Think I was followed in my RS6
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PistonTim said:
And you believed he all wanted you to do was just 'rev it' after all that effort?
it's possible, I had a mini follow me for a long time on loads of different roads when I was driving a lotus 340r, eventually I pulled up and confronted him - turns out he was a car enthusiast and we chatted about cars for 20 mins!O/P... If you want to keep the car, then...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tevlaphee-Universal-Anti-...
plus
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faraday-Caslord-double-la...
and... serious house fortification.
...or move to a postcode with zero car crime, like I did. Good luck.
(Former RS6 driver).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tevlaphee-Universal-Anti-...
plus
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faraday-Caslord-double-la...
and... serious house fortification.
...or move to a postcode with zero car crime, like I did. Good luck.
(Former RS6 driver).
Edited by GetCarter on Monday 3rd April 13:34
PistonTim said:
C5_Steve said:
Few weeks ago I was driving home in my car (Corvette). I drive it all the time, it's my main car/daily. It was about 9:45pm, I'm 5 mins from home, as I'm approaching a roundabout on a dual carriageway there's a Citroen C1 ahead of me. It moves into the left lane, I stay right as both lanes let you go straight and I know I'm going to go quicker over the roundabout. As I leave the roundabout I check my rear view and notice the C1 is right on my bumper, which must have been an effort for it! I think nothing of it and it carry on, it drops back a bit so not too concerned. Maybe someone felt aggrieved I went round them.
Next roundabout, I take the exit up the hill where I live and look back and again, C1 is right on my bumper. Hmmmmmm. So I do 29mph all the way up the hill, the C1 gets bored and backs off a bit. Coming up to my turning at the traffic lights, its two lanes. Left is left turn only into my estate. Right is straight on. The road is empty, the car behind now a bit further back so I leave it a bit late before turning left without indicating. Now I'm driving down the road and looking in the rear view. C1 does the same. Turns in without indicating. Still might be a coincidence but now I'm wondering. Next turning is right only unless your a bus where you can go left, I speed up round the bend before it to drop the C1 from view and go right but my house is right after the turning so I drive slow whilst looking in the rear view. The C1 comes out of the turning STRAIGHT and stops in the middle of the road. I'm looking at it in the rear view crawling along.......it reverses and then follows me. So now I know he's absolutely following me.
Decided not to turn into my drive as I don't want anyone seeing where I park and straight ahead is a series of 4 round abouts in the development. C1 has caught up now, so first round about I do a full loop before taking the exit I would have taken if driving straight on. The roundabouts are smallish with only 4 exits. C1 does the same, one loop round behind me then off. There's no doubt, he's following me.
Next roundabout I decide to let him know I know. So I do one loop, C1 still behind. Second loop, still there. Third loop and this is silly now as he must know I know. So I stop in the middle between two turnings and drop my window. C1 pulls up as if to head off the roundabout but stops in the road also. I can see two guys in the car........he winds down the window.
"Can you rev it for us mate"
Turns out he'd just never seen one before and loves the car.
He drives off back the way he came.
Now I wasn't scared by this but what if I'd been someone less confident being followed by two blokes in a car? Some people do not engage their brain. I'm sure we've all seen something tasty on a motorway and sped up to catch up with it but following someone home in the dead of night, really?
Moral of the story - Maybe the person in the Passat just really likes RS6s. Maybe they were checking it out for other purposes. Good thing is you noticed it, so be aware but don't let it affect you're enjoyment of owning it.
And you believed he all wanted you to do was just 'rev it' after all that effort? Next roundabout, I take the exit up the hill where I live and look back and again, C1 is right on my bumper. Hmmmmmm. So I do 29mph all the way up the hill, the C1 gets bored and backs off a bit. Coming up to my turning at the traffic lights, its two lanes. Left is left turn only into my estate. Right is straight on. The road is empty, the car behind now a bit further back so I leave it a bit late before turning left without indicating. Now I'm driving down the road and looking in the rear view. C1 does the same. Turns in without indicating. Still might be a coincidence but now I'm wondering. Next turning is right only unless your a bus where you can go left, I speed up round the bend before it to drop the C1 from view and go right but my house is right after the turning so I drive slow whilst looking in the rear view. The C1 comes out of the turning STRAIGHT and stops in the middle of the road. I'm looking at it in the rear view crawling along.......it reverses and then follows me. So now I know he's absolutely following me.
