Think I was followed in my RS6

[SpaceshipEarth]

NRG1976 said:

I’d rather live in a state of perpetual fear than drive a shed for the rest of my life tbh

Yup.

I tried shedding for 18 months. It's a truly miserable way to get about if you're even remotely interested in cars.

[SlimJim16v]

You can get interesting sheds.

[wc98]

SpaceshipEarth said:

Yup.

I tried shedding for 18 months. It's a truly miserable way to get about if you're even remotely interested in cars.

I would far rather drive something nice but the amount of miles i do on small roads/farm tracks/beaches and the car being parked up being covered in salt spray when i am fishing makes shedding a no brainer. Plus it gets slept in and cooked in when on multiple day fishing trips.

It's great to bounce down those same tight technical roads, even had a bloke out for a run in an mx-5 pull over and let us past a few weeks ago (cheers if you are on here, we were on a tight schedule for hitting a mark at the right tide state) where you can be scraping branches and bushes and running the odd dirt berm , bottoming out over jumps and all at fairly reasonable speeds due to the lack of power and the car being full of gear for three days

Horses for courses, if you don't do any of that it makes perfect sense to drive something nice.

Also, user name warp 9, owns RS6 yet is being followed. Give yourself a good talking to warp 9.

Edited by wc98 on Wednesday 26th June 22:06

[JAMSXR]

One of the reasons I stick to boring/dull colours. My garage is full of bikes and prams so the car lives on the driveway tucked next to the wife’s less desirable Tesla, and thanks to being primer grey it flys under the radar provided it’s reversed in. There was a lovely Nogaro Blue example I found when looking for one, price was too good to be true, it was stolen recovered…

My Ring floodlight camera tells people they are being recorded when it detects someone. Installed after someone tried getting into the garage. Clearly it’s not going to stop some high calibre car thieves on a mission, but every little helps..

[pork911]

SpaceshipEarth said:

Yup.

I tried shedding for 18 months. It's a truly miserable way to get about if you're even remotely interested in cars.

What non shed do you drive?

[NRG1976]

pork911 said:

SpaceshipEarth said:

Yup.

I tried shedding for 18 months. It's a truly miserable way to get about if you're even remotely interested in cars.

What non shed do you drive?

Oh gawd, here we go…cue 10 pages of arguing

[Shnozz]

NRG1976 said:

Hard one really, I’d be loathe to let scum dictate my approach to cars but only you can know your own apprehension to the matter vs. pleasure you get from the car.

Someone I know had their house broken into about 10-12 years ago for an RS5 but despite an amazing set of cars since it never happened again.

Personally I’d leave it as is and if it gets robbed you can worry about a decision on long term car ownership thereafter.

The RS Audis really do seem to be an absolute magnet for this type of thing. Puts me off getting another even though my parking is anonymous to the property the keys are held in.

[Chainsaw Rebuild]

The test driver said:

BMRed said:

Woke up this morning to find three lads have been checking out the car. Floodlights and security cameras stopped them in their tracks and soon vanished, but had enough now. Last time was 5 years ago.

Going to get the ball rolling this week with offloading the car asap

Your driveways perfect for deployable bollards, automated ones would be ideal.

An electric gate powered by an app on your phone (and thus no remote in the car) would be good, and not look out of place.

[Pixel Pusher]

BunkMoreland said:

The flaw is visible in this pic. If you have one at home, take a VERY close look at it!

I think I know... it's laid on the drive instead fixed to the steering wheel?

[BMRed]

Hi all, another update.

I think I went OTT but more security (visual and non visual) today.

Local FB groups reporting one car a night getting nicked off driveways since Tuesday. M135i the latest victim.

Police have put a notification out on social media about a spike in vehicle thefts over the last week.

[Dingu]

BMRed said:

Hi all, another update.

I think I went OTT but more security (visual and non visual) today.

Local FB groups reporting one car a night getting nicked off driveways since Tuesday. M135i the latest victim.

Police have put a notification out on social media about a spike in vehicle thefts over the last week.

If it makes them move on from your house it’s worth it.