G'day All,

Living in Kampala, I was embarrassed, but not surprised to see UK police have found 29 stolen RR and over high end Marks either in car yards or running around the city streets.

In fact one picture shows a car I looked at, one of four in the yard and I did wonder a couple of weeks ago why all four had suddenly vanished.

Up until 10 days ago, there were heaps of L405's running around, most driven by women, but again in the last week or so this number has dropped dramatically.

I better check all my paperwork is in order

Cheers, Jerry

Interesting

I was in Baku ten years ago and they were saying then that 60-70% of the high end cars there were stolen. My driver said he could get me a six month old S Class for $5K if I wanted one. Regards
Mark

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Read something about this the other day, just had a google and found this about it http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/ar...-cars.html Regards
Mark

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The story goes that in Lagos quite some years back, armed gangs would drive stolen cars in convoy out of Lagos across the border and nobody dared to stop them. Whether that is an urban myth or reality, don't know but makes for a great story.

There is another "belief" in South Africa that all their stolen cars go to Nigeria, unfortunately that is very very unlikely to be true since SA is RHD and Nigeria LHD and I have only seen one RHD car there ever (with UK plates by the way).

I'm sure there are a lot of stolen cars ending up in Africa and Eastern Europe and I hope mine won't be one of them (got a few gadgets on it plus it is not that valuable anymore I hope). I also hope that none of our forum cars ends up there.

I do also hope that police get better at killing the gangs responsible and car manufacturers at making it near impossible to steal cars (well without the keys of course).

I'm sure with modern "internet connected" cars, theft will go down since the cars will identify their details (in the ECUs) and location every time they connect. That will hopefully reduce stealing substantially if not eliminate it......... MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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The thing is that the cars have actually got easier to steal, hence so many are stolen in london as a region every year. Sadly i feel that at some point soon if the police start cracking down in foreign countries on whole stolen vehicles being sold then they will start stripping them for parts and the market will end up flooded with used parts. There's already loads of 405 used lights on ebay for example now. FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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Surely 'Tracker' would have found these cars within an hour or two of being stolen.Did none of these cars have one on.Why would you spend 75 grand on a motor and not have a tracker on it??

Tracker makes sod all difference. You will find it hard to insure a newer rangey without a tracker as its far from easy.

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chaps, if you can have a tracker, then you can have a cheap handheld radio scanner to find if the just stolen, and activated tracker, is emitting any radio signals, the gangs are well on to this, they scan a car just by walking round it, with it parked up. 'admiring it it through the windows' if its sending out a signal, its fine tued, isolated and ripped out. then the scent goes cold. cloned with plates, and shipped out !!! -to the African countries, where cars are sold and traded, on stolen iphones, and Macs, that work there, but not here.....

I had a colleague once ask me about buying a FFRR to take out to Africa, perversely less likely to get stolen out there as they are much more obvious (everyone steals the Toyota Hilux' as you can't tell the difference and they are two a penny) .
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If this is the same story it was due to a tracker that the cars were found. I read that UK police traced a Lexus 450h to Kampala following it's tracker and then discovered a yard full of high end british and european luxury cars, all stolen in UK and Europe Is this where I put the car details and a bit about myself ?........

There are specialised Car Recovery Detectives/Finders who insurance co's utilise and for each car found they get a certain % kickback for it and they aren't exactly poor these chaps  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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A good friend of mine (who unfortunately died a few years ago) travelled through Northern Africa extensively. He was an authority on how and where to travel for NGOs etc. but that is beside the point.

His motto was : "all the bandits like Toyota, so I have Nissan Patrols" and he used to say that with his signature smile that would not have gone amiss on a "bandits" face .

He was one of the most resourcefull people I have ever met, you have to be driving through Africa in beat up old Patrols I guess . MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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kingpleb wrote:

The thing is that the cars have actually got easier to steal, hence so many are stolen in london as a region every year. Sadly i feel that at some point soon if the police start cracking down in foreign countries on whole stolen vehicles being sold then they will start stripping them for parts and the market will end up flooded with used parts. There's already loads of 405 used lights on ebay for example now.

Number of cars stolen may be low but their value isn't.

Isnt it something like 3 range rovers a week are stolen within the M25 alone?

The new Keyless Entry or whatever the manufacturer of each vehicle wishes to call it are far too easily circumvented or manipulated to gain access and take the vehicle.

Look at the BMW 1 series saga, and how many cars are now being stolen using cheap devices that are essentially signal boosters in a box.. FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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