Decided not to turn into my drive as I don't want anyone seeing where I park and straight ahead is a series of 4 round abouts in the development. C1 has caught up now, so first round about I do a full loop before taking the exit I would have taken if driving straight on. The roundabouts are smallish with only 4 exits. C1 does the same, one loop round behind me then off. There's no doubt, he's following me.
Next roundabout I decide to let him know I know. So I do one loop, C1 still behind. Second loop, still there. Third loop and this is silly now as he must know I know. So I stop in the middle between two turnings and drop my window. C1 pulls up as if to head off the roundabout but stops in the road also. I can see two guys in the car........he winds down the window.
"Can you rev it for us mate"
Turns out he'd just never seen one before and loves the car.
He drives off back the way he came.
Now I wasn't scared by this but what if I'd been someone less confident being followed by two blokes in a car? Some people do not engage their brain. I'm sure we've all seen something tasty on a motorway and sped up to catch up with it but following someone home in the dead of night, really?
Moral of the story - Maybe the person in the Passat just really likes RS6s. Maybe they were checking it out for other purposes. Good thing is you noticed it, so be aware but don't let it affect you're enjoyment of owning it.
kevinon said:
Is the car a 'keyless' model?
If so, maybe a scare story for you. A workmate believed that his RR remote signal was intercepted while out, and then thieves followed him home. And stole his car, even tho his remote key was in a Faraday cage at home.
Whether its keyless or not is irrelevant. If so, maybe a scare story for you. A workmate believed that his RR remote signal was intercepted while out, and then thieves followed him home. And stole his car, even tho his remote key was in a Faraday cage at home.
My old boss was followed for a bit in his RS6. Few days later he ws joined in the early hours by masked robbers with machetes with a blowtorch through his front door, .
All the stories about lovable rogues and just wanting a bit of a rev up is all well and good when we are talking about old Corvettes, unsual cars, or pretty much anything else.
RS6 though? Nope. Wouldnt buy one. Literally, the top, number 1, ultimate scalp for scumbags. Sorry, but its true.
Sell it.
I think anything AWD and high power is a nice "getaway car" target and anything RS (or more of the more recent German metal) is a likely target for that very reason.
That being said it does not stop the other German models being popular, but not necessarily for that type of crime.
I did have my BM targeted once not long after some takeaway driver took too much interest, my wife thought it innocent I for some reason thought otherwise. About 2 wks later at 1am a person all dressed in black appeared on the drive....unfortunately for them all the driveaway sensors went off and we managed to scare them off. Police simply said clear the garage out ASAP just in case, ever since my cars have spent the night in the garage (even sometimes during the day).
That being said it does not stop the other German models being popular, but not necessarily for that type of crime.
I did have my BM targeted once not long after some takeaway driver took too much interest, my wife thought it innocent I for some reason thought otherwise. About 2 wks later at 1am a person all dressed in black appeared on the drive....unfortunately for them all the driveaway sensors went off and we managed to scare them off. Police simply said clear the garage out ASAP just in case, ever since my cars have spent the night in the garage (even sometimes during the day).
WCZ said:
my friends wife got carjacked in their rs6, the thieves followed them at some point to where they live then at another date hid in the bushes until she was coming back home
she was really traumatised and the event caused them to move house into a gated community
there's something about RS audis that attract the worst of the worst, partly because so many are used in crimes as they make great getaway cars
the RS badge makes a certain personality type feel right at home. It's like written permission to be what they are. S.she was really traumatised and the event caused them to move house into a gated community
there's something about RS audis that attract the worst of the worst, partly because so many are used in crimes as they make great getaway cars
Edited by GiantCardboardPlato on Monday 3rd April 13:50
A chap working at the company next door to where I do bought an RS6 earlier this year.
3 weeks later he had some lads smash their way into his unit while he was working inside and he traded them the keys in exchange for them not chopping him up with a machete.
This was in the tranquil resort town of Smethwick, Birmingham.
Personally I couldn't deal with being so paranoid all of the time if I had an RS6, Golf R etc.
I'm sure you're more likely to have a Fiesta nicked, but those will usually be a keyless theft while you're asleep or something, not a gang smashing their way into your house.
3 weeks later he had some lads smash their way into his unit while he was working inside and he traded them the keys in exchange for them not chopping him up with a machete.
This was in the tranquil resort town of Smethwick, Birmingham.
Personally I couldn't deal with being so paranoid all of the time if I had an RS6, Golf R etc.
I'm sure you're more likely to have a Fiesta nicked, but those will usually be a keyless theft while you're asleep or something, not a gang smashing their way into your house.
I often wonder what the statistics are between the owners who’s cars get stolen under threat and owners of the same cars who never experience more than a stone chip?
