Stolen Motor Home (1 Viewer)

[EyUp]

Does anyone use smart water ? Seems like that could be a good deterrent if advertised on your van along with 'tracker fitted' etc ?
https://www.smartwater.com/

 

[peterc10]

Our latest systems have anti jamming software, and will send a help message if it detects anything suspicious, sound a siren and immobilise the motor home

Eddie we had our Growler and non starter installed last November. Would that have this anti jamming software? If not can it be updated retrospectively?

 

[eddie]

Eddie we had our Growler and non starter installed last November. Would that have this anti jamming software? If not can it be updated retrospectively?

Hi Peter

I have sent you a PM

Eddie

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[Robin McHood]

Sorry to hear about the theft of your Moho. Thieving barstewards. We recently went down to Cornish farm from Fife ....... well worth the trip! We feel a lot safer now.

Us too! Incidentally @eddievanbitz that anti-jamming thing is that on all Strikebacks fitted this year?

 

[eddie]

Strikeback remotes are un jammable in the real world, but it never uses the same code twice so it is impervious to such attcks

 

[Robert Clark]

Hi Peter

I have sent you a PM

Eddie

Could I ask the same question please @eddievanbitz ?

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[RowleyBirkinQC]

Anyone know which Ford Transit models/years are particularly vulnerable to this?

Edit: Perhaps as per the last paragraph of this article?:-

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/ford-transit-van-stolen-vehicle-uk

 

[Clarky]

Could I ask the same question please @eddievanbitz ?

.....And me, please @eddievanbitz .

Richard.

 

[TJBi]

Anyone know which Ford Transit models/years are particularly vulnerable to this?

Edit: Perhaps as per the last paragraph of this article?:-

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/ford-transit-van-stolen-vehicle-uk

Transit Mk.7 (easily recognisable by the shape of the headlights, as per the image in your link). May also affect the Mk.6

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[Solly]

Sadly steering locks not always effective, our Moho stolen from outside our house early this month. see attached.

 

[wizza]

Scumbags Did they steal it with the keys ?

 

[deleted-member02]

Sadly steering locks not always effective, our Moho stolen from outside our house early this month. see attached.

I take it your van was recovered ?
Looks like an angle grinder was used, judging by the dust everywhere....
They're brutally efficient, I'm sure a Cordless Makita and 4ah battery would defeat any mechanical security (car or bike)

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[Solly]

In a way, I recovered it. Long story short, We live in a village with one road that goes through and down to the sea. Moho was ready to go on holiday. We went out to get some shopping, planning to come back put the scooter on our new easylifter, load some clothing and then on our way. Just over an hour later driving back into the village I remarked to my wife that Moho coming towards us was like ours. As it went pass I realised it was ours as it had the Easylifter attached. I quickly turned round and gave chase, I tried overtaking in the village but he swerved out to stop me. I pulled back as our car is only 3 months old. ( wife reminded me that I had given up driving Fire engines when I was 29 ) The thief eventually turned down what was theoretically a dead end. I think he was looking to abandon the Moho. Unfortunately he found a way through the back of a farmhouse garden smashing his way through a scaffold post type Gate and eventually on to a another road, I lost him so had to choose left or right, I turned left. Meanwhile my wife had been unable to get through to the police. I Drove to next village where there was road works and temporary traffic light. Road worker told me that no motorhomes had not gone through. I drove through the village to turn round we managed then to get through to the police, we then drove on still looking to turn round. Some way down the road we saw a large eastern european looking man was walking in a vest carrying a white shirt. ( totally out of context for that area and a country road ) My wife recognised him as the man who had stolen our Moho as he had a large mark/scar on his right cheek. I pulled up and took 3 full length photos of him. I asked him what he had done with my xxxxing Moho he told he had not stolen it, but that a large white Motorhome had just passed him nearly running him over. I had not told him the colour and in order to pass him the moho would have had to pass through the village with the road works and me. As a stout/fat man wearing ordinary shoes he then explained that he was a boxer out jogging ??. He was carrying his shirt as i'm sure it was covered in black from cutting through the the steering wheel, I drove off and reported him to the police. On the way back home we stopped to ask some dustmen if the had seen a motorhome parked up. they told me that one had passed them very fast in road nearby, that he had driven into the middle of a ploughed field then got out and walked off, they did not call the police as they thought he was a holiday maker ? I found the Moho and called the police. On arrival they were surprised to find that I had 3 full length high definition photos of the thief. They, like the earlier poster, questioned how he had driven it away and suggested we go home and check our house. We arrived home to find the french doors to our kitchen had been smashed in. He had rummaged the kitchen and found the hiding place for the keys to the moho and my security post.
In some respects we were a bit lucky as whilst we were waiting for the police to turn up to the Moho a car pulled up and the driver told us that their new sports car had been stolen the day before. The culprits had smashed in their back door, searched the whole house for the keys and in doing so found a the husbands Rolex watch and her jewellery.
In the village we are now known as Starsky and Hutch as the initial chase was witnessed. those who live in small villages will know word soon gets round and the story get slightly changed, however what you have here are the bare facts.
Its a strange feeling not having the Moho out the front of the house, feels a bit like our freedom has gone. Hopefully it will get repaired, we are still waiting for the assessors to submit costings.

