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Jun 20, 2019 20:31:54 GMT
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Stardust Silver Mk1 RS2000, RAC140M, Kettering between 01/10/18 & 16/06/19 Stardust Silver mk1 Escort RS2000 registration number RAC140M was stolen from a locked secure garage in Kettering at some time between 1st October 2018 & when the theft was discovered on 16th June 2019. The car is a completely standard mk1 RS2000 with steel wheels & Cibies. It is Stardust Silver with a black vinyl roof. It has pinstripes rather than RS stickers. The car has been in long term storage & will have been towed or removed on a trailer or flatbed. Anyone with any info can contact Kettering police quoting crime reference number 19000310289.
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Rob M
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Jun 21, 2019 11:18:53 GMT
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Well, obviously, it was not, was it.
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Jun 21, 2019 18:48:57 GMT
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Well, obviously, it was not, was it. By your logic if someone smashed your window to break into your house it wasn't secure to begin with?
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Rob M
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Jun 21, 2019 21:03:28 GMT
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Well, obviously, it was not, was it. By your logic if someone smashed your window to break into your house it wasn't secure to begin with? If I had £20K sitting on my kitchen table in £50 notes, Id have a f*****g damn sight more than a window pane between the money and the glass, by my logic.
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b7
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That's a big window of time in which it went missing. I hope it's found but if it was nicked back in 2018, it'll be long gone by now I would think. There's a lesson if ever I saw one. If you have one in storage, get it checked regularly. Very regularly.
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Rob M
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Jun 22, 2019 12:21:33 GMT
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That's a big window of time in which it went missing. I hope it's found but if it was nicked back in 2018, it'll be long gone by now I would think. There's a lesson if ever I saw one. If you have one in storage, get it checked regularly. Very regularly. Shhhhh!!! You can't say things like that!!! I had £10ks worth of Lotus sitting in my garage for nearly three years. My garage is at the side of my house and there is, at least, one car sitting in front of said garage 24/7. Do you think I didn't bother checking on it on a daily basis??!! I was bloody paranoid, I'd open that door every morning and when I got home from work, just in case. This thread is utterly rammed to the rafters with reported stolen cars and, I reckon, less than 50% of them, and I am being generous with that, have been recovered. What does that say? The thieves are better at stealing these cars than the owners are at protecting them. Lets all not assume, as a consequence, that these car robbers are geniuses of the theft world, oh no, as in one case, you just open up a car with your d**k because the locks are circa 1960s and made of congealed porridge, and push it down the road to a waiting Transit/Mercedes/LDV flat bed with grandmas Hyundai i110, or whatever it was called. That simple. People will NEVER learn.
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Jun 22, 2019 16:29:54 GMT
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OK guys, can we stop victim-blaming.
The thieves knew it wasn't theirs, so even if the took it from outside McDonalds with the keys left in the ignition, they're still the scumbags here. Could it have been more secure? Maybe. Is it reasonable to call a locked garage secure? Of course it blinkin' is!
Look out for this stolen car people.
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Jun 22, 2019 17:31:09 GMT
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father less scum
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Last Edit: Jun 22, 2019 17:32:28 GMT by gettingold
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Rob M
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Jun 22, 2019 17:56:34 GMT
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OK guys, can we stop victim-blaming. The thieves knew it wasn't theirs, so even if the took it from outside McDonalds with the keys left in the ignition, they're still the scumbags here. Could it have been more secure? Maybe. Is it reasonable to call a locked garage secure? Of course it blinkin' is! Look out for this stolen car people. That,s a massive cop out. You know full well that too many cars go missing because not enough effort is put into making them as secure as it is possible to be. Yes, they are thieving scumbags, that is a 'do bears sh*t in the woods' statement, that does not negate the reality that yet another car has gone missing and there is a 98% chance that it will not be returned. Why should we all be concerned? It pushes up all of our insurance premiums, they have been steadily heading north for some time, underwriters are paying out fortunes and that impacts us all. People need to do more, the list of stolen cars on here is a testimony to that and sympathy and a cuppa is not going to arrest that trend unless people try considerably harder to keep hold of their cherished cars. Us all keeping our eyes open is the proverbial shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. That's not good for any of us who love our retros, is it. We are all victims in the long run.
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Jun 22, 2019 18:13:08 GMT
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Personally I think we often fall guilty to the ‘out of site out of mind’ mentality. I fell victim to this at the back end of last year when my e30 318is was removed from a locked facility on a farm shared with several other vehicles.
I typically spend 4-8 weeks at a time travelling out of the country with work and put my ‘daily’ in front of my home garage to secure my motorbikes, the barn has my 2007 Alpina Touring and the E30 in situ ..... ‘out of sight out of mind’. I trundled up to the barn in Jan to check on the Cars and put them into Carcoons and the 30 had gone. The lock had been cut on the metal doors and put back on so it looked secure from a distance. The Alpina had the drivers glass smashed but was not moved ..... I imagine due to the way the steering locks on these which is modern unlike the 30.
