Lotus Elise stolen (Dublin city) - if anyone sees or hears of it!...

mikroche

98 D70391 Blue metallic Lotus Elise (Series 1). Stolen from Wintergarden apartments Pearse st Dublin - from underground carpark.

I've had it 17 years. Appreciate it if anyone hears anything about it.

thanks, Mike

kyote00

Assuming the Garda are already informed, might be worth letting the ports know also....

Was it driven away or trailered ?

mikroche wrote: »

98 D70391 Blue metallic Lotus Elise (Series 1). Stolen from Wintergarden apartments Pearse st Dublin - from underground carpark.

I've had it 17 years. Appreciate it if anyone hears anything about it.

thanks, Mike

mikroche

Trailered away - was not driving - thanks for suggesting that

ZENER

Any chance the management company had it removed ? Happens where I am every so often where cars are left for more than 6 to 8 months.

Ken

mikroche

Hi Ken, no, they were my first call!. It's been parked there most of it's life apart from a few holidays and safe until now. They are checking video footage to see if it can be seen going up the ramp.

thanks,Mike

mahoganygas

Sorry to hear that.

You don't see many of these around so it should stand out.

Fingers crossed for you.

yaeger

There is a thread running on this car over on Backroads.ie
It was suggested it may have been abandoned ! Which obviously not the case but someone probably decided to shift it thinking it was abandoned..
Hope it works out for you...

mikroche

Thanks for link!. Not abandoned - just witting for cash to get it back on road which ironically just materialised. It's only got 22k miles on it.

filbert the fox

mikroche wrote: »

98 D70391 Blue metallic Lotus Elise (Series 1). Stolen from Wintergarden apartments Pearse st Dublin - from underground carpark.

I've had it 17 years. Appreciate it if anyone hears anything about it.

thanks, Mike

That's awful. Will keep an eye out. Where would I start?

percy212

Shift as in steal or shift as in move....if the latter, surely the owner should be contacted by gardai or the building management. Seems a bit dodgy to me.

Best of luck op.

yaeger wrote: »

There is a thread running on this car over on Backroads.ie
It was suggested it may have been abandoned ! Which obviously not the case but someone probably decided to shift it thinking it was abandoned..
Hope it works out for you...

mikroche

Yes, management companies have to contact owners before removing vehicles - they told me it's very difficult to get a car removed.

Cuddlesworth

Make sure your current address is on the VLC.

Chris_Heilong

terrible thing to happen

iwillhtfu

Terrible it was stolen. It looked to be in fairly bad shape op what was the cost of getting it back running?

Where's the petrol cap gone and what happened the rear end?

mikroche

The fibre glass at pipes had a knock last track day it was out - was minor with no subframe damage. They're surprisingly strong for aluminium and fibreglass.

liam7831

Unlucky man, prob being ripped into 100 pieces as we speak

commited

Jesus this is awful Good luck with getting it back - hope it was insured.

Bigus

Sorry for your loss op but In all fairness ,imho ,

a wash once a year and physically moving space or orientation , MAY have helped disguising the possible misapprehension that it was,in fact,

"an abandoned classic "with a deceased/departed/emigrated/ or nama'd owner,

Who in such case wouldn't notice it missing for a few weeks.
Perhaps an enthusiast with no previous,took pity on it and removed it to put it to some good use as it looked a slight bit unloved.
The state it was left in unfortunately made it a beacon for a potential thief, who may have seen it abandoned on backroads.ie and Helped themselves unhindered to it , after investigating its location.

kev1.3s

Regardless of the condition it was left in the owner has the right to hold on to it. Hope you get it back op.

liam7831

Bigus wrote: »

Sorry for your loss op but In all fairness ,imho ,

a wash once a year and physically moving space or orientation , MAY have helped disguising the possible misapprehension that it was,in fact,

"an abandoned classic "with a deceased/departed/emigrated/ or nama'd owner,

Who in such case wouldn't notice it missing for a few weeks.
Perhaps an enthusiast with no previous,took pity on it and removed it to put it to some good use as it looked a slight bit unloved.
The state it was left in unfortunately made it a beacon for a potential thief, who may have seen it abandoned on backroads.ie and Helped themselves unhindered to it , after investigating its location.

Is this a confession ?

John_Rambo

liam7831 wrote: »

Is this a confession ?

