Interesting visit from the police

penthouse89

Of course I've seen Gone in 60 Seconds, but I genuinely didn't think it was something that went on for real.

I don't recall Nick Cage raiding any soulless new build houses for Audi keys

Kite2010

Countries such as Albania where a lot of the cars are stolen to order. For the !!!!!

Crabman

Strider590 wrote: »

Of course, let's factor in that the DVLA sells data to 3rd parties (like parking enforcement firms), it'd be quite easy for someone on the inside to draw up a shopping list.

This is what I was thinking - criminal sees a nice car on the road, jots down the registration number and then obtains registered keeper info from the DVLA for £2.50.

Or they get one of their colleagues from the private parking industry to use their direct data link to DVLA's registered keeper database to obtain the keeper info.

If I was the OP I'd be asking DVLA whether there have been any registered keeper details requests made for the vehicle in question.

mttylad

Perhaps its time for 4 good quality wheel clamps, big strong locks and some bolts through into the garage floor.

Wont be going anywhere then

OddballJamie

mttylad wrote: »

Perhaps its time for 4 good quality wheel clamps, big strong locks and some bolts through into the garage floor.

Wont be going anywhere then

Unless the thieves beat you close to death for the keys of course. Clifford Blackjax is a decent option.

1886

I have a friend who works at a high-end car dealership. One day two police cars turned up and took away one mechanic, he'd been getting hold of the regs and addresses of certain cars.

I recently went into my local bike shop and noticed a list of addresses on top of the counter and what bikes the people had bought. I decided there and then that they would'nt be getting my address or you never know, my two grand bike may vanish

1886

OddballJamie wrote: »

Unless the thieves beat you close to death for the keys of course. Clifford Blackjax is a decent option.

I had a Clifford Blackjax on my first car, I remember it being an anti-hijack immobiliser or something similar. Only problem is that if you stall the car you get about 15 seconds to put the code in or all hell breaks loose. Some of the features on it were brilliant though

OddballJamie

1886 wrote: »

I had a Clifford Blackjax on my first car, I remember it being an anti-hijack immobiliser or something similar. Only problem is that if you stall the car you get about 15 seconds to put the code in or all hell breaks loose. Some of the features on it were brilliant though

I know a couple of guys who have it, one had the smoke system too and had the Blackjax set to 60 seconds. So if he was car jacked, thief gets 500 yards, car shuts down and fills with smoke. Was a !!!!!! to clean his leather afterwards.

buglawton

Article in the Sunday Times or maybe Telegraph this weekend - certain high end Audis have a ECU vulnerability allowing crims to drive it away without the original keys. Check that yours is not one of these models. Audi either issued a fix of some sort or are still working on a solution.

londonTiger

keep you keys in you pocket left in the trousers in your bedrom, thats what i do.

having said that mines an 11 year old golf and i dont really do that for security, just habit