The bitter pill was a refusal of the insurance pay out as the 30 had no MOT which is my fault.
As a result we have all moved from that facility and agreed that it does not matter how secure you can make something, the ill gotten gains are as much as a challenge to a thief as to an owner trying to secure it.
Unfortunately we live in a society in which some people have no barometer between right and wrong, I have concluded if I want to have nice cars I have to make sure the appropriate measures are their to keep them such as CCTV, trackers, physical bollards etc. It’s a symptom of society and my friends we can do nothing to change the way it is.
I know people will say they do not have the means to take the measures I do, but believe me when it happens to you, your mentality changes.
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Jun 22, 2019 19:29:56 GMT
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Thanks escortmad as usual for posting up the details No slight on you, but it’s a mk1 escort as said these things need bolting to the ground these days A real shame for the owner but I also feel that car will never be seen again.....not on that registration anyway...
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Jun 22, 2019 20:28:08 GMT
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Thanks escortmad as usual for posting up the details No slight on you, but it’s a mk1 escort as said these things need bolting to the ground these days A real shame for the owner but I also feel that car will never be seen again.....not on that registration anyway... What really shook me about Mk1 escorts thefts was the one a few years ago that had been off the road for years out of sight but was found in Ireland ...and upon looking at records was found to have been searched on various databases from Ireland numerous times a few months before it was stolen . If i had one i would take every precaution going . Out of sight , chained down , trackers , cctv , dogs and would probably snap at anyone who asked me about it on a forecourt !
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Jun 23, 2019 12:57:10 GMT
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I hope the OP finds this car OK, a friend's Mk1 RS 2000 was stolen during the week from his workshop. To the Piston Heads reject above, if you think parking another car in front of your P&J will stop the scumbags stealing it, think again, nothing is that secure against a determined thief.
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Last Edit: Jun 23, 2019 17:22:56 GMT by timbo1956
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Rob M
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Jun 23, 2019 15:53:54 GMT
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I hope the OP finds this car OK, a friend's Mk1 RS 200 was stolen during the week from his workshop. To the Piston Heads reject above, if you think parking another car in front of your P&J will stop the scumbags stealing it, think again, nothing is that secure against a determined thief. I'm no piston head reject. I'm not that much younger than you. Reread the thread and my posts carefully and with a bit of intelligence before you make comments that make you look, possibly, as thick as sh*t. ..and no, I insulted nobody, unlike you, because I am an adult and act like one. Now go and use your fingers and toes and count up all of the cars that have been stolen and reported on this thread and then come back and tell us all how many have been recovered. I'd suggest you will need more fingers and toes to count the amount that have been reported on here and fewer than the sum total of your brain cells to count how many have been recovered. To clarify. security is by degree.A couple of chubb locks on a lock up is not as secure as CCTV, chaining the sodding car to the floor and fitting a tracker. Yes, cars have been moved in order to get to the car they have been seeking but not that many have, as you well know. The point? Cars will be stolen by determined thieves but why make it easy for them!!!! Grow up, learn how to read carefully for the thrust of a discussion and stop acting like you are a 5 years old keyboard warrior.
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tay14
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Jun 23, 2019 16:52:25 GMT
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I hope the OP finds this car OK, a friend's Mk1 RS 200 was stolen during the week from his workshop. To the Piston Heads reject above, if you think parking another car in front of your P&J will stop the scumbags stealing it, think again, nothing is that secure against a determined thief. I'm no piston head reject. I'm not that much younger than you. Reread the thread and my posts carefully and with a bit of intelligence before you make comments that make you look, possibly, as thick as sh*t. ..and no, I insulted nobody, unlike you, because I am an adult and act like one. Now go and use your fingers and toes and count up all of the cars that have been stolen and reported on this thread and then come back and tell us all how many have been recovered. I'd suggest you will need more fingers and toes to count the amount that have been reported on here and fewer than the sum total of your brain cells to count how many have been recovered. To clarify. security is by degree.A couple of chubb locks on a lock up is not as secure as CCTV, chaining the sodding car to the floor and fitting a tracker. Yes, cars have been moved in order to get to the car they have been seeking but not that many have, as you well know. The point? Cars will be stolen by determined thieves but why make it easy for them!!!! Grow up, learn how to read carefully for the thrust of a discussion and stop acting like you are a 5 years old keyboard warrior. Let’s hope the owner gets his car back and stop the negative comments towards him.big hugs and kisses to the keyboard warriors.
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Jun 23, 2019 17:27:48 GMT
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Let’s hope the owner gets his car back and stop the negative comments towards him.big hugs and kisses to the keyboard warriors. As it could have gone at any time in the past eight months it's probably long gone now, my friend's car was taken from the Reading area late in the last week but has since been sighted on the south coast near Brighton so could well be heading abroad.
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Last Edit: Jun 23, 2019 17:37:54 GMT by timbo1956
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