Are electric cars being stolen?
Are electric cars being stolen?
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Huzzah

Original Poster:

29,059 posts

214 months

Monday 21st September
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Plenty of car thefts, in the Midlands typically Landrover and German performance stuff. Are electric cars being stolen or just ICE?

M4cruiser

5,228 posts

181 months

Monday 21st September
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Not worth trying, the police can just follow a lead.
wink

Mammasaid

5,633 posts

128 months

Monday 21st September
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Not currently...getmecoat

Sebring440

3,245 posts

127 months

Monday 21st September
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No more impedance from you lot!

DoctorX

8,270 posts

198 months

Monday 21st September
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Sebring440 said:
No more impedance from you lot!
Watt?

ShortBeardy

1,046 posts

175 months

Monday 21st September
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Given current policing I doubt anyone would get charged

bigandclever

14,408 posts

269 months

Monday 21st September
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My mate had his ioniq 5 stolen by someone using the Gameboy key emulator thing. He had 4 airtags in it, found it in Tooting and stole it back but the damage they'd done ripping it apart looking for trackers meant Hyundai had it for 3 months fixing it. Hyundai then offered to sell him the software update that prevents it for (I think) 50 quid, cheeky bds.

bigandclever said:
found it in Tooting
Oh, erm, Sherlock Ohms. FML.

Edited by bigandclever on Monday 21st September 22:36

cliffords

4,556 posts

54 months

Monday 21st September
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Not far from me there is a couple of roundabouts on a dual carriageway where Police are actively trying to stop stolen cars being raced , at the weekends.
It's a filmed event on social media with drivers in Face coverings and hoodies, you get the idea .
The police report in the local paper said it was predominantly EV's.

SteBrown91

3,158 posts

160 months

Monday 21st September
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Mate of mine had his L494 RRS and Ioniq 5 nicked on the same night. He thinks they discovered they could get into the Hyundai by accident while trying to relay his RRS.

They spent 45 minutes trying to steal the Range Rover with a steering lock and eventually succeeded by driving down the road with the lock still on then cutting the wheel to get the lock off. The contents of the Range Rover (car seats, documents etc) were found dumped in a lay-by but the car was never seen again.

They did find the Hyundai about a few miles away with a completely flat battery, the interior trashed and the windscreen smashed from the inside. Assumed used to ferry the crims round for a few nights before it went dead.

Insurance wrote it off I believe in the end.

geeks

11,812 posts

170 months

Monday 21st September
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cliffords said:
Not far from me there is a couple of roundabouts on a dual carriageway where Police are actively trying to stop stolen cars being raced , at the weekends.
It's a filmed event on social media with drivers in Face coverings and hoodies, you get the idea .
The police report in the local paper said it was predominantly EV's.
So they were resisting arrest?

Fireblade69

637 posts

234 months

Monday 21st September
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Loving the puns smile

Garett

1,687 posts

223 months

Monday 21st September
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Its just a phase

ShortBeardy

1,046 posts

175 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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Resistance is futile

DukeDickson

5,060 posts

244 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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Talk about amping up a problem.

Wacky Racer

41,399 posts

278 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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I'd imagine finding your car had been stolen would be a great shock.

quigonjay

1,947 posts

252 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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watt?

Geertsen

1,996 posts

90 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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quigonjay said:
watt?
We’ve had that one, I think we are going round in circuits now.

dxg

10,807 posts

291 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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Geertsen said:
quigonjay said:
watt?
We ve had that one, I think we are going round in circuits now.
You can rectify that by driving over the bridge.

ShortBeardy

1,046 posts

175 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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Whaetstone? Give him a full wave!

Cristio Nasser

897 posts

24 months

Tuesday 22nd September
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I have a 3-phase plan to transform and rectify the current situation with minimal resistance.