Another stolen Golf to report sadly. On 07jul15 at about 4am, thieves prised out the beading of my externally glazed front room window, removed the double glazed unit intact, entered the house and stole the keys to my 3m old Golf R. They ignored laptops, iPads, iPhones and other high value stuff and just took the keys and the car. It was a metallic grey R registered BL64NVX. Needless to say it has not been recovered but was caught by a passive police ANPR camera at 04:30 same day on Speke Road in Liverpool, probably on the way to Garston docks!
Coincidently, I work in Speke (just off Speke Boulevard next to Halewood Operations), so I guess they spotted the car parked up at work and followed me home. This was a lease hire and according to the police, there have been a large number of lease hire vehicles stolen over the last few months. Perhaps thieves are finding a way to get the contract details, including the home address?
VW insurance have let me down, despite telling me they would replace the car like for like if it was stolen or written off within the first year of leasing, they have now changed their mind so I'm out of pocket the deposit and other costs. could have been worse, the lease hire company (also VW) could have come after me for the difference between the Cap value the insurance paid them and the true value, over 15k!!
Lesson is, check the insurance small print if you have a lease hire and consider retrofitting metal cleats to externally beaded double glazing.
I now have a 6 channel HD CCTV system, floodlights and a wireless alarm system plus raging paranoia.
Nothing like this has ever happened to me before, and I'm adamant that it won't happen again.
These people have no shame, utter f*ckers.
