Another Stolen Mk7 GTD Pure white Cheshire

[Booth11]

What a bunch of thingys!! Hope they find it, but like you say, it'll be stashed away, then moved/use in a crime..it's a sad world we live in, they say hide your keys...but then you get woken with a gun in your face demanding keys!! You leave them on show so you don't have the gun in your face, they smash the window to get them...what are you to do??

We leave ours on show in the kitchen rather they find then than come upstairs looking for them.

Same here, rather a smashed window/door than a gun in your face.  Let them take the car and get the hell out, otherwise I fear my bloke might be tempted to confront them with a pick axe handle and that would not end well.  It's only a car and replaceable.

[Anygreg]

I think the tide has turned with this type of car theft, taking the keys, overcomes all immobilisers alarms etc.. To the point they may as well not have them on in the first place.

In this technologically advanced time we live, with radar collision detection, touch screen , MP3, abs, xds diffs blah blah...why the hell ain't these cars coming with built in GPS trackers? Just simply add your own SIM card?

A quick google revealed a system on Amazon for £20 that connects to the battery and pings you texts with gps co ordinates... £20 odd quid!

Wish I'd know before I'd of stuck one on for that... Yes take my car with the keys, but the cops may find you in soon when I activate the tracker 10 seconds after you leave my drive way! Already ordered one for my dads new 5 series!

[hardmonkeys]

Thinking of doing this myself, my Audi isn't anything special...but it's an Audi...they seem to like them.

[mcmaddy]

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I think the tide has turned with this type of car theft, taking the keys, overcomes all immobilisers alarms etc.. To the point they may as well not have them on in the first place.

In this technologically advanced time we live, with radar collision detection, touch screen , MP3, abs, xds diffs blah blah...why the hell ain't these cars coming with built in GPS trackers? Just simply add your own SIM card?

A quick google revealed a system on Amazon for £20 that connects to the battery and pings you texts with gps co ordinates... £20 odd quid!

Wish I'd know before I'd of stuck one on for that... Yes take my car with the keys, but the cops may find you in soon when I activate the tracker 10 seconds after you leave my drive way! Already ordered one for my dads new 5 series!
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You got a link to this?

[barrym381]

I think the tide has turned with this type of car theft, taking the keys, overcomes all immobilisers alarms etc.. To the point they may as well not have them on in the first place.

In this technologically advanced time we live, with radar collision detection, touch screen , MP3, abs, xds diffs blah blah...why the hell ain't these cars coming with built in GPS trackers? Just simply add your own SIM card?

A quick google revealed a system on Amazon for £20 that connects to the battery and pings you texts with gps co ordinates... £20 odd quid!

Wish I'd know before I'd of stuck one on for that... Yes take my car with the keys, but the cops may find you in soon when I activate the tracker 10 seconds after you leave my drive way! Already ordered one for my dads new 5 series!

and a cheap gps blocker will block any tracker fitted and the kind of people doing this sort of crime know this   

[charv94]

and a cheap gps blocker will block any tracker fitted and the kind of people doing this sort of crime know this 

Correct, Its why trackers on the luxury cars cost so much to get. a grand on an aston and then £250 a year to have it operational and monitored. £20 won't be enough money to get a sophisticated enough system that isn't simple to deactivate

[Anygreg]

and a cheap gps blocker will block any tracker fitted and the kind of people doing this sort of crime know this 

Correct, Its why trackers on the luxury cars cost so much to get. a grand on an aston and then £250 a year to have it operational and monitored. £20 won't be enough money to get a sophisticated enough system that isn't simple to deactivate

Have a Google on Amazon UK for it it has hundreds of reviews....for me £20 ish and a chance to recover/catch the crime is worth a punt. Cheap or expensive, a blocker is going to always block. But to my knowledge from the police reports , and as stated in this case, they leave the car for a day, locked up on a housing estate to see if it has a tracker fitted, knowing this, and if I'd has said cheap gps and sim tracker fitted, I would possibly have my car back.

£25 for a tracker is only cheap when you consider the £100's of pounds an official tracker costs. This doesn't mean that's how much they cost. Does anybody actually thing an iPhone 6 costs £699 to make?? More like £15 I think I read....

 GPS really isn't that expensive nowadays. This unit also has has gprs sim plus GPS SiRF III chipset....Google amazon TK103A...

[gitsy]

Sympathies. I had my Mk6 GTI taken in south Manchester three weekends ago. Me and the mrs had come downstairs Sunday morning and were arguing about where my car keys were, looked out of the window and the car wasn't there!

They'd hopped over a 6-7ft wall into our back garden, reached through a catflap and managed to fish a key for the conservatory door that was well out of reach and hidden out of site. As a few have said, if it's going to happen, the best way it can - no violence, etc. We had been noticing some suspicious activity around the house in the two weeks previous though which is a bit unnerving.

On the bright side, I've ordered a brand new Mk7!

[fredgroves]

Has an Police/experts suggested a practical counter-measures to this sort of crime?

I know some here have said "leave your keys near a window in the house" but... taking that to its logical conclusion, the least possible damage would be to leave a spare key on the passenger seat and then at least they only break (now their own) car window and leave you and your family in peace... Yeah I'm being a bit tongue in cheek but...

PS to the OP, sorry to hear you had this crappy thing happen to you

[Anygreg]

Has an Police/experts suggested a practical counter-measures to this sort of crime?

I know some here have said "leave your keys near a window in the house" but... taking that to its logical conclusion, the least possible damage would be to leave a spare key on the passenger seat and then at least they only break (now their own) car window and leave you and your family in peace... Yeah I'm being a bit tongue in cheek but...

PS to the OP, sorry to hear you had this crappy thing happen to you

wasn't far off what they said to be honest...

if they couldn't see the key, they have been entering into properties to find them, as i was no 8 on  a list of vehicles stolen in the past 10 days in the area...

again, if vehicles had trackers as standard, it would of helped.

i remember the days when we had keypad on the dash to enter pin numbers before you could start the car PITA but sort of worked.

Agree with the key on the seat option as well....

Having not really slept for the past 2 nights, been awake on high alert, have had time to think more about things whilst also playing back the sound of the smashing glass over in my head.

I'm more P1ssd they targeted me.. they got away with it, its like its 1 - 0 to the criminal. take the car, that can be replaced. But to leave me and the misses in fear in our own home, that's the kicker!

then there's the inconvenience...spent 30 mins on the phone to the insurance assessors yesterday, felt like it was my fault at the end of the conversation...then i had the glaziers round to board up my window, lock smith left at 9:30p, after changing all the locks..home insurance assessor round to video the property, fill out forms, take photos and get a statement... it goes on....

all because some guy in eastern Europe wants a knicked white golf for his misses sat in front of his UK housing benefit/child support funded 5 bedroom house.... makes me sick!