Apparently it sucks to own a CLS, especially if you live in and around London

[gramey]

So at the moment we're being given the run around by a Mercedes CLS on fictitious number plates which, until we can hopefully get it stopped, I've been trying to identify likely matches from those reported stolen.
Not as easy as it sounds as of the 119 reported stolen 115 are still outstanding and by far the highest number of those stolen have been taken from London. I manged to narrow it down to 63 as it's a 1st gen 2005 - 2010 CLS.
I assume that due to property prices and garages being a rare thing in London, except in very expensive houses, the thieves can see the car sitting outside. I say that as the preferred method appears to be burgling the house to get the keys with not as many keyless go thefts as I would have thought.
The registration number will probably be changed before we see it again but hopefully there aren't too many 1st gen CLS 320cdi's out there with rear privacy glass, single slat SL style grille and CL63 style twin 5 spoke staggered alloys out there. But of course that's only any use if the bobby seeing it knows what he's looking at?

 

[sl500amgsport]

So at the moment we're being given the run around by a Mercedes CLS on fictitious number plates which, until we can hopefully get it stopped, I've been trying to identify likely matches from those reported stolen.
Not as easy as it sounds as of the 119 reported stolen 115 are still outstanding and by far the highest number of those stolen have been taken from London. I manged to narrow it down to 63 as it's a 1st gen 2005 - 2010 CLS.
I assume that due to property prices and garages being a rare thing in London, except in very expensive houses, the thieves can see the car sitting outside. I say that as the preferred method appears to be burgling the house to get the keys with not as many keyless go thefts as I would have thought.
The registration number will probably be changed before we see it again but hopefully there aren't too many 1st gen CLS 320cdi's out there with rear privacy glass, single slat SL style grille and CL63 style twin 5 spoke staggered alloys out there. But of course that's only any use if the bobby seeing it knows what he's looking at?

My CLK320 was stolen and keys taken by burglary a number of years ago, plates were changed but the Met caught the culprit. They put their blues on to answer a radio call at 2:00 am one morning and the guy who stole my car thought they were after him so he sped off. The police realised he must be up to no good so passed the radio call on and went after him.

I was presented with the news the next day "we have good news and bad news for you sir", "good news is we have recovered your car" "bad news is the Met like a good chase and told us your car really shifts"!

The guy ran the old argument I bought the car for £50 off a friend down the pub (it was at that time a £25k car), the police then said if that's true then why did you change the number plates because we have your finger prints all over the back of them!

The guy had previous for carrying a fire arm so he got put away..

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[dbanbery]

I had my XR3i nicked in 2011 - I got it back within a week after I found it on eBay being broken.

Before, after, and the end


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[sl500amgsport]

I had my XR3i nicked in 2011 - I got it back within a week after I found it on eBay being broken.

Before, after, and the end


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That is a sad demise

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[John Laidlaw]

Never got pictures, but in 1990 I got a lovely Golf Gti 16V, Oak Green Metallic (Big bumper model), these were difficult to get a hold of at the time, bought it in Newcastle - picked up from the dealers and overnighted with a friend in Tynemouth. Got up next morning- gone! I still had both keys and no glass outside, just...gone! 3 weeks later a skip lorry was pulled over by the constabulary with some lovely bits of Oak Green metal sticking out....story was all stripped out and gone abroad.
More confusingly though, shift forward a year and I get a phone call from someone asking service history and stuff on an Oak Green Metallic Golf GTI 16V, Reg G752 VJR.....he did not like my response poor chap

 

[dbanbery]

That is a sad demise

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I stripped it for parts, bought another, used the good bits on that and then upgraded to the 129 when I’d had enough of tinnitus, and exhausts falling off.


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[00slk]

They had taste with my cars too
Bought the 450 in '82 nicked in '86

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[LostKiwi]

In 2001 I had my 2001 Audi S3 stolen. I'd been to the local Tesco to get the shopping. Drove home. Went through back door and popped upstairs to the loo, leaving keys on sinktop in the kitchen. Came down and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary till some 4 hours later when I couldn't find the keys to lock the back door. It appears from the information given by the police I'd been targeted whilst at the Tesco and they'd followed me home to get the keys and had followed me into the back alley way (was living in a row of terrace houses at the time so they had to walk past the back doors of 4 of my neighbours as well). In their view it was lucky I'd gone upstairs as in the past the thieves had used violence to get the keys.
About a week later I was driving up the M1 and saw an S3 same as mine scream past in the outside lane but as the number plate was wrong thought no more of it. A month later the Police recovered mine from Leicester - a police patrol had spotted a known criminal driving it on the other side of the road and turned round to pull them over. They legged it, lost control, mounted the kerb and hit a tree. They sent me the pictures and it was the same plates as the one I'd seen on the M1. No doubt if I'd been able to get closer to it on the M1 I'd have picked out a few features to identify it at the time.
Funnily the insurance company asked if I wanted it back (they 'd already paid out) and having seen the photos I said not a chance!

 

[dbanbery]

More confusingly though, shift forward a year and I get a phone call from someone asking service history and stuff on an Oak Green Metallic Golf GTI 16V, Reg G752 VJR.....he did not like my response poor chap

Did the police get involved with this?



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[John Laidlaw]

Did the police get involved with this?



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I did indeed inform them, didn’t hear anything more...what a shame for the chap who called me, he’d been sold a ringer in some way as it seems the paperwork side hade been mishandled by the insurers ...

 

[dbanbery]

That’s hilariously bad. My XR3i is still SORN’d so the reg is mine.


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[gramey]

My CLK320 was stolen and keys taken by burglary a number of years ago, plates were changed but the Met caught the culprit. They put their blues on to answer a radio call at 2:00 am one morning and the guy who stole my car thought they were after him so he sped off. The police realised he must be up to no good so passed the radio call on and went after him.

I was presented with the news the next day "we have good news and bad news for you sir", "good news is we have recovered your car" "bad news is the Met like a good chase and told us your car really shifts"!

The guy ran the old argument I bought the car for £50 off a friend down the pub (it was at that time a £25k car), the police then said if that's true then why did you change the number plates because we have your finger prints all over the back of them!

The guy had previous for carrying a fire arm so he got put away..

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I had to phone a guy one night, he'd had his Ford Mondeo stolen, I told him I had good news and bad news, I told him the good news was we'd got his car back. The bad news was Essex had pursued it, the guy lost control and went down an embankment and rolled it. To his eternal credit he asked the very same question I would have asked at that time, "Are my golf clubs still in the boot?", I no longer play but I did at the time and the clubs would have taken longer to replace than the car.

 

[Monday]

Working in Sydney, Australia in the late 1980's, I had a Holden Commodore stolen from outside my house. Company car so got another and did not think much more about it. Nine months later it was found in Sydney Airport car park, covered in dust. The car park staff had noticed it getting very dirty but had not thought anything of it being there for so long. Apparently they tried to charge the insurance company over A$800 in parking charges. Not certain of their response to that!

 

[Rotorhead500]

I had to phone a guy one night, he'd had his Ford Mondeo stolen..... To his eternal credit he asked the very same question I would have asked at that time...

... "Were the culprits seriously hurt in the impact???"

 

[silestanix]

London isn't good for having any sort of desirable or good looking old car. Unfortunate.

 

[gramey]

... "Were the culprits seriously hurt in the impact???"

Not enough as they were still stealing oxygen.