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What timing! A guest just turned up at one of the holiday cottages my wife looks after,chap has a Range Rover. He got out of his lovely car and I kid you not he chained it to a lamp post just like you would a bicycle 😂. I'll have to get a picture tomorrow!
What! You mean they didn't even remove the seats and front wheel then front wheels chained through the back wheels....I guess don't bother going tomorrow....the local scrote with an angle grinder [stolen from B&Q] will have it away tonight
I am a postman of 45 years, but when I first started at Royal Mail one of my round/walks included delivering to Edgbaston Golf Club One day I arrived to deliver the mail and found 4 Volkswagen cars which had been bought there to promote the vehicles they were left over night and all the wheels were stolen and they were left on bricks, those they couldn't get off they slashed the tyres.
The reason no heard of this is because JLR swept it under the carpet through embarrassment, another Land Rover Stolen vehicle description:- a very rare, low mileage, a Heritage example. Could it get any worse for Land Rover?
The wife worked at JLR Solihull years ago & was told many stories of dodgy workers smuggling a multitude of spare parts past security.she worked nights & on more than one occasion whole cars were driven out never to be seen again.
@@GrantHarvey-tx9sl loads of new land rovers and range rover have been nicked over the years from the solihull site, first they would drive them up and over the grass banks, then they put fencing up to stop that. Then they used to use the first land rover to ram the barriers out the way to get the other nicked cars out. They had whole trucks nicked full of engines
funny that you mention this but in 2019 i was getting training as a trucker to deliver parts to JLR plant. they stepped up security after somebody just drove away with a whole lorry full of engines!
Whilst I was working for a holiday camp in Dawlish Warren, Devon. I was curious that someone had parked a classic Maserati with a foot of its bonnet in the hedge that surrounds the car park and it stayed there not moving for three days. I decided to call the police as I expected it had been stolen and was parked there just in case it had a tracker on it. The police were happy to here the news and popped straight down to see it. The story goes that the owner had had it shipped down to a dealers in Exeter to be serviced and the driver had just left the keys on the reception desk. A dodgey person took the keys and drove off in the car and obviously decided to hide it in the out of the way car park. If they had not parked it so badly I would not have thought much about it and would not have phoned the police ha ha ha.
@@stuartd9741 The driver was the lorry driver who was hired to take the car on a flat bed to the dealers for service NOT the owner, but yes I agree the dozy truck driver was to blame. The kicker was that the owner spoke with his insurance company who said that the car's age would mean who would not get much back for it. When this car was immaculate almost as new with very few miles on the clock. I expect the owner will drive it to the dealers themselves next time ha ha.
@@billienomates1606 It's shocking just can't trust people today to do a proper job. .. If I was delivering a vehicle, I'd personally hand over the keys to a member of dealer staff. That way if anything happens it's down to the dealership. .. It's true, a cherished car is sometimes priceless or has sentimental value.. Have sympathy for the owner.
You would have thought that the value of the display cars would warrant paying for security; but the company has little regard for its customers so I’m not surprised that incompetence spreads to this.
@@stuartd9741 either the keys stolen from someone on the stand - or as it's a soft top someone just climbed in and accessed the ODBII port, unfortunately it's easy to clone a key with the right (wrong, naughty) kit. I was at the show and have the car in the background of a (bad) photo at 11.21am on the 29th. I had to go through my deleted photos from the show to find it! (Shame Geoff says in the video that the 29th is Sunday - the 29th was Saturday and the show continued until Sunday 30th.)
@@wickmesh Is it possible, the svx being a development vehicle, may not have had a steering lock or indeed a key start. Just a button start? A lot of commenters r saying, it's an inside job - hence the secrecy/lack of publicity....
@@stuartd9741 It wasn't a development vehicle. Just a low mileage example of a short run (300 vehicles) special edition, based on a standard car - so should have had an ignition key.
Hi everyone, it was actually on the Saturday it was stolen the heritage guys left it went back to there hotel in there 2 other landrovers and left that one behind we alerted security as we witnessed 4 Irish traveller types hovering around it and within seconds and drove it off with no issues straight out the gate when we spoke to the heritage guys the next day didn't seem bothered and said it didn't have s tracker fitted either , no wonder they didn't want people to know
This makes sense now - we attended the show on the Sunday and were given a hand written card with our reg number which we had to show on exit. This was a security measure to show that it was your car - seemed functional but very crude at the time. Now knowing this had happened on the Saturday, it must have been a hastily arranged attempt to prevent any others from “slipping out”
@johnathanpearson3203 it should to be easy to spot then, but saying that the police don't do their jobs properly anymore. I have only ever seen this SVX when they brought it out and one customer owned one in Malta.
I think it’s time JLR did something about their ignition locks and immobilisers so that fellow JLR owners can get cheaper insurance premiums. My 2007 L322 premium has doubled this year from last years premium.
My I-phone overheats at this time of year if in direct sunlight. Keep it in the shade. That sorts the problem. Mounting it in a car where it gets the sun directly on it will cause it to overheat & shut down. The phone also makes some heat when in operation.
