my dad had his range rover sport stolen a few months back, broke into the house took the keys along with lap tops and phones... and the biggest kitchen knife out of the draw :S the range was trackered, private plate and had 22 inch rims so it didnt blend in yet police and tracker lost it with in 48 hrs!!

first week of december we get a letter from birmingham police stating if we do not claim our car it would be crushed.. that arrived about the 5th! phoned them instantly and magically our range rover was parked on a suburban street in birmingham! it was still on the rims and still on the plate.. HOW THE HELL DID THEY NOT KNOW ITS A STOLEN CAR!! we dont even own it now its hot listed as we had been paid out so the insurance company own it.

but the police found our missing range rover .. kind of haha

cheers for reading but just felt like telling the story

Darryl

 

Had the insurance paid out for it?

 

yes we have a shiny new one delivered november

 

 

Fuck off. I missed that bit.

 

specsavers ?

 

Haha - I bet it was bashed and battered?

Benni.

 

Cool.

Free 4x4

 

did you collect it or just let your insurance know to collect it? if you got it take the wheels off lol

 

Haha! i really don't think Free is the best word to use they had thier house broken into laptop's n phones with all there data on stolen, admitted there range was upgraded from the one they PAID for that was stolen n now think of there insurance after the claim n he didn't say if they had told the insurance about the rim's so might have to fork out for another set n Hmm! 22inch rim's have u seen the price i could get myself a few car's for the same price as 22's

 

ye$s range was fully insured rims declared we dont insure cars with out declared mods my dad runs a big company and wouldnt run the risk plus it is silly not too (im 19 and when i had my rs on the road i had it fully declared not worth the risk its not yourself if affects its everyone else thats involved if you have the accident) . the car didnt have a mark on it. police have recovered it for the insurance company.

and yes the 22s cost a lot but he has earned what he has ( well he had hahaha)

 

If you don't mind me asking, how comfy is such a car on 22's?

Benni.

 

it was ok.. would say 20s on the new one make a nicer ride tho. 22s make it look like a drug dealers car more than a 4x4, drive it round town its nice motorway the 22s create road noise

 

lol i neva desputed that he hadn't worked for wot he had, just thought free 4x4 was abit rich for wot u went through lmao

 

My lorrys on 22.5in so there lol...

 

pretty lame that tracker lost it. Was the tracker removed???

 

sorry to hijack yuor thread but roughly what is a recorded range rover sport worth theses days? im suprized they didn't take the wheels of it though

 

From what I hear, more of these high-end cars are stolen and parked up for a while so that if Tracker does what it says on the tin, it won't lead the cops to the bad guys lair.

Wouldn't have thought they would leave it there that long, though.

 

Thats standard MO for nicking high end cars that are staying in UK.

 

you would normally disconect the battery incase a tracker is fitted , the built in battery's generally only last 48hrs.
i cant understand how it wasnt tracked if it was reported straight away ?? the only way i know to stop the trackers from working instantly is to put the car in a container , and that doesnt allways work as some trackers transmit a different radio style frequency aswell as a normal gps blip .

 

i dont know how they stopped the tracker working but we had many heated phone calls about the car with them not being able to find it. like what has been said they kept telling us it must be in a container.. wasnt expecting it to appear in birmingham still on hot plates! but all we can say now is atleast some deserving person will buy it and enjoy the car for what it is and its not got some scum bag driving about in it or it isnt in pieces in africa!

Tangodeltasierra3 i better get saving for 24s on my rs then lol