Thread: Stole my D3!!

Originally Posted by DiscoDavo

Haggis, Do your cars have any distinguishing marks/ minor damage that they might not bother with during the rebirthing process? What type of rack did you have for the hilift and would it have left any marks on the gutters? Knocks/ scrapes on the underbody? If they are pros, then the vin will be expertly changed, but minor stuff might be overlooked.
Hope to help.
Dave.

Ps. X10 scum sucking *%^&@##

Gordens car is full of damage ehm added character, After all hes the only one witht the balls to take down the undrivable.

Sorry to hear it though and glad your ok. I will keep an eye out for it in my travels.

This form of auto theft is becoming a very common occurrence around here as well. So if you haven't heard of this technique before beware!

Very, very sorry -- and worried -- to hear that, will keep an eye out.

Taking the cars is bad enough, but the worst of it must have been the home invasion.

That's the way cars are stolen nowadays, you can't break into them and hotwire any more. Sometimes keys are stolen from locker rooms at gyms too. For this reason our keys are hidden in the house not hanging on a hook or in the bag, and we have additional security ;-)

Very sorry to this.
Get a dog - a big bad mother of a dog!
I have 2 of them, nobody messes with my stuff when it's in my yard!
Jonesfam

Thats pretty scary Gordon, i live in gosnells near Tonkin hwy- which area did it get stolen from.
I dont like your chances but ill keep an eye out for them.
Its becoming more common since the immobilisers became compulsory- there too hard to steal without keys

Yeah, the feeling of being violated whilst we were sleeping is hard to shake. The coppers reckon we were lucky that the keys were in an obvious place, otherwise they would have come into the bedroom and demanded them at knifepoint. Seem that modern manufacturers have made cars so hard to steal that thieves go for the keys first, no matter what the risk. So are we just supposed to put them on the kitchen bench with a sign that says "please take them"??

Sad thing is we have two large dogs (rotweiller and a mastiff) but they were confined to the other side of the house whilst we did some renovations. Methinks we were being watched.

Update: they've recovered the Subaru, but still no sign of the Disco

Drunkenly/depressed/frustrated/angrily yours,

Gordon

I don't think there's any question you were being watched. They'd have picked the time carefully.

I'm surprised the Subie has been recovered, I would have thought a professional gang would have spirited it far away.

We'll keep an eye out for any too-good-to-be-true D3 deals. Even if you don't get the car back it'd be good to see them brought to justice.

I think car security needs to shift to a "something you know, something you have" principle, like the best computer security. The car keys are the "something you have", the "something you know" could be a PIN.

A hidden isolater switch is another idea.

Sorry to hear mate.

Happened to me 2 weeks ago, they cleanoed out my entire shed and sleep-out.
we were home at the time and even have a dog.
Police say it could be someone we know.
Scary thought.

Kid had nightmares for last 2 weeks but getting better.

No one got hurt and thats main thing.
If car is insured, I hope you get good payout and buy new one and live happily ever after.

Best of luck.