This was reported missing to TIPEC.
Can anyone here help?
Please let the Police know (see the warning in the message!) or let me know and I will forward the details to the owner
Mark
I, up till yesterday at between 15:00 and 18:30, was the proud owner of a 2.5L Boxster which represented me saving my pocket money for over 20 years. I was able to get the car when I retired 18 months ago.
My wife and I went out, in her car... we should have taken the Boxster!!, at 15:00 to visit my daughter who lives about a mile away from us in East Grinstead. The Porsche was in my driveway... locked, alarm on and an additional crook-lock device fitted to the steering wheel. When we got home at 18:30 our house front door was hanging off the hinges, the house had been sacked to locate the keys to the Boxster and of course the Boxster was gone into the wild blue yonder. The keys (all three sets! + my house keys!) were in a locked key cabinet in my basement but the uninvited visitors finally found the key cabinet and cracked it open and the rest is history,
The car has a tracker system fitted and it is activated, but no info for the past 24 hours... the police say either the car has not been within 5 miles of one of the tracker sensors, or the tracker unit has been found and smashed. (I think it may have been in a container within a few hours... I am told trackers don't work very well in containers)
The details of the car (reg. no, etc.) are all in the stolen car system so in theory everyone that looks for stolen cars has the info and the tracker may show something up at some stage.
The insurance company is notified and they are doing whatever they do... I am not too familiar with the stolen car situation as this is the first time in my 45 year driving history that I have had the misfortune to have a car stolen... and it would have to be this one!!!
My question to you (please) is do you know of any enthusiasts web sites that people are able to post their tales of woe to get other Porsche folks to also look out for the car should anyone spot it/them? If you do know of any web site of this nature I would really appreciate if you could advise me.
The car details are/were [&o]:
Arctic Silver, 17in alloy wheels (standard Boxster), black interior.
The registration is a lo-cost private one: TIB 3390. The actual car is of 'S' year. It is a 2.5L 'LUX' version. (I.e. air cond, etc.) 5-speed manual gearbox.
There are no distinguishing identifiable items or traits on the car, it is absolutely standard in every way.
This is why I am so flabbergasted that someone would smash into the house for a car that is, in real terms, virtually 8 years old and bog standard. I admit the paintwork, etc. was in very good condition, but at the end of the day it is 8 years old. But there you go.. it must have looked good to someone.. And whatever they get for the car it is really for only less than 30 minutes work..
I would also like to make it very clear that if anyone should see the car that they just call the police. After what the 'collectors' did to my house to just get the keys for the car I would hate to think what they would/could do if someone confronted them. No car, however missed, is worth anyone, or their family, being put in a position of danger for.
Again thank you very much for the information on the tracker. I seem to have one of the other types (older??) that needs to be activated in response to an incident. It looks like now, in view of the radio silence so far, that the time lapse from when it was 'liberated' round 15:00 or so to when we discovered it and alerted the tracker company (18:45) for activation was enough time for the 'collectors' to either silence the tracker or get it into a place where the tracker is not operational (container??). The system was on the car when I purchased it. I had it activated, and tested... the company advised it worked fine... when I bought the car. But now (and the game is not really up yet... perhaps it will still start to bleep... but I am beginning to wonder..) it is looking like, for some reason, the tracker on my car may have slipped through the net in some way.
Well thanks again. I will let you know if I ever find out anything about the car. It is a damn shame because I really love that car even though I have only had it for 18 months.
Best regards, Mike
Can anyone here help?
Please let the Police know (see the warning in the message!) or let me know and I will forward the details to the owner
Mark
I, up till yesterday at between 15:00 and 18:30, was the proud owner of a 2.5L Boxster which represented me saving my pocket money for over 20 years. I was able to get the car when I retired 18 months ago.
My wife and I went out, in her car... we should have taken the Boxster!!, at 15:00 to visit my daughter who lives about a mile away from us in East Grinstead. The Porsche was in my driveway... locked, alarm on and an additional crook-lock device fitted to the steering wheel. When we got home at 18:30 our house front door was hanging off the hinges, the house had been sacked to locate the keys to the Boxster and of course the Boxster was gone into the wild blue yonder. The keys (all three sets! + my house keys!) were in a locked key cabinet in my basement but the uninvited visitors finally found the key cabinet and cracked it open and the rest is history,
The car has a tracker system fitted and it is activated, but no info for the past 24 hours... the police say either the car has not been within 5 miles of one of the tracker sensors, or the tracker unit has been found and smashed. (I think it may have been in a container within a few hours... I am told trackers don't work very well in containers)
The details of the car (reg. no, etc.) are all in the stolen car system so in theory everyone that looks for stolen cars has the info and the tracker may show something up at some stage.
The insurance company is notified and they are doing whatever they do... I am not too familiar with the stolen car situation as this is the first time in my 45 year driving history that I have had the misfortune to have a car stolen... and it would have to be this one!!!
My question to you (please) is do you know of any enthusiasts web sites that people are able to post their tales of woe to get other Porsche folks to also look out for the car should anyone spot it/them? If you do know of any web site of this nature I would really appreciate if you could advise me.
The car details are/were [&o]:
Arctic Silver, 17in alloy wheels (standard Boxster), black interior.
The registration is a lo-cost private one: TIB 3390. The actual car is of 'S' year. It is a 2.5L 'LUX' version. (I.e. air cond, etc.) 5-speed manual gearbox.
There are no distinguishing identifiable items or traits on the car, it is absolutely standard in every way.
This is why I am so flabbergasted that someone would smash into the house for a car that is, in real terms, virtually 8 years old and bog standard. I admit the paintwork, etc. was in very good condition, but at the end of the day it is 8 years old. But there you go.. it must have looked good to someone.. And whatever they get for the car it is really for only less than 30 minutes work..
I would also like to make it very clear that if anyone should see the car that they just call the police. After what the 'collectors' did to my house to just get the keys for the car I would hate to think what they would/could do if someone confronted them. No car, however missed, is worth anyone, or their family, being put in a position of danger for.
Again thank you very much for the information on the tracker. I seem to have one of the other types (older??) that needs to be activated in response to an incident. It looks like now, in view of the radio silence so far, that the time lapse from when it was 'liberated' round 15:00 or so to when we discovered it and alerted the tracker company (18:45) for activation was enough time for the 'collectors' to either silence the tracker or get it into a place where the tracker is not operational (container??). The system was on the car when I purchased it. I had it activated, and tested... the company advised it worked fine... when I bought the car. But now (and the game is not really up yet... perhaps it will still start to bleep... but I am beginning to wonder..) it is looking like, for some reason, the tracker on my car may have slipped through the net in some way.
Well thanks again. I will let you know if I ever find out anything about the car. It is a damn shame because I really love that car even though I have only had it for 18 months.
Best regards, Mike
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