Stole my D3!!

**Dmmos** · 30th March 2009, 12:48 PM

Last night two miserable thieving bastards broke into my home whilst myself, my wife and daughter were sleeping and stole the keys to both our cars. I ran outside just as they drove my D3 off down the road - it was heartbreaking

Douche bags - I'm sure they'll get what they deserve, you can't be into that sort of thing and live a 'safe' life.

Will keep an eye out here in QLD too!

What BASTARDS

Ditto, & in Syd...

After a week and then two weeks we knew we had lost the car for good, but then the Gold Coast CIB rang & said sir have you got your car back & replied no, then sir we sighted your car 5 mins from your place 3 hrs ago & said we will get back to you.

One good point - these people probably aren't very smart...

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

Being watched by these sorts of people when you have children would be the most disturbing part - would make me very, very angry (damn you swear filter

).

The problem - I think - with a PIN, etc. is that if the crook came into your house, got the keys from you then jumped in the car and couldn't start it, they might go totally berserk.

I like the immobiliser idea though - some people have this don't they (in older cars?) In the newer ones it's obviously in the key fob, but I like the thought of the bad guy driving 200m away and the engine stalling with the police very close by

Sorry to hear your dogs weren't able to help

Hope the situation improves...

**k1000o** · 30th March 2009, 05:27 PM

I'm so so sorry to hear that Gordon

I'll keep one eye out for you ...

**Jamo** · 6th April 2009, 04:33 PM

Gordon's computers were also stolen so he asked me to post this

Originally Posted by gghaggis

My D3 was found locked up behind a local shopping centre on Sunday - cops are doing forensics on it now. I had a look, but couldn't get inside or start it as the cops hadn't finished with it. The entire inside of the car was sprayed with fire extinguisher - apparently this contaminates any DNA evidence so that it can't be used. Clever little buggers .....

Looking at the outside, there's a few more scratches, and the passenger side-step is bent up a little (they must have hit something pretty hard), the roof-rack and spotties are gone, couple of wheel arches missing and the rear wiper + CB antenna broken. Car's still at normal ride height, so the EAS may still be intact.

Cops seem to think they tried to fence it, but it got too hard so they just went joy-riding for a few days. Seems they didn't stray out of a 10 ~ 15 km wide area.

Cheers,

Gordon

**drivesafe** · 6th April 2009, 05:24 PM

Well that's some good news Gordon and thanks Jamo for letting us know.

**Distortion** · 6th April 2009, 10:34 PM

hmmm I would have thought a fire extinguisher would be a death sentence for a car like a d3 doesn't it eat into all the electrics etc (as well as finger prints/dna etc)

One of the old mans friends had a BMW broken into and they'd used an extinguisher on the interior the insurance company just wrote it off even though the rest of it looked perfect still

Treads · 6th April 2009, 11:22 PM

Sorry to hear about your cars, I'd be pretty devastated if someone did the same thing to me

The home invasion is the part that makes me really angry though

Crims seem to be getting more & more brazen and won't stop at anything to get what they want.

This reminds me of why I should install a second safe, with a quick access code pad, behind the door to our bedroom. It only needs to hold one 12 gauge and some ammo.....

**rmp** · 7th April 2009, 06:20 AM

Presumably they would have thought to wipe the doorhandles all round then, and the key. And underneath the parking brake lever, and under the glovebox lever, plus the seatbelts.

Just thinking of where you'd leave fingerprints on a car.

**Jamo** · 7th April 2009, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Distortion

hmmm I would have thought a fire extinguisher would be a death sentence for a car like a d3 doesn't it eat into all the electrics etc

If it is corrosive , i suppose.

Mine's had milk, juice, water, wee, stomach contents and who knows what else splashed through it and everything still works

Only on Sunday did I find out that the centre coolbox makes for an excellent and water tight potty!

Treads · 7th April 2009, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by Jamo

Only on Sunday did I find out that the centre coolbox makes for an excellent and water tight potty!

I hope it was tested by a child, not you?

**CaverD3** · 7th April 2009, 11:14 AM

The cops should have a good decription from the blokewho saw it being driven the other day.

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