And before anyone dusts off their soapbox, extra short Napoleon outfit and extra large tube of hand gel, - nobody is saying is doesn’t happen.
And before anyone dusts off their soapbox, extra short Napoleon outfit and extra large tube of hand gel, - nobody is saying is doesn’t happen.
I thought the Pistonheads standard response was get a dog and let that be your home security? Seemed to be the hardened response on a similar thread.
OP. You have a desirable car that is occasionally stolen. Perhaps more so than a less desirable car (Pistonheads is obviously skewed to report that performance cars are stolen).
You can take some reasonable steps to secure your car and home (good doors, good locks, good laminated glass windows, good RF key box, simple camera system etc). But likely if someone wants to take it then they'll find a means to do it.
The objective is for that to happen with the least amount of physical and mental harm to you and your loved ones. Therefore compliance is usually the easiest option when dealing with the theft of a car.
OP. You have a desirable car that is occasionally stolen. Perhaps more so than a less desirable car (Pistonheads is obviously skewed to report that performance cars are stolen).
You can take some reasonable steps to secure your car and home (good doors, good locks, good laminated glass windows, good RF key box, simple camera system etc). But likely if someone wants to take it then they'll find a means to do it.
The objective is for that to happen with the least amount of physical and mental harm to you and your loved ones. Therefore compliance is usually the easiest option when dealing with the theft of a car.
swisstoni said:
paralla said:
Friend of mine had his brand new RS4 nicked off his driveway in Islington (broke into the house for the keys). Insurance replacement arrived about a month later and he was violently carjacked shortly after while his wife and two small children were in the car with him.
He started sleeping downstairs with a baseball bat, his wife went ballistic and insisted the move to the countryside. They are currently enjoying a nice quiet life in a barn conversion in rural Kent.
Sometimes having something that’s ‘flavour of the month’ really isn’t worth it.He started sleeping downstairs with a baseball bat, his wife went ballistic and insisted the move to the countryside. They are currently enjoying a nice quiet life in a barn conversion in rural Kent.
There’s so many interesting cars in the world that you could get instead, that don’t compute with the scrotes.
) but that is all. It isn't a given that a nice car will attract scrotes and carjackings etc are mercifully rare, despite what PH might have you believe.
Almost certainly nothing to worry about. If the person was planning a crime, they wouldn't be so overt about it. You probably just look like Passat man's type.
GetCarter said:
O/P... If you want to keep the car, then...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tevlaphee-Universal-Anti-...
plus
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faraday-Caslord-double-la...
and... serious house fortification.
...or move to a postcode with zero car crime, like I did. Good luck.
(Former RS6 driver).
Are the steering wheel locks actually any deterrent against a decent angle grinder?https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tevlaphee-Universal-Anti-...
plus
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faraday-Caslord-double-la...
and... serious house fortification.
...or move to a postcode with zero car crime, like I did. Good luck.
(Former RS6 driver).
Edited by GetCarter on Monday 3rd April 13:34
Trif said:
GetCarter said:
O/P... If you want to keep the car, then...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tevlaphee-Universal-Anti-...
plus
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faraday-Caslord-double-la...
and... serious house fortification.
...or move to a postcode with zero car crime, like I did. Good luck.
(Former RS6 driver).
Are the steering wheel locks actually any deterrent against a decent angle grinder?https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tevlaphee-Universal-Anti-...
plus
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faraday-Caslord-double-la...
and... serious house fortification.
...or move to a postcode with zero car crime, like I did. Good luck.
(Former RS6 driver).
Edited by GetCarter on Monday 3rd April 13:34
Hi all, thanks for the comments. As has been mentioned by a couple of posters, I also live in Birmingham. I did also get the registration of the Passat.
i have got a tracker fitted and have some big bolts on the house front door. I also have a faraway cage which I'll leave in an easy spot to see.
I also don't have a driveway, so will make a point of not parking immediately outside the house. There is a bit of curb about 20m down the road which isn't connected to anyone's house.
Maybe it was just coincidence, but feeling like this has taken the shine off owning the car. I don't feel like it's going to be a long term love affair.
i have got a tracker fitted and have some big bolts on the house front door. I also have a faraway cage which I'll leave in an easy spot to see.
I also don't have a driveway, so will make a point of not parking immediately outside the house. There is a bit of curb about 20m down the road which isn't connected to anyone's house.
Maybe it was just coincidence, but feeling like this has taken the shine off owning the car. I don't feel like it's going to be a long term love affair.
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