1986 Mercedes W124 250D Stolen From Tallaght

George Dalton

Hi all,

A friend of mine had his 1986 W124 stolen from Tallaght on Tuesday 13th November at 1:30 pm.

It was taken by a yellow Ford Transit recovery truck.

Pictures of the car and truck below.

If anyone has any info that may be of assistance can they contact me by PM or on 0868548629 please.

Thanks,

George

keithsfleet

Put a link up on octane.ie
Theres quite a w124 fan base on it.

Kenny Logins

The truck should be easily recognisable, good luck with the hunt.

Big Nasty

Stick it up in Classics here too George.

George Dalton

Thanks guys, forgot to mention that it was taken from South City Business Park

dgt

Will keep my eye out up here. Tis an old Monaghan reg, yes?

Do they know how was it taken ie broken into and towed up or just towed up?

Alanstrainor

Will keep an eye out!

But I have to ask the obvious here...why would anyone go through the hassle?

dgt

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Will keep an eye out!

But I have to ask the obvious here...why would anyone go through the hassle?

Easy scrap money I'm guessing is the reason

ford jedi

ive seen that truck around a good bit , see it on the grangecastle road a few times a week , id say that car has been scraped, id say you,l find that truck in either of the halting sites on the nangor rd , i may be wrong be it sure looks like the one ive seen not many canary yellow transit ones

RandomAccess

Good shot of the recovery truck, can't be too many of them in the country I would say.

Should also say, maybe broadsheet.ie would pick up the story?
They had a popular story the other week for a stolen bicycle story which was caught on camera.

Also, the owner could walk the route around the road into the business park and see if there are any other cameras that might have caught a sighting or a licence plate.

ARGINITE

dgt wrote: »

Easy scrap money I'm guessing is the reason

Definitely the reason, had the exact same thing happen to me with my last car.

The cops and the council proved to be as useful as a glass hammer, council were too lazy to look through a few hours of cctv footage and even if they did the cops said they couldn't do anything with the reg of the recovery truck as it didn't show who stole the car.

joujoujou

For scrap reason, or for spares.

RandomAccess

ARGINITE wrote: »

Definitely the reason, had the exact same thing happen to me with my last car.

The cops and the council proved to be as useful as a glass hammer, council were too lazy to look through a few hours of cctv footage and even if they did the cops said they couldn't do anything with the reg of the recovery truck as it didn't show who stole the car.

Tell them the tax was out on the van they might go to the ****in bother then. Useless bunch of bastards.

dingding

They should stop you scrapping cars unless you have the log book / registration cert.

This would stop this sort of thing overnight.

keithsfleet

They really are useless, the police.
My car was nicked a while back, I found out it was in an illegal breakers yard. Told the police and they checked it out...3 days later.
They came back to me and said it wasn't there.
Ended up having to do something about it myself.

RandomAccess

keithsfleet wrote: »

They really are useless, the police.
My car was nicked a while back, I found out it was in an illegal breakers yard. Told the police and they checked it out...3 days later.
They came back to me and said it wasn't there.
Ended up having to do something about it myself.

Thats how its going to go, if they aren't getting the job done then people are going to come up with alternative options.

RandomAccess

keithsfleet wrote: »

They really are useless, the police.
My car was nicked a while back, I found out it was in an illegal breakers yard. Told the police and they checked it out...3 days later.
They came back to me and said it wasn't there.
Ended up having to do something about it myself.

also, might be worth pm'ing address of that breakers to the OP if its in Dublin area.

Gary ITR

RandomAccess wrote: »

Thats how its going to go, if they aren't getting the job done then people are going to come up with alternative options.

Dublin in the 80's and early 90's had the CPAD (Concerned Parents Against Drugs), maybe now we need the CPAP (Concerned Petrolheads against Pikeys)

RandomAccess

Gary ITR wrote: »

Dublin in the 80's and early 90's had the CPAD (Concerned Parents Against Drugs), maybe now we need the CPAP (Concerned Petrolheads against Pikeys)

Perhaps, then Cyclists would want their own group as well.

I don't know if these thefts are classed as minor crime or petty crime or whatever, but the volume of them is certainly major and its emboldening those who do it. Also once they get hooked on the income they are not going to go back to what they had, bike thieves for example are raking it in now and will always try to keep that income level from theft and other crimes once they are used to it. If it had been stamped out hard then we would not be in situations like these. Look at metal thefts in the UK, it started out with lead flashing but now people are stealing absolutely everything from manhole covers to bronze statues. Metal theft could be as bad here, I haven't heard much about it. (potential scrappage of this car was first I heard of similar activities here)

George Dalton

Update:

Following a tip off from a Boards member (thanks Mark) the shell of the car was found in Naas this morning. Unfortunately it was completely stripped down so the car is pretty much a dead loss

Thanks again to everyone who kept an eye out.

George

ARGINITE

George Dalton wrote: »

Update:

Following a tip off from a Boards member (thanks Mark) the shell of the car was found in Naas this morning. Unfortunately it was completely stripped down so the car is pretty much a dead loss

Thanks again to everyone who kept an eye out.

George

That sucks, sorry to hear it.

Big Nasty

Fvckers! :mad:

Stheno

George Dalton wrote: »

Update:

Following a tip off from a Boards member (thanks Mark) the shell of the car was found in Naas this morning. Unfortunately it was completely stripped down so the car is pretty much a dead loss

Thanks again to everyone who kept an eye out.

George

That sucks, really sorry to hear that

triple-M

any idea of who the culprits might of been e.g was it found near a halting site or anything

v240gltse

hi
sorry to hear that, what a shower of fvck3rs are out and about at the moment.

maybe keep an eye out on donedeal/adverts for the parts been sold ?

regards

George Dalton wrote: »

Update:

Following a tip off from a Boards member (thanks Mark) the shell of the car was found in Naas this morning. Unfortunately it was completely stripped down so the car is pretty much a dead loss

Thanks again to everyone who kept an eye out.

George

pcardin

Sorry to hear that! :mad:

Now just keep hunting for that yellow recovery truck and when you eventually find strip it down to the chassis. At least some revange.

renofan

Where abouts in Naas can I ask as I live near to Naas.

dingding

If you put an ad up on done deal looking for a replacement engine for your car which has snapped a timing belt or what ever.

See what happens.

Someone might try to sell you back your engine.

JJJJNR

Savage pic of the recovery truck in fairness.

Bigus

Somebody doing a diesel conversion that didn't want the bother of ECU s ?
Post up the engine number George for future reference it might turn up, in a classic.

ford jedi

here lads just seen that recovery truck heading into naas with another old eclass onbaord looked navy blueish so if anyone is missing one i suggest you ask george where his was found,,