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Giles

Giles

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The newer range rovers they were drilling a hole in tailgate to gain entry. Cut a certain cable and it disables alarm and unlocks door apparently .

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It’s only plastic as well like the old transit hacksaw blade down the hinge gap of the back door

Jlr are notorious for weak security defenders start with a fork handle lol

i heard no imports to Russia because of war so huge black market got parts and vehicles
 
Giles

Giles

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One of the Defender models had a similar problem. If you prized out one of the headlights you could snip a wire that disabled the alarm and opened the doors. Someone tried it on one of mine, but it was the wrong model. Did over a £1000 worth of damage and still didn't get away with it. Amazingly the hotel CCTV had been turned off in that part of the car park and the night porter saw nothing!
Don’t know how you do it Graham I’d not sleep with all my kit parked up vulnerable at some hotel etc

surprised no one done tradesman vehicle hotel etc extra 30 quid a night etc secure compound etc
 
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6feetdown

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Must be the value that attracts, can't see them being any easier than anything else to nick ..?
Anyone heard of a Tesla getting nicked?
Yes it was true a lot of companies refused to ensure. I know someone with a rr sport wanted 8k for the year with bollards on the drive too.
 
Grahams

Grahams

Don't complain - suggest what's better
Don’t know how you do it Graham I’d not sleep with all my kit parked up vulnerable at some hotel etc

surprised no one done tradesman vehicle hotel etc extra 30 quid a night etc secure compound etc
I don't really have any choice doing what I do. I try and avoid rough areas and given the amount of nights I stay away I have been lucky really. Probably averaging a break in every couple of years.
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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I don't really have any choice doing what I do. I try and avoid rough areas and given the amount of nights I stay away I have been lucky really. Probably averaging a break in every couple of years.
Seeing a few folk lately moaning about mway service breakins etc ATM....if there's ever a more depressing show of lack of maintenance and spending it's the average motorway service area in the UK...some are utterly disgusting and that's before you get in the toilets...🤬 feel sorry for lads who have to overnight there.
Wouldnt cost much have a night patrol who actually did something surely...
 
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6feetdown

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Seeing a few folk lately moaning about mway service breakins etc ATM....if there's ever a more depressing show of lack of maintenance and spending it's the average motorway service area in the UK...some are utterly disgusting and that's before you get in the toilets...🤬 feel sorry for lads who have to overnight there.
Wouldnt cost much have a night patrol who actually did something surely...
Especially with the prices they charge
 
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Monkeybusiness

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Seeing a few folk lately moaning about mway service breakins etc ATM....if there's ever a more depressing show of lack of maintenance and spending it's the average motorway service area in the UK...some are utterly disgusting and that's before you get in the toilets...🤬 feel sorry for lads who have to overnight there.
Wouldnt cost much have a night patrol who actually did something surely...
I don’t understand why industrial estates aren’t set up with secure truck stops with decent facilities as a planning condition either.
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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I don’t understand why industrial estates aren’t set up with secure truck stops with decent facilities as a planning condition either.
Instead they become clogged with wagons after dark and that in turns attracts all sorts of sh*ts like our estate ....council slowly yellow lining the whole area but hardly the solution.
 
Grahams

Grahams

Don't complain - suggest what's better
Seeing a few folk lately moaning about mway service breakins etc ATM....if there's ever a more depressing show of lack of maintenance and spending it's the average motorway service area in the UK...some are utterly disgusting and that's before you get in the toilets...🤬 feel sorry for lads who have to overnight there.
Wouldnt cost much have a night patrol who actually did something surely...
The only services I stay in is Tebay and that is privately owned. Much higher standards than your average services.
 
pettsy

pettsy

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I don’t understand why industrial estates aren’t set up with secure truck stops with decent facilities as a planning condition either.

If I had the funding, that’s exactly what I’d try and invest in. A large secure yard not too far away from the motorway network. Reasonable catering and shower facilities on site, kinda like the stockyard at Sheffield.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
my best friend, who is sadly no longer with us, used to do Turkey, Afghanistan, middle/far east, and even Russia back in the late '70's/early '80's ...
used to tell me some hair raising tales ...
they'd have secure overnight truck compounds, like Stalags .. complete with M/c gun armed corner towers, with search lights, armed guards patrolling with man eating dogs, etc. weren't cheap, but at least you could sleep safe in yer cot.

