Windows stolen to order?

MurmanskRun

Well, not the best start to the day.

I drive a three door '04 MG ZR; the rear side-windows open on a pair of vertical hinges allowing maybe a two inch opening. In any event, imagine my dismay this morning when I discovered that the off-side window was gone. Not smashed, not discarded... just gone.

(Mind you, whoever took it had a good rummage through the glove box, etc.)

ZRs and Rover 200s are pretty thin on the ground... gutted.

bazz26

Yep sounds like it alright, some real scummy lowlifes out there.

laoisfan

A few years back there were cars being broken into for their airbags. These lowlifes would lift anything if it has value.

fancy pigeon

laoisfan wrote: »

A few years back there were cars being broken into for their airbags. These lowlifes would lift anything if it has value.

Or dashboards

Atlantic Dawn

Scum, they were taking catalytic converters from cars recently too.

RandomAccess

Have you heard of the Vauxhall Cannibals?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33348506

MurmanskRun

Upon further inspection, it appears they got in through via the driver's door lock (the only keyhole on a ZR). It's totally mangled. Fortunately, I can manually lock the door by reaching in through the missing window.

neris

they were nicking merc wing mirrors not far from my folks a few years ago, scum will nick anything even if its bolted down and cemented into the ground

neris

was that your car I saw today in Malahide beach carpark with the little note in the window, cant be that many MG ZRs with missing windows

RandomAccess

neris wrote: »

was that your car I saw today in Malahide beach carpark with the little note in the window, cant be that many MG ZRs with missing windows

Did it say "feck off thieves"

Shan_14

My father's passenger window was smashed the other day with a fire extinquisher in Malahide in an underground car park. It's double glazed as well.. Apparently, loads of cars were broken into in the last few days around that area.

MurmanskRun

neris wrote: »

was that your car I saw today in Malahide beach carpark with the little note in the window, cant be that many MG ZRs with missing windows

Yes, neris, it was. I might have gotten a little carried away with some colourful language in the note I left

MurmanskRun

neris wrote: »

was that your car I saw today in Malahide beach carpark with the little note in the window, cant be that many MG ZRs with missing windows

Yes, neris, it was. I might have gotten a little carried away with some colourful language in the note I left Apologies if you were in any way offended.

markc1184

A few years back I had a car stolen from my driveway, put onto a trailer and recovered just north of Dundalk with everything as it was when it left my drive bar every bit of glass taken from it. I wouldn't mind if it was something special but it was only a Mitsubishi Lancer that I'm sure the glass from a breakers would have been found handy enough albeit a little more expensive.

neris

MurmanskRun wrote: »

Yes, neris, it was. I might have gotten a little carried away with some colourful language in the note I left Apologies if you were in any way offended.

Not offended at all actually took a pic and had a chuckle as I walked away and then remembered this thread. I'll save your embarrassment. It's ****e I know. We've had 3 car windows put in on 3 cars outside our house in the last 8.5 years and 1 wing mirror cleaved off all through vandalism

MurmanskRun

neris wrote: »

Not offended at all actually took a pic and had a chuckle as I walked away and then remembered this thread. I'll save your embarrassment. It's ****e I know. We've had 3 car windows put in on 3 cars outside our house in the last 8.5 years and 1 wing mirror cleaved off all through vandalism

Fückers.

I had a wee check on the car today. Two things: (a) I'll redo the note* because I wasn't strident enough over the pawing of my pancakes and (b) oddly, I found €95 tucked and neatly folded under the crease of one of the tyres.

* Feel free to take and post a pic if you're passing; I'm past caring and far from embarrassment!

visual

I had a van front windscreen taken. They cut the rubber and took out the windscreen.

It took a week to repair glass was in stock but rubber seal had to be ordered in.

To make matters worse I got stopped at check Point on way to get glass replaced and asked where are my tax and insurance disc . I explained what happened and garda said oh ye the other gardai where talking about it in station.

Sometimes I wonder how low are the people we share this planet with.

RandomAccess

If you didn't have windscreen cover on your insurance could you still claim for theft.
Hopefully so.

JakeBell

neris wrote: »

was that your car I saw today in Malahide beach carpark with the little note in the window

MurmanskRun wrote: »

Yes, neris, it was. I might have gotten a little carried away with some colourful language in the note I left Apologies if you were in any way offended.

neris wrote: »

Not offended at all actually took a pic and had a chuckle as I walked away and then remembered this thread. I'll save your embarrassment.

MurmanskRun wrote: »

Feel free to take and post a pic if you're passing; I'm past caring and far from embarrassment!

I can't speak for anyone else, but I for one am hanging around checking for this note!

visual

JakeBell wrote: »

neris wrote: »

was that your car I saw today in Malahide beach carpark with the little note in the window

MurmanskRun wrote: »

Yes, neris, it was. I might have gotten a little carried away with some colourful language in the note I left Apologies if you were in any way offended.

neris wrote: »

Not offended at all actually took a pic and had a chuckle as I walked away and then remembered this thread. I'll save your embarrassment.

MurmanskRun wrote: »

Feel free to take and post a pic if you're passing; I'm past caring and far from embarrassment!

I can't speak for anyone else, but I for one am hanging around checking for this note!

Bored and nothing better to do ?

JakeBell

visual wrote: »

Bored and nothing better to do ?

Multi-tasking. And curious.

Thanks so much for taking the time to ask.

MurmanskRun

JakeBell wrote: »

Multi-tasking. And curious.

Thanks so much for taking the time to ask.

JB and V, I didn't mean to create a contentious post... just treating life with ambivalence as usual. I appreciate this is straying into AH territory (God help us all), but no matter how much we love and depend on our motors, it's a hunk of metal, glass and plastic in the end.

So some cnut stole a window? So what? Better that than some cnut stealing my or someone else's *car* and injuring or killing someone. Perspective.

MurmanskRun

visual wrote: »

... and asked where are my tax and insurance disc.

Apologies, visual, I just reread that. Classic.

MurmanskRun

Just a brief followup to the "windows stolen to order" theme...

Yesterday, I strolled to Malahide from Swords. Just down from the Applegreen/M1 flyover, there is a very poorly 3-door Peugeot 206 pulled in at the foot of a driveway with what looks like catastrophic engine failure: blackened and bubbling paintwork on the bonnet and a melted air intake.

What caught my attention though was the missing rear windows - yep, both of them - surgically removed, just like mine.