....while this is taking place??!!!

If it should - then it did not!

If it should not then what's the point of it!?!!

Little Feckers!!!!

Edited 4 May, 201016 yr by PastyBoy

B4stards!!

I hope they die of something slow and excrutiating.

Sorry to see that happen to your car Cliff.

I have had the opposite problem with my alarm. Goes off for nothing.

Yours should have sounded though. Doesn't the ultrasonic part of the system

switch off if you press lock then press it again after?? Kid/pet mode?

I often lock mine and go back and re-lock it again. (memory like a sieve)

I've always wondered if I'm de-activating the sensors by doing this.

Would it be better to unlock again and re-lock when I'm not sure if I've done it.

I see they had a quick grab up in the boot. Hope they didn't get anything too valuable mate.

Hope you're watertight and feeling alright again soon Cliff.

Dunno. If your alarm only has perimetric sensors, rather than volumatic and/or vibration sensors, definitely not, and if it doesn't have volumatic, possibly not anyway since any bumps may not have been enough to set off the vibration sensors. Been there, done that, had a smashed ignition lock/switch too, and the scr0te still didn't get the car away (or steal anything)!!

Thanks Garry

It is possible i double pressed and deactivated the sensors but one all the glass is replaced (rock they used to break the window bounced off the passenger seat shoulder and hit the windsceen above the glove box leaving a lovely spider crack) I shall be sitting in the back of the car, have the other half lock it, and moving around like a mo-fo to see if the sensors are functioning correctly!

Only thing taken was SWMBO's work laptop; which was in it's plain black bag but given the glass pattern in the footwell, left on the back seat in plain view rather than down in the footwell like normal.

They ignored the stereo, and a couple of hundred of quids worth of sunglasses in glove box and centre console though, and as the laptop is insured by work no need for a claim just a windscreen replacement.

Scrotes will be guttted to find that the laptop is fully encrypted so it won't even start up without a password; but still doesn't get me my excess back! :'(

The pricks.. tints would have made less of a mess as the glass dosent go all over the place it sticks to the film

Disappointed to see the damage.. hope they get caught could happen to anybody at any time dont think too much about it, blame the recession this kind of crime will be on the increase the way things are

The alarm should have triggered because of the sensors I was getting a quick take away left my mate in the car car locked itself

after a few seconds, the alarm went off because it sensed some movement, so the standard alarm is decent Cat 1 what ever that means..

get it tested to be on the safeside

Edited 4 May, 201016 yr by REDFABVRS

A common issue with some alarms with shock sensors is they won't go off when glass is broken, hence the availability of glass break sensors for alarms (which listen for the sound of breaking glass). If it had interior ultrasonic sensors I'd have hoped they would be triggered. They might well have been, most thieves are opportunists. If they see something they want they won't hang around for anyone to spot them by the car as the alarm is sounding, they'll be straight in get what they want, then legging it down the road.

Edited 4 May, 201016 yr by anewman

If they see something they want they won't hang around for anyone to spot them by the car as the alarm is sounding, they'll be straight in get what they want, then legging it down the road.

Agreed 100%

the other half thinks she remembers hearing something and getting up and peering out the window but seeing nothing due to sight line between to the car being obsured by a massive tree.

Even if she had seen something or the alarm had gone off i doubt by the time i'd found shoes and got down the 3 flights of stairs the laptop would still have been close enough for me to make any kind of difference.

Car has had the glass hoovered out (as has the dirt for the first time in my 18 month ownership - so there has been some good!)

and is booked in for replacement glass this evening.

A lesson in life i guess and the car shall now be parked under brighter spot light nearer the house and in view from the bedroom window.

I don't know if it's a coincidence but there seems to be a lot of Skodas' on here being broken into or vandalised lately! :S

The same thing happend when my Skoda was broken into via the front window. No alarm - Nothing.

They smashed up the head unit trying to get it and left loads of blood in the car - Still didn't get the head unit

If you look at the ultrasonic sensor in the vRS it's set in the light cluster above the centre console and is primarily designed to go off only if something triggers it by moving more or less directly underneath it (ie - someone trying to nick the stereo). Bit of a silly design really, for a Cat 1 alarm, you'd expect more.

