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Well I suppose its better than i deserve for leaving it unlocked... while i was still sleeping, me mum went out to the gym this morn, left about 8, came back about 10, and faced me with the question

you know the polo's door was open, right?

me: what do you mean.. open? (takes a few attempts )

her: like at 90 degrees to the car's body.

um... ok... yeah, its not supposed to be like that. closed last time i saw it. (as it was when she went out)

luckily not much damage. nothing's missing (hardly anything to take), no stink of p*** or little presents, no ripped fabric. But for some reason they did have a go at the parcel shelf, ended up sitting askew in the boot with one of the speakers ripped off it (repairable.. i think). all the parts in the boot still present and intact and nothing happened under the bonnet.

left both doors and the boot unlocked because of how crap i am with keys, it makes it a whole lot easier during the repair process, its not immediately obvious from outside (pins are a bit ambiguous), and as i say.... there's not much any lag could do apart from vandalise, and if they're going to do that, they'd smash a window anyway if it were locked. No stereo in it, engine obviously won't go, disconnected driveshaft probably immobilises it quite well too (jammed against the block = wont turn), nothing but the parts in the boot to nick (zero value to anyone who doesnt have a 1.0 mk3 themselves), etc.

just makes me wonder who it was and what was going through their minds really - just think of the situation and try to figure it out. it's bizzarre. all i can think of it is either the world's most bored chav who didnt even have any keys to attack the paintwork / fabric, or an unrestrained six year old.

Some one broke into my first car (a metro city) and robbed my homer simpson air freshener once!

Nothing else was taken?!

Still reckon it was someone who knew me and did it as a prank.

I think I was lucky not to have the same today.. parked up this morning in a public car park before I started work, which is 10:15am - 7:15pm in waitrose, came back to the car 9 hours later to find I'd left the window down, the door unlocked, the stereo, cd changer and pot of spare change all in full view.. and no one had even touched it I think I was pretty damn lucky

PoloGTi wrote:Some one broke into my first car (a metro city) and robbed my homer simpson air freshener once!

Nothing else was taken?!

The missus's car was broken into on the drive once..... It was her Old Rover 200 (Present style)... They smashed the rear quarter-light then rolled down the rear window and climbed through it....... Then nicked the contents of her Coin / Change tray........... Ready for this....... Approx 21p!!!!!


Now i've heard of desperate but that really takes the biscuit!!!!!



Cheers


Dave.

i leave mine unlocked all the time - think putting the key fob in my pocket presses the button again and re-opens the doors after they've been locked.

its scary though

GroovyCarrot wrote:I think I was lucky not to have the same today.. parked up this morning in a public car park before I started work, which is 10:15am - 7:15pm in waitrose, came back to the car 9 hours later to find I'd left the window down, the door unlocked, the stereo, cd changer and pot of spare change all in full view.. and no one had even touched it I think I was pretty damn lucky

Now that was lucky! more than lucky.
i've left my door unlocked once on a friday night in a pub car-park, but im usually so careful these days!
-Ben-

lol carrot that just looked far too much like a trap, i bet. them thinking that either a guy with a baseball bat or a platoon of cops are waiting a few steps away out of sight.

maybe the answer is for us all to do that!

done it a few times before by accident, never had any trouble... what can i say... vanilla old mk2/mk3 polos are probably somewhere on the list in between old skool pandas and ladas / rear engine skodas on the car theif "hot property" ladder.

13twelve wrote:i leave mine unlocked all the time - think putting the key fob in my pocket presses the button again and re-opens the doors after they've been locked.

its scary though

same happens to me, put the fob in my pocket and presses a button. i've come back to the g40 with it unlocked! yikes!

luckily the imobiliser is still on so the light still flashes!