Ever had an e30 stolen/broken into/Vandalised?

[sati]

passneger side rear door , they tryed removing the seals to pop out glass , to open the door (childlocked always), sum one tryed to nick my front grill(guess they did not see the srcews) only few days before i took the front end apart. i have once left the car unlocked and un-alrmed with full system installed( dvd, screens, amps , subs, eqs) and it was all there the next day. (reason why i got the windows tinted out).

on a side note tho , sum 1 bricked my dads volvo s70 , it was mint! , front winscreen , a piller , handles , roof , boot lid , rear lights) no 1 saw anything , cops were hopeless took 1 hr to arrive (5mins drive to station). Found out who did it and did the same thing to there car a ford fiesta mk4 and he had to pay out of he own pocket as it was not insurered at the time.

[Cloud]

i have once left the car unlocked and un-alrmed

My mum never ever locks her car.
"what if I can't get it open again?"
so if anyone wants a Sierra...


...no, I didn't think so.

[town325i]

i have once left the car unlocked and un-alrmed

My mum never ever locks her car.
"what if I can't get it open again?"
so if anyone wants a Sierra...


...no, I didn't think so.

where do you live

[beemerbird]

I've had a door locked fooked by a stereo thief, but the most bizzare was when someone released all of the wheel nuts from one of the wheels, then popped the centre cover back on (dodgy three spoke alloys from the past). Only realised what the problem was when said wheel overtook the car......

[town325i]

I've had a door locked fooked by a stereo thief, but the most bizzare was when someone released all of the wheel nuts from one of the wheels, then popped the centre cover back on (dodgy three spoke alloys from the past). Only realised what the problem was when said wheel overtook the car......

i can onle imagine that was not the best of situasions to be in

[beemerbird]

Not exactly!

It was in on a very long road in Croydon with the lights of London glimmering in the (very straight) distance. Fortunately, the wheel hit a tree and was recoverable.

[Morat]

So did anything happen after that? If they admitted to taking it did they compensate you/return the car... or are the council allowed to just tow away and destroy anything that has been labelled an "eyesore"?

If so, then I have a neighbour that drives a rover 400 series, sprayed gold (badly), -80mm drop all round, 5 inch exhaust pipe, spinning hubcaps, rally mudflaps, you get the picture. If me and enough of my mates start reporting it as an eyesore could we get the council to come round and crush it? That would be nice.

Our local council building is pretty damn ugly... I wonder

[e30bmlover]

im one of the lucky ones( saying this as i grip the pc table thats made out of wood) these horror stories are enough to give me nightmares!!
saying that i know most of the dealers and thieving bastards around here, they know me and they know my car so if anything happens who am i gonna call!?!?!? innit...

[Rav335uk]

Rear quarter light smashed and attempted theft which involved ripping the steering column from it's mountings???

Sanp, also when the rozzers got them red handed, my car was on bricks at the back and on the floor at the front, and all my wheels missing.Tossers were 16, 16, and 17yrs old, and were well known.

[robbo86]

[ I have read and re-read that but still dont fully understand, reads to me kike you nicked it

I should have put 'Scumbags' in front of nicked...does it make sense now!


cheers for that!

I dont know, I kind of like the idea of someones old man nicking their car and joyriding it...... its rather comical. Given how itsa ussually the other way round and all!

[SteSE]

Interesting thread, never had anything done to me E30 or any of our cars since we moved 10mins away from the town centre. Had one car nicked and never recovered and the girly had her rear window punched in to nick some crappy 6x9's so i voted i have been lucky cos nothing has ever happened to my e30 (bar a close incounter with a curb on a wet day)

[pac1982]

Just had mine done over last night some fucker has taken the black trim that sits along top of the windows on the drivers side

[Nay]

This threads scaring me.....

These pictures are blasphemy!

[rubber_duck89]

some jelous coont round my way slashed the tyres on my 316 , theres free parking near my house (im not posh enough to have a drive) where residents can park and i parked in my "neighbours space" (we dont have reserved spaces) so he did my tyres, and now any BMW on my street is at risk of the same treatment because when ever a BM parks in the street the nosey b*stard blames me pure jelosy cos he drives a shogun

[clipper]

My 325i chromie went into the work shop for some insurance repairs after someone drove into it, so while they were tooled up for painting it I had them do some of the other dents and scratches to make look decent again, they also fitted a recon steering rack and did some other repairs, all in all about a grands worth of work.

This was all about a week before I got married and they called me to go and collect the car 2 days before we were due to go on honeymoon for 3 weeks so I asked if they would keep the car until I returned but they said they didn't have space and please could I collect it. So I agreed and picked it up and paid my part of the bill the day I left for my holiday, I only drove the repaired car 2 kilometers home. When we got back from honeymoon the car was gone.

The police found the car abandoned after a month or so, it had a burst coolant hose, blown head gasket, the dash ripped out around where the CD player was and the boot lock smashed in. The door locks and ignition lock showed no sign of damage though, it was as if someone had a key which opened the doors and started the engine but didn't work in the boot lock.... Strangely the last copy we had made of the key was for my wife and worked in all locks except the boot.

Obviously I could never prove that the workshop copied my key and then took the car while I was away, but I'll never take a car of mine to them again.

And I still haven't got the damn car back on the road !

[ha22]

I had the passenger door look pushed through and the glove box turned over, luckly there was nothing for the scum to take.
On another occasion, some low life scum nicked the is lip spoiler of my other car, which was sickening..

[Jesus325iTouring]

Never had anything E30 related,but several years ago I did have the metal Griffin badge nicked off the front of my MK1 Astra SR,then,a few weeks laters someone put it back

[robbo86]

Obviously I could never prove that the workshop copied my key and then took the car while I was away, but I'll never take a car of mine to them again.

And I still haven't got the damn car back on the road !

Oddly enough, I had a nissan micra which was stolen recovered before it was given to me (needs must where demons drive), the ignition loom was all over but the steering lock still worked. So I wired it up to be a push button swithc (50p) fix rather than however much it would have cost to get it fixed. There was an additional hidden switch which had the effect of turning the key to 2, the pushing the button fired it up, the keys were needed for the steering lock. (some people have raised eyebrows at that, but it went through 3 mots no problems-once i explained ot the tester how to start it, who invariably forgot and rung me to ask me)

Anywho, one day my old man who had used it the night before came outside in the morning to find it unlocked. Thinking he had forgotten he made a mental note to lock it again when he got out. Sure enough a few days later and he came outside to find the car unlocked. Knowing he had locked it he gets really confused, but thinks nothing more of it. Finally a few days after that he came back to it (I wasnt driving it at the time) and finds it unlocked again. He got in and found that there was a key in the ingition similar, but enough of a match to undo the ratherknackered nissan locks, but the car was where he left it. Someone had tried to nick the car in the night, and found they couldnt get it started, whence why I hid the switch. So the morons stole the parcel shelf.







A parcel shelf...... of all the bloody things.... totally left the jvc head unit and 12 disc changer and took....... a parcel shelf