Stolen car Nissan Micra 94D11931 in Limerick

Diabhalta

Hi all, my car got stolen overnight in Limerick city. It's a black 3 door Nissan Micra reg 94D11931

There's a dent above the rear left wheel. Stickers on the boot and bumper (a fish skeleton on the bumper, skull on the right and word motorhead on the bumper). Atm yellow bright Jimi hendrix sticker above the Micra letter on the boot. Alloy wheels, wind deflectors. Yellow dealer sticker EP MOONEY on the rear window.

bazz26

Sorry for your trouble OP. Probably taken by joyriders for $hits and giggles, I'd try the usual joyrider playgrounds - Southill and Moyross.

Diabhalta

bazz26 wrote: »

Sorry for your trouble OP. Probably taken by joyriders for $hits and giggles, I'd try the usual joyrider playgrounds - Southill and Moyross.

I know yeah. This car has a sentimental value, I own it for 7 years now. Or owned it. It will turn up eventually.

There is some HSE branch with a camera on that street where it was parked, I was talking to a woman that works there. That camera is pointing right at that spot where I parked the car, but I doubt there will be much to see since it happened during night.

At the moment I'm sharing it wherever I can and hoping for the best. I hope it will be ok when they find the car.

mickdw

At least in terms of cash value, your loss is very very small so that is possibly some comfort but it must be a terrible thing to have your car stolen.

Diabhalta

mickdw wrote: »

At least in terms of cash value, your loss is very very small so that is possibly some comfort but it must be a terrible thing to have your car stolen.

It's in very good mechanical condition. Water pump replaced recently. Brakes and tyres all good. Would probably fail the nct on weak handbrake and that's it. I know everything about the car so that's why it's bad.

I really hope the car will be in one piece when they find it.

biko

Most likely joyriders that took it for the craic. Not very likely it even left the city. If you're lucky it will show up unharmed and parked in some estate.

Titzon Toast

Was there much petrol in it OP?

Diabhalta

Titzon Toast wrote: »

Was there much petrol in it OP?

Yeah, like 1/3 of the tank. 10 liters maybe.

visual

On that model they bend down the frame on drivers window or sometimes passages side to gain entry then they brake the steering lock by pulling like crazy on steering wheel. Then destroy the ignition barrel to start the car.

The reason they go for the old micra is no immobiliser or coded keys

That amount of damage will make the car uneconomical to repair and insurance write off. But it's likely they will damage much more.

Diabhalta

Bump

Sabre Man

Best of luck.

BMJD

Motörhead rule. Hope whoever took it dies slowly and painfully .

punisher5112

They usually use another Nissan key and file it down as a car of that age the ignition will be well worn.

Its actually too easy.
Use to be working in a garage and have so many keys and cars plenty of times started a car with the wrong key obviously before the immobiliser came in.

These cars need a good chain on wheel and an after market alarm/immobiliser fitted.

Shame to see good cars being taken and most likely get burnt out.

Wibbs

Hope it turns up for you. I would reserve the deepest bowels of hell for car thieves. Along with burglars they're utter wastes of oxygen scum in my book and I'd happily see them swinging from the nearest tree.

Wibbs

punisher5112 wrote: »

These cars need a good chain on wheel and an after market alarm/immobiliser fitted.

+1000 and goes for pretty much all pre 2000 non key code cars, especially the Japanese stuff. Alarm properly fitted is the other thing. Too many are "fitted" in an hour and way too easy to bypass.

Diabhalta

Look up a page on facebook called Stolen and recovered Ireland. Admin posted my car and there are some very suspicious people liking that post. Even having a smashed car as a cover picture on their profile. All three are from the Southill area.

My mum told me that I shouldn't wish death to anyone. Well, this is the only exception.

biko

Screengrab and document what you can.
It may be nothing comes off it but every little helps.

Dealing with thieving scum is difficult as they are usually old hands at stealing but you usually are robbed just once.

JamesM

Diabhalta wrote: »

Look up a page on facebook called Stolen and recovered Ireland. Admin posted my car and there are some very suspicious people liking that post. Even having a smashed car as a cover picture on their profile. All three are from the Southill area.

My mum told me that I shouldn't wish death to anyone. Well, this is the only exception.

If you look, about 4 of them are friends with each other.

Diabhalta

Still looking for my beloved car that I owned for 7 years.

Wibbs

When I had a car stolen 15 odd years ago now, luckily I knew a couple of Guards and they had a list of the likely places it would be left in south Dublin and sure enough it was found in the second place on the list. Doubly luckily they hadn't burnt it out, but had pulled the ignition cables off and removed one of the crappy standard alloys, apparently according to the Guard because they wanted to drive it the next night and this was to stop other scum from taking it. After the second night it would have been burnt out apparently(after any saleable parts were stolen from it).

I'd imagine there are similar areas in Limerick D? Have you checked them out yet?

