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Derick-Sport
02-10-10, 06:02 PM
the chaps who undertook this
thread copied from corsasport.co.uk
Originally posted by Iain M
Well this is what my Auntie woke up to find this morning.....
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f199/Iain2118/80edcec8.jpg
Car is fiat 500, not even a fancy one. Just a normal run of the mill fiat 500 and mindless brained spasemed weeds or the low life common society that we call England. What is the point in all honesty? Car was on her drive as normal. Items taken are....
Entire dashboard
Entire steering wheel and surround
Entire centre console and gear stick
No wires cut, no screws left no damage nothing, not even sure how they got in the car.
original thread http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=576816
Derick-Sport
02-10-10, 06:08 PM
if you continue to read the thread car was parked on driveway and it wasnt moved bloody good effort but what the **** would your reaction be going to unlock it in the morning and finding that lol
how to: rebuild a crashed 500 with exploded airbags, for little money.
how to: rebuild a crashed 500 with exploded airbags, for little money.
+1
If you already own one, it wont be hard to figure out how to open one causing no damage at all like.
how to: rebuild a crashed 500 with exploded airbags, for little money.
Nail-head.
The fiat 500s are still so new, any in a salvage yard the airbags will have gone off.
We all know how much a main dealer will charge for a new dash, centre console and airbag setup!
i know its not a funny thing to happen but it didnt happen to me or anyone i know so lol lol lol lol
Apparently a new dash is only £350 anyway! lol
i defenetly wont be buying a second hand fiat 500 anytime soon could be the one that has just been rebulit off another car. how do u explain that to your insurance company
that is crazy and would be a shock in the morning.
Hope they remembered to take the Airbag Ecu thing otherwise they will plug all the new ones in and boom lol
i defenetly wont be buying a second hand fiat 500 anytime soon could be the one that has just been rebulit off another car. how do u explain that to your insurance company
You wouldnt know so you wouldnt have to explain it haha
I wont tell anyone if you dont FLOL lol lol
i ment the lady with the missing dash telling her insurance
she will say my dash has been stolen??
Wasnt hard lol
common tbh, and a dash for 350? bullsheets. mk2 focus dashes are £984 inc vat. the best ones are when it happened at a local bodyshop, they came in, and stripped 3 corsa d courtesy cars.... lmao
common tbh, and a dash for 350? bullsheets. mk2 focus dashes are £984 inc vat. the best ones are when it happened at a local bodyshop, they came in, and stripped 3 corsa d courtesy cars.... lmao how much did they take everything
all panels, back axle interior. one of em they too the engine and box. the cops think it was a gang of 20 with serious tools.
guy i used to work with worked at BMW for a few years, shortly after they had 4 brand new M5's delivered, some thieves broke in one night and stripped them all. took the full interior; seats, dash, steering wheel, door cards. and bumpers and alloys too. everything needed to make an M5 rep basicly.
and the wierd part? they put a set of steels and a poverty steering wheel on each car, with a box to sit on so they could still move the cars. lol lol caring thieves FTW
Derick-Sport
02-10-10, 07:38 PM
all panels, back axle interior. one of em they too the engine and box. the cops think it was a gang of 20 with serious tools.
how can u put an estimate on a job like that lol
Nova_Tek
02-10-10, 08:07 PM
Crazy shizzle
has the dash got the id badge? maybe it was for a good clone..
Its got to take at least half an hour to do that, even if you have done it a few times, obviously weren't arsed about getting caught
Crazy stuff !
And done on someones drive way :eek: WTF
i dont condone tea-leaving but that is rather heroic
That's nuts
A guy at works mate wanted a Corsa B GSi front bumper back when they were new, they got their dodgy mate to rip one off a GSi at a main stealer's. The lad was caught up Festival Park with the bumper on and had it confiscated
And on e36coupe.com They've had people nicking M3 front Bumpers
stealing bumpers is a 2 minute job climbing in to a locked car some how taking thwe day and the rest with out even marking anything is a bit diffrent they defenetly know what they were doing
One of the nurses my sister works with, her car was broken in at the hospital very early this morning. They left the satnav in the glovebox, left a cd headunit but took a 12v plug in fridge type thing??