@@WheelhomeWanderer I don’t know, I saw Mike Brewer expressing his hurt and dismay at the loss of the Fiesta tho. Sadly the police in this country are now useless. There should have been checks at all borders as I suspect it’s out of the country by now
Regrettably this is true but are in trial stages only at the moment. We all know what happens to trials, they become the reality so may as well just microchip us now get it over & done with.
I believe that the plan is to microchip the population eventually. Most likely to be sold to us in the usual way. Its for our safety. @GrantHarvey-tx9sl
2:21. My bricklayer friend had one of these, he would get it covered in cement and pug at work then at the end of the day dip it in a bucket of water and use a scrubbing brush to clean the phone before going home the same as his brick laying tools tools.
a new day..... a new rabbit hole 🤣great find and follow up thanks Geoff, it could even be a inside job as JLR might not even exist over the next 3 years.... maybe a bit like a service bonus for a high ranking member of staff or something but thanks for keeping us informed as the mainstream media prefers to pick and choose what they report on nowadays
sure its was at billing around 7 or 8 years ago a high spec modded JDM car was stolen driving out or the show ground was found though can not remember all he details just remember all the stuff on retrorides about it
Not the first time JLR have had stuff stollen at Billing. One year they left a G4 on their stand overnight and the next morning, the kayaks and bikes had gone missing from the roof rack. Also never recovered.
Happened to Wheeler Dealers, if I remember right a mk 1 Escort was stolen from a trailer outside their hotel, Mike and Elvis were stunned. A friend of mine once went to a newsagents in Liverpool on his bike, he chained it to a lamp post outside, went in the shop and bought his papers. When he came out his bike had gone and in it's place was an old bike frame chained to the lamp post with his own chain.
You can’t expect a police force that thinks ‘an Land Rover event’ is correct English to be capable of finding a stolen vehicle let alone anything else !
Someone did the same with a Jag XJ 220 many years ago. They knew the start sequence, it was on a plinth at an event. They walked up got in, started it, and got as far as the gate before someone realised that they were stealing it. Fortunately they were stopped.
If you wear a hi-vis vest at an event, it's amazing what you can get away with. For instance, did you know that showground staff get free coffee and bacon rolls all day from the catering vans? Well, you do now. The £6.99 vests (available at Halfords) soon pay for themselves. Or so I'm told.
I did sub contracting at Solihull for a while and there were rumours of many defenders just being driven out the gate in convoys never to be seen again
woopsie... i wonder if it was insured through the landrover scheme.. will they loose their NCD... my nokia is working just fine, fiver a month contract...
It's already been put in a container and shipped out of the country probably to West African Container port for movement around the African continent. The reason JLR want say anything is it shows how poor there security is on there vehicles hence reason insurance is expensive if you can get it. The law should be changed to have GPS Trackers with cloud based movement logs fitted in all new vehicles in the UK with older vehicles being able to be retro fitted
And this is why that "Politically Correct" classic car magazine didn't feature you in their "favourite RU-vidrs" article... Your investigative journalism puts their miserable rag to shame.
even I couldn't...! however I do really want this Land Rover, but I don't need the roll cage around the front. Gimme the rollover bars at the back, but not around the cab and windscreen.
@@GeoffBuysCars Cab and windscreen is exactly where you need them. Defenders (and everything earlier) are not good in roll over accidents; they're weak above the waist line. A hoop behind the passenger compartment is better than nothing - but can only do so much.
So, when the Land Rover Stand Supervisor was happy with the placement of LR58 SVX on the stand, he took the keys out and put them....he did take the keys out, didn't he?
Investigative journalism at its finest Geoff, u rock. I had to watch this three times to have it sink in how incredibly embarrassing this is for LR. Rumour I heard, it was an inside job since LR bonuses have been cut.😊😊😊
You can't make it up..... Common sense has disappeared like the car.... WHY was the car left in a field overnight. Surely land rover could of paid out for a truck to trailer this back to Solihull headquarters. You couldn't make it up, even if you tried
Not from outside their workshop It was in a covered trailer behind a four wheel drive in a hotel car park ,entrance route to a show Places that are targeted by criminals all the time The trailer was not fitted with a tracker, rather stupidly given the value of the trailer alone A certain demographic seem to be involved in this type of crime
Mmm.. big landy show... sure the sluths who search high and low for there perfect landrover might find it but its probably in parts by now flat-packed... 😔.. stay safe 🏴
Excellent !😂 Oh yes, and it’s pronounced Little Howton not Little Horton. There actually is a Little Horton a few miles from the Little Houghton that you are referring to. Just so’s locals are not confused …
Interesting, I also looked it up and it is only listed on a neighbourhood watch style site with info apparently from local police. Understandably it is on a SORN, so presumably trailered to the event.
50p says it was driven away using the keys. I know they're not exactly secure but a transit defender is a bit more robust than an older model where