Of course this also begs the question why more isn't done to catch these scum given they tend to use the same places to leave/burnout the cars? I remember one site in Tallaght where a field occupied by a certain community that was strewn with the wrecks of stolen cars. On another mostly UK based car forum I read of an Irish lad's car that was stolen(from the Red Cow DART carpark a well dodgy spot) and he found it in a similar field been driven around and the Guards would do nada. It ended up wrecked beyond recognition.

then again with the farcical sentences handed out by the Irish judiciary no wonder the Guards don't take the very real risks attached to hunting and catching the scum. Even if they secure a conviction the scum will walk away 9 times outa 10. :mad: They could even try the "bait car" system that has worked really well in the US. Then again property theft seems to be extremely low on the totem pole as far as Irish law goes. Even as far as many Irish are concerned. The attitude of "ah sure you have insurance don't you and sure wasn't it an old car" crap that really grinds my gears TBH.

Diabhalta

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd imagine there are similar areas in Limerick D? Have you checked them out yet?

Of course this also begs the question why more isn't done to catch these scum given they tend to use the same places to leave/burnout the cars? I remember one site in Tallaght where a field occupied by a certain community that was strewn with the wrecks of stolen cars. On another mostly UK based car forum I read of an Irish lad's car that was stolen(from the Red Cow DART carpark a well dodgy spot) and he found it in a similar field been driven around and the Guards would do nada. It ended up wrecked beyond recognition.

then again with the farcical sentences handed out by the Irish judiciary no wonder the Guards don't take the very real risks attached to hunting and catching the scum. Even if they secure a conviction the scum will walk away 9 times outa 10. :mad: They could even try the "bait car" system that has worked really well in the US. Then again property theft seems to be extremely low on the totem pole as far as Irish law goes. Even as far as many Irish are concerned. The attitude of "ah sure you have insurance don't you and sure wasn't it an old car" crap that really grinds my gears TBH.

I don't live in Limerick and I don't know the place so I don't know where to look for the car.

I rang guards and told them about the cctv outside that HSE office, that woman I was talking to seemed to be in a hurry or something and just told me that they are working on it. Who knows what they did so far to find that car.

And re bait cars. I think there should be explosives under the seats to get rid of those cockroaches forever. They serve no purpose on this planet. There is no point arresting them at all, they need to disappear once and for all in the most brutal way imaginable.

questionmark?

Any chance of Boards supplying the IP address for this to the Guards?

Edit: the screen shot of the OP inbox has disappeared?

Diabhalta

Ok, screengrab of pm from Southill Joyrider deleted.

He basically says that my car is burnt in Southill.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Do you think someone who liked the picture has your micra op?

biko

There is a troll that harasses OP, we're looking into it.
Troll already permbanned from Motors.

Diabhalta

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Do you think someone who liked the picture has your micra op?

Maybe, maybe not. Hard to say.

Toyotafanboi

yeah, i'd say that was a disgusting piss taker. i think it's pretty common knowledge, or at least seems to be on most Irish motoring forums that if a Jap car goes missing in Limerick or surrounding areas that it's pretty much guaranteed to be burnt out in Southhill, i mean there's even a youtube channel ffs.

Sorry for your troubles OP, first gen k11 Micras are kinda becoming retro cool at this stage, yours looks lovely, nice to see someone still has love for one.

Fred Swanson

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5W30

Absolute scumbags

I think in general those kind of pages on Facebook have more dodgy people than good citizens. I avoid them like a plague.

frozenfrozen

My advice would be cut any form of hope you have for finding it, get the insurance payout and buy something else. It's definitely not worth worrying about or wishing death / any kind of comeback on these people. They have terrible lives and they get enjoyment from trying to piss on everyone else's picnic

Someone I went to school with had a civic stolen, she put a good bit of effort into it, it was stolen and burned out. A video of the people burning it out went up on facebook, from their own account, it was public, and everyone involved was commenting on it openly about actually doing it.

Literally nothing was done / could be done by the guards and it was the most clear cut example of there being proof of who did it. So there is no hope of any repercussions. Those facebook groups are like badges of honour for the people who steal cars.

I'm sorry for your trouble..

Gordon

Diabhalta wrote: »

Ok, screengrab of pm from Southill Joyrider deleted.

He basically says that my car is burnt in Southill.

That user is now banned.

I'd strongly suggest going to the Gardai and boards HQ will comply with relevant requests that they make from us.

Wibbs

frozenfrozen wrote: »

They have terrible lives and they get enjoyment from trying to piss on everyone else's picnic

Yep. Subhuman idiots.

Someone I went to school with had a civic stolen, she put a good bit of effort into it, it was stolen and burned out. A video of the people burning it out went up on facebook, from their own account, it was public, and everyone involved was commenting on it openly about actually doing it.

Literally nothing was done / could be done by the guards and it was the most clear cut example of there being proof of who did it.

Oh something could have been done FF if there was any sort of serious top down effort at tackling these kind of crimes. There simply isn't. Basically if it's a theft of goods based crime in Ireland you are pretty much on your own*. The scum know this so have little fear of being caught and if caught little fear of being punished appropriately. Look at the utterly ridiculous levels of bicycle theft in Ireland and there are even people openly selling them FFS with little fear of a Garda visit.

Facebook needs to get its house in order too with regard to these pages. Surely there is something in their volumes rulebook that covers that stuff?



*I mainly got my car back because I had contacts in the force so had the "inside information". If I hadn't it would have been burnt out.