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stolen on Thursday from car park 1 at Birmingham airport. Last seen by the auto number plate recognition cameras on the M42.
Ncp totally useless, but the police were very helpful. Apparently this was the second defender from there in a month so beware.
We only owned it for three weeks and are absolutely gutted, it was such a tidy car.
 
Just out of interest - did you leave the parking ticket thing in the defender or isnt it a ticketed car park?

Just wondering, if they had to go and say they lost their ticket and pay a fine to get out it would be highly suspicious to NCP and normally involves filling in a form with personal details therefore maybe suggest a bit of an inside job cus someone could just let them out for free in the middle of the night...?
 
I think yu need to see a lawyer! If yu have entered into a contract with NCP to "look after" your landy, i reckon yu have a valid claim against them for the full value of the vehicle.
Breach of contract.
 
Hawths said:
We only owned it for three weeks and are absolutely gutted, it was such a tidy car.
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Guess that's the other suspicious bit. Who did you buy it off. The seller could have held onto a spare set of keys and left a tracker in it, realised it was in a long stay car park so easy to nick and just drove it away...
 
there are many ways it may of happened.fact is the vehicles seem well targeted.you have to practically live in the things these days.if its going its gone at the moment .
 
MikeDowson said:
Just out of interest - did you leave the parking ticket thing in the defender or isnt it a ticketed car park?

Just wondering, if they had to go and say they lost their ticket and pay a fine to get out it would be highly suspicious to NCP and normally involves filling in a form with personal details therefore maybe suggest a bit of an inside job cus someone could just let them out for free in the middle of the night...?
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is all bollocks, you just have to write your name and address (or someone elses) on a form with the make model and reg saying you're the legal owner, pay the daily rate (or whatever) for lost ticket and away you go. Don't even ask for ID. Even if they did, I'm sure some ID with the queens face on it would solve the problem.

They are supposed to check the details, but never have I ever seen them do it.
 
I am sorry to hear about your loss...hope they find your Landy and catch the bastids!

Did you have any special safety features installed?
 
Gutted, had the ticket (was in Germany at the time) with the reg no on it, keys in my pocket, mrs had spare set at home in Oxford, was bought from James French so a good company not dodgy. Had just paid £1700 for extras which are now at the garage waiting for my blooming landy to show up!
Police been as helpful as they could be, but yep we think too it was probably an inside job, been parking my Disco there for a year with no problem, defender been there two weeks in a row and the third week it was pinched. Really gutted but don't know if I want it back IF they find it.... Second defender that's been stolen from brum airport recently - valet parking from now on.
May soon have snorkel, steering protector, a bar and lights for sale!
 
Hawths said:
Gutted, had the ticket (was in Germany at the time) with the reg no on it, keys in my pocket, mrs had spare set at home in Oxford, was bought from James French so a good company not dodgy. Had just paid £1700 for extras which are now at the garage waiting for my blooming landy to show up!
Police been as helpful as they could be, but yep we think too it was probably an inside job, been parking my Disco there for a year with no problem, defender been there two weeks in a row and the third week it was pinched. Really gutted but don't know if I want it back IF they find it.... Second defender that's been stolen from brum airport recently - valet parking from now on.
May soon have snorkel, steering protector, a bar and lights for sale!
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Is there no CCTV at the car park? at the very least on the exit and entry?

Am i correct in thinking that the only way to start a TD5 without the key is to either fit a reprogrammed ECU or use a diagnostic computer to get the emergency code? either way it's not a quick job to start on up without the keys
 
Guy who stole,my landy from airport just been caught ! Hooray ok a year or so late. Appears to have stolen a number of others. No idea what happened to mine though.
 
Hawths said:
Guy who stole,my landy from airport just been caught ! Hooray ok a year or so late. Appears to have stolen a number of others. No idea what happened to mine though.
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Well, congrats in an odd way...be interesting to see what sentence he gets, keep us informed? Did you get a reasonable settlement from the ins co?
 
Yes very good paid in under two weeks, full amount less excess, and replacement landy bought in under a month, Court on oct 31st see what happens....
 
Hawths said:
Yes very good paid in under two weeks, full amount less excess, and replacement landy bought in under a month, Court on oct 31st see what happens....
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Name and address once case is over. Maybe a few local LZ members can pop round for a chat as he is obviously a LR fan.. :rolleyes:
 
Got his name from the police,but no address :) spoil sports would like to introduce him to my new alarm system 65 Kilo Italian mastiff
 
Hawths said:
Got his name from the police,but no address :) spoil sports would like to introduce him to my new alarm system 65 Kilo Italian mastiff
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Sit in the public gallery at the trial they'll read his name and address out in court. Once they do that it's public information and anyone can publish it anywhere they want (bar any reporting restrictions imposed by the judge) :D
 
Hawths said:
Guy who stole,my landy from airport just been caught ! Hooray ok a year or so late. Appears to have stolen a number of others. No idea what happened to mine though.
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It's about time they started catching these scum. I take it he was only nicking landys?
 
So far as we know he's being done for stealing 6/7 landys - i'll know more in a few weeks if there were any other makes. I think he was caught in the act... oops
 
nice one, good result!

and good on you for coming back to the forum to report on the update, even if you are not an active member
 
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