Advice For Car Theft Victims

Moogintroll

Hullo,

(I'm a n00b here so apologies if this is the wrong place to post this.)

Does anybody have any sage advice for somebody that's just had their car pinched. I'd just taken the thing out of mothballs too, so it wasn't even insured yet.

How the "scallywags" nicked it is beyond me, it was in broad daylight and didn't even have a battery.

Other than the battery, it was in perfect nick and only had 13k miles on the clock so I'm a little bit "annoyed" about the whole affair. I reported it to the cops but if anybody knows if there's anything practical I can do beyond this, it would be a great help.

Cheers

Random

You could maybe put the info up on some local / regional car forums and / or ask garages to have a look out for it.

I reckon there's SFA you can do though in general beyond buying a new car until (if) this one shows up.

Moogintroll

Yea, I figure that it's been stripped for parts and set ablaze by now. With any luck the burning plastic fumes gave the thieving scum cancer.

Not that I'm feeling bitter or anything.

CharlieCroker

put the details up here and the general area it was taken from. People do that here somethimrs to keep look out.
If there was no batt, it was either pushed away or put on a trailer. either way, you'd imagine somebody saw something.

Angus MacGyver

Check the multi story car parks in the area, Often car thiefs will leave the car in one of these for a few days to make sure there isnt one of those gps trackers in it,

Moogintroll

Well, if anybody from Blanch / Castleknock / Clonsilla tries to sell you 98 silver Ford Fiesta with only 13,000 miles on the clock, reg 98 D 45301 it's been nicked.

@Charlie: Yea, you'd imagine that somebody saw something, I asked around and nobody saw diddly. It wasn't really road worthy either so it would have had to be stuck on a truck or something.

@Angus: A good suggestion but I don't think they'd be that concerned about GPS trackers considering the car's age and type.

Eric Cartman

Moogintroll wrote: »

Well, if anybody from Blanch / Castleknock / Clonsilla tries to sell you 98 silver Ford Fiesta with only 13,000 miles on the clock, reg 89 D 45301 it's been nicked.

@Charlie: Yea, you'd imagine that somebody saw something, I asked around and nobody saw diddly. It wasn't really road worthy either so it would have had to be stuck on a truck or something.

@Angus: A good suggestion but I don't think they'd be that concerned about GPS trackers considering the car's age and type.

is it an 89 or a 98 ??? and chances are its probably burned out in somewhere like hartestown , you dont steal a car like that for parts, thats something youd rob for a bit of a joyride

Moogintroll

Eric Cartman wrote: »

is it an 89 or a 98 ??? and chances are its probably burned out in somewhere like hartestown , you dont steal a car like that for parts, thats something youd rob for a bit of a joyride

Well spotted mate, the car's reg is 98 D 45301

CharlieCroker

I'm just suprised the car wasnt found 100 yards down the road when they realised that it wasn't gonna start.
Very good chance that it is burned out somwhere though, i'm sorry to say

Moogintroll

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Very good chance that it is burned out somwhere though, i'm sorry to say

Yea, I'm pretty much resigned to this. I have very specific reasons to suggest a certain sector of the Irish population are responsible and I should have seen this coming.

demanufactured

Moogintroll wrote: »

Yea, I'm pretty much resigned to this. I have very specific reasons to suggest a certain sector of the Irish population are responsible and I should have seen this coming.

knackers.

BlackWizard

Moogintroll wrote: »

Yea, I'm pretty much resigned to this. I have very specific reasons to suggest a certain sector of the Irish population are responsible and I should have seen this coming.

Banking sector.

rocknchef

did you ring around the car pounds maybe it was towed away as no tax insurance or parked illegaly

Berty

This looks like a dump from AH.


* Puts on suspicious hat

Moogintroll

demanufactured wrote: »

knackers.

Well, I'd never use that word. At least not in public. In private I've been using much stronger language this past few days.

Moogintroll

rocknchef wrote: »

did you ring around the car pounds maybe it was towed away as no tax insurance or parked illegaly

First thing I did after calling the cops was to get on the phone to the council. My first suspicion was that one of the neighbours that we don't get on with (were such selfish baxtards for complaining about them having all night raves) had it towed. Doesn't look like that's the case though.

NilByMouth

Moogintroll wrote: »

(were such selfish baxtards for complaining about them having all night raves) .

Just get a song by 2 unlimited(doesnt matter which,they are all sh1te).Next time your going a way for a long weekend just leave it on repeat and very LOUD.

Bummer about the car.Sounds like a theft for a joyride but the fact it has no battery and was still taken is strange

Moogintroll

NilByMouth wrote: »

Just get a song by 2 unlimited(doesnt matter which,they are all sh1te).Next time your going a way for a long weekend just leave it on repeat and very LOUD.

Nah, they'd dig that kind of crap. The kid is unemployed though (it was hilarious hearing him going from "I don't need no stinking leaving cert", to tears of "I don't have a leaving cert. WHAT WILL I DO NOW!") and we all know the best part of being on the dole is kipping in until 3 in the afternoon. He might find that hard with some of the god awful music my mother left behind blaring through his wall from 7:30 in the morning.

NilByMouth

Go for it:)ha ha daniel o donnell or something

Moogintroll

NilByMouth wrote: »

Go for it:)ha ha daniel o donnell or something

Oh, I can do worse than that. My mother was into her hymns *shudder*

miju

Moogintroll wrote: »

Well, if anybody from Blanch / Castleknock / Clonsilla tries to sell you 98 silver Ford Fiesta with only 13,000 miles on the clock, reg 98 D 45301 it's been nicked.

im about 90% sure a car like that was parked down the end of Woodsend by the castleknock roundabout today about 7pm. I noticed it more so cos theres never cars parked there outside the apartment gates and it was parked arseways too.

It's not there now however cos I've just gone outside and checked.

Moogintroll

miju wrote: »

im about 90% sure a car like that was parked down the end of Woodsend by the castleknock roundabout today about 7pm. I noticed it more so cos theres never cars parked there outside the apartment gates and it was parked arseways too.

It's not there now however cos I've just gone outside and checked.

Oh really? That's actually mighty interesting.

Thanks for keeping your peepers peeled mate, I really appreciate it.