Noticing a trend here!

[Berger]

If you live in Birmingham, your car gets stolen....

Hmmmm

Parked mine outside my house and in Manchester daily in the city centre and never even took the HU out of it.

[220Si]

But its the same with any major city hence why insurance is more expensive. You live in a million pound mansion in Birmingham but it don't stop your car being stolen as people see it they want it.

But if you live in the sticks who's going to see it and want it?

Also Rovers and older cars always get stolen due to being easier to steal, take Honda Civics for example the older ones get stolen by the bucket loads hence why high insurance.

[Cableguy]

Now youve gone and done it !!

May aswell have gone outside and torched it yourself

[southside]

I dont even bother locking my saxo at night.lol

[mg-richard]

I dont even bother locking my saxo at night.lol

when im at home i dont even take the keys out the ignition

[notroubleclubber]

My nan (yes MY NAN!) has got one of the first series 2 escort rs turbos. Shes had it from brand new. She lived in the sticks for years and never had a problem. Kept the car on the drive. Had no immobiliser or alarm and never had a problem. The day she moved into town (Swindon) her car was nicked that night. They found it at a rave in Minehead. Bet the kids thought what a great catch! - Rs turbo, no alarm and full of my uncles rave tapes!!! (He is only 3 years older than me).When she got it back she got it alarmed and immobilised but has been nicked twice since.

[Punx0r]

I hate logger like this. It really makes you think "what's the point of working hard at something and having something nice?". IMO it undermines a huge part of what makes most people decent members of society.

It shouldn't be the case where you think "I'd like to do X to the car, but I'm afraid it'll just make it more attractive to thieves".

[Marty]

Thats another good reason for having a tourer turbo the dont look twice at it

[ti or not ti]

Or Rover's are very popular around the B'ham and surrounding area's?

I mean check Dagenham out.. full of Fords..

Not that i'm claiming i know anything - due to the fabulous motorway links around b'ham and surrounding area's and people's lack of ability to work for things they tend to go walkies more..

[Null_Byte]

Come to the fens, If somebody steals something here, chances are you are related to them somehow.

The only problem we have is pikies, and we shoot those.

[southside]

Or Rover's are very popular around the B'ham and surrounding area's?

I mean check Dagenham out.. full of Fords..

Not that i'm claiming i know anything - due to the fabulous motorway links around b'ham and surrounding area's and people's lack of ability to work for things they tend to go walkies more..

Your right mate, The midlands is full of MG-R's, pretty much every other car is one. Dudley seams to be the most popular area i've noticed. I thought it was normal until i've visited other area's and barely see one every few miles.

I think its partly down the company car scheme Rover used to do. Basically anyone who worked for Rover could have a new car and just lease it off the company so just about every employee had one. My uncle used to get a new car off them every year.

[ti or not ti]

Or Rover's are very popular around the B'ham and surrounding area's?

I mean check Dagenham out.. full of Fords..

Not that i'm claiming i know anything - due to the fabulous motorway links around b'ham and surrounding area's and people's lack of ability to work for things they tend to go walkies more..

Your right mate, The midlands is full of MG-R's, pretty much every other car is one. Dudley seams to be the most popular area i've noticed. I thought it was normal until i've visited other area's and barely see one every few miles.

I think its partly down the company car scheme Rover used to do. Basically anyone who worked for Rover could have a new car and just lease it off the company so just about every employee had one. My uncle used to get a new car off them every year.

I couldn't agree more. suppose Luton is full of Vaux and Swindon full of Honda.

It's a shame

[Din]

Or Rover's are very popular around the B'ham and surrounding area's?

I mean check Dagenham out.. full of Fords..

Not that i'm claiming i know anything - due to the fabulous motorway links around b'ham and surrounding area's and people's lack of ability to work for things they tend to go walkies more..

Your right mate, The midlands is full of MG-R's, pretty much every other car is one. Dudley seams to be the most popular area i've noticed. I thought it was normal until i've visited other area's and barely see one every few miles.

I think its partly down the company car scheme Rover used to do. Basically anyone who worked for Rover could have a new car and just lease it off the company so just about every employee had one. My uncle used to get a new car off them every year.

I couldn't agree more. suppose Luton is full of Vaux and Swindon full of Honda.

It's a shame

Correct, Swindon is absolutly overun with hondas.

[volf]

Im in a small town (Be it, a Small town which is making so many bus lanes it thinks its a city )

And Ive known some cars to be stolen from down my road and local area... Me? Painoid about my car? Na... What makes you think that? Oh wait, Ive just got to go lock my car... but before that :

Get the streering lock bar on, Check.
The handbrake to gearknob lock, Check.
Remove the HU face off.
Lock the car.
Arm the alarm.
and set my CCTV on motion dectiet...

