My Dads retired but has been doing some part time work in the North West this week. He rang me earlier to tell me that his car has been nicked from the hotel carpark :eek:

Never mind the buggeration factor of sorting it all out but he's had the car from new (1994) and is absolutely gutted. I suppose it's long gone now and probably burnt out somewhere but the sad fact is the car was worth far more to him than it's actual monetary value. Unless it's found in one piece which is highly unlikely he's going to be well out of pocket :(

If anyone lives round the Ellesemere Port area keep an eye out for a metallic grey Volvo 850 T-5 saloon reg L368 JHN........What a bunch of bar stewards eh??

I sympathise entirely fella...

After todays nightmare I may never buy a decent car again.

I might feel different if the thieving ****s crash and kill themselves though.

don't live too far from EP , so will keep an eye out , but sorry to say this its probably already been burned out , Rossmore road , Westminster park areas are a bit dodgy

a T5 is an ultimate joy riders/armed robbers getaway car...... not surpised they would choose that really...... sorry to hear about your dad's loss tho.

maybe it's time he bought a skoda.... nobody in their right mind would nick that!

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maybe it's time he bought a skoda.... nobody in their right mind would nick that!

Trouble is there are plenty of people not in their right mind. Ask Mr Grumpy :(

Chris

What a shame, a nice motor to own from new I would imagine. It does very seriously make you think about what's happening to this country. If we get two threads on the one forum, in the one day, about car disappearing

I suppose it's a relatively easy target these days - still decently quick, even by today's standards and is using security tech that's more than a decade old. Still a crying shame though.

Steve

Sorry to hear that Jimmy. I will keep an eye out for it on my travels; I'm up in EP later on. I'll have to add that to my red Fabia radar that I've had in my head since yesterday...:(

Cheers guys although I'm sure it's now long gone the journey. Shame though as it was a nice car...... Police had said that older models are being targetted more now due to newer models being harder to nick (no consolation to Mr G though)

Anyway, it's only a car at the end of the day but it's still a right **** sorting it all out.

really sorry to hear that mate. hope things get sorted as easily as they can.

hopefully catch up with you soon jimmy