Stolen mk2 fiesta XR2 F 275 TRL dark grey

[sheffcortinacentre]

Stolen at 4.20 am this morning from the wisewood area of north west Sheffield.

It's mercury grey (dark grey ) std condition near mint grey cloth interior (recently replaced ).

Mechanically std except k&n filter & alloy rad with crack top mounts.

Eng is from a mk5 escort (original was being rebuilt ).

Exhaust system has a square plate weld on bottom of centre box.

Recent new springs all round.

5 pepper pot alloys.

Drivers door has usual stress cracks next to 1/4 light.

Tailgate is delocked filler is cracking lock is operated via a cable with Lego block type connector at bottom of window.

Had pass wheel arch & sill a tea welded for last mot.

Bonnet has been repaired above drivers headlight & aerosoled. Also debaaged

Both headlights have poor reflectors.

Blisters/bubbling around factory sunroof (which leaks).

Pattern front bumper with mesh behind number plt.

 

Car was in process of being restored back to original.

[sierraman]

I'll keep an eye out for it as I'm in Sheffield. Hopefully gets found soon.

[lesapandre]

Did you have any security?

[lesapandre]

Sorry to hear - wondered if they got past crooklock or alarm etc. I had my Landcruiser stolen. Was towed. I got it back luckily.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Was my cousins, found this afternoon (thanks to facebook bombardment) about 3 miles away at foxhill just of the A61 main rd out of north of Sheffield.

Front caved in damage looks like its hit a step bumper on back of a van over, 30 min trying to get throuh to plod on 101 turned up & said it's been reported in an incident.

 

Olden init! yep an 89, oh a year older than me says plod!

 

Was seen with a modern silver hatchback was under bedroom window so saw heard it go off drive , nothing missing except drivers headrest?!

 

Very minimal damage re getting in/ getting started in so not yobs.

much further on A61 & your in sticks with either M1 or normal roads towards Barnsley is your next major encounter.

 

Will need bumper,front panel,bonnet,grille blade,one wing,rad prob fan,spots (very expensive ) head lights & indicators the paint.

 

Plus victim fine of £150 (2 mile to compound!) & £ 50 a day storeage.

 

So no doubt will be written off.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Thank goodness it was found. Is the damage repairable?

[sierraman]

Bizarre. Usually stuff like that is trailered into a garage and stripped. Glad its found anyway!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Excellent that it's been found and sadly the lack of damage getting in shows what it was taken for.

 

Mines exactly the same colour (and funnily enough from Sheffield). Does make me think should I ever get it going again that I'd have to keep it locked away most of the time.

[fordperv]

Bloody bastards, why is it old fords that are going missing constantly though

[Bradders59]

Seems quite common nowadays unfortunately. In the next village to me a few weeks back, someone turned up with a lowloader and removed a Capri that had stood in someones garden for several years.

 It happened in the middle of the day but the neighbours just thought he was getting rid of it at last, so didn't take any notice.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^this gets me. I've a neighbour that's almost always sat in their kitchen or outside the house yet when we had a 'scrap' bath taken from outside the garage he said fuck all.

 

I'm sure if someone tried to drag the Fiesta off he'd do exactly the same.

[busmansholiday]

I used to live in the Wisewood area many years ago and before I saw it had been found my money would have been on Fox Hills or Shiregreen for where to look. As for South Yorkshire's finest, I believe the motto on the side of their vehicles says "Justice with Courage". Most people around here believe they forgot the word "No" before both.

[Felly Magic]

Utter cunts, hope it is repairable

[strangeangel]

Foxhill. Nuff said.

 

Glad it's turned up & hope it can be saved.

[Pillock]

Might be worth hunting in the undergrowth near where it was found for the headrest, Nyphur is probably bang on the money with the DNA link.

[sierraman]

Flower estate at Wincobank used to be a good place to start looking.

[Alfamale]

Glad it's been found, sorry to hear of the damage.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Unfortunately I think insurance will right it off due to cost, front crossmember/ chassis rails are intact apart from front panel it's sort of cosmetic.

It was on road behind basset pub, I think it was more a case of dump it away from a main road than knowing the local.

As it appears aim was to go straight on towards grenoside out of the area.

 

The problem with classic Ford's is one of supply & demand, people wanting parts & cars with not enough to meet the demand.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Aren't they going to buy it back if they write it off? I did with our Fiesta ST last year (cat C) and it was mega cheap. It's all fixed now.

 

While I'm sure the bonnet is a twat to get, the other bits are all out there.

[escortmad79]

Seems quite common nowadays unfortunately. In the next village to me a few weeks back, someone turned up with a lowloader and removed a Capri that had stood in someones garden for several years.

 It happened in the middle of the day but the neighbours just thought he was getting rid of it at last, so didn't take any notice.

Bradders, which village was it & do you know any details of the Capri? Mk1/2/3, model, colour etc?

[escortmad79]

Seems quite common nowadays unfortunately.

This XR2 is the 15th Classic Ford known to have been stolen so far this year

[escortmad79]

Plus victim fine of £150 (2 mile to compound!) & £ 50 a day storeage.

 

So no doubt will be written off.

Got to love the policing system, not only does he have the heartache of having his car stolen, the police add further insult by charging him to recover it 2 miles at a cost of £75 per mile!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Better than it getting restolen

[sierraman]

Wheres the justice in a bloke having his car nicked, then clobbering him with a fine.

[lesapandre]

I had my van stolen. Was somewhere out of sight of home. Next thing I knew I had a letter from a recovery company saying they had been asked to recover and store. By that point it had racked up £400 in costs. It was done very nicely and stored under cover and I'm sure if it was a valuable vehicle it would all have been worth it - no wonder insurance premiums are so high. I didn't claim on my insurance as I did not want the theft to ruin my insurance record. Payed up and scrapped the van there and then as all the ignition was out and window broken. I just could not afford to rack up more costs. Pity as it was a nice old Relay. So I lost my van and it cost me £400. Its what they call indirect taxation where apart from paying our income tax, NI, VAT and Council Tax we pay for any government's service - seen the cost of a passport lately?! Etc.

[lesapandre]

Oh and in case you hadn't...

[lesapandre]

After taxes thats a days wages to a lot of people.

[lesapandre]

Couple of adults and a couple of kids...a lot

[lesapandre]

Though of course being towed away for whatever reason is as old as the car...or wagon...or chariot. Paris 1961 - towed away with style.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Wheres the justice in a bloke having his car nicked, then clobbering him with a fine.

There isn't. You are supposed to claim the costs back off your insurance. You can even recover the car yourself if you like and it doesn't have to stop in the years it's been taken to as you can refuse any forensics.

 

Yeah it's all a twat that it costs so much and it can be a slow process but recovered and safe* but at a cost is better than never seeing it again.