Anyway, sorry to see the mess here mate - hope the cops find the scumbags and lock em up. We've had a spate of these round where I work lately - there's three or four prolific car thieves in a certain area round here and when we lock them up, the number of thefts drops drastically, when the criminal justice system lets them out, the misery for the locals starts up once more. Should lock them up and throw away the key I think but our hands are tied by the weak court system here.

hope the cops find the scumbags and lock em up

I'd imagine that's unlikely - i wasn't there however the other half tells me that the SOCO turned up and went "well you can see what happened here - they broke the window"

promote that man immediately! :wonder:

as much as i feel for you, leaving a laptop in full view is asking for trouble...lesson learned i hope ..

laptop only needs someone competant in IT to bypass the password problem.

Way to make him feel better big boy.

as much as i feel for you, leaving a laptop in full view is asking for trouble...lesson learned i hope ..

laptop only needs someone competant in IT to bypass the password problem.

TBH Warwick in a situation like this, if you have nothing productive to say then just keep your gob shut. Nobody needs a smart harris making comments that don't help. :no: Also Cliff said that it is usually out of sight if left in the car.

Back to OP. Just seen your thread Cliff. Sorry to hear about this but it just seems all far too common at present. It was only last week I parked up in public city centre car park and went into work for the day. On my way back to the car in the evening I realised that I had left the front on my stereo as I usually always take it off for security. I was pretty sure that when I got back to the car I was gonna see a broken window. To my relief all glass was in tact on the shifty mobile but three cars down his passenger window had been put in. Could have been me as easily as it was you. Just takes that one time to forget to hide things or take them out and the theiving little ba5tards strike.

Hope you are all sorted now

as much as i feel for you, leaving a laptop in full view is asking for trouble...lesson learned i hope ..

laptop only needs someone competant in IT to bypass the password problem.

A hard drive lock password isn't though. My work laptop has this and it doesn't even begin to boot until its put in.

It may be worth having a vag com on the central electrics my alarm goes off at the mo but the horn doesent sound so im getting it fixed friday.

Thanks for the kind words guys and Warick Hunt well yes you are :p

The fault lies firmly with my other half and nodobdy is arguing that fact; and it was very much a conversation that didn't need to be had.

She was really cut up about it and it was just a slip of the mind not to take the seconds to move the laptop from seat to footwell as normal.

And paying the £75 excess really made the issue hit home.

As she works for a giant international computer chip company (the one that isn't AMD) the laptop is fully encrypted and hard drive passworded, the OS usernamed and passworded, and the log in the the network just as difficult to get in. I live with her and i'd have no chance of getting into the bloody thing but for some reason she was petrified about being a security risk and that the lowly scrotes would take time to hack in, see what was on the computer, and then sell it on to the highest bidder. The paranoia of big business eh?!

Never mind all sorted now, National Mobile Windscreen replaced both glass panels yesterday evening - which i thought was really good as i thought door glass would take a while to come in rather than be requested at 10am and ready to fit at 5:30pm.

Only outstanding problem (apparenty a common VAG fault) is that when the glass is/was broken it shears some teeth from the winding mechanism so the glass doesn't now slide up and down as asked of the winder.

Gutted to see this.

I have just one small piece of advice that may be worth investigating. When this happened to me about 18 months back my insurer (swift cover) want to freeze my NCD for the year as a result of the glass claim as per their T's & C's.

If this is the case with your insurer then it's worth contacting them to see how much it will be to settle the claim so that your NCD isn't frozen. Due to the buying power of the insurer, the extra was less than my excess.

I feel for you mate. Glad its only a window and minor windscreen damage. A few cars round my way have been broken into and then set on fire, so glad it wasnt the case here.

What is the world coming to, where do people get of on this kind of behaviour, makes me sick. So sorry to see this mate, hopefully shouldn't be to much of an expensive fix for you. I had a stone thrown through my old cr rear window and ok, it was covered for a small excess on the insurance but getting all the glass out was a right headache.

oh that's nasty.. now you have good reason to install one of these

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9812/11/flame.thrower.car/

as much as i feel for you, leaving a laptop in full view is asking for trouble...lesson learned i hope ..

laptop only needs someone competant in IT to bypass the password problem.

trying to to be smart? eh?

ive had cars damaged and i do genuinely feel for him....but my other comments i stand by....lesson learned as they say.

trying to to be smart? eh?

ive had cars damaged and i do genuinely feel for him....but my other comments i stand by....lesson learned as they say.

Maybe you do, but your comment about the laptop password really didn't serve any other purpose than to kick a guy when he's down.

Well at least now you can invest is this state of the art anti theft system!

or one of theese!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxRMTtR5I2E

Im just trying to lighten the mood here i feel for you i realy do i get paranoid about someone smashing mine!