Fucks sake fit a tracker.

[lisbon_road]

Great.  Sometimes this just isn't fun anymore.  In fairness, I suppose no thief is going to put a tracker on a proper autoshite car but we all know that this site drifts into more sought after cars now and then.  

[pshome]

Fitted a tracker into the 504, worked nicely across Morocco letting family and friends have a look where we are.

 

Roaming data costs was less than 10€ for the 4 weeks.

 

[Dave_Q]

Mine is still chugging away fine, just checked and I still have £6.87 left from the £10 I topped up in April or so.

 

That's not all tracking, I've had a few texts from it, mainly when the car has been sat too long and the battery voltage has dropped.

[Timewaster]

My experience with tracked plant at work is that it will still get stolen but if they suspect it is tracked then it will be dumped / hidden up for a few days to see if anyone claims it back.

 

Also, cheap wheel clamps ate good for about 100 yards then the groove in the road ends and you find what is left.

[AMC Rebel]

Why is there so much thieving in this country?

 

I really notice when I go to other Countries, there is loads of stuff lying around that would just be gone if you left it 10 minutes here.

[Jim Bell]

Why is there so much thieving in this country?

 

I really notice when I go to other Countries, there is loads of stuff lying around that would just be gone if you left it 10 minutes here.

Must be immigrants. Wait. Hang on a minute.....

[castros_bro]

Why is there so much thieving in this country?

 

I really notice when I go to other Countries, there is loads of stuff lying around that would just be gone if you left it 10 minutes here.

 

 

Please share the references and data which you used to form your (Daily Mail) point of view as they are not reflected in any of the stats I can find.

[DodgeRover]

Why is there so much thieving in this country?

 

I really notice when I go to other Countries, there is loads of stuff lying around that would just be gone if you left it 10 minutes here.

If you look closely at a lot of the plant you see working in Eastern Europe you'll find British number plates and painted over uk phone numbers, of course they could all be legit....

[DodgeRover]

Please share the references and data which you used to form your (Daily Mail) point of view as they are not reflected in any of the stats I can find.

Working in the building trade you can't leave anything unattended or it WILL be gone, we lost a sodding filthy belle cement mixer last week when the Bricky left it visible when he went for lunch, stuff doesn't get reported there's no point. Even had people nicking scaffold poles for scrap...

 

Oh yeah and on the farm people think it's their god given right to take anything they want that isn't locked down while nobody is there.

[lisbon_road]

I have no experience of any of this, so I'm not judging or anything.

 

Just supposing Eastern Europe has loads of equipment stolen in the UK, why would anyone come all the way to the UK through other countries for it?  It is a long way to the UK and you have to go through other countries to get here, right?

[castros_bro]

 Even had people nicking scaffold poles for scrap...

 

Oh yeah and on the farm people think it's their god given right to take anything they want that isn't locked down while nobody is there.

 

I do not question your judgement but  where is your reference for  " people nicking scaffold for scrap" ?  Have you interviewed  all of them and if so may I have a copy of their statements?

[Eddie Honda]

Just supposing Eastern Europe has loads of equipment stolen in the UK, why would anyone come all the way to the UK through other countries for it?

Why? This is even further

http://m.herald.ie/news/fingal-bins-discovered-in-romania-27889004.html

It's a mystery.

[DodgeRover]

I do not question your judgement but where is your reference for " people nicking scaffold for scrap" ? Have you interviewed all of them and if so may I have a copy of their statements?

I heard an engine stop and came out from the back of the site, Yelled what the fuck are you doing at them as they started to pick up the poles that were on the ground - just taking this scrap was the answer, buggered off in a Lwb sprinter. About the only thing you can leave around is fridges....

 

And no before anybody says it they weren't Irish and the Sprinter wasn't new enough for wannabe travellers.

[Jim Bell]

My nana was eastern european and to be fair she would steal the chewing gum out of your mouth when you yawned,  if it looked like it had a bit flavour left.

 

Then again, so would 99.6% of the caucasian English cunts I grew up with.  Thankfully theyre all mostly dead too. 

[Dave_Q]

Bumping this as relevant to another thread about security.

 

I can also recommend this alarm: http://www.southerncarsecurity.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=75_35&product_id=71

 

Reasonably priced and the seller is very helpful with DIY installs.

 

Comes with an installation certificate, insurers might not accept it if not done by a "proper" installer, even though when I did mine I did a much better job than the scotchlok horrorfest that was in there before.

[Pillock]

I had a similar one fitted to my Polo G40, when I'd spent all my money on buying it and then phoned a few insurers and they went "Group 13? No alarm? LOLZ" and I needed the cheapest certified one I could get.

[3VOM]

Bumping this as relevant to another thread about security.

 

I can also recommend this alarm: http://www.southerncarsecurity.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=75_35&product_id=71

 

Reasonably priced and the seller is very helpful with DIY installs.

 

Comes with an installation certificate, insurers might not accept it if not done by a "proper" installer, even though when I did mine I did a much better job than the scotchlok horrorfest that was in there before.

That is a very good price for what is a cut down Toad ai606. Not much point in bothering with a second hand Clifford or similar if you need an alarm.

[Dave_Q]

They do do the ai606 as well for £100, to be honest I kinda wished I did get the ai606 as it has an extra siren output that can be used to get the tracker to text you when the alarm sounds.

[cobblers]

Bloody hell I remember fitting an AI606 to my Saxo VTR in about 2004, and it was a "cheapo" alarm then! They're getting some leg out of that design!

[AMC Rebel]

Please share the references and data which you used to form your (Daily Mail) point of view as they are not reflected in any of the stats I can find.

I've only just noticed this.  I didn't think I was being especially Daily Mail, and of course I don't have data, just observations.

 

Last time I was in California, I was walking to work past an apartment building - outside in the parking on a public road and there was a pickup truck with a totally unsecured massive outboard boat engine in the back - I know for sure you couldn't do that around here.

 

Around the corner, there was a contractors van unattended and with rear doors open full of tools - again, try that here.  Here you have stickers to warn the thieves there's nothing in your LOCKED van, and artic trailers left open when empty to prevent them being broken into.

 

In the part of rural France I'm very familiar with, all sorts of items of farm machinery, diesel tanks and bowsers, trailers and even stacks of timber are left in situtations which would see them vanish in much of the UK.  I know that as I know farmers here. 

 

In public buildings like museums overseas I see stuff like AV gear and catering stuff unattended that would vanish if it was here.

 

I ran a mobile disco and Lights PA rigs for years - you had to be 100% eagle eyed at all times as if not, items of gear and cds etc would go missing regularly.  A few times I was a bit less attentive, I lost various bits of gear and 2 crates of records, just loading/unloading and at gigs.

 

I don't think I am making this up - we seem to have a lot of casual thieving that I don't see in other countries I've been to.

[Junkman]

I have no experience of any of this, so I'm not judging or anything.

 

Just supposing Eastern Europe has loads of equipment stolen in the UK, why would anyone come all the way to the UK through other countries for it?  It is a long way to the UK and you have to go through other countries to get here, right?

 

Because Germany, France and BeNeLux are picked clean already.

[New POD]

Why is there so much thieving in this country?

 

I really notice when I go to other Countries, there is loads of stuff lying around that would just be gone if you left it 10 minutes here.

 

Scousers.

 

Oh wait. that's me. I've never stolen nothing.

[smellmycheese]

I was in copart recently and spoke to a Romanian outside. He was telling me he buys between 30 and 40 cars a week and transports them all back home. When I said 'that must be some garage you have' his reply was "no, we just buy them for the i.d"

[Jim Bell]

What use is UK id to Romamians in Romania?