Over night, my father-in-law's 2010 GTR was stolen from his private drive in the Idle area of Bradford. It is Gun Metallic grey, reg starting ND60 and has no modifications other than the upgraded mats and parking sensors. Unfortunately, no tracker was installed.
His house was broken into and the keys were stolen. The car was seen on camera this morning (7th December) at 2:30am travelling towards the M606.
My father-in-law lent us this car for our wedding and a long weekend earlier in the year so I know what a great car this was!
Any info that you may have would be greatly appreciated!!!
I'm sorry mate, But that has to be one of the most stupid question i've seen on a forum. So you thought he got up saw his house had been broken in and his car stolen and then the first thing he did was go onto a GTR forum.
Yep, police have been round and taken details. It was them who somehow found the footage of the car at 2:30am. Not really sure what they can do other than keeping a look out.
Julien - sorry to hear this, hope the little gits get caught and strung up - as for the car I suspect its either in bits or already out of the country/in a container somewhere.....
Some classic insight there Enshiu, where do you get this info from? This type of job is "normally" done by an organised group, stealing to order, who have had the place under surveillance after following the car home. Nothing whatsoever to do with people who know the family!
I'm assuming he's phoned the insurance company. Key's were hidden away in a drawer I think. They somehow got in and found the keys while three people were asleep upstairs! At least no one came face to face with them. On the bright side, at least no body got injured!
So your ll wake up to find a shotgun in your face and being asked for the keys in a less than polite manner- or worse they threaten your family- your ll be wishing you left them in the draw downstairs at that point believe me.
The MO of these people usually revolves around being very aggressive and violent, because it usually creates compliance with victims, who at 3am are half asleep and don't know which way is up.
I m plenty qualified on this subject from a preventative aspect.
Shame to hear.
Bit surprised on the no tracker, but like most things it's up to the owner.
I'd much rather the keys were stolen than someone hurt or threatened my family, so the important thing is everyone is OK.
Even if the police have no way of finding it, it can still be replaced. A person can't.
to the OP sorry to hear about your loss, and hope you get the car back in a decent state, however looks very unlikely as those boys out in Bradford are lethal!!
the only thing i can suggest is to tracker a car such as the GTR and defo look into having your house alarmed as well.
Cheers for the support guys! Yeah, seems stupid now that there was no tracker fitted. Well, we can but hope it gets found but as mentioned, it's most likely in bits by now. If anybody does by chance, (however unlikely) see it though, please give us a shout! Although a amazing car, it's still just a car that can't be compared to what could have been lost if somebody had come face to face with the intruders.
I've beein involved in threads like this before and I feel for your father mate.
A good idea someone come up with was to leave your keys in the middle of the landing upstairs so if a theif who has no balls wants to ransack your downstairs for the keys then they won't find them and most will probably go......for the w@n@ers who want to wake you up and threaten you, they get as far as the outside of your bedroom door and pick up your keys and go.
I thought a good plan ! Your life is worth more than your car (although being faced with a scally in my room demanding the keys...i'm not sure if my instink to kill could be refrained
I agree with leaving the keys in a secure yet visible place.
I however dont agree with having Tracker as I wouldnt want the car back after some sh1theads had taken it. One because of the potential damage and engine damage (ever rev etc) but also come resale time it would be recorded as stolen recovered and value would drop like a lead turd.
I however dont agree with having Tracker as I wouldnt want the car back after some sh1theads had taken it. One because of the potential damage and engine damage (ever rev etc) but also come resale time it would be recorded as stolen recovered and value would drop like a lead turd.
I had my Mini Cooper S pinched with keys several years ago and thanks to the Tracker the car was found 3 hours later parked up in a car park.
All in one piece like I'd parked it myself.
Insurance company had nothing to do with it, just Tracker liaising with the rozzers so car was not stolen recovered in an insurance sense nor recorded as such.
Just had the keys changed, alarm immob reprogrammed and all was well.
Each to their own regards Trackers, but after that event, every car I own has had one, or will have one.
Enshiu where were you around the hours of 1am till 6am on the 07/12/11.
Only joking mate.
Hope the person's who's lost there car is ok. I think poeple being in the house is worst than the car going, Can really take some getting over things like that.
I thought about not mentioning the lack of a tracker but at least if whoever has the car knows it's not got a tracker there is less chance of it being torn apart to look for it. And it's more likely to be on the roads and visible.
as has been said already, the car will be parked up and they will play the waiting game.
Its not possible to completely protect yourself, but you can certainly make yourself a much less inviting prospect.....
all the i ll do this and that if i find them in my house is drivel, and most of the time force will be met with force...and these people like to make sure they have the numbers.
as for the dogs, most of them aren't trained and don't really know who they are biting, taking a dog out of the equation from thieves point of view is easy, just poison it, i ve seen it done before.
if they want it they will find a way......after all being defeated/put off so easily means these scumbags aren't going to get paid....
i see the mirrored effect with the piracy situation around africa.
My point was that you hit them once they've left the premises
They just want the keys - so once they have them they won't be hanging about in the house, they will head straight for the car
Speaking to people who've had it happen to them, its usually 3-4 scumbags at most
It's unfortunate this has happened, feel for the owner.
The best theft prevention apart from having a tracker fitted, is not to leave your car keys (or the spare key) at home. or keep it hidden in a place where you know it's gonna be very hard for anyone to find.
So many similar incidents where car keys have been taken and the car gone.
Recently a neighbour in my area had their Range Rover keys fished out of the letterbox and the car gone, still has not been found.
And guess what, the insurance companies are not gonna be amused to find out your keys were left on the mantelpiece so readily available with your car on your drive ready to go.
Exactly. I was not suggesting before that I would leave the keys by the front door.
Charlie thats interesting to know. Tanks for updating me, my info was clearly wrong as a member of plod told me that if they recovered the car it would be classed as stolen recovered so when a database check would be performed it would come up as this. He also said that the insurance company would also be informed as such.
Interesting reading with regards to insurance and stolen/recovered etc.
For what its worth i have a tracker and i don't leave the keys in plain sight. I don't go as far as sleeping with them under my pillow coz that's just plain ridiculous! It makes you think though do you want some thugs searching for your keys and possibly confronting you or should just leave them out....
Best security measure is my GTC Titan, you can't start the thing but ever neighbour for a 100mtr radius is awoken!!!
On a serious side as great as they are their just a piece of fancy tin, personally I'd happily hand the keys over ever time, however I do have a security pole, tracker, camera system and two other cars parked onfront of the GTR which itself is under a car cover,
My thinking is if the thief is willing to think removing the security pole moving the two other cars taking the cover off while not get caught on camera and make it out the 1/2 km to the front of the estate with a GTC Titan screaming is worth the risk of getting caught then I'll meet him in the hallway and hand the keys and fob over to him and shake his hand
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