Black 11-D Polo stolen 12/09/11.

Mech1

Taken this morning 10.30am, with keys from Monkstown Dublin.

11 D 1203

Black 5 Door VW Polo.

Any info / Sightings would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance.

Bigus

It might be no harm to put up a pic of a similar spec one ,,,,, assuming you don't have a pic of the actual car

Mech1

Good Idea, looks identical to this one. (except Reg of course)

Muckie

Nice looking car, hope it turns up soon.

Atlantic Dawn

Havn't seen many black new model Polos around, hopefully it shows up. Is there a garage sticker on the back window or on the plates, it may still be there and jog someones memory if it they are stuck behind it.

Mech1

Foster motors on it if anything, I'm not sure if stickers where on it.

Atlantic Dawn

Mech1 wrote: »

Foster motors on it if anything, I'm not sure if stickers where on it.

Will keep an eye out for it, sometimes they change the plates but may leave the stickers on.

Mech1

Almost brand new car, only about 3500km on it:mad:

Mech1

Searching everywhere, no sign as of yet.

Veloce

If you haven't done so already it might be no harm to contact the toll operators on the M50 in case the car has passed through- assuming the reg hasn't been changed of course.

I hope it turns up. Pure thieving scumbags.

Mar4ix

how it went with keys ? I have similar polo.. just 10 d, just make sure, mine wont go.
Did you left keys in car ? or was stolen from home ?

Mech1

keys stolen, then took car.

L-M

Such a disgrace, I hope it turns up.

homer90

Sorry to hear this.... Scum. Its happening all the more often nowadays :mad:

Hardly stolen to be parted out ? Being such a new model ? I wonder.

cabrwab

No car is safe anymore once its new.

Scum sorry to hear it OP, I won't be on the road much this week but ill keep an eye out, not many of them around.

Mar4ix

Mech1 wrote: »

keys stolen, then took car.

keys stolen from pocket in shop, or somebody went in to house, took keys ?

WestWing

homer90 wrote: »

Sorry to hear this.... Scum. Its happening all the more often nowadays :mad:

Hardly stolen to be parted out ? Being such a new model ? I wonder.

A technical bureau garda recently told me (while dusting my front door for prints :mad:) that a gang operating in North Kildare \ West Dublin is breaking down most of the new cars they steal.

Apparently it's not worth the hassle for the gang to get cars to the border or to a port. They are getting a dozen cars some weeks and they are making a few grand on parts for each car.

Veloce

WestWing wrote: »

A technical bureau garda recently told me (while dusting my front door for prints :mad:) that a gang operating in North Kildare \ West Dublin is breaking down most of the new cars they steal.

Apparently it's not worth the hassle for the gang to get cars to the border or to a port. They are getting a dozen cars some weeks and they are making a few grand on parts for each car.

Any idea how the scummers are selling the parts from the cars they break? Put parts for sale up on donedeal / e-bay or sell directly to the garages?

WestWing

He said that most are sold in the UK and mainland europe as the parts market here is too small for them. He also mentioned that the vast majority of cars being stolen are VAG and beemers.

Mech1

Just in from the search!!! no luck yet:(

please keep your eyes out for 11 D 1203 Black 5 door polo.

Thanks

homer90

Mech1 wrote: »

Just in from the search!!! no luck yet:(

please keep your eyes out for 11 D 1203 Black 5 door polo.

Thanks

Sorry im of no help, but keep us updated....

&

Bump......

EPM

Another bump. This really is disgusting.

Mech1

sorry, but bump!

please keep your eyes out for 11 D 1203 Black 5 door polo.

Thanks

Mech1

Ok I can come clean now, The detectives etc have been here and no sign of the car.

The car was in a repair garage (not Foster motors) for some bodywork, the scanger sneaked into the reception area while it was unattended, forced open the keybox and took the keys to the polo. It was parked outside after being washed and was ready for collection bar the fitting of a airbag module that wasnt available until that afternoon. (airbags had not been deployed, minor door collission but crash sensor and module still needed).

Warning, we have been told by detectives that : Garages are big targets Nowadays.

pippip

Really sorry for you. Such a crappy thing to happen.

Can you claim off their insurance then and keep your no claims?(assuming you have one after the original collision)

Mech1

I am not the owner of the car, I work in the garage.

Cicero

It certainly has a distinctive reg plate- very easy to remember...it's stuck in my mind anyways...best of luck with the search

pippip

Mech1 wrote: »

I am not the owner of the car, I work in the garage.

Sorry to hear that hopefully they won't target you again. I work near monkstown and had a customer who lives in the area who mentioned a few crimes in recent weeks they had heard of.

Still though out of curiosity which insurance pays out. Only ask as years ago had mine in a garage for a month and wondered the same question.

Mech1

Still no luck finding the polo, but..........

We discovered a 00-D- Black polo not more than a mile away from here that had its reg plates stolen a couple of days ago. So possibly our car is now running a 00-D- plate.

