Seamus Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Well this is what greeted me when I arrived at my office this morning. All four wheels stolen (with tyres only a few weeks old, sigh); locking wheel nut pinched by smashing the drivers side back window. This was done in the middle of a business park in Warwick over night. My car gets left here once a month max (although never again!), so has to be an opportunist theft. If anyone hears of any 20" Audi 5 spoke grey coloured alloys for sale in the Warwick/Leamington Spa area please be sure to let me know..... Just fills me with joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Jesus, that is bad, was it your office car park? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 What does your CCTV show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) Dare I say, probably weighed in for scrap. Edited November 19, 2013 by keg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus Posted November 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) Yep office car park. CCTV - not one of the offices around me, including mine, has it... The horse has slightly bolted but we've ordered it this morning.. I especially like the way they managed to miss the bricks at the front.. Edited November 19, 2013 by Seamus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebarrels Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 That's shocking mate thieving ******** need there hands chopping off BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8 90 Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Makes you proud to go to work & pay their doesn't it - sensible words fail me !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glb8686 Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Dare I say, probably weighed in for scrap. Not at all. Larger sized VW and Audi etc wheels are big on the modifying scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebarrels Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Well this is what greeted me when I arrived at my office this morning. All four wheels stolen (with tyres only a few weeks old, sigh); locking wheel nut pinched by smashing the drivers side back window. This was done in the middle of a business park in Warwick over night. My car gets left here once a month max (although never again!), so has to be an opportunist theft. If anyone hears of any 20" Audi 5 spoke grey coloured alloys for sale in the Warwick/Leamington Spa area please be sure to let me know..... Just fills me with joy Looks to me that they knew exactly when to strike,and had recced the area previously and knew there wasn't any cctv to worry about, so I reckon it was a planned theft rather than opportunist and maybe stolen to order whichever mate thev'e got some neck BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
castletyne Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Will be charva scum even when caught nothing happens until they've been at court several times Happened to me several years ago they caused £1500 worth of damage to car The two of them got caught went before the magistrates and got fined £250 each crown gets the fine and im left to foot the repair bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filzee Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Scum. Feel for you mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rimotu66 Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Feel for you mate and hope the thieving scum are caught. Thats the downside of locking wheel nuts, every scumbag in the country knows we have to keep the socket in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus Posted November 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Recovery truck has just turned up with 4 spare wheels and the wheel nuts he's brought don't fit. The thieves took mine with them, including the locking wheel nut key. "They usually leave them".. It's kind of funny, but not.. Fortunately aside from the glass inside and the window, the bodywork is all off the ground. Probably bounced off the ground when it fell off the bricks though.. Sigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick miller Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) Very sorry for you, it's sickening when things like this happens. There's a lot to be said, sadly, for not having a car that attracts undesirably attention; when we used to live in London a couple of mates gave up on owning nice motors, if they didn't get keyed or the aerials snapped off then bits would go missing and frequently windows would be smashed looking for anything expensive that may be locked away inside. They both ended up buying Mundaneo's or similar.. Mind you, that doesn't exempt you from the attentions of the scumbags, I had a Punto (a total bucket) and a Clio (again, an utter bucket), both were nicked from outside the house by simply prying the doors open, as the panels appeared to be have been pressed from metalised toffee. They both ended up dumped in Hackney were the local plod, being utterly useless, stuck a big 'Police Aware' sticker on each one with the same result both times. By the time the local dimwits, sorry Police, had called me another set of scum had managed to re-nick the cars and go for another joy filled journey round East London (on the second occasion I did ask the dimfolk whether they had put a big sticker on it, to which they said they had and I did mention that this was pretty much like putting a big sign on it saying 'Stolen, hot-wired and ready for fun, just add fuel' but they didn't seem to agree with me and typically, knew better). Let's hope you can get it all fixed with no lasting damage. Edited November 19, 2013 by mick miller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glb8686 Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Shame we can't wire our cars up to the mains. That'd sort 'em! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalmac Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 There's an idea! Haha southern fried chav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Great idea!, touch and fry! didn't realise that Audi wheels were so popular on the modding scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhongreen Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 total scum, some people just dont give a **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junctiontwo Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Sorry for you mate, real sorry..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Scum,is there any cctv down the road somewhere,local shop etc,there can't be many vehicles passing in the middle of the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saddler Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Look at it this way You may have lost four wheels and had a window smashed....but you're well on the way to a new DIY BBQ project for next summer. You're up by 8 housebricks that you never owned this time yesterday. Winner....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) This guy woke up in the morning to find some bits missing. The vehicle is parked on his drive, under his bedroom window and 2ft from his front door Edited November 19, 2013 by TaxiDriver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overandunder2012 Posted November 19, 2013 Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 i hate chavs have i mentioned this before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk dumpling Posted November 20, 2013 Report Share Posted November 20, 2013 Good idea and ill bet police haven't checked CCTV in locality. Wife was robbed in a small Suffolk town and fuzz did *****r all. I checked CCTV in 2/3 shops wo success - thought fuzz would do leg work but no chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus Posted November 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2013 Police weren't interested at all; they asked me if I'd spoken to the neighboring offices regarding CCTV, which I had, so apparently the lines of inquiry were exhausted. Like BBQ idea, except they only bothered to put one side on bricks the other was left on two jacks (one of which went through the passenger floor). I put the four bricks they used back into the gaps on the edge of the car park... If there is a bright side I suppose I now have 2 spare jacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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