Granard, lots of Ford Transit parts seized by Gardai

dense

Doors, bonnets, headlamps etc photographed by Gardai in what RTE is describing as the biggest chop shop operation ever discovered here. Stuff valued at half a million including machinery discovered.


https://www.thejournal.ie/longford-stolen-machinery-4370162-Nov2018/

mikeecho

Yesterday's news

Atlantic Dawn

Seemed to be a lot of Transit parts, you would think with majority of vans being owned by businesses they would be getting repairs being done by legit businesses and market for dodgy parts would be low when compared to car parts instead?

mickdw

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Seemed to be a lot of Transit parts, you would think with majority of vans being owned by businesses they would be getting repairs being done by legit businesses and market for dodgy parts would be low when compared to car parts instead?

I'd imagine they have sales outlet that appears legit selling to trade etc.
That scale of an outfit isn't just going to be selling stuff under the table unless it's all for export.

dense

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Seemed to be a lot of Transit parts, you would think with majority of vans being owned by businesses they would be getting repairs being done by legit businesses and market for dodgy parts would be low when compared to car parts instead?

The price difference of a new door from a dealer and the price from these guys or any dealer on ebay for a new one could be as much as 50%.


Businesses using these sort of vans, builders, couriers etc, they're not going to be interested in forking out for a brand new door or headlight if they can get one half price from a used parts dealer. They'll be asking their mechanic to keep the job as low as possible.



We can't assume the buyers knew they were dodgy parts, vans are scrapped for all sorts of reasons. It's a form of recycling if done above board.


I'm wondering if someone got scalded on a warranty for an engine or something that got the law interested?Purely speculative. Or maybe the system threw up an anomaly in chassis numbers either?

Isambard

all going for export I'd say

road_high

Was the gang Eastern European or our own favorite ethnic minority?

corks finest

road_high wrote: »

Was the gang Eastern European or our own favorite ethnic minority?

Each way bet,but location wise our own gang I'd say.

NIMAN

great bunch of lads, if you're looking for Transit parts.

colm_mcm

NIMAN wrote: »

great bunch of lads, if you're looking for Transit parts.

Prices very kane?

corks finest

colm_mcm wrote: »

NIMAN wrote: »

great bunch of lads, if you're looking for Transit parts.

Prices very kane?

Sham

Eric Cartman

road_high wrote: »

Was the gang Eastern European or our own favorite ethnic minority?

Its always hilarious how you can read a story that says "a load of tools were recovered" and you know exactly who did it.

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Eric Cartman wrote: »

Its always hilarious how you can read a story that says "a load of tools were recovered" and you know exactly who did it.

He obviously sees what's going on from his "high" vantage point

road_high

road_high wrote: »

Was the gang Eastern European or our own favorite ethnic minority?

It looks too professional for our nomadic friends.....

road_high

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Its always hilarious how you can read a story that says "a load of tools were recovered" and you know exactly who did it.

Well I don’t that’s why I asked the question!

corks finest

Eric Cartman wrote: »

road_high wrote: »

Was the gang Eastern European or our own favorite ethnic minority?

Its always hilarious how you can read a story that says "a load of tools were recovered" and you know exactly who did it.

And 99 percent of the time it's our own ethnic ( sic) minority

mickdw

Reuben Helpless Chalk wrote: »

It looks too professional for our nomadic friends.....

Ya. If it was a few cloned vans or something like that, I'd say Irish nomads but these guys appear to be pretty well set up.

road_high

It hasn’t just been the lowly Transit these types of gangs have been targeting really either is it ?
High end cars like BMWs, Land rovers, Audi etc have been a target for years. Stolen to order by sophisticated means either stripped for parts or shipped to Africa for resale.
Toyota Land Cruiser are the latest, again a favorite of our African coinesseurs

Isambard

mickdw wrote: »

Ya. If it was a few cloned vans or something like that, I'd say Irish nomads but these guys appear to be pretty well set up.

I'd say gangs capable of importing hookey fags are well able to export hookey van parts to pay for them

Spanish Eyes

The people who use these outlets are NOT blame free either.

That’s how they make their money.

Cerco

I don’t know much about Granard but seems at lot of activity going on there :

https://jrnl.ie/4376795