So also please look out for a brand new 2011 model Black Polo on 00-D- plates.

Many thanks.

L-M

I very much doubt that because that would be very, very obvious. The theifs wouldn't be that stupid!

challengemaster

Limerick man wrote: »

I very much doubt that because that would be very, very obvious. The theifs wouldn't be that stupid!

Obvious to anyone that knows anything about cars, which automatically excludes most of the population.

It'd be enough to get it through a few tolls without being flagged in the system (assuming the other reg is)

L-M

I honeslty can't see them putting 11 year old plates on a new car, even my mother would cop onto that.

Jonesie91

My car has had parts repeatedly stolen off it, wing mirrors, bumper and parking sensors! How the alarm hasn't gone off.... :mad: The guards said that parts are being stolen and sold online. Luckily they haven't gone as far as stealing the actual car! Best of luck finding the car!

Mech1

So the car has turned up.

Some poor silly girl paid €10K for it in a carpark in Finglas from some Lithuanian guy. She had trouble with the forged documentation when she tried to register it to her name. The Gardai picked it up from her. It was running a false reg.

Sad ending.

colm_mcm

So had the insurance paid out already?

Awful for the poor girl.

meoklmrk91

Jesus that's bad, poor girl 10k is a hell of a lot of money, just out of curiosity lads would its show up on cartell and likes if the car had been reported stolen?

Mech1

Yes original owner got paid out 4 weeks or so after theft.

colm_mcm

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Jesus that's bad, poor girl 10k is a hell of a lot of money, just out of curiosity lads would its show up on cartell and likes if the car had been reported stolen?

Car could have been cloned, use a reg number from a similar car, fake documents etc.

Atlantic Dawn

Poor girl, handing over €10k to an unknown lad in a car park is never a good idea. Easy to talk about it now though, she may have been lured in thinking she was getting a bargain and this clouded her judgement.

What would happen to that car now? It could have been potentially butchered to add new VIN and engine numbers and might not be possible to get these details back to original state so would car be then not sellable as a car that would return to the road again?

Anan1

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Jesus that's bad, poor girl 10k is a hell of a lot of money, just out of curiosity lads would its show up on cartell and likes if the car had been reported stolen?

The false plates wouldn't if they'd been copied from a legitimate car. The VIN # should show as stolen, but a lot of people would be too lazy to check that.

Media999

Crazy to think that he probably made enough money to buy a house in his home country.

Thats about 5 years of a teachers wage there. Madness.

mickdw

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

What would happen to that car now? It could have been potentially butchered to add new VIN and engine numbers and might not be possible to get these details back to original state so would car be then not sellable as a car that would return to the road again?

Id say it was more a case of just false plates and then false paperwork containing new plate and original VIN number. This would only be discovered by doing a history check and also only if the actual vin was entered into history check which alot of people dont do if they have the vin on reg cert and on the car.

Mech1

Just shows you, this car must have been hidden for at least 7 months waiting for the heat to die off, getting the forged docs / reg sorted.

barura

Mech1 wrote: »

Just shows you, this car must have been hidden for at least 7 months waiting for the heat to die off, getting the forged docs / reg sorted.

It is disturbing to think that someone would pay 10k cash for a car.

Having said that, the most expensive car I've purchased was 900euro and I never drove it. Prick I got it off got arrested in it and I had no money to collect it from the impound.

Whatever, such is life. It's such a hard lesson but its a valuable one to learn.

Vicxas

So whats the story now OP? Does the car get returned to you or does the insurance company come and claim it if they paid out insurance to you?

Mar4ix

wonder if Garda goin to do about this ? there is possibilities to find thieves, but it will involve a lot of data collecting and analyzing, which would be also evidence in court. wonder is there some car thieve detective unit who is dealing with such crime?

ShadowHearth

Was it advertised On donedeal?

I am really interested if she did all the cartel check. I know it might be a clone, but still should be something not right? I presume it's newish car with finance. Not many cars are these years would be finance free, even the clone car. That should already ring alarm bells.

Question is, if she even did a history check?

I am very interested to know what happens next op. it's a sad ending. 10k eu is a lot of money.

I am really not proud being Lithuanian myself, but this is just fecking low all together.

Alanstrainor

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Was it advertised On donedeal?

I am really interested if she did all the cartel check. I know it might be a clone, but still should be something not right? I presume it's newish car with finance. Not many cars are these years would be finance free, even the clone car. That should already ring alarm bells.

Question is, if she even did a history check?

I am very interested to know what happens next op. it's a sad ending. 10k eu is a lot of money.

I am really not proud being Lithuanian myself, but this is just fecking low all together.

As someone said earlier, she probably thought she was getting a great deal and this just clouded her judgement. Most people aren't too savvy when it comes to cars or the checks needed. Hell I definitely wasn't when I was buying mine either.

Really feel terrible for her being honest.