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Commonplace unfortunately, my lad got back to his Lex parked at the station in Kent to find his catalytic converter had been nicked during the day whilst he was at work. (Daily commute to London before lockdown).
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Sorry to hear that, what car was it? my son lives in Chalfont st Peter and scum took from a Peugeot but not our Mercedes V Class (our Chauffeur vehicle) so unsure if they are coming back or it’s more difficult to get off the Mercedes.
A friend of mine turned into his road after a bike ride with his family and they were nearly run down by a tow truck dragging off their old Honda CRV. They would happily have killed them to get hold of £100 of platinum in the exhaust.
It’s on the rise, really bad in station car parks where cars are left for long periods, it’s mostly hybrid vehicles as they have higher quality catalytic converters, Toyotas and Hondas, especially the Jazz are also targets but if you have a Toyota Prius just go and park it in the garage and leave it there because it’s only a matter of time before it’s done and you will have a £1000 bill.
This boils my pss and I would not bat an eyelid if I found one of these scrotes crushed under a Prius if the jack gave way.
Shirley the dodgy scrap dealers can have some sort of restrictions put on them with the platinum dealing as they have had with the aluminium beer barrells .
Sorry to hear that, a lot of it going on in London. Going by Nextdoor site, been 3 reported about here in last week. in the daytime.
Not all thieves are pikeys but all...
Sorry to be that guy, and I know I should know better than to engage by now, but if someone had said ‘all white people are racist’ or ‘all benefit claimants are parasites’ you would rightly have the hump.
Using the term Pikey and intimating that they are all thieves just ain’t right, especially knowing as I do that there are contributors on this forum of traveller heritage. This ain’t the 1980s anymore.
Not after a protracted debate or a row, and I hoped Norf could have quietly got rid of this, but think on is all I’ll say.
Hope you get the issue sorted Toboboly as I know from experience what a ball ache it is having your car nicked.
Sorry to hear that, what car was it? my son lives in Chalfont st Peter and scum took from a Peugeot but not our Mercedes V Class (our Chauffeur vehicle) so unsure if they are coming back or it’s more difficult to get off the Mercedes.
VW Beetle. Probably about 10 years old.
Had to do a 3+ hour roundtrip on public transport to deliver mothers day presents.
Absolute cnts. I hope them, their families and anyone else they know die slow painful deaths. Cnts
Sorry to be that guy, and I know I should know better than to engage by now, but if someone had said ‘all white people are racist’ or ‘all benefit claimants are parasites’ you would rightly have the hump.
Using the term Pikey and intimating that they are all thieves just ain’t right, especially knowing as I do that there are contributors on this forum of traveller heritage. This ain’t the 1980s anymore.
Not after a protracted debate or a row, and I hoped Norf could have quietly got rid of this, but think on is all I’ll say.
Hope you get the issue sorted Toboboly as I know from experience what a ball ache it is having your car nicked.
Toyota offer a cat lock for £250: not 100% foolproof but most of these to55wrs can steal an unprotected cat converter in just a few minutes so it acts as a good deterrent as it would take them a lot longer to get the lock off first.
Sorry to be that guy, and I know I should know better than to engage by now, but if someone had said ‘all white people are racist’ or ‘all benefit claimants are parasites’ you would rightly have the hump.
Using the term Pikey and intimating that they are all thieves just ain’t right, especially knowing as I do that there are contributors on this forum of traveller heritage. This ain’t the 1980s anymore.
Not after a protracted debate or a row, and I hoped Norf could have quietly got rid of this, but think on is all I’ll say.
Hope you get the issue sorted Toboboly as I know from experience what a ball ache it is having your car nicked.
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On New Years Eve morning about 15/16 years ago, myself and a couple of the lads wrapped up a job, wished ourselves the best and headed off home, on the way I decided to stop at a Supermarket in Quincy for a bottle of wine, bag of spuds, whatever. In the store for 8 mins, then in the car park for an hour looking for my vehicle, speaking with the local cops, blah blah blah. Goodbye van...and $28,000 worth of tools. Funny thing was, I gave up looking, waiting for its return after three or four days, ok'd insurance company to proceed with claim, then 24 hours later it was found. Now, as I'd already started the claim I could not stop the action, so although I knew where the van was, it no longer was mine and I couldn't just hop in and drive home! The cops said it had been stripped of everything, what did they know, all power tools yes, but they left a humongous storage box and a number of my favourite hammers, saws, screwdrivers etc. It hurt, really hurt, what hurt even more was that myself and Mrs B were going out with friends that night...woa, did I have to get drunk.
I saw someone taking one off a car last year during lockdown. I was walking down the road and saw someone under a car, thought nothing of it until I saw his mate standing next to him looking very shifty...then I noticed a car with two other mean looking men waiting for them. They finished up and drove past me down a dead end which suggests they weren't from the area. It was middle of the day as well!
I've heard that if you're parking in the road you should have steering wheel side along the curb, I think that makes it harder to access. You can also buy a cage/clamp to protect them.
It's the law of unintended consequences writ large. Someone has an idea of how to save the environment by reducing vehicle exhaust fumes, and someone else realises that the gadget that does it is valuable and easily nickable.
It's the law of unintended consequences writ large. Someone has an idea of how to save the environment by reducing vehicle exhaust fumes, and someone else realises that the gadget that does it is valuable and easily nickable.
You'd have thought that if we can send a toy car to mars we could either intergrate it to make in unstealable or use materials no-one wants to nick?
Toyota offer a cat lock for £250: not 100% foolproof but most of these to55wrs can steal an unprotected cat converter in just a few minutes so it acts as a good deterrent as it would take them a lot longer to get the lock off first.
Given how prone catalytic converters are to theft you'd think a lock would be standard.
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