Doh - I was just saying today to my work colleagues today that its quite hard to get into a modern car as they have deadlocks and everything.

Went to play squash after work, so walked to car in work car park, put laptop in, got squash stuff out, locked it and left car there while i went to sports centre.

Came back an hour and a half later and the doors are unlocked, front passenger window smashed, the rear seat is forward and they've taken my Kenwood stereo & laptop. Stupid me for putting laptop in and leaving it, but it was 6pm on a sunny evening. I've learnt my lesson there.

Question is is how did they get past the deadlocks? I pressed the lock button once which is meant to arm the alarm + deadlocks and I watched the car as I did it.

The internal mirror is also missing so maybe the scum knocked that off when trying to disable the deadlocks.

Grr - oh well!

feel for you dude, nothing worse, hope there aint too much damage

Was it in the boot?

They were obviously on the lookout for a victim. Scummers...

AFAIK one click on remte turns the deadlocks on and alarm on so they knew something we didnt...

AFAIK, one click alarms and deadlocks it, double click disables alarm and deadlocks.

I know when we have left the dog in the car for a short while, double clicking means he doesn't set the alarm off.

Hmm, come to think of it maybe I unlocked the car whilst walking up to it before I realised it had been broken into. He must've crawled in thru the passenger window, got my stereo and thought he'd check the boot for my Tom Tom (when he'd seen the bracket on the windscreen) by crawling into the back and lifting the seat up.

...when he'd seen the bracket on the windscreen...

They'll even look for rings on the windscreen these days, which is one of the reasons why I jerry-built the vent-mount cradle for my sat nav, and take both unit and cradle off whenever the car's parked... :thumbdwn:

Yup, never leave a cradle or sucker marks visable, and if poss remove before parking up.

Avoids hassle for scum to find it's not in the globe box.

one benefit of me having limo tints in the back half of my car is you can't see whats in the back. I never have anything valuable in mine. Satnav always goes wherever I go, along with the faceplate from my pioneer. I try to leave the glovebox open too to show nothing is in there. Give them no reason to break in, and usually they won't.

Sorry to hear about your incident though.

Good advice from Jason about opening the glovebox to show there is nothing inside.

Very sorry to hear about the break in and loss :(

Couple of years back the local council gave out a piece of card to those who wanted it saying there was nothing of value left in this vehicle as so many cars were being broken onto on the of chance of something being hidden......seemed like a good idea until a car was broken into at a local beauty spot and the thieves left a note by the council printed one .....saying "just checking"

one benefit of me having limo tints in the back half of my car is you can't see whats in the back. I never have anything valuable in mine. Satnav always goes wherever I go, along with the faceplate from my pioneer. I try to leave the glovebox open too to show nothing is in there. Give them no reason to break in, and usually they won't.

Sorry to hear about your incident though.

Our firm considered sunset glass on the new mondy's after a spate of break-ins on the guys old ones.

Big boss took the decision NOT to have them, as thieves would get a 'what they hiding' mentality and break in anyway.

To me makes sense. But the times they make us load kit which means using the back seats I wish we did have it!