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Aug 27, 2009 16:38:04 GMT
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My mates very special Mini that is soon to be Mag featured was stolen last night from the Plymouth area! :mad: This is a famous car Locally and has lots of national reconition throughout the Mini circles! The car and its parts stand out like a sore thumb being BRIGHT ORANGE with most of the car being totally custom with years of work being carried out!! My mate is totally distrought when he found it gone this morning!! Here is the pics of the car........................... REG - H47 SYA           If anyone has any details please call the police imediately AND message me at crxboy150@hotmail.com and hopefully the car can be recovered in one piece!!! :nod: Thankyou |
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Aug 27, 2009 16:58:28 GMT
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Just came on to start this very same topic. I camped with Ben at Riv Run this year and it is a really special mini. Hope to see it back in his possession in one piece ASAP.
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uncle silvia
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Aug 27, 2009 16:59:48 GMT
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Yea Ive blasted it up around as many forums as poss!!
Feel free to cut and paste the above to others Ive missed!!!
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uncle silvia
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Aug 27, 2009 18:30:42 GMT
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[quote: Member of mini club]
Just spoken to Ben, turns out Ben wasn't really looking to sell the car, he just put it on ebay with a huge reserve, and advertised it for £5k on pistons heads to see if anyone would be prepared to pay that much for it.
Conviniently, someone called up offering to pay the full £5k and wanted to come and view it this morning.
The guy had all bens details, including the address where the car was kept overnight. Ben woke up this morning expecting a viewing, only to find the car was gone!
Personally, I think this seems INCREDIBLY dodgy, as the car has been kept at that address totally problem free for around 18 months. It was also parked next to a very well known 16v vauxhal powered mini worth around £10k for almost a year, again with no problems.....
Lets hope "orange" is found safe and sound.....
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davej
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Aug 27, 2009 18:49:51 GMT
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Aug 27, 2009 19:37:19 GMT
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Fukk!n w@nkers! Cant have nothing nice these days without some tosser wanting to take it away. Hope it comes back in one piece.
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Aug 27, 2009 21:24:40 GMT
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I don't understand why cars like this don't have an alarm, or even a tracker system.
With how much is spent tarting the car up, surely the budget can accommodate some sort of security?
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RobinJI
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Aug 27, 2009 22:05:07 GMT
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Ben's mini did have an alarm and immobiliser, infact it was an integral part of the car what with the lack of door handles meaning it's needed to operate the poppers to open them.
Doesn't help much if they come along and stick it on a flat bed though, or they know what they're doing with vehicle electrics. If an alarm's retrofitted, it can be un-retrofitted....
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uncle silvia
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Aug 27, 2009 23:30:31 GMT
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Well!! After lots of posting on Forums and on Facebook by lots of people AMAZINGLY we found the Mini!!!  After it had been stolen it had been moved to another area of the city in a small cul-de-sac, parked up and covered over! Randomly a guy we know who is a delivery driver happened to be in this street today and spotted "a Mini under a cover" but didnt think anything of it until he saw everyone looking for one on the net! He contacted a friend of mine who passed the details to me and I passed them to the owner and we all went to check it out! Much to his relief it was his beloved car under the cover but he waited for the Police to turn up before uncovering it! They had removed the rear window completely to gain entry but didnt smash it and left it behind, They had hotwired the car damaging the ignition and stolen the CD player from the dash! Other than this the car is fine and has now been recovered to a safe location! It also looks like it was nothing really to do with the ebay ad or at very least someone wanted to steal it before it was sold!! The power of the internet is amazing!! :thumbs: Heres some pics from tonight...................         |
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RobinJI
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Aug 27, 2009 23:37:03 GMT
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Result (Y)
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Surely then, if they were able to remove the window (bypassing the break glass sensor), and gain entry to the car, then the alarm was not functioning properly.
Granted on a mini there isn't a lot of space to hide the brains, but if they can enter the car without the alarm going off, or access the engine without the alarm going off, there's a problem.
A two stage immobiliser would delay them enough with the alarm going off to deter them.
If it's been put on a flat bed, then the alarm should realise the car is being moved.
Now the car is safe, I'd suggest getting a proper alarm fitted...we need to think about what can be learned from this.
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Aug 28, 2009 11:47:13 GMT
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That's great news! Well done to everyone involved in finding it.
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marksparks999
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Aug 28, 2009 14:10:40 GMT
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chuffed to bits he got it back, may have been covered with the scrote watching it to see if a 'tracker' was fitted, and then come back in a few days if its was still there?
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Retroless at the moment... but on the hunt for something old!
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uncle silvia
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Aug 28, 2009 19:35:27 GMT
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Yea was a real result and the car is being sorted as we speak!!
No news on the Scum yet!!
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mrbhp426
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Aug 28, 2009 21:44:50 GMT
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;D
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Aug 31, 2009 20:54:02 GMT
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TRACKER!
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tri
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Always nice to see a positive result. |
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nice one. i prolly woulda staked it out and camped in a van nearby to catch the people when they came back to it!
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