All new cars have a transponder in the key so they will not start without it, if someone wants the car so badly that they will attck the driver for the keys then they will get it, however most won’t go to such lengths but will steel a car if the keys are left in it. Most trucks are fitted with safes I should imagine some will be soon on a time delay lock for overnight parking.
I don’t do laybys very often and usually opt for parking outside the car dealerships where they have camera survalience where I can legally do so.
Biscuits, that story in some form or another is not as rare as it should be.
I’d say to the audi dealer when they came out, why didn’t you shift off your arse when i arrived instead of watching a guy who came in for a brochure sign for a car and go.
Biscuits:
Did hear a tale once of a transporter driver who was delivering a new Audi or some such to a dealer. Chap comes out of the dealership in a suit and tie and says ‘hello drive, we were expecting this’, then engages the driver with a friendly bit of chat about new stock and business. He then signs the paperwork and takes the keys. It’s only then, as the ‘sales-man’ tears off up the road in the new car, do the real staff come ■■■■■■■ out of the dealer, shouting ‘why have you just given one of our cars to that bloke who was in here for a brochure!?’.
I have heard a few like that too, in car transporters or the old scam of telling a driver the warehouse is full, can you follow me to the other yard and we will tip you straightaway.
A garage in Hull had a well dressed chap come in one day to test drive a new demonstrator 760 Volvo, someone showed him round the car and went inside to get the keys. He was walking past the desk when the phone rang, he picked it up and walked outside with it, he handed the keys to the “customer” and continued his call, the customer sat in the car, the guy from the garage finished the call and took the phone back to his desk, just as the car screeched off the forecourt.
The car was never seen again nor was the customer. The guy from the garage didn’t even get a bollocking, how could he? he was my Brother and he owned the place
Another time one of the salesman had an appointment, the customer turned up and he was given the keys to a demonstrator, not a problem this time, as the customer and his wife had left their car keys, so the salesman started his appraisal, it was only then that he noticed the Hertz “rent a car” sticker in the screen. The car was not seen again, again no bollocking for the salesman, (how could my Brother bollock him after losing a Volvo himself ) but security procedures were put in place quite quickly afterwards.
It’s a well known fact that around the Worksop area there are alot of caravan dwellers who the police are are frightened to death of.My mate has a company not far from there and his yard has been raided by the dwellers they have done the diesel tanks on numerous occassions and the police are not interested. One of them is probably driving round in a brand new car with cloned plates on.
tolemans had a prob with hot hatches being stolen of the back as thay were easy to take and the drivers more often or not parked near home or got cheap hotels
With my family being involved in car delivery for over 50 years, I could tell you a number of stories on this subject, however the one that always made me laugh, was when on Cartransport (BRS) we used to do a drop in south London, wyndham rd off the 202, I think it was, you would park in Wyndham rd and drive up a side street in to an underground car park. Jock Laurie had just driven one up and has he walk back to his lorry a copper said , “I’ve just watched your mate off with the other one”, “what mate Jock replied” it was a white XJS, found six months later driving round London.
hitch:
The trailer was recovered when the new owner tried to get spares for it
That is one thing with the car transporter world. It is a very small place. I remember spending a couple of days in Belle Engineering where you could find out about lots of news and what was happening in the car world
i reckon the keys must have been in it, its near impossible to start a brand new bmw without the keys. in thelink to the story, it says the car drove away.
raymundo:
Couldn’t have been gassed because its been stated by many on here (those with inside knowledge) that it never ever happens, just an excuse for him selling it himself.
Just what I thought,he’d probably done all his running money on booze and cheap women the night before in Istanbul.
raymundo:
Couldn’t have been gassed because its been stated by many on here (those with inside knowledge) that it never ever happens, just an excuse for him selling it himself.
Just what I thought,he’d probably done all his running money on booze and cheap women the night before in Istanbul.
Nah, they never got that far, they had blued the money long before, normally to end up at the National Hotel.
The gassing stories only came from Spain, France and Italy
Its quite easy to get one off the trailer though all you need to do is lift the back wheels of the ground using a pallet truck or a trolley jack then hand brake ain’t an problem, do the same with the front and you don’t need to worry about the Gbox. If you pick a RWD you’re laughing lift rear and will roll.
Another point that has to be raised is how could no one have seen it happening? Middle of the night or not two planks of wood stacked up on bricks is pretty obvious what’s happening. Also how much fuel are in new cars when transported??
FarnboroughBoy11:
Another point that has to be raised is how could no one have seen it happening? Middle of the night or not two planks of wood stacked up on bricks is pretty obvious what’s happening. Also how much fuel are in new cars when transported??
fuel is about 2 to 4 ltrs, sometime we run out of fuel getting them on / off the wagon. some of the loading ramps are manual so you don’t need planks of wood.as for no one seeing it happen i think it’s a case of “nowt to do with me ,i’m not getting involved” same as derv thefts and curtain slashers.
““Its quite easy to get one off the trailer though all you need to do is lift the back wheels of the ground using a pallet truck or a trolley jack then hand brake ain’t an problem, do the same with the front and you don’t need to worry about the Gbox. If you pick a RWD you’re laughing lift rear and will roll.””
not that easy cos some transporters dont have a “middle” section for a trolley jack to sit on,pallet truck is to noisy and don’t see that many parked in a layby
It’s not that easy to get one off without making a noise and rocking the trailer etc.
if the trl is a transport eng and about 5 or 6 yrs old they have to lift it up at least 8 inchs to get over the flip bars that are locked in to stop cars rolling off more likely to be a ehr lohr.auto logic have the bmw contract and at the mo there not subbing out much work so could be one of there’s and they dont have safe’s fitted in fact the only one’s i know are ecm and there fitted in the side compartment
buf:
if the trl is a transport eng and about 5 or 6 yrs old they have to lift it up at least 8 inchs to get over the flip bars that are locked in to stop cars rolling off more likely to be a ehr lohr.auto logic have the bmw contract and at the mo there not subbing out much work so could be one of there’s and they dont have safe’s fitted in fact the only one’s i know are ecm and there fitted in the side compartment
I’m on a 6 yr old TE and have no flip bars to stop the cars rolling off, also we have just bought an ex Autologic motor that has a safe, maybe that was just lucky.
) but security procedures were put in place quite quickly afterwards.