He used to carry a 2lb bricky's lump hammer, with a wrist strap, down beside his seat, for knocking the local bandits off the mirror arms, on the long slow crawls up the Afghani passes :oops: ... your life depended on it ... :rolleyes:

took his boss's son out on his last trip to show him the ropes ... was his last trip 'cos the lad came home in a box, after taking one between the eyes on one particular mountain pass ... Al decided he'd pushed his luck for long enough and was time to get a 'local' job.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
you might even have known Al, @6feetdown ...
do you know any of the Hungarian community in Zooport ?
the Farquas,s, Kosteski,s, Kiraly,s ... great guys ... :cool:
incredibly difficult language to learn though :giggle: ..
can still remember a few bits and pieces:rolleyes:

Big C got Al, 25 years ago - skiing in Italy together in the March, putting him in the ground, up on Christchurch, the following month :cry::cry::cry:
 
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6feetdown

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you might even have known Al, @6feetdown ...
do you know any of the Hungarian community in Zooport ?
the Farquas,s, Kosteski,s, Kiraly,s ... great guys ... :cool:
incredibly difficult language to learn though :giggle: ..
can still remember a few bits and pieces:rolleyes:

Big C got Al, 25 years ago - skiing in Italy together in the March, putting him in the ground, up on Christchurch, the following month :cry::cry::cry:
No. Know a few Poles and West Indians but not Hungarian. Only 1 I knew was great martial artist but he left around 12 years ago
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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The only services I stay in is Tebay and that is privately owned. Much higher standards than your average services.
Yup they very much the exception and Gloucester 👍...M6 toll does my nut considering you've spent at least 8quid to pass through you'd think it be at least as good as a tebay type place 😖
 
craig

craig

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They will have paid a minimum of£33 for that privilege.
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

They had the money don't give one, aways the same no cctv or not working in that area
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
this is class " 'I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car "


see on the news earlier that an electric Italian coach took an inexplicable nose dive off a fly over today
'Praps it's fitted with a steering wheel grab system, like the Sportage?? (I turn it off as soon as I get into it) ... have to fight it out of the hedge, or from crossing the white line sometimes - really grabs the steering

and on the subject of leccy
had OVO on the dog this morning (taken over from SWALEC), trying to persuade me to book an appointment to have a smart meter fitted ....
" No thanks - NFI "
" But how do you know your meter isn't overcharging you for your electric? "
" Better ****ing not be pal .. 's your bloody meter - it'd better be accurate "
" Ah well actually it's your meter - you've paid for it with all the standing charges "
" so you're telling me you've sold me an inaccurate meter then ?? and how long has it been overcharging me ?"
" I didn't actually say it was overcharging you "
" well you damned well implied it was by asking me how I knew it wasn't !! so if you changed the meter I'd get to keep this one then so i could have it tested "
" ER .. I suppose so ? "
"
do you actually know what you're talking about? "
" so you don't want to book an appointment for a smart meter to be fitted then? "
" no ... and when are you going to send an engineer out to fit a test meter to check this one "
(did it in work years ago as the bills had gotten silly - ended up with a significant refund and a new meter, after the test meter showed up 'proper' errors

I'll give 'em a couple of days and then start demanding a test meter be fitted as their employee told me my meter was reading inaccurately - all conversations recorded and I have the date and time of said call -- see where it goes ;):giggle::LOL:

 
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6feetdown

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this is class " 'I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car "


see on the news earlier that an electric Italian coach took an inexplicable nose dive off a fly over today
'Praps it's fitted with a steering wheel grab system, like the Sportage?? (I turn it off as soon as I get into it) ... have to fight it out of the hedge, or from crossing the white line sometimes - really grabs the steering

and on the subject of leccy
had OVO on the dog this morning (taken over from SWALEC), trying to persuade me to book an appointment to have a smart meter fitted ....
" No thanks - NFI "
" But how do you know your meter isn't overcharging you for your electric? "
" Better ****ing not be pal .. 's your bloody meter - it'd better be accurate "
" Ah well actually it's your meter - you've paid for it with all the standing charges "
" so you're telling me you've sold me an inaccurate meter then ?? and how long has it been overcharging me ?"
" I didn't actually say it was overcharging you "
" well you damned well implied it was by asking me how I knew it wasn't !! so if you changed the meter I'd get to keep this one then so i could have it tested "
" ER .. I suppose so ? "
"
do you actually know what you're talking about? "
" so you don't want to book an appointment for a smart meter to be fitted then? "
" no ... and when are you going to send an engineer out to fit a test meter to check this one "
(did it in work years ago as the bills had gotten silly - ended up with a significant refund and a new meter, after the test meter showed up 'proper' errors

I'll give 'em a couple of days and then start demanding a test meter be fitted as their employee told me my meter was reading inaccurately - all conversations recorded and I have the date and time of said call -- see where it goes ;):giggle::LOL:
I told them 2 weeks ago unless you have a warrant to enter the property go and do 1, expect they'll try again in a few weeks. They left me alone for a few months last time
 
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