 

[RowleyBirkinQC]

Feck me, Solly, I hope the police track the Barsteward(s) down and the courts deal with them effectively. I'm sorry that your home and MH were violated by said scum. The bloody insurers had also better be sympathetic and not give you the runaround.

 

[Vanman]

Thanks for sharing that Solly I'm sure the more these things are shared the better we can all understand what works and what doesn't in making life hard for them.

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[Zepp]

Well done for getting it back , you did well not to hit the toerag

 

[Diabalo]

A friend of mine had hers stolen from outside her house, it had a crook lock and wheel clamp on the front, they just winched it up at the front broke the quarter light window to release the hand brake and drove off never to be seen again.

 

[Vanman]

So, @Diabalo are you saying they turned up in something like this?!

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[Diabalo]

The person who saw it go didn't elaborate on the size, just said it was towed away by a breakdown truck.

 

[f6c]

Scum!

 

[TheBig1]

must get on with getting my hands dirty and fitting a hidden kill switch. at home the keys are kept in a safe bolted through a brick wall. but when in use the keys can be vulnerable so immobilising via the ignition, ecu or fuel pump will stop it being started

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[kip]

Solly,What an awful experience to have gone through.Hope everything gets turned around for you both very soon & you can put the whole thing behind you as quickly as possible.I WOULD HAVE RUN THE HORRIBLE SCUMBAG OVER & pleaded my innocence due to a uncontrollable right foot..

 

[Solly]

Thanks to everyone for your kind replies. My house has always been very secure in as much as all doors and windows have high security locks, unfortunately windows always remain a weak spot. I know from previous experience when living in London we were burgled whilst on holiday. The culprit could not get through 2 front doors so broke through 3 doors at the back of house, each time going through windows having damaged all 3 doors in his attempts ( House was also alarmed).
We live in a single track, dead end, private Road with Neighborhood Watch and many many of the houses have Burglar alarms that get ignored. I will be putting up CCTV and more security lighting if only to get pictures if possible. I will also be contacting "The Big 1" for expert advice on immobiliser's.
I have a very pragmatic view on whats happened as I had to leave the Fire Service at age 29, I then went back into full time education for 4 years. After graduating I became a Probation Officer.
Material things are very nice, I like many of you know what its like to struggle finacially, However the health and happiness of my wife, 4 daughters and lots of grandchildren have always been my priority and the meaning of life
Thanks again
Solly

 

[peterc10]

For advice on motorhome security, including immobilisers, you really need to speak to Eddie @eddievanbitz .

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[SpeedyDux]

The person who saw it go didn't elaborate on the size, just said it was towed away by a breakdown truck.

Round the corner from my previous house I spotted an old breakdown truck parked up in the entrance to a residents' private parking courtyard, with 2 dodgy-looking geezers in the cab. Not the authorised parking management enforcers, clearly. The previous garage operator's signwriting was just visible under a thin coat of paint. It looked so out of place. Pointed a camera at them ... HEY PRESTO! ... as if by magic the truck vanished in a cloud of diesel smoke.