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car broken into
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:46 am
by hobba
As the title says...
Went out to goto work and see my doors not shut properly. Same with the boot..
Get in and my centre consol and glove box had been emptied onto the seat and floor..
Pretty pissed..
They took my ipod touch, it was like the first or second generation touch, so pretty old.. my ipod and phone charger cables, and the dual usb port cigarette socket plug, my sun glasses, and the ash tray along with about 5 bucks in coins...
They also tried to siphon fuel, but my fuel was still almost full so I doubt they got any..
Pretty pissed..
I'm in East Geelong, so if anyone is from around there, clearly someone or somones are tolling around late at night.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:52 am
by Chubb
Damn mate that is a bit of bad luck, any damage to the car at all?
Pretty sure with the fuel that most new cars have and anti siphon system meaning the fuel will not come up the hose.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:56 am
by FL_BLUE_LANCER_09
hobba wrote:As the title says... Went out to goto work and see my doors not shut properly. Same with the boot.. Get in and my centre consol and glove box had been emptied onto the seat and floor.. Pretty pissed.. They took my ipod touch, it was like the first or second generation touch, so pretty old.. my ipod and phone charger cables, and the dual usb port cigarette socket plug, my sun glasses, and the ash tray along with about 5 bucks in coins... They also tried to siphon fuel, but my fuel was still almost full so I doubt they got any.. Pretty pissed.. Im in East Geelong, so if anyone is from around there, clearly someone or somones are tolling around late at night.
hi hobba
maybe it is time to install an alarm system in your car. cause if they got in this time, then what is stopping them trying again
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:22 am
by hobba
Nah no damage from what I could see. And i don't believe i would of left it unlocked??
Anyone know how they could of got into it?
An alarm system will probably be on the cards for the weekend.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:42 am
by bd-850
That sucks. But one good thing is you still have a car. Did you have your items visible from the outside? You can siphon because of what Chubb said. I have tried to do it to give a mate some fuel.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:17 am
by dubdocker
That's pretty bad, I'm in South Geelong so it's not as bad here, but there's still a lot of vandalism.
All the cars at my house get locked away as much as possible.
Last week we had a yard in Moolap broken into and several hundred litres of diesel siphoned out.
No other damage though so they would have been organised.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:49 pm
by Quixand
Alarm System to me is still a must although a lot of new buyers have recently opted not to go for one.
Statistics shows that the "blinking red light" alone has saved car alarm owners a lot of money.
In most cases that break-ins do occur on cars with no alarm investigations often say the same thing "they just had too much time".
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:06 pm
by hobba
bd-850 wrote:Did you have your items visible from the outside?
well my ipod and sunglases was sitting in that slot under the radio behind the ashtray, but the phone and ipod charger was pluged in and the cords hanging around which probably made the ipod and sunnies more visible.
Hoges wrote:Now I hit the lock button up to 3 times sometimes, become really OCD about it.
i do the same thing, which is why i am 99% sure that i didnt leave it unlocked..
would it be easy for someone who knew what they were doing to slide a coathanger or somthing down the window to jimmy the door open?? or is that too hard/impossible in new cars these days?