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John C
Member Since: 28 Aug 2007
Location: East Yorkshire
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(I'm not asking for instructions!)
With the sad news from Artichoke about his D4, I'm wondering, without the keys, is the D3/4 easy to steal?
I keep the keys upstairs and have dogs, and we've neighbours with Porsches and no dogs, but I'm just interested in how nickable it is without keys?
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 14th Jun 2011 3:32 pm |
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Gareth
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Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
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I would say other than craning it onto a low loader, no chance without the keys. A friend of our had their Mini cooper s nicked by someone in a hi vis jacket, lifted it onto a breakdown truck and drove away. The neighbours presumed it was legit, and had broken down.
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| 14th Jun 2011 3:35 pm |
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CDS
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It's incredible where you can get to if you stick a hi vis on !
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| 14th Jun 2011 4:28 pm |
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euangibson
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Sadly ,a friend in the Police also told me this is one of the best ways not to get asked what you are up to....hi-vis jacket in broad daylight.....fkrs "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak out and remove all doubt" ?.....what rubbish...
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| 14th Jun 2011 5:07 pm |
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BBS SPY
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Gotta say that i am also a victim of being fooled by the apparent legitimacy that broad daylight, a recovery truck and a Hi Vis jacket suggests.
Several years ago on a well used dual carrageway, i passed an outfit hawking a broken down vehicle off the side of the road onto a low loader, i would not have noticed except the vehicle was quite a classic, An MBGT or something similar.
A few days later, i saw a stolen notice appear in the press for this same model vehicle describing how it had broken down on the side of this same dual carridge way and when the owner went back to recover it, it was gone.
I of course phoned it in, as any decent citizen should, but had no name number or plate detail 
I was especcially gutted that this was not the kind of vehicle that any amount of insurance money could replace.
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| 14th Jun 2011 7:34 pm |
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blowpipe
Member Since: 07 May 2009
Location: lightwater
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Hi-viz attired guys get away with stealing motorbikes in London on a daily basis, manhandling them from bike bays into white vans even though the alarms are going at full pelt.
No-one bats an eyelid. Same goes for bicycle theft; if you've got enough front you can forget arousing the suspicion of anyone, as everyone assumes that you've got a perfect right to be doing what you're doing  (if anyone comes across a black 2010 Specialised Sirrus offered cheaply in the Woking area, it's probably mine recently stolen in broad daylight from outside the station  )
Here's a vid from the states proving a point:
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| 14th Jun 2011 8:23 pm |
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ruggedpeak
Member Since: 10 Jun 2010
Location: UK
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Can I politely suggest that if anyone sees such activity anywhere and its not a well known/recognisable outfit (AA, RAC, D&G etc) they dial 999 and report it with numberplate of the recovery truck. Advise them you think its suspicious. They'll do the rest.
Especially if its a scabby old Transit with no sign writing or similar.
Re: bike theft. Stand by a station bike rack long enough and you'll soon see someone walking past eyeing up the bike locks........ Tony
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| 14th Jun 2011 8:43 pm |
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blowpipe
Member Since: 07 May 2009
Location: lightwater
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ruggedpeak wrote:
Re: bike theft. Stand by a station bike rack long enough and you'll soon see someone walking past eyeing up the bike locks........
Big lesson for me here as a first (and last) time station cycle user.
I had a £50 Abus 'Sold Secure' cable lock, ostensibly the dog's bo++ocks. This clearly didn't last long.
Every other bike of any value in immediate area had a huge motorcycle chain and lock, and mostly everything else had a u-lock. That said, 'expensive' bikes I could have counted on the fingers of one hand for obvious reasons....
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| 14th Jun 2011 9:05 pm |
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