more than 300 catalytic converters seized in Dublin
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You never know, the mechanics might know a way to make them more awkward to remove or something. Worth a try, its a very horrible crime to have a stranger under your car taking bits off. Dangerous people
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Another theft on my road, this time from a car parked opposite my house, a W reg Honda Civic. Have to say I was surprised by their choice last week a 54 plate e46 and even more surprised last night or have they run out of hybrid cars in the area and will now go after anything? Same as last week they did a few cars within around a mile radius of where I live.
Same gang in their pimped out black Seat Leon. Managed to capture the reg no which I've passed on to the police but the reg comes back as a black Seat Ibiza Fr Tsi, so false plate as the car I saw was definitely either a Seat Leon or a Leon Cupra?
The police, surprisingly did attend last night and were there 5-10 minutes later, had a look at the CCTV footage I had captured and then sped off to drive around the area to maybe see if they could spot the car.
Same gang in their pimped out black Seat Leon. Managed to capture the reg no which I've passed on to the police but the reg comes back as a black Seat Ibiza Fr Tsi, so false plate as the car I saw was definitely either a Seat Leon or a Leon Cupra?
The police, surprisingly did attend last night and were there 5-10 minutes later, had a look at the CCTV footage I had captured and then sped off to drive around the area to maybe see if they could spot the car.
Ask your local dodgy scrap merchant - he can probably refit the same one that was nicked in the first place.
Some years back a guy I worked with bought a new set of alloy wheels to pimp his ride, which were inevitably then stolen. That weekend he went to his local scrapyard and bought them back. It blew my mind that although he reported the original theft, he didn't report the involvement of the scrapyard to the police. It was as though he didn't want to upset them in case he needed to buy more of his own stuff back from them again in the future.
Been happening lots around here still. For a while they would set off fireworks somewhere nearby, but I think people worked that one out. Amazing how quickly they steal them. The police did seize some, but they were probably legitimate converters
The problem is that there are no police around and their long gone. You’d be an idiot to confront them too much seeing as they have a cutting tool. I mean, our local shop was ram raided, they were probably in another country the time the police arrived, and that’s with our own local police helicopter.
Don't they let off the fireworks to celebrate?
Soldato
I've been googling where the cats are in our cars as well. I think we are safe as in my F30, my wifes Yaris and my sons Golf GTI the cats are in a difficult place to get to.
You mean like this op which got virtually no press attention at all?
https://news.npcc.police.uk/release...red-following-national-multi-agency-crackdown
Soldato
A friend was also telling me last night that a catloc doesn't seem to deter them, a friend of his has a cat stolen, so got Toyota to replace and fit a catloc and it got stolen again, his friend said it just took them around a minute longer to cut through the catloc cables before making off.
Soldato
This exact thing happened in Swindon a couple of yrs ago hahaha xD
Some mechanic starts work in the morning to find a corpse underneath the car.
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Was the BMW an E46? That’s what they did on my road last week.
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Oh no
There you go, jack failed killing the theif.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16028124/dad-of-three-crushed-death-bmw/