Im not painoid at all! Honest!

[Sheaf]

Just thinking about the security.... I guess there's nothing really to stop somebody simply sticking a high current contactor/relay in the wiring to the starter, then putting a switch on the coil and hiding the switch somewhere obscure in the car.

Not hi-tech, but it'd take a fair bit of wire searching to find out how to mobilise the car.

Unless they just tow start it...

[empsburna]

Your right mate, The midlands is full of MG-R's, pretty much every other car is one. Dudley seams to be the most popular area i've noticed. I thought it was normal until i've visited other area's and barely see one every few miles.

I think its partly down the company car scheme Rover used to do. Basically anyone who worked for Rover could have a new car and just lease it off the company so just about every employee had one. My uncle used to get a new car off them every year.

Four people in my street used to work at Longbridge (a street with about 70 houses)

[Stevo135+]

Yeah the west mids does have loads of MGR car's or it seems like it, compared to other area's. Look at it from a positive point, in that the local breaker's yards have masses of Rover's, and parts must be more easily available secondhand in this area for sure!

I also bet that Sunderland is full of Nissan's, and seeing as they rarely go wrong, there must be a few older one's out there that are still mint!

I also wish that my Nan would have had a mint RS turbo from new, as it would have so belonged to me now!

[200coupe]

We lived in brum for about a year just off the hagley road right near bearwood, id got a j reg 216 sli then and every bump and noise i hered id run out to the window to check my car. lol

Im supprised it didnt as the pharmacy next door was being robbed at least once a fortnight!

[ti or not ti]

Just thinking about the security.... I guess there's nothing really to stop somebody simply sticking a high current contactor/relay in the wiring to the starter, then putting a switch on the coil and hiding the switch somewhere obscure in the car.

Not hi-tech, but it'd take a fair bit of wire searching to find out how to mobilise the car.

Unless they just tow start it...

Aye - demon tweeks do something called discarnect for under 15.00 I have before now filled the missus handbag on nights out with headunit face and a HT lead!

But - if you look in the lounge, the post about the EVO - if they want it bad enough they will take it.

Looks like my next mod is glass case and black widow spider!

[southside]

Your right mate, The midlands is full of MG-R's, pretty much every other car is one. Dudley seams to be the most popular area i've noticed. I thought it was normal until i've visited other area's and barely see one every few miles.

I think its partly down the company car scheme Rover used to do. Basically anyone who worked for Rover could have a new car and just lease it off the company so just about every employee had one. My uncle used to get a new car off them every year.

Four people in my street used to work at Longbridge (a street with about 70 houses)

Well my family isn't that big but my uncle, my nan, both my grandads, my dads aunt and uncle, my dads cousin all worked for longbridge so i think thats where i got my addiction for MG-r's from.lol

My grandad worked there all his working life apart from during the war, when he retired in the early 90's they gave him and brand new metro as a retirement present it was still in the family until recently when my nan died and we had to sell it. Was a minter

[panda]

i live in a loughborough and coz its smaller than your average city the scumbags dont bother stealin cars if theyre modified in any way coz there easy to track down so instead they just go around vandalizing nice cars. every time you see a nicely modded car now you always look to see if its missing a wing mirror or got some extra pin-stripes down the side, lol.

[benno_bro]

a nice 14yr old kid next road round 'borrowed' my old tickford without my permission. Only cost £170 to get it from the police pound in Tamworth and got a free blown engine.......i love Brum me

[xuk]

We lived in brum for about a year just off the hagley road right near bearwood, id got a j reg 216 sli then and every bump and noise i hered id run out to the window to check my car. lol

Im supprised it didnt as the pharmacy next door was being robbed at least once a fortnight!

i was brought up a couple of mile down down the road in smethwick till coming up here. dad still lives in oldbury and guess what he drives...... L reg 216 and he pays the same on his insurance as i do for a 214 cabby( i'm in a old pit village)
and yes
I also bet that Sunderland is full of Nissan's, and seeing as they rarely go wrong, there must be a few older one's out there that are still mint!
sunderland is full of nissans. got some nice skylines up here aswell even thou we never made them, imagine one of them as a lease car from work

[russ220]

i wonder if Brean is full of MG-R's then? after all it is 'little birmingham'...nearly everyone you meet there's a brummie lol

[a19undertaker]

sunderland is full of nissans.

i work there (nissan) and cant stand the sight of them...bloody everywhere