So last night I go to get in my car from work and find a handwritten note on my windscreen basically offering to buy my car.Never had this before and was wondering if its happened to anyone else on here?

Edited 15 June, 201412 yr by GAZ911

Happened to my dad with one of his classics that he left at a car show! But he didn't want to sell it

Happened to my dad with one of his classics that he left at a car show! But he didn't want to sell it

I can understand when its a classic.But minds just a bog standard Octavia VRS.Athough I had washed it.

Happened to my dad with one of his classics that he left at a car show! But he didn't want to sell it

 

 

I can understand when its a classic.But minds just a bog standard Octavia VRS.Athough I had washed it.

 

Future Classic??? Maybe!

 

Have had a couple of people asking to buy mine, always say No, don't not what to replace it with.

It's happened to me, I made use of it one time and sold a car.

Not to sound like an alarmist, but...

...sometimes criminals use things like this as "testers." Round where I live, criminals were leaving yellow notes on front doors advertising locksmiths, which seemed pretty innocent. However, they would return a few days later to see if the note had been removed - if it hadn't, it was obvious the property was unattended... and they'd burgle it.

Maybe something similar could be happening with cars in your area? If it hasn't been removed, they know the car is being left overnight at work and is unattended... and they know to come back during the dark hours.

Again, I could be completely wrong and it could be completely innocent, but having been a victim of car crime myself I thought I share the info. Just keep an eye out for dodgy people hanging around just in case

its why even though we live in a nice estate, front door and cars are always locked.. even when we are in.

My uncle went out one morning in his very well to do estate, started the car, went in for a jug of water with the frost,

came out 45 seconds later, car gone....

 

turned up 6 weeks later in a garda impound lot - been illegally parked for 28 days in a pub car park.

48 hrs later he was informed the car was probably being planned for use in some sort of crime,

as "someone had broken into the compound and burnt out the car over night"....