Mitsubishi GTO 3000 removed by towing company

Batmanmot

I need your help. REWARD for any information leading to my Mitsubishi 3000 GTO. It was taken from the Industrial estate on the Firhouse Road in Knocklyon just before Christmas. Friday the 15th December. Red in colour, White alloy wheels 17" front and 18"rear. Cracked rear right tail light, one fog light on the front. Rust around the top of the bootlid. No registration plates. If you have any information or the person who may have it in storage can contact me. I can offer a REWARD. To my knowledge the car was taken away by a towing company who I cannot locate at this time. I still have the keys in my possession.
Thanking you in advance.....

Del2005

Have you contacted the owners of the industrial estate? They might have organised the tow. Though a friend had an old car parked outside their house and came home one afternoon to a neighbour saying I see you sold the Accent, he hadn't sold it a scumbag with a flat bed had just pulled up and loaded it.

ScouseMouse

Did you try Dennings? I think they have a depot nearby.

Atlantic Dawn

Did you try the Garda pound?

Batmanmot

Hi, yes I did talk to the management, indirectly the owners of the estate and several companies. Know one knows who.... They came in took my car and another car parked by someone else and nobody knows the name of the company. Or won't give it.

Batmanmot

Thanks, I never thought of the garda pound. I'll check it out tomorrow or Monday.
Thanks again.

Atlantic Dawn

Batmanmot wrote: »

Thanks, I never thought of the garda pound. I'll check it out tomorrow or Monday.
Thanks again.

Yes with no plates they would take it if informed.

Batmanmot

Dennings, that's the place beside the Texaco. I will check it out, but I think its a small company that would be in business a long time. Local maybe. They are friends of the owners dad or he has used then in the past but that man has passed away and the son has taken over. The son may have the information but I can't get to him or contact him to ask. And again no one else knows....

Batmanmot

Great, thanks for the info. I do have the keys to prove the car is mine. Can't belive I didn't think of the pound.

Andrewf20

By recollection it was parked there for a long time / possibly considered abandoned? Ive seen it parked in to the left a few times.

Batmanmot

My dad had a friend in the locksmiths company at the gate and he said I could have one of their parking spaces. He was doing me a favour as I have no room at the house for the car. I'm not well enough to finish the car either and the weekend I was too collect the car I spent in the hospital. Again I've spent more time in the hospital and only now am well enough to start chasing my car. The only thing in my favour is the car is qutie rare on Irish roads unless its been stripped down for parts.

Del2005

Batmanmot wrote: »

Hi, yes I did talk to the management, indirectly the owners of the estate and several companies. Know one knows who.... They came in took my car and another car parked by someone else and nobody knows the name of the company. Or won't give it.

If the owners or non of the businesses reported it it's unfortunately not going to be in a pound. Even if the wagon had a company name I'd say that it was the old owner or made up. The fella taking my mates car did it in the middle of the day with neighbours about.

Doctors room ghost

Hate to say it Batman but sounds dodgy. I reckon you want to check the local scrap metal businesses around you.a local dodge with a tow truck spotted that car left up for a while with no plates on it and took the chance and lifted it and threw it into the scrappers for crushing.cash paid out for it on the scales.
You might be lucky if it’s not processed yet and is waiting to be crushed for recycling.check the local metal recycling places near you.they have cctv if you find it and may be able to trace the boll1x that took it.hope you find it but start searching fast

Del2005

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Hate to say it Batman but sounds dodgy. I reckon you want to check the local scrap metal businesses around you.a local dodge with a tow truck spotted that car left up for a while with no plates on it and took the chance and lifted it and threw it into the scrappers for crushing.cash paid out for it on the scales.
You might be lucky if it’s not processed yet and is waiting to be crushed for recycling.check the local metal recycling places near you.they have cctv if you find it and may be able to trace the boll1x that took it.hope you find it but start searching fast

I'd say a scrap yard that takes cars no questions asked wouldn't have a functioning CCTV system.

Doctors room ghost

sugarman wrote: »

Highly unlikely it was taken for scrap, wouldnt be worth their while. If anything it was probably taken for parts or thrown onto a boat.

Given it was parked up without plates tho, I'd imagine the local authority just had it towed.

It would be worth around 100 euro on the scale and all the lad driving the truck would have to do is load the car and unload it most it would take is 5 minutes on tow truck with a winch.once the owner of the car didn’t show up nobody would even notice it happened.if owner appears just say sorry boss must be wrong car we had a complaint or some bs. If the scrap crowd were local even better for the thief.and just to clarify op I mean the scrapyards that buy in cars,metal,copper etc and recycle them.check them out.might be a backlog and your car might be stacked ready for baling.

Batmanmot

I did have a copy of my reg plate stuck to the back os the car so they, whoever has taken it know my reg plate. So it does look like its gone to parts or scrappy. I will check the local scrappies just in case. But from their point of view it was just a car dropped in and maybe parted out. It's worth a lot more! Thanks guys for all your help. I'll get cracking on all the leads..

Toyotafanboi

It's such a striking looking car it's hard to imagine it not even sparking the scrappers attention going into the crusher between an Avensis and a Fiesta.

Doctors room ghost

Batmanmot wrote: »

I did have a copy of my reg plate stuck to the back os the car so they, whoever has taken it know my reg plate. So it does look like its gone to parts or scrappy. I will check the local scrappies just in case. But from their point of view it was just a car dropped in and maybe parted out. It's worth a lot more! Thanks guys for all your help. I'll get cracking on all the leads..

Get cracking fast Batman.once that car is baled there’s no coming back obviously.also the cctv in scrappers might have limited storage like deleting the first day of every month ie 29 days storage so if it’s scrapped you might be lucky to identify the thief if you’re fast.
I know the local car shredder here has cars waiting to be processed so you might be lucky if you are fast

Batmanmot

Yeah, they just dont see what all these cars are about. Either Jap, German, Swedish, even vintage. They really don't see the value in parts, well maybe the vintage but my car even in a couple of years goes vintage and god knows €56 road tax and €200-€300 insurance.. Thanks again guys for all the help.