Bloody hell... a few silly assumptions lead to the silliest assumption ever.

dingding

http://reallymeansounds.com/forum/threads/abandoned-s1-elise.182167/

Atlantic Dawn

dingding wrote: »

http://reallymeansounds.com/forum/threads/abandoned-s1-elise.182167/

In some state but that gave nobody permission to take it. In that thread there seems to be a mentality to take the car just because it looks like the owner is gone.

mhackett102

Is that a popular website? I'd reckon someone seen it posted there and made their plan.

But in all fairness, the car does seem to be abandoned. A simple look on the NCT website shows that the NCT expired in September of 2004! Someone would easily think that the car has just been parked there since then. But its still not right to take someone else's property.

OP I hope you recover it sooner rather than later.

Crumbs868

As mentioned on rms website in the UK you can claim ownership of an abandoned car, you just write to DVLA who then write to the owner and if no reply car is yours. Maybe someone up north (as rms site is a northern one) thought car was abandoned and assumed same process existed down here?

Crumbs868

Anyone know if GPS coordinates are in the photo on the web?

bren2002

http://www.verexif.com/en/ver.php?foto_url=http%3A%2F%2Fi40.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe248%2FWoodcutter%2F05B422AB-A538-4A75-9D4E-1F7577A160E5_zpsynvhvjzg.jpg

Yes its there

GPS Latitude :N 53º 20' 35.15"
GPS Longitude :W 6º 14' 42.03"

liam7831

Lads, some criminal stole it, dunno why anyone is going down the road of it being abandoned, it's a stupid assumption to make or to try and put forward as a reason for stealing it, just cos its not on the road

Tzardine

Wow that's mental. So say for example all the lads posting pictures of their nice cars on this forum. Scummers could potentially find their location by checking the photo.

Edit: I just tried it with a random car from the 'post a picture of your car" thread. I worked and showed me the location of the car.

Scary stuff really.

iwillhtfu

bren2002 wrote: »

http://www.verexif.com/en/ver.php?foto_url=http%3A%2F%2Fi40.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe248%2FWoodcutter%2F05B422AB-A538-4A75-9D4E-1F7577A160E5_zpsynvhvjzg.jpg

Yes its there

GPS Latitude :N 53º 20' 35.15"
GPS Longitude :W 6º 14' 42.03"

I don't see any underground car park at those coordinates so it musn't be that accurate as to pin point it's location.

jay48

There's been a serious amount of motorbikes robbed from underground carparks in the last year or so . I'd imagine the scummers are casing them out rather than going by info on photos in fairness .

Tzardine

jay48 wrote: »

There's been a serious amount of motorbikes robbed from underground carparks in the last year or so . I'd imagine the scummers are casing them out rather than going by info on photos in fairness .

I agree. But at the same time to mad to think that if you see a nice bike online there is potentially a way to find out its location. Let's say somebody was looking for a rare or hard to find model.

Crumbs868

liam7831 wrote: »

Lads, some criminal stole it, dunno why anyone is going down the road of it being abandoned, it's a stupid assumption to make or to try and put forward as a reason for stealing it, just cos its not on the road

That post makes very little sense, very confusing to read

iwillhtfu

Crumbs868 wrote: »

That post makes very little sense, very confusing to read

He's referencing a number of different posts on a number of different forums.

A lot of posters on one forum were of the opinion someone should go a save it from it's inevitable demise and return it to it's former glory. Essentially steal the car and give it to someone more deserving. Considering the condition of the car it clearly wasn't looked after in anyway shape or form for the last number of years and to be honest I'd be dubious of it being repaired anytime soon.

I'd say someone took it with the intention of turning it into a track day car and probably thought no one would notice. It may well show up again in the near future once they realise their error.

Either way imo this car deserves a better owner tbh but that doesn't excuse the theft of someone else's property.

Cabaal

Its amusing to read people justifying theft, they seem to forget its not their property to do anything with. It doesn't matter if the OP decided to coat the thing in acid, its their car to do with as they wish...whatever that may be.

If the OP had a house which was boarded up as they were awaiting funds to do stuff with it, nobody would think its ok for somebody to just break in and move in and do whatever they wanted with the place

Valetta

Cabaal wrote: »

Its amusing to read people justifying theft, they seem to forget its not their property to do anything with. It doesn't matter if the OP decided to coat the thing in acid, its their car to do with as they wish...whatever they may be.

