theft

So there's my nice W208CLK parked in the car park at work when a large tile slides off the roof of our leased office and lands in (not on) my nice shiny bonnet. Contacted the buildings owners and am ensconced in a claim. I have had a quote of just under £1k for the repairs and have just...

Hi All Hope someone could help me. My 2001 A160 has MBSS3 security system. Recently the alarm has started going off for apparently no reason. Sometimes within 10 min or after couple of hours of locking the car. Real embarassment with neighbours!! I cheked the interior for any item that could...

I was working on the car quite late last night fixing the misfire problem. By the time i finished it was close to midnight so i didn't bother putting the car in the garage, as i wanted to take it back up first thing in the morning. At 3am i heard a noise outside, i'm normally a heavy sleeper...

There have been no end of thefts of Catalysts 'round here recently. All seem to be over-night and many from 4x4s (obvious height advantage). Is there any way you might be able to prevent this? I understand my local scrappy pays £40/50 a unit for the platinumn. :confused:

And this is supposed to help? Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did (we) find it so easy to break the security codes? "I was amazed that they made it so easy, the information contained in the chip...

Hiya everyone I am a new member on here. This morning I went to my car and discovered that somebody had pulled out my driver wing mirror (i had it closed in) and removed the glass part only of the mirror and left everything else wires etc in tact - I have contacted the local mercedes dealer who...

My son borrowed my spring compressor this weekend past. Some thieving person (trying to be polite here) borrowed it for keeps along with my sons tools from the boot of his car. So if anyone here has one and no longer needs it I would be able to give it an excellent home. Thanks. <edit> its the...

Over the past three years, per Norwich Union: Top 10 High Value Cars Reported Stolen: Mercedes ML Range Rover BMW 3 Series Porsche 911 BMW 5 Series Jaguar XJ6 Audi A3 Landrover Discovery Mercedes SLK BMW X5 Top Ten UK Car Crime Hotspots Sheffield Grimsby Hull...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5032858.stm I can't help but think, "What's the point?", if someone just makes a note of a plate and car model/colour, they can get plates made cheaply from a number of internet based companies... That way the poor victim doesn't even know their car has been cloned...

I,ve just been informed by a neighbor that a guy on a motorcycle was eyeing up my car.I think i will put the wheel clamp on tonight.

Having read a number of very sad messages recently about stolen cars, what recommendations can we offer to help make our cars less vunerable to either the professional car thief or just the local joy rider? Let's try to at least keep the suggestions half sensible, Regards and commiserations...

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Sorry for my absence, hope everyone is well and had a good xmas. Anyway early Sunday morning some p*ss head tryed to smash my back passenger door glass with a metal sign :( . Luckily he made such a noise he work up some residents at the Victoria Holiday Inn who called the police and caught...