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[Scruffy Bodger]

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[Scruffy Bodger]

Put this in the wrong section sorry, can a mod move it please? @NorthernMonkey @Mrs6C ta.

[NorthernMonkey]

Just now, Scruffy Bodger said:

Put this in the wrong section sorry, can a mod move it please? @NorthernMonkey @Mrs6C ta.

Done 👍 

[Low ontime]

Strong for ramraids?

parts? Same engine as Ford ST?

parked somewhere it shouldnt have been? 
 

[Tommyboy12]

Probably stolen to sell the parts on. Half the time they dont even nick the car nowadays you just come back to your car missing its face.

[egg]

Value of Catalyst?

[NorthernMonkey]

The head castings are a common failure point if the cambelt lets go and a replacement euro 4 D5 engine is approaching four figures so there is a bit of value in it tbf

[omegod]

54 minutes ago, Scruffy Bodger said:

It's a dirty derv, so DPF.

Would have cat and DPF which both have some value, 

Didn't Kate Garraway have an older Volvo dissapear off a London Street last year, are they sent for export maybe?? 

[NorthernMonkey]

2 hours ago, omegod said:

Would have cat and DPF which both have some value, 

Didn't Kate Garraway have an older Volvo dissapear off a London Street last year, are they sent for export maybe?? 

£178 to be exact as of Tuesday afternoon 😂

[sutty2006]

Probably nicked for joy riding or doing drug drop offs for a few days until the police get a marker on it and it’s dumped. 
 

I know a lad who’s mk2 Carlton was nicked a year or two ago. Keys nicked and off they went. Joy riding for a few days until the cops chased it and it was abandoned. 

[UltraWomble]

Stuff that was difficult to pinch when new several years ago is now staggeringly easy to pinch with some easy to come by electronic tools.

Quite probably as has been mentioned - it will spend a few days as a criminal runabout then probably get dumped.

 

[sierraman]

Armed robberies etc it’d be no good at all. Something like a nearly new Audi RS4, Golf R, 330i etc you’d use. 185k there’s a good chance it’d crap out halfway through a chase plus no offence to your friend but it wouldn’t be quick enough by a country mile, they’d probably catch it on foot. Doubtful it’s nicked for parts, not enough in it when you could pinch a newish Land Rover, strip it in a few hours and come away with several thousand quid.
 

Probably nicked for DOING DPF thefts in, domestic burglaries etc or for doing someone over in or for some 18 year old bum to be doing county lines in. 

[Quintus]

Let's be honest, there are people who would steal the shit out of your arse, if it had any value.

[sierraman]

They’re doing it for money when they steal them to break, they’d be clucking a long time if they were waiting on getting £15 for a wing mirror. 

[stuboy]

was it known too of mods fitted?

[GR8 PL8 M8]

5 hours ago, Quintus said:

Let's be honest, there are people who would steal the shit out of your arse, if it had any value.

I've mentioned this on here before, but my mum once had her car broken into and the only thing taken was a stool sample!

[Split_Pin]

7 hours ago, GR8 PL8 M8 said:

The only thing taken was a stool sample

 

[sierraman]

11 hours ago, Scruffy Bodger said:

Not really shouted about tbh, the mods were done some years back and it's not really all over the net. It's driven round with the kids sunscreens on the rear windows permanently, you wouldn't look twice at it.

It’s not going to be obvious though is it? From your description and to a passing recidivist it looks like a standard Volvo D5.

[warch]

12 hours ago, Scruffy Bodger said:

It's a shame as it's a proper wolf in sheep's clothing. Hybrid turbo, LSD, Bilstein B12's, Eibachs, big brakes and has circa 500NM of torque. It'll pull an indicated 125 in 5th and it's still got a gear left. You're not catching it on foot.

It's not keyless entry, no ones broken in for the keys. I'm assuming they lifted it and have dealt with the security elsewhere.

Sounds to me like word got around, it's been a common problem with modified cars since forever, someone may have seen it in action then seen it coming back to where it's parked. Some of those modifications are easily spotted by someone who knows what they're looking at, especially if it had a straight through exhaust as well. 

[sierraman]

Either way it’s a shit situation, the whys and what fors aside. Hopefully he’ll get a reasonable pay out, don’t settle for any shit. 

[Joey spud]

So am I right in thinking that owner lives in east London and been paying £12.50 a day to run a 16 year old diesel Volvo around the gaff ?

He must be fond of the old thing.

[angle]

Someone on the local Facebook group got their 11 year old A3 e-tron stolen at the weekend. Given its signed up (with massive baby graphics) for their hypnobirthing business, I imagine it might stand out a bit when it gets ragged around by an 18 year old in a hoodie. 

[Angrydicky]

Bit of an odd one. Normally I'd say it had been winched onto a beavertail and weighed in at a dodgy scrapyard, but the fact he's got a ticket shows they must have got it started and driven it away. It's pre-keyless nonsense, I'm sure it could be started by someone with the right kit but why would they bother when there are loads more valuable and newer targets available?

Has he still got all the keys for it?

[sierraman]

 You don’t really get ‘joy riders’ as such now like in the 90’s when you could get a Belmont going with a Twix and half a tennis ball. The type stealing to order will specialise in say Land Rovers, Transits etc, where things like engines, front ends etc are big ticket items. They might take 2-3 over a weekend, let the tracker die down and then strip them, possibly overnight. If not then it’s away in a container to a ready market in Africa or Pakistan. They’ve no interest in possibly making £15 selling bits off old Volvos, you’ve only to look at the price a used recent Transit engine fetches to realise it’s quite profitable if they’re taking them constantly. To my mind it’s probably someone from a particular community that moves around regularly to use for either rural thefts or like I say catalytic thefts. 

[mk2_craig]

One of my mates had a Yamaha B-Wizz vanish into thin air overnight back in the nineties. It was eventually found abandoned somewhere complete with the key in the ignition, but he still had both of the keys that were given to him when buying the bike (secondhand). Conclusion: a former owner hung onto a third key and nicked the bike back or gave the key to someone who pinched it. 

[andy18s]

On 26/04/2024 at 18:20, Angrydicky said:

Bit of an odd one. Normally I'd say it had been winched onto a beavertail and weighed in at a dodgy scrapyard, but the fact he's got a ticket shows they must have got it started and driven it away. It's pre-keyless nonsense, I'm sure it could be started by someone with the right kit but why would they bother when there are loads more valuable and newer targets available?

Has he still got all the keys for it?

When my Manta got stolen it was a guy with a beavertail,who claimed he had a call to pick it up from a private carpark.

Why he kept hold of it for almost 12 months though before deciding to start selling parts,is something I'll never work out.

And it was a member of the owners club who spotted the seats on ebay which led to me getting it back...

[Agila]

47 minutes ago, andy18s said:

kept hold of it for almost 12 months

Letting the heat die down. Obviously didn't wait long enough for a car like that.

[bangernomics]

Anything on here for £10-20 a ticket that suits? I’d buy him one of the 59 tickets as karma is a good thing to have in the bank.


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