If the OP had a house which was boarded up as they were awaiting funds to do stuff with it, nobody would think its ok for somebody to just break in and move in and do whatever they wanted with the place

Agree completely.

And as for saying a car "deserves" a better owner- well that's just nonsense.

Hopefully the car will be recovered and the thief caught.

iwillhtfu

Valetta wrote: »

And as for saying a car "deserves" a better owner- well that's just nonsense.

I'm sure the plan Lotus had in mind when developing the elise was to park it up in a garage and leave it rot.

Clearly though a better owner would be a silly idea :rolleyes:

Cabaal

Valetta wrote: »

Agree completely.

And as for saying a car "deserves" a better owner- well that's just nonsense.

I'm sure thiefs always justify things by thinking things like "I deserve that money more then the person who owns it"

beauf

iwillhtfu wrote: »

I'm sure the plan Lotus had in mind when developing the elise was to park it up in a garage and leave it rot.

Clearly though a better owner would be a silly idea :rolleyes:

What plan did Lotus have when they lost £71M in 2014.

Theft is theft.

Why are so many people ok with stealing. :eek:

For Forks Sake

iwillhtfu wrote: »

I'm sure the plan Lotus had in mind when developing the elise was to park it up in a garage and leave it rot.

Clearly though a better owner would be a silly idea :rolleyes:

I doubt Lotus or any other manufacturer give a flying f*ck what happens their cars once they can sell what's coming off the production line. Incredibly stupid logic. The car is the OPs property, regardless of condition, and any attempt at appropriating it is theft, plain and simple.

iwillhtfu

beauf wrote: »

What plan did Lotus have when they lost £71M in 2014.

Theft is theft.

Why are so many people ok with stealing. :eek:

I'm not condoning theft ya numpty read my posts.

As for the other part of your post there's no arguing with stupidity unfortunately.

iwillhtfu

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I doubt Lotus or any other manufacturer give a flying f*ck what happens their cars once they can sell what's coming off the production line. Incredibly stupid logic. The car is the OPs property, regardless of condition, and any attempt at appropriating it is theft, plain and simple.

Did I mention the production line you stupid tit.

When it was developed it wasn't developed to be parked in a car park and allowed to rot.

At no point do I condone the theft.

Jebus some of ye lads in motors haven't got much in the auld tool box.

ba_barabus

iwillhtfu wrote: »

you stupid tit.

Leave it out.

Someone has had a car stolen from them and needs help, why derail the thread with a petty argument?

For Forks Sake

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Did I mention the production line you stupid tit.

When it was developed it wasn't developed to be parked in a car park and allowed to rot.

At no point do I condone the theft.

Jebus some of ye lads in motors haven't got much in the auld tool box.

I've had a variety of cars knocking around my gaff in various states of disrepair over the years waiting for different jobs to be carried out on them. Is this therefore an open invite for someone to come on to my property and steal them because "it wasn't developed to be parked"? Because that's precisely what you're advocating.

Crumbs868

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I've had a variety of cars knocking around my gaff in various states of disrepair over the years waiting for different jobs to be carried out on them. Is this therefore an open invite for someone to come on to my property and steal them because "it wasn't developed to be parked"? Because that's precisely what you're advocating.

That's not what he is saying. Why are twisting other posters words with fantasy scenarios?

PrettyBoy

I'm guessing it wasn't insured

Do you have an idea of when it was stolen (ie. did you see it in the car park on Thursday evening and on Friday morning it was gone? Or had you not been down there for a few weeks so it could have been stolen at any point during that time)?

GTDolanator

You werent nominated for car SOS or the likes were you OP?

mickdw

GTDolanator wrote: »

You werent nominated for car SOS or the likes were you OP?

I think I saw chip foose in dublin the other day

Ronin247

I would think that the parts for this would be rare enough. Might be an idea to contact Lotus parts suppliers and request that anyone looking for Elise parts be checked out.
There cannot be too many requests for these bits and suppliers must be thin on the ground also

goochy

i feel sorry for the op but he should never had let that car lying around in such a terrible state and if i lived there i wouldnt have been happy.

C.K Dexter Haven

goochy wrote: »

i feel sorry for the op but he should never had let that car lying around in such a terrible state and if i lived there i wouldnt have been happy.

so you know the OP's full story/background/situation yeah? :rolleyes:

Jayzus, the keyboard warriors are out in force tonight :rolleyes: