Theft/ Car Jacking of Subarus'
02 October 2004, 01:44 PM
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Different cars are stolen for different reasons.
Novas/cavaliers/metros are stolen by joyriders as they are easy to steal
Cars also stolen to export and re-sell and re-id in this country.
Breakers yards are full of stolen cars/parts
Scoobs are very popular as getaway cars for bank jobs etc as they are easy to drive and very rapid from point to point regardless of weather. Also the way these cars are stolen is usually higher profile as the theft is usually aggrevated (use of firearms etc)
Bob
Novas/cavaliers/metros are stolen by joyriders as they are easy to steal
Cars also stolen to export and re-sell and re-id in this country.
Breakers yards are full of stolen cars/parts
Scoobs are very popular as getaway cars for bank jobs etc as they are easy to drive and very rapid from point to point regardless of weather. Also the way these cars are stolen is usually higher profile as the theft is usually aggrevated (use of firearms etc)
Bob
02 October 2004, 01:47 PM
#32
Originally Posted by speedking
Think about the insurance to give an objective statistical view.
Premium = £1000
Admin = £100
say 50% for accidents and fire = £450
leaving £450 to cover theft
say average scoob = £12150 to make the numbers easy.
Then probabilty of scoob being stolen = once every 27 years !!
All of the above is subjective and open to debate but it does give a reasonable idea of the real probability of having your car stolen. (Reduce that probability again for the number that are jacked compared to traditional theft.)
Premium = £1000
Admin = £100
say 50% for accidents and fire = £450
leaving £450 to cover theft
say average scoob = £12150 to make the numbers easy.
Then probabilty of scoob being stolen = once every 27 years !!
All of the above is subjective and open to debate but it does give a reasonable idea of the real probability of having your car stolen. (Reduce that probability again for the number that are jacked compared to traditional theft.)
Besides....£1000 insurance without discounts??? Try £3500+
03 October 2004, 09:37 AM
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Mine (S-plate UK Turbo) was the subject of an attempted theft while parked on my mates drive in his small-ish village about 12 miles from brum. while parked next to a '52 plate Leon R, a '52 Rover 25, and a J-plate XR4x4. Parked behind all these and blocking us in was a an MY96 Rover Coupe Turbo. Mine was the only car they touched.
The cops who attended said that they see alot of them stolen in the brum area - they said they are a very popular getaway car because they are fairly easy to drive fast. Also in the past I've been pulled over by a cop wanting to check mine wasnt stolen and he was saying that most subarus in brum hve been stolen at one point! (I think he might have been exagerating a touch on that one!)
The cops who attended said that they see alot of them stolen in the brum area - they said they are a very popular getaway car because they are fairly easy to drive fast. Also in the past I've been pulled over by a cop wanting to check mine wasnt stolen and he was saying that most subarus in brum hve been stolen at one point! (I think he might have been exagerating a touch on that one!)
04 October 2004, 12:32 AM
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BOB'5 You can't ignore discounts. The comparison is between the money the insurance company takes in and what it pays out. The headline insurance premium is irrelevant. Insurers would not give discounts that caused them to suffer a loss.
I pay £600 and my car is worth £12000, the insurance company has assessed that I will make a total loss claim once every 20 years. Allowing for lesser claims and admin and the figure of 27 years looks reasonable to me. It's not supposed to be accurate, just to show that its not likely to be a weekly or annual event as reading some of the threads on here might lead you to think.
It's not a joke, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
I pay £600 and my car is worth £12000, the insurance company has assessed that I will make a total loss claim once every 20 years. Allowing for lesser claims and admin and the figure of 27 years looks reasonable to me. It's not supposed to be accurate, just to show that its not likely to be a weekly or annual event as reading some of the threads on here might lead you to think.
It's not a joke, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
04 October 2004, 02:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MickeyWRX
ii live out in the country but every time i approach the city i always lock my doors (while driving), not many of my mates undersatnd this but i read a thread on here a while ago about someone who did the same and it wasnt until some chancers tried to car jack him and that he knew locking the doors was a good idea otherwise he would have lost his car and not been able to speed off out of trouble like he did!
iam paranoid about such things but its peace of mind and hardly an effort!
iam paranoid about such things but its peace of mind and hardly an effort!
04 October 2004, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by LLE-WRX
i always tell the wife to make sure she keeps the doors locked, as there are a lot of 12/13 year old kids nicking handbags of the seat at traffic lights to feed their habbits!!!
Wonder where it all went wrong...........maybe we have all had a bad car crash and gone to hell.
04 October 2004, 11:35 AM
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Parts of the UK are now worse than America. I think there was a report last year showing that you were less likely to experence violent crime in New York than in London but dont worry we are all safe really look at all the Gatso's they must be making us all safer!
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