CAR JUST STOLEN

[Edmond]

I have to admit that in general forums have to statistically be a hugely unrepresentative sample of ownership. The sheer amount of people who appear to have a mate who’s door was kicked down for their car just starts to seem... well.. unbelievable?

There are about 2k C7 RS6’s on the road it would appear from howmanyleft- and it appears everyone here (not me) seems to know someone who’s door was smashed in. So maybe 30-50 cars taken - if you extrapolated that out you’d get to what - 250 RS6’s stolen in smashed door raids? That just doesn’t make sense as if it’s a less than 1 in 10 chance your car will be nicked and your house broken into there’d be no insurance.

Either that or everyone here is phenomenally unlucky with their friend choices!

[ab54666]

Hello All,

So - I finally come back to this forum (after 7 years as it turns out my profile tells me since I sold my B6 S4) as I’m starting to research buying an RS6.

The reason - because my Full Fat Range Rover has just been stolen from outside my house in London after 15 days owning it.

What do I find? A post about an RS6 being stolen in a bit of London literally 5 mins away from me.

FFS. Clearly it’s a cooking boggo estate car for me then.

I was feeling all good as the one I’m looking at has a CobraTrak 5 with the key cards so no one can do keyless theft and I was going to put a ghost on as well just to make it impossible but if they are smashing in while the OP was in the house thats a whole other level.

It’s pretty rife right now, I know of 3 cars since the weekend locally, SQ5, almost brand new RR Vela and a Merc GLE, no doubt too of the iceberg.

[Edmond]

Are you London based? There's definitely some serious activity in SE area..

[ShaneyB]

One of my colleague's parents had both of their Merc's stolen off of their drive the weekend after they tried mine in September.

Now last Sunday night they were woken by what sounded like a grinding noise. They looked out of the bedroom window expecting to see someone trying to remove the new vertical security bollards the installed to protect their new cars but to their shock there were three guys (two under their old Honda Civic ) grinding away at their Catalytic converter!! Foolishly they confronted the tw*ts and the Dad ended up getting hit on the leg by a machete. Luckily it was the blunt side.

They have now bought a bloody great big dog but doubt that will stop them.

[ab54666]

Another one stolen in Evesham Worcester just over a week ago.

Keep em looked up guys!!