turnipheed
03-10-10, 11:22 AM
lol epic
And on e36coupe.com They've had people nicking M3 front Bumpers
Thats been going on for years mate, literally years! Same as Corsa C SRi mirrors & genuine M3 mirrors.
gc_vaux
03-10-10, 12:02 PM
Not good, but well played. would of thought it'd be easier to of taken the whole 500.. still charged with theft if your caught :S should of left a camera to video the owners reaction when she opened it in the mornin
robertdevlin69
03-10-10, 12:15 PM
epic lol'z!
most of the stuff mentioned on here sounds like inside job stuff.
claire6069
03-10-10, 08:28 PM
thats funny lol would have loved to have seen that womans face lol
****ter for the woman, but you gotta say they had skilled balls. lol
As said, it's happening quite lot these days. The Ford bumpers are funny. Kick it forward from the wheel arch then just tear it off. lol
stupot89
04-10-10, 12:24 AM
mk4 astra gsi are easy as well lol
a dash for 350? bullsheets.
Guy on CS used to work for fiat, that is the price of a dash, bare maybe but still, its not like its for anything other than the airbags.
But as people have been saying, bumpers and stuff is common, so is breaking in and nicking stupid things. Didnt Lee's nova get broken into for interior light and **** like that?
lol. I might go out grafin in bit then. Better than double time. lol
Nova_Tek
04-10-10, 01:00 AM
My old managers Ka got broken into and had the centre dash panel and centre switches nicked. But the stereo was intact lol
Thinking about it, my mates 206 had the centre bit nicked, along with his coursework and some deodorant (Maybe they wanted the lynx affect?), but radio was left, along with some other valuable stuff.
on a plus note the 500 looks quite well put together lol.
on the robbery side. god damn they are dedicated.
Maxfield
04-10-10, 09:58 AM
Why not just take the car?
claire6069
04-10-10, 10:38 AM
a car is traceable, bits of plastic dashboard aren't
wasnt there a gang about in the 90's that were nicking engines from cossies and the like? had a van with a crane, and just unbolted the engines and took them away. van stickered up as a breakdown/recovery company so no one even looked twice lol now that is dedication
wasnt there a gang about in the 90's that were nicking engines from cossies and the like? had a van with a crane, and just unbolted the engines and took them away. van stickered up as a breakdown/recovery company so no one even looked twice lol now that is dedication
Lewi? lol
I guess you could pull that stunt a couple of times in broad daylight if you knew the owner was going to be away for a good few hours.
Brass necks are what is required here. Like the guy that had his Impreza stripped in the Trax car park or the like. :mad:
the guy at trax, probably sold the bits & came up with a fantastic insurance scam.. he probably made twice as much on the car......allegedly.
Yeah i know a guy who used to do the recovery van engine removal trick, usually in NCP car parks, just tell the gateman they were there to fix a broken down car in the car park.
On the same note another guy i know broke into a vauxhall showroom broke into about 8-10 cars to shunt them out the way and then drove one through the window followed by a brand spanking never touched the road lotus carlton, he had it for about 6 months until someone stole it off him, he wouldnt let his mates eat chips in the back or anything lol
I also met a guy off here who had 3 vectra gsi bumpers nicked one after the other off his driveway,
Nova_Tek
05-10-10, 01:07 AM
Thinking about it, my mates 206 had the centre bit nicked, along with his coursework and some deodorant (Maybe they wanted the lynx affect?), but radio was left, along with some other valuable stuff.
Sounds like stolen to order.
Sounds like stolen to order.
hit the nail on the head there...
people put on an internet salvage search that they are after a certain item..... someone emails to say ooh yes sir we have a couple coming in, which colour do you need????
then it magically appears...
claire6069
05-10-10, 09:00 AM
yep, pikeys ftw lol theres no end of them round here, all you see at nights is dodgy old transits riding round country lanes and down posh housing estates and stuff, its so obvious what they're up to lol
pikeys do a lot of nicking, but the people who nick car parts to order, are much further up the food chain...
claire6069
05-10-10, 09:08 AM
yeh, steve knows some people like that...............he told me that they once stole an evo and within 3 hours every single nut and bolt and had been stripped, stuff that werent required got chucked in a container for scrap and the rest went to the people who had paid for it, its quite worrying really but also pretty clever how they get away with it
i know of a guy who steals top end stuff to order then ships em overseas. he boasts he can have a car out of the uk in 10 hrs. nuts. on the subject of knicked for bits, my uncle got offered a scooby sti engine, loom ecu and keys for £300 last week with no numbers. im sure it will be fine in his 62 split screen with vw 1300 numbers on the case....... lol
(jk)
cer thieves are stupid, professional parts shoppers are very very very clever/good at what they do.
