if I hear a noise and look out of the window. at least I can see them and hopefully that might make them think twice about stealing my car.
If you have the luxury of a garage then that's great, the thief will give you a crack as you pull into it :smiley:
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After these postings, let's hope we are both lucky with the safety of our cars! :)
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After these postings, let's hope we are both lucky with the safety of our cars! :)
Agreed. Hopefully we're just worrying ourselves unduly.
I never gave security a moments thought with my A3, I was more worried about getting my van nicked as that has happened on a few occasions.
It's the fact it's a Golf GTI, they are desirable :sad:
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Keep a pitbull terrier in the car overnight. Then you can leave it unlocked. :evil:
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Keep a pitbull terrier in the car overnight. Then you can leave it unlocked. :evil:
Have you ever tried tried getting pit bull sh!t out of jacara tartan seats 😀
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Keep a pitbull terrier in the car overnight. Then you can leave it unlocked. :evil:
Have you ever tried tried getting pit bull sh!t out of jacara tartan seats 😀
that's if he has not eaten the seats :grin: :grin: and a steak will bribe any mutt
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I would think a securely locked garage with the car out of sight is the best deterrent.
Doesn't security lighting coming on all the time just highlight where the car is kept?
After a while people tend to ignore security lights and alarms going off.
I'm of the age to remember that parking in a garage was probably the worst place to park.
It gave the thieves all night to work away undisturbed while they tried to break the steering lock and hot wire the car.
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Sorry for your loss jpo, not sure if I've just had a near miss. I heard my front door alarm go and wondered at 10pm which of the family was going out so called out. No one answered so I called again and my son came to see what I was calling out for and looked out the window to see a stranger in a hoodie running away from the front door....normally car keys are on a table by the door, I got my gti a week ago and luckily had started putting keys elsewhere. Coincidence ...new car ...house entry...pricing up a tracker system!
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I would think a securely locked garage with the car out of sight is the best deterrent.
Doesn't security lighting coming on all the time just highlight where the car is kept?
After a while people tend to ignore security lights and alarms going off.
I'm of the age to remember that parking in a garage was probably the worst place to park.
It gave the thieves all night to work away undisturbed while they tried to break the steering lock and hot wire the car.
Not if the garage is properly alarmed up in the first place.
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Having your garage alarmed won't stop them breaking into your house in the middle of the night looking for your keys.
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No but if the house or garage alarm go off you may find it deters them significantly from looking any further for the keys. An alarm in the middle of the night would deter most thieves especially if the house is occupied.
If they want it they will get it - that's the basic rule to work to and why we have theft insurance.
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This is all getting a bit pointless now!? :)
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This is all getting a bit pointless now!? :)
Me thinks you're right :laugh:
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No but if the house or garage alarm go off you may find it deters them significantly from looking any further for the keys. An alarm in the middle of the night would deter most thieves especially if the house is occupied.
If they want it they will get it - that's the basic rule to work to and why we have theft insurance.
Totally agree
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I'll need to read my alarm instructions to figure out how to set my alarm when I'm in bed. Zone 1 or whatever it's called.
I've never felt the need before but I may have to change my outlook.
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Someone I used to work with had his house broken into twice, the first time his Sierra sapphire cosworth was stolen (probably stripped) but he replaced it with another and started keeping the car keys in the fridge, the second time they didn't steal anything.
This was about 1995-97 ish apparently.