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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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I don’t think it’s a big deal, some behaviour attracts examination but others know what flags it and keep rolling.
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From memory it was 11 per year I think.
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Dunno, the guy down my street has about 20 cars. He buys crashed cars that were not insured, so not technically written off, dodgeys them up. Gets his dodgey mate to blue slip them, then flogs em off. He has a lot of unhappy customers. One audi a8 he has refunded and re sold 3 times already. My street is lined with unregistered ****boxs. So i dunno if theres a limit to registered cars. The council every few weeks go nuts with towing stickers. But they just get scraped off. This guy has 3 car trailers and 1 trailer plate. But im told as none of the trailers have vin numbers and the same description, the trailer plate is down with the trailer description and as home built. So dodgey, but he gets away with it. But this guy buys anything. He currently has holdens, fords, bmws, a land rover, a Bedford, a morris, 4 boats, its out of control.
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Was even questioned as to why I had a winch fitted on the front end of the tray truck once, pointed out to the RTA it was to pull heavy stone onboard as the tray is fixed not tilting. I supposed someone with large quantities of Platinum/Paladium would attract the same kind of attention.
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But really youd have to be brazen to jump under a car and cut a cat out. Grinders and recipro saws arent quiet tools, and unless its a bolt on cat, you're going to make a lot of noise. So id be interested to find out the targetted vehicles. If it just 4x4s because they dont need to be jacked to get under them, or if its a general free for all. |
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The Local Scrappies Here Photocopy your Licence & Pay By Cheque. even for 1 Battery. & have Told Me they get "randomly" Audited quite Frequently.. |
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Having a lowered car has some benefits
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My aunties car got stolen a few years ago, picked up on a flat white tilt tray. The car never got recovered, the number plates were found in a storm water drain. So assuming it was stripped for parts then the rest scrapped. It was a 5L eb fairmont. Someone would have made a bit off it, it was a well maintained nice example of an eb fairmont. |
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In the UK it is mostly Toyota Prius, Corollas and Honda Jazz that have the cats stolen. They go for vehicles which have the cats further down the exhaust rather than the ones which are right up against the manifold. Easier to get at.
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Some of this thieving is happening in places like train stations. Cars left there for long periods and making noise there less of any issue I guess. |
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Some were doing the thing with batteries,pull up beside an unlocked car,pop the bonnet ,then lift the battery.If the crook is wearing overalls no one ever gives them a second look.If the owner happens along the crook apologies and says he must have got the customers rego number wrong,he was just asked to replace a flat battery
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Over the years theres been a bit of theft in the basement car park of where my mum lives. I beleive a lot of that is to do with the fact people are rarely down there, and you can hear it if they are. So its not as secure as people would like to think. And the internal garage doors are loose mesh, with the manual open/close buttons within easy reach using a stick. Well, button placement is due to where the columns are, and the mesh doors is due to where all the ac units are, they couldnt vent hot air otherwise. Also doesnt help that a number of people in the 5 buildings with the common basement have desirable cars.
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Opened every mesh garage door they could find. Rifled through and pulled bits off some very expensive cars. My partner left her new Cannondale MTBike in it that night fortunately she remembered to lock it up to an internal post but a lot of others weren't so lucky and basically grab anything that was locked or nailed down. Even took the fire extinguishers. Bike goes up into the apartment now no matter what.
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The only time ive had a car broken into it was a ute with a canopy. It was in a paid 'secure' car park. The only cameras were at the boom gates, pay stations and lift lobbies. So somebody busted my hatch locks, grabbed a few grand of tools probably put them straight in their car and drove out like nothing happend. In the 9 hours the car had been in there, 100s of cars had left, so neither the police or the car park mob had anything to go off. |
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
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I’m more interested in his blue slipper!
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They have the most spotlessly clean trucks / 30ft + caravan combo's I've seen and have the most glamorous beautiful wives I've ever seen.
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