I suspect the owners of the car might have something to say about that.
STOLEN: Ford Focus RS Stealth Grey : Scotland--NOW FOUND.
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I suspect the owners of the car might have something to say about that.
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Quite standard for them to leave the car parked up for a while, this is an interesting channel to watch:
Ratho itself, housing scheme m8, not Newbridge or anywhere near industrial estates, parked right on a domestic street. Apparently the area is used regularly to dump stolen performance vehicles until its confirmed a tracker isn't present. Generally the cars turn up late Friday night/early Saturday morning and then vanish by Saturday afternoon/evening. Police Scotland intelligence suggests that it's the same gangs involved and the vehicles are being shipped out to Eastern Europe afterwards.
What amazes me the length they will go to sometimes - where I work have had instances with people getting employed just so as to be able to get access to the keys, etc. and then vehicles disappear abroad and even an instance where they took a new truck abroad one weekend and stripped it of pretty much everything wheels, engine, etc. either to sell or to put into an older vehicle and then returned it with basically a scrap engine, knackered tires, etc. what they seemed to not realise is the vehicle was setup with SkyGuard, etc. so the company was alerted to unusual behaviour and checked the vehicle over otherwise they'd have probably got away with it (EDIT: technically they probably did get away with it as AFAIK there was never any comeback and I suspect they simply did a runner before the law caught up with them - never did hear what happened).
The thieves will think its got a tracker now. But best to get one fitted. I had a Clifford alarm on previous cars so even if they had the keys they valet switch still needed a code or the car would be within 30 secs or so of where I'd have left it
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I just found this thread via Google I live in Mellock crescent we both have bmws and love our performance cars so we have admired the RS in the passing with the dog. we had a black edition audi stolen a few doors down just days before. I just wanted to contact you to say I've just phoned the police we seen a suspicious vehicle hanging around the night before this happened speeding into Mellock crescent and around and back out by your family's house. The plates on it aren't registered to it it's not taxed and mot is due. We found it weird so I took reg and time hopefully this may help.
Glad it’s back, unfortunately scum will target such cars.
I caught a scrote opening my e38 in Tunstall (Stoke-on-Trent) a few weeks back, got him off guard and he admitted after a bit of “persuasion” he’d been watching the car for a while (I work literally around the corner from where this happened) I think he was working for someone rather than himself, he struck me as an addict of some sort.
I’d left work, nipping into a corner shop on the way home when I came out to find said scrote sat in the car!
He’d unlocked it without any damage whatsoever which was interesting, had a scaffold bar (old school) and a box with an OBD II plug attached to it.
Very glad I’ve got a tracker fitted even though on this occasion I didn’t need it...
If they want it they’ll take it, I was lucky very lucky!
I caught a scrote opening my e38 in Tunstall (Stoke-on-Trent) a few weeks back, got him off guard and he admitted after a bit of “persuasion” he’d been watching the car for a while (I work literally around the corner from where this happened) I think he was working for someone rather than himself, he struck me as an addict of some sort.
I’d left work, nipping into a corner shop on the way home when I came out to find said scrote sat in the car!
He’d unlocked it without any damage whatsoever which was interesting, had a scaffold bar (old school) and a box with an OBD II plug attached to it.
Very glad I’ve got a tracker fitted even though on this occasion I didn’t need it...
If they want it they’ll take it, I was lucky very lucky!
Thanks, feel free to private message me with any additional details and I'll pass them on to Police Scotland. Mellock Crescent as in Brightons, Falkirk? The suspicious vehicle didn't happen to be a red Nissan Juke did it? Apparently these spineless cowards are using one of those as a utility vehicle to drive back and forth between stashed stolen vehicles to check tracker status.
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Most likely. Not sure what happens next in that respect.
I'm not sure Ford can be expected to shoulder the blame for someone breaking into your house to nick your keys?
That just means they will come along with a GPS jammer. It needs extra physical security so it takes more than just the keys to start it.
Just wanted to point out that if your relatives neighbour can find this thread by googling, then so can the thieves. You might be giving away information there that would help them avoid being caught (they might now know to dump the Juke)
need to get there house belled up or sleep with keys under the pillow 
been a spate of car thefts where my mate lives there using some extender cars have keyless entry a faraday cage / bag is needed to stop it or one of those car bollard things on the drive.
those disc locks are good that cover the whole steering wheel.
been a spate of car thefts where my mate lives there using some extender cars have keyless entry a faraday cage / bag is needed to stop it or one of those car bollard things on the drive.those disc locks are good that cover the whole steering wheel.