Stolen Car plz keep an eye out

Guy who had the yard next to us had a bad habit of bringing home borrowed plant machinary, used to get the place raided quite often, one of the machines had a tracker fitted which faxed the local police station its gps co ordinates and a satelite photo of where it was, the plod showed us it. Was quite impressed.

The other stuff used to get lifted due to the usual traffic plod scanners.

our vehicles have trackers.... with built in comms to the drivers..... they don't cost anything like what some car trackers do though.

simplest tracker.... asda phone, wire a car charger to it & hide it under the dash, then register it on one of those spy on your child websites...

mind you, we have a tracker on a telescopic loader that by ringing certain number codes would make it turn off remotely... we had to hide the manual for that one as it was far too funny on building sites.....

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Originally Posted by ednovasr2

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Car has been found thanks to Facebook in a garage in bletchly near MK well sort of part of MK now. Is at the recovery yard now £300 to get it back

OK been to see her not pretty but not too bad. wheels missing, rear lights been vandelised, wipers missing, ignition barrel smashed out, radio gone, beetle parts still in the boot :-) woop, both rear arches scuffed in, both front wings pushed in a little with paint on, grill missing, rear of passenger sill damaged where dropped on floor, drivers door lock surround damaged, passenger handle lose. rear seat poss broken hinge. :-(

Thanks every one for keeping your eyes peeled

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Gutted for your mate and what a bunch of robbing *******s charging him £300 to get the car back ! Tell him to argue the toss with them and they might do it cheaper that's what I did to get my Nova back after the crash - They wanted £360 by the time I got out of hospital and could go get the car - I argued a toss with them telling them I would of got the car removed myself and wasn't asked if I wanted it removing along with a load more ranting at them for not letting me remove the parts that I had put on the car myself such as the rollcage - so they let me have it for £250 and gave me till the end of the week to get it with out adding the £20 a day on top of the bill that it was there

Might even be worth seeing if he is coverd on the insurance to have them pay for him to get it back !? Hope he does and gets it back to the way it looked when he bought it :thumb:

he will have to pay the excess anyway so £300 might be the lesser of two evils

At the end of the day the recovery/storage people are there to make money,not friends.Thats cheap anyway is £300.
Some have to pay more to get a burnt out shell back.

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Originally Posted by Andy

At the end of the day the recovery/storage people are there to make money,not friends.Thats cheap anyway is £300.
Some have to pay more to get a burnt out shell back.

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recovery trucks arent cheap either. would you rather plod found the car miles away and just leftit at the side of the road to be re-stolen/torched ?

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Originally Posted by Andy

At the end of the day the recovery/storage people are there to make money,not friends.Thats cheap anyway is £300.
Some have to pay more to get a burnt out shell back.

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Which is why they offer for you to just pay 150 notes and let them keep the car and come collect your personal stuff ! Amazing how they dont class your radio as your personal stuff though aint it :mad: So you pay them the 150 quid to keep your car and they also get a 200 quid + sound system

Sorry but in my eyes they are in a win win situation which is WRONG !

Bit like when I had to collect my VW beetle just over a year after the crash after the Police was paying for it to be kept there while waiting for the court case ect to finish - I went to see the car the week of the crash I could get in the car sit in the drivers seat ect - Then a year+ later when I go back and collect it I couldn't even get in the car because they had put another one on top of it but not before they was so kind to take the doors off and put them inside it ! Sorry but they take the piss and it's day light robbery in my eyes

No wonder the guys who work for theses recovery companys have such nice cars and sound systems :roll:

they rat looked it for you... I guess they thought they were helping lol

i'm on the fence here, cos 'recovery people charge lots of money' but they usually have to fetch it out from under a hedge at 2 in the morning etc.

this equipment costs lots of money, the drivers need training & then work unsociable hours, the contracts to recover crashed/stolen etc vehicles are sewn up by large national companies & the little local ones get screwed right down on the callout fees, so the only way they can make money is to charge for storage.

if i had a car in storage & i found out it was damaged more than when it first got there, i'd be shouting for compensation.

you can demand it is brought to your premises, as long as you have premises off road to park a car on safely & securely.

Not very funny really when the car could of been fixed ! now the shell is totally ****ed along with the steering because from putting a car on top they pushed the steering wheel right down on to the drivers seat !

Hope it never happends to any of your cars because belive me you wouldn't find it very funny either