Some scrote(s) nicked our daughter's Octy estate last night from the Brookfield area of Preston, Lancashire.  Car is a 2007 Octavia mk2 Estate in dark grey/silver with roof bars and a towbar.  Baby seat and odds and ends inside.

 

FN07 WCF if anyone around notices it; please let me or the Plod know.

 

Cheers, Mike

 

PS Piccy added a few posts down.

 

Edited 6 August, 20223 yr by MikeTheThinker
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little bosturds.

 

a kindly mod might pin this one for a week or 2, to help awareness?

@cheezemonkhai for example?

 

There are some gits around...

Edited 6 August, 20223 yr by skomaz
Bloody spellchecker changed gits to GIFTS!!

@john999boy - could you possibly pin this?

Not the world's greatest piccy but all I have to hand:

 

 

35 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

@john999boy - could you possibly pin this?

Sorted.

Kindly me in a month though. 👍

 

 

1 minute ago, john999boy said:

Sorted.

Kindly remind me in a month though. 👍

Thanks John.  In reality, if it doesn't turn up in the next few days (abandoned after a joyride or the trip home from the pub) it will either disappear for good or end up burned out somewhere.  Shame, it's a darned good car despite the cosmetic challenges.

Sorry to hear that Mike, did they steal the keys?

7 minutes ago, J.R. said:

Sorry to hear that Mike, did they steal the keys?

Seems they broke into the car by some means and went through the compartments opportunistically.  Unfortunately, a spare set of keys (including a house key) was in the 'secret' cubby down by the driver's knee and we assume they used these to drive the car away.  Not  the smartest move IMO but the kids will know better in future!

 

I am interested in how the initial breach was made as we have two mk2 Octys of our own, but it may be they just broke a window.  We hopefully will find out if/when the car is recovered.

On 06/08/2022 at 21:33, skomaz said:

There are some gits around...

We knew what you meant, Skomaz

 

Edited 7 August, 20223 yr by MikeTheThinker

Sorry, I’ve just seen this but see John pinned it.

 

Sadly if it’s not turned up I would imagine it was nicked as parts for Audi/VW and other in group cars 😞

Edited 7 August, 20223 yr by cheezemonkhai

Update Monday evening:

 

Car has been found, less than a mile away.  It has clearly been robbed for a joyride then driven around fields and generally wrecked.  Shame but at least the uncertainty is over.

 

Thanks to all for the support; it helps.

 

@john999boycan you unpin this now, please? Ta.

Edited 8 August, 20223 yr by MikeTheThinker

4 hours ago, MikeTheThinker said:

Update Monday evening:

 

Car has been found, less than a mile away.  It has clearly been robbed for a joyride then driven around fields and generally wrecked.  Shame but at least the uncertainty is over.

 

Thanks to all for the support; it helps.

 

@john999boycan you unpin this now, please? Ta.

 

Did you work out how they got in it? 

thats a bittersweet result...

"weve found your stolen car"

"brilliant!"

"its been wrecked, driven around fields and is now beyond repair"

"bostords!"

 

Doors are deadlocked, perhaps they broke a window just to see what they could grab from inside or maybe somehow they knew that the keys were in that compartment.

I  seem to remember there is a way around the deadlocks on that generation of vehicle, certainly there was on the previous.

Regardless of if my memory serves me correctly, it's basically back to time for a disclock type solution again 😞

 

 

 

Our daughter took loads of piccies of the car as located but the Police have asked that we don't post any until they've completed their forensics investigation.

 

From the looks of the piccies I believe the sequence of events was something like:

 

1. spot the car and decide to have a root about to see what could be nicked.

2. break the front passenger window, pull out and discard the child seat that was on the front passenger seat (recovered at the original parking place)

3. have a ferret through the lockers and pockets for anything of interest

4. find the keys (stupid place to leave them, too) in the knee locker, clip the drivers' seat belt into place to silence the alarm and drive the car away to play and explore further

5. play cross country idiots for a while until a sideways slide put the car over a tree stump and it couldn't be moved

6. abandon the drive (note all doors still deadlocked) and smash the remaining windows to get at whatever was in the car, scattering stuff all over but finding little of interest.

7. run away - at least they didn't torch the car like many others have been.

 

Their insurance company - Admiral - have been excellent and have dealt with things very quickly.  Both the Police and Admiral have been told about the spare keys in the knee locker and have still accepted the claim.  We now wait to see how creative the insurers will be when it comes to offering a settlement, at which point I will be pulled in to 'negotiate'

 

in other words a purely opportunistic break in for a rummage where they got lucky and were able to "have a bit of extra fun"

hopefully theyll have been thick enough to leave something identifiable behind and a prior arrest for similar so their details are in the system already....

On 09/08/2022 at 19:21, MikeTheThinker said:

clip the drivers' seat belt into place to silence the alarm and drive the car away to play and explore further

 

How does that work? Surely with the keys the alarm would be silenced and without them the car alarm would not be silenced by the seat belt, or did you mean the seat belt alarm? 💡 Come to think of it Twoccers would not wear a seat belt so they can do a fast decamp

On 09/08/2022 at 19:21, MikeTheThinker said:

 

Their insurance company - Admiral - have been excellent and have dealt with things very quickly.  Both the Police and Admiral have been told about the spare keys in the knee locker and have still accepted the claim.

 

If I leave my keys in the ignition and my car is stolen in my confusion I would convince myself that it was locked and the spare keys were hidden in the vehicle.

 

Never going to happen though as I only have TPO insurance.