I had my car broken into (the joy of a fabric roof), and they took a head unit wirth all of £20, and left a £150 childs car seat lol.
I've seen 'professionals' testing Fords for entry times etc and its almost worrying but interesting, lots of cars thesedays are easy to get into to reduce insurance damage claims ;)
and Most headunits in cars are worthless as you need the rest of the car to work them etc so no one bothers. Parts are where its at.
seems to be some glamourising of crime going off in here - crimes bad mmmmmkay lol
nothing is glamorous about crime. most of these crime stories are works of fiction, simply because proper criminals keep their mouths shut.
there was a truck crime gang in london that could drive a tractor unit in & strip it & have it in a container within 2hrs, it took undercover cops a long time to catch them.
gc_vaux
05-10-10, 11:45 AM
yep, pikeys ftw lol theres no end of them round here, all you see at nights is dodgy old transits riding round country lanes and down posh housing estates and stuff, its so obvious what they're up to lol
Welcome to Lincolnshire lol
not too bad round my way, but i used to live in Newark so i'v seen it all :wtf:
because proper criminals keep their mouths shut.
and dont look like stereotypical criminals/hooligans etc you'd never know they were law breakers untill they get caught ;)
most of these crime stories are works of fiction,
from Sloth unsurprisignly lol
does anybody in their right minds really believe people would drive round removing engines from cosworths in car parks without being noticed.......
1. alarms
2. the owner would tell the garage staff & hang about if his car broke down
3. cctv
4. just how long would it take when you bear in mine that you can't exactly lift your hatchback in an ncp without it catching the sprinklers, so how the hell would anyone manage to get a bonnet up & also there is the fact that about 99% of us park forwards in the bays so we can get our shopping in the boot......
5. then there is the matter of all the ancilliaries that need removing to get the engine out, i can't imagine someone uses gas bottles cos of the sprinklers.
so i'm calling it myth.
my dad always told me fords are the easyest cars to get in to is this true and if so wouldent they have been better to just take the car insted of trying t0 steel the engine
there was a speight of cozzies being lifted with tail lift recovery trucks in hampshire few years ago. as my mates was lifted, luckily the gang was caught with said car in lock up.
my dad always told me fords are the easyest cars to get in to is this true and if so wouldent they have been better to just take the car insted of trying t0 steel the engine
many moons ago you could get in with a folk, with 2 prongs bent back and 2 in door lock.
does anybody in their right minds really believe people would drive round removing engines from cosworths in car parks without being noticed.......
1. alarms
2. the owner would tell the garage staff & hang about if his car broke down
3. cctv
4. just how long would it take when you bear in mine that you can't exactly lift your hatchback in an ncp without it catching the sprinklers, so how the hell would anyone manage to get a bonnet up & also there is the fact that about 99% of us park forwards in the bays so we can get our shopping in the boot......
5. then there is the matter of all the ancilliaries that need removing to get the engine out, i can't imagine someone uses gas bottles cos of the sprinklers.
so i'm calling it myth.
Mythbusters UK style lol
Mythbusters UK style lol
lets try it in the real world lol
what was the outcome of the 2 rotting pigs inside a car the other night ? i had to go out before the end of it
i like a good debunking... i'm expecting most of migweb to come over here and call me names..... well, they did the last time i used the M word
lets try it in the real world lol
what was the outcome of the 2 rotting pigs inside a car the other night ? i had to go out before the end of it
1. they couldn't get rid of the smell
2. some redneck still bought it.
1. they couldn't get rid of the smell
2. some redneck still bought it.
shocker lol
claire6069
05-10-10, 12:49 PM
mythbusters is cool
the key thing for the gangs that steal things to order are they watch you, they watch your routine, when you're guna be in and out, what your neighbours do etc etc and they time it all perfectly, doesnt take a genius, just common sense and a good timed plan
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