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Peter Smallwood

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Dear all

I had a house break in last night, black X5 diesel sport stolen from drive by taking keys from inside the house. Reg number is AK53BMY.

I suspect it is sitting in milton keynes somewhere.

Take it from me - DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE/ CAR KEYS IN THE DOOR EVEN IF YOUR ALARM IS SWITCHED ON IN THE HOUSE AS THEY CAN AND WILL GET IN.

thanks in advance for any help in catching these *******

Pete
 
Just been through this myself so I knwo how your feeling. By luck the Porsche went for a service a day early so the keys were not at home else I am sure it would be gone. [:eek:]

Have just had a Sigma M30 alarm fitted which has a code to type so it won't go anywhere even if you have the key !!!!

Good luck with sorting it all out !!!
 
pete

Very bad luck. Please make sure that the police do something positive. Find out where the nearest cctv cameras are and insist that the police go and collect the films and check them. If there are fingerprints, make sure that a Scenes of Crimes Officer [SOCO] attends to photograph them, similarly for any DNA found - the SOCO has the equipment to collect it for analysis.

There were a series of posts some time ago to which I contributed on the subject of burglars who target houses to find keys for and steal expensive 'up-market' cars; http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=159361&mpage=1&key=thief&#159362.

Hope you and/or the police meet with success.
 
I has same scenario May 2003 and despite the burglar alarm going off they still smashed there way in through a side door took my wifes bag and stole her Jeep. Fortunately never recovered and replaced with a far more sensible MINI Cooper "S" [;)]

However since experiencing this nightmare I make sure that all the doors downstairs are locked at night and keys are secure elsewhere. At least if anyone else decided to break in despite the house being alarmed I will feel 1' safer knowing they are trapped in an area whilst I summon up what is left of our police force in the early hours of the morning when this sh*t usually goes down [:mad:]

Hope your X5 turns up soon but don't hold your breath .....
 
[:mad:]dosn't it make you mad.

just purchasing some extra security for my driveway the house is already like fortknocks, cross that have to live like this in what is ment to be one of the safest countrys of the world.
 
Pete,

Sorry to hear of your troubles. Did you have a tracker system on the X5?? I always think those things are a double edged sword - I'm not sure I'd WANT them to find it after it's been nicked. I assume you haven't replaced the GT3 yet or maybe they would have had that too!!!

Regards

Dave
 
ORIGINAL: Helen Goff

[:mad:]dosn't it make you mad.

have to live like this in what is ment to be one of the safest countrys of the world.
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I think you meant one of the "unsafest " countrys [:mad:] despite Blair banging on with "Tough on crime tough on the causes of crime" Yeah right [:eek:]
 
guys

Thanks for all your kind words. Believe it or not, the car was fitted with a Tracker which was not active and Tracker will not re-activate. (What an idiot smallwood I hear you say!)

The GT3 had not been replaced so that was one blessing - now i am wondering whether I should do it all!

I just love these "people"
 
That's so annoying. I leave my car in a car park all day during weekdays, and its often in the back of my mind as to whether it'll still be there when get back in the evening. I have had "GAP" insurance in the past, whereby , if the car is stolen, or written off during the next 3 yrs, they pay you the difference between what you paid for the car and what the ins. co. pays out. Especially handy if the car gets nicked as soon as u get it, and one gets hit by the bid/offer spread, tho it actually has more value as time goes buy. Having said all that, i didnt buy it for the 997 as it seemed too high a premium to pay.

We have all our keys hanging on the wall by our back door, and we'll probably move them, but underneath them does lurk a very large and well armed Bernese Mountain dog!

Best of luck, and i hope they catch the b******s!


 
Don't leave your keys on a hook near any door. All an organised thief needs is a fishing-rod type device, or a hook on a long pole and your car is gone. Your dog might not be able to stop such an activity.

Simply put the keys where only you know where they can be found; somewhere unusual [under a floorboard? In a locked drawer in an unusual place?]. Not in coat pockets or, under any circumstances, on display or where others could see them.

You could always try electrified barbed wire, watchtowers, 24-hour CCTV, armed guards etc. round the house and adding a Tracker to the car. Or Neighbourhood watch or even the local busybody who 'never' spends his or her time looking out of the window. Handheld screaming alarms always frighten off anyone - especially if they have a 'key' which has to be inserted to stop the noise.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime....
 
yes, good advice Julian, must admit it wouldn't take a phd in astrophysics to hook the keys off the wall.

re. my earlier post.... now i've said all that, i'll get home to find someone's cracked the code to the electric gates, disabled the alarm on the garage doors, poisoned my dog... and cleared the house out!
 
So sorry to hear about this, but it teaches me a lesson. My car keys ( for four cars ) are hanging in a key box, right at the front door [&:]

Going to put them somewhere else now.

 
Dear all

X5 has been found in Nottingham - hopefully get it back in about a week after the SOCO mob have done their thing. Apparently it is in one piece.

PEOPLE, GET A TRACKER AND DO NOT LEAVE KEYS NEAR THE FRONT DOOR.

thanks for all your messages of support,

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