Ok so came home from work today to find our house had been broken into. Nothing was taken and hardly anything touched but the octavia keys I stupidly left on the table (i went to work in the wifes car) The car is now safe in another town on a friends drive. I'm counting myself lucky they didnt take the car as it was sat on the drive at the time. Thankfully our neighbours disturbed them and they ran off. police came and did all the dusting for prints etc and im waiting on a crime number which we will get tomorrow so I can start working on insurance however my question to you guys is does any one have any idea what it would cost for a new lock set and a pair of keys and how long this sort of work would take? Im going to call into skoda on the way home from work tomorrow and ask some questions but my car insurance doesnt cover keys so fingers crossed the home insurance does otherwise im going to be out of pocket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SWMBO lost the Golf 6 keys 2 months ago.

Cost estimate for replacement (keys, neiman and re-coding) was between 600 to 700 €.

Fortunately, someone found them and brought them to the village city hall, where I could recover them. :cocktail: 

Ok so came home from work today to find our house had been broken into. Nothing was taken and hardly anything touched but the octavia keys I stupidly left on the table (i went to work in the wifes car) The car is now safe in another town on a friends drive. I'm counting myself lucky they didnt take the car as it was sat on the drive at the time. Thankfully our neighbours disturbed them and they ran off. police came and did all the dusting for prints etc and im waiting on a crime number which we will get tomorrow so I can start working on insurance however my question to you guys is does any one have any idea what it would cost for a new lock set and a pair of keys and how long this sort of work would take? Im going to call into skoda on the way home from work tomorrow and ask some questions but my car insurance doesnt cover keys so fingers crossed the home insurance does otherwise im going to be out of pocket.

I don't get why you think it's stupid to leave the keys to your own car on your own kitchen table. That's not stupid at all.

 

Hope you get this resolved and the chav thieves are caught.

I don't get why you think it's stupid to leave the keys to your own car on your own kitchen table. That's not stupid at all.

Hope you get this resolved and the chav thieves are caught.

Spot on Lee, you hide the keys and they just trash the house in search of them. If they're prepared to break in what else are they prepared to do. As stupid as it sounds I'd rather leave the keys on the table where scum could steal rather than have everything torn up and any family etc threatened, still ****ing scum. Glad the law are doing something about it, makes a change

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My mother had her Mondeo key stolen a few years ago. She took the car to the Dealers immediately and had the missing key "removed from coding", and a replacement key supplied. The cost was close to £500.

 

Two or three days later her car was stolen from outside her house. The Dealer (Allen of Romford) denied any liability. Despite obviously neglecting to remove the old key coding as stated upon invoice, there was no way of proving it. My mum lost her car, £500 for having keys recoded needlessly, and her no-claims bonus.

 

Moral of the story is, make sure your dealer removes the old key code AND changes the ignition lock. Ask them if they can provide electronic confirmation that coding has been changed.

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I don't get why you think it's stupid to leave the keys to your own car on your own kitchen table. That's not stupid at all.

 

Hope you get this resolved and the chav thieves are caught.

Tazzered, have their hands and feet removed with a rusty hack saw, then left to live in their own excrement for the rest of their lives.

 

What the feck gives them the right to break into someones home    

Maybe not what everyone would do, but I'd drive it back home, park it on the drive, disconnect an important fuse like fuel pump so it doesn't start, they think they hit the jackpot when they press the button on the key fob and it unlocks. They jump in and try and make a getaway, if you catch them you get your key back and they suffer some form of justice (baseball bat/police cell)

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Maybe not what everyone would do, but I'd drive it back home, park it on the drive, disconnect an important fuse like fuel pump so it doesn't start, they think they hit the jackpot when they press the button on the key fob and it unlocks. They jump in and try and make a getaway, if you catch them you get your key back and they suffer some form of justice (baseball bat/police cell)

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i seem to remember reading somewhere if the car is locked from the outside with the remote its not possible to unlock or get out of the car. i might be wrong but could be useful provided yopu find the spare quick enough!

Id expect to pay about £500for a new lock set labour and coding from s dealer.

I would be getting your spare key recoded asap so the one they nicked won't start the car, this will cost around £70. But bear in mind they can still gain entry to the car.

And if they can get access they can knock it out of gear and let handbrake off straight on to a lowloader, thieving *****

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I hope you manage to get everything sorted out bloody thieves are increasing as the years go by...hope things work out for you, might be a good idea to get a big ass dog

If you do set the trap and you park your car on a drive, you can get driveway PIR alarms for like £15 to alert you when someone walks up to it.

Hope you get it all sorted!

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Ah all these clever ideas! Looks like a might have an expensive bill then :-(

I fell let down by our year old windows though as it looks like they got through them pretty easily.

Leave the car on the driveway, put a beartrap under the accelerator, pop some Popcorn, grab a beer and wait for the entertainment to begin.

Buy a Rotweiller, let him live in the car...best car security system you'll ever have!

Hope they catch them, thieves are the lowest of the low.

Cops will catch them, then the courts slap their little wrists as a punishment

Only way to be totally sure is to have ignition barrel changed as I wouldn't trust the dealer just removing the stolen keys coding from the ecu.

It may be weeks or months before someone attempts to take your car with the stolen key, but try they will.

I had a job where they came back 3 months after the burglary as the owner didn't realise at the time that they had stolen her spare.

She sat and watched her car being driven away.

I hope they catch them for you.

Thanks guys makes me feel better. I plan to get all the barrels changed and new keys sorted whether the insurance pay for it or not. Surely if the car insurance say they won't replace the keys then the car could then be stolen and a possibly a total loss claim for them? How do I stand with that if they know the keys have been taken?

I think its time for a bag fat alarm and CCTV system.

Surely it would be covered under your house insurance (if you have any that is) as the key is an item stolen from your house.

 

Or is there yet another "get out" in the small print?

 

Interesting question about where you stand with the insurance if they should come back and steal the car. I'm guessing they would try and get out of paying out. Insurance brokers would sell their own mother for a few quid!

The house insurance have refused point blank according to my wife who has been dealing with them. I presume there must be something in the small print as she is a force to be reckoned with when on the phone!

The next stage is see what Skoda say price wise on the way home from work.

A big fat alarm and CCTV system, aka a German shepherd.

Personally I like the idea of the bear trap  :clap: .

 

But cover the teeth in fetid rotting flesh from some road kill, just to ensure they get a very nasty infection which will result in their leg being amputated!

 

Note to self,

must attend more anger management sessions  . 

A big fat alarm and CCTV system, aka a German shepherd.

I think our house is too small for such a big dog :-(

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jul/27/house-burgled-car-keys-covered

 

Guardian article on insurance claim for car key theft. I do not know about you guys but I do not really scrutinise my home insurance I am sure it is full of exclusions.

Personally I like the idea of the bear trap :clap: .

But cover the teeth in feted rotting flesh from some road kill, just to ensure they get a very nasty infection which will result in their leg being amputated!

Note to self,

must attend more anger management sessions .

Oooooh

Turning the bear trap into something like a komodo dragon. Sir, I like the way you think!