These vehicles come with TWO alarm fobs and a special 3rd key. If things dont work out for you, I will be selling a 1.8t 1999 come March with all the service history , all the keys , sunroof and climate control 3 door . You wont have to woory about being conned.
A family friend once forgot the keys to hers and my dad had to saw through it for her so she could drive home, proper pukka Krook-Lock one, took no more than 2mins to get through it with your basic hacksaw.
Indeed. That is why car jacking is becoming more commonplace.
OK...
If it was previously stolen then you get your money back from HPI who showed it was legit. If it wasn't previously stolen, then you get your money back from your vehicle insurer.
Go back to the country mate. Nowt but thieves and cheats in cities.
I am not in anyway dodgy, but I lost a key to my crooklock on an old mini once, took me less than 3 seconds to remove it.... (genuine CrookLok) - I am not a small bloke, but I just snapped it in two. ( I am 6'2" - 16Stone
11Pounds) - but it was so damn easy I think a 7 stone female could have managed it. I believe to get a decent one may be a little different, but you are probably talking close to £200 or so?Anybody else found this?
Andy
This one was metal right through, snapping would have been tricky ;)
In a test by Auto Express a couple of years ago the only one that was really any good was the Disklok (spelling?) one that encases the steering wheel. Most of the others could be removed with no tools or basic tools within a few minutes. I suppose that they might be a visual detterent, and might slow someone down a bit though.
Can you not pop round and steal it back with your other set of keys?
He could if he knew where the seller lived.
DanTXD ( snipped-for-privacy@sdanpontahermun.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
... assuming you'd got round to insuring it...?
That's the one I use, or rather an "Off-road Toad" which is the original immobiliser designed to fit over the entire steering wheel. An ex-tea leaf/twoccer wot I know advised me to get one, since it was the only device he'd never been able to defeat.
but this info would be on the V5 wouldn't it?
Read it again, the people living at the addy on the V5 say the seller 'doesn't live here anymore'.
Remembering your name and postcode is enough. If he's hard of thinking, a carbon copied reciept would do the job.
Or he bought the car legally, and never registered it in his name. Repeat the scam a few times with copied V5s and you're not losing much cash for the luxury of not having to hide a stolen motor for the duration of the scam.
A fake cheque can take months to be found out then the bank will take the money back out of your account. Unfortunately there's no method that protects both the buyer and seller.
implying that he "did" live there in the past so a routine call to plod can have osmeone look into it
Was this in Loughton? I may be able to help - I think I may know who this was - the 'seller' I mean.
Seriously - e-mail me - colin-dot-sutton-at-met-dot-police-dot-ukay
That's only if the scammer is the last person on the V5.
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Depresion" saying something like:
Change plates, generate a printout on a good forged V5 of the new car ID, put ads in every week in different local papers....
He could sell the same car umpteen times.
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