Help!! Subaru impreza stolen!!

Master_Blaster

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

count it as a blessing M reg worth about £700-800. with the insurance money could no pick up a late 2000 W or a early bug eye for £1200.

How is it a blessing? You do not know the owners financial circumstances. They could have an excess greater than the value you quoted and may not have £1200 to spend on a new car. Added to that none of us know how it was stolen. If they left the keys in they wI'll not get paid out or with a theft claim they may not be able to afford to insure a new car. It may be an old nail in your opinion but I am sure the owner would not appreciate your comments.

Oscar_24

i take it there is no tracker etc? also that old bill know cause they have ANPR these days...

photome

If your friend gets it back maybe make it quieter.

Op didnt return on their first post to update, maybe they will on this one

[Deleted User]

Cars get stolen all the time but you only ever see posts like this when it's a suped up Impreza or similar...

Is it because all the mods aren't declared on the insurance, or it was too expensive so insured third party only?

Cyberman60

This reminds me of an occasion in the 80s when a friend at work had her pride and joy stolen. She was so upset that I offered to help her find it. Having had a car stolen myself (Ford Escort) and found it within a mile or so of where it had been stolen from I suggested we drive around the local area and look for her car.

We found it within a mile of her flat in a car park !!!

So... have a look around locally !!!

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Cyberman60 wrote: »

This reminds me of an occasion in the 80s when a friend at work had her pride and joy stolen. She was so upset that I offered to help her find it. Having had a car stolen myself (Ford Escort) and found it within a mile or so of where it had been stolen from I suggested we drive around the local area and look for her car.

We found it within a mile of her flat in a car park !!!

So... have a look around locally !!!

Yep, they usually park them up for a few days incase there is a tracker before taking it away to do whatever with it.

But with an old Impreza, it'll be the "it's mine now" brain dead barry boy thieves who'll probably wrap it round a tree sooner or later.

Little_Ginge

Thank you for the replies - the helpful ones at least.its on pistonheads, facebook, twitters, scoobynet.. its out there. I put it here thinking it might help. I shoyld have k n own there would be some who would jump on the exhaust thing.. sad really as i am of the opinion if you cant be helpful then dont post but heyho. Oh and believe, this car is worth more than £700. And as for a tracker...easily found and removed by thiefs if they know where to look.

There have been people out all night and today looking for it. Facebook has seen the cars missing post length and breadth of the country by people wanting to help someone.

Thanks again to the helpful ones.

Quiet_Spark

Little_Ginge wrote: »

And as for a tracker...easily found and removed by thiefs if they know where to look.

Ignoring the fact that even the owner doesn't get told where the Tracker is fitted, I doubt they are easily found as if they were then we wouldn't see numerous examples of the police finding £50K plus cars hidden inside shipping containers, etc on TV.

There are numerous places a Tracker can be hidden, and while I will concede that a professional car thief may know where to look (and what they are actually looking for), I doubt for one minute that kind of car thief would even look at a 20 year old Scooby.

If your friend ever does see the car again, her first port of call would be to fit a decent immobiliser (preferably one that requires a chip to be in proximity to the ignition barrel).

photome

Cyberman60 wrote: »

This reminds me of an occasion in the 80s when a friend at work had her pride and joy stolen. She was so upset that I offered to help her find it. Having had a car stolen myself (Ford Escort) and found it within a mile or so of where it had been stolen from I suggested we drive around the local area and look for her car.

We found it within a mile of her flat in a car park !!!

So... have a look around locally !!!

I have done the same when I had a Granada stolen, it was in a car park within about 200 yards of where it was stolen from.

Of course that was before the internet.

Master_Blaster

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Ignoring the fact that even the owner doesn't get told where the Tracker is fitted, I doubt they are easily found as if they were then we wouldn't see numerous examples of the police finding £50K plus cars hidden inside shipping containers, etc on TV.

There are numerous places a Tracker can be hidden, and while I will concede that a professional car thief may know where to look (and what they are actually looking for), I doubt for one minute that kind of car thief would even look at a 20 year old Scooby.

If your friend ever does see the car again, her first port of call would be to fit a decent immobiliser (preferably one that requires a chip to be in proximity to the ignition barrel).

Usually in a recycling bin if they manage to find it. I bet there are more tracker units found removed from a vehicle that found in high value vehicles parked up in shipping containers but that doesn't make for good television.
You seem to be of the opinion that there is a higher class of car thief, they are all the same dishonest scum and will nick anything, whether it be because they can, to use it in another crime or because they can sell it on.