Scary Stuff...

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Thought I would share this but I have to keep this one a little high level. A few weeks back I got a knock on the door from 2 boys in blue enquiring about my car and it's movements. Asked the normal questions, "er why?" and turns out they were concerned that a car in my location (middle of nowhere with a few other houses) had potentially been tagged by some naughty men who were seeking to steal nice motors. Well long story short and a day later we found such a tracking device attached to the rear offside wheel arch of my car and for over 1 week certain unsavoury types had been logging my movements. Bib knew about it because they had accessed said tracking software and saw my car bleeping hence why they tracked me down but seems when it was in my garage it was not visible and when they turned up at the house that is where it was so they were not getting an obvious detection.

All my directions, routes, SPEEDS and GPS positions were there for all to see. Seems crims like to tag cars in public locations, a work of a few seconds, follow them home, take keys and go. I live in the middle of nowhere so it would have been very difficult as we also have a shared garage block which does not associate garages with properties but seems said seekers of my motor had driven up to my location, with another tracking device trying to triangulate it with my position, which is somewhat worrying as to get it they would have needed my keys.

Scary world out there and those of you with nice motors, check your wheel arches, probably just under the arch lining if you have one...
 
bloody hell mate that is scary stuff! definitely food for thought!

had a few break-ins but always kept keys and valuables in an underfloor safe, although if any one I cared about was threatened I'd hand over the keys in a heart beat, car is insured and can be replaced.

unless I had my sharpened keyboard handy then id kill a man!!
 
Christ. Sounds like one of those stupid chloroform mugging stories doesn't it? If someone sent you that in an email you'd probably LOL and delete it....
 
WHat car have you got mate?

I would be so paranoid if that happened to me...unlikely with an ST24 mind you

edit: i see from above post!
 
That's pretty bad. At least you still have yours, I wonder how many nice motors have been nicked as a result of these. The Police must be very aware of them now if they tracked yours. Surprised I haven't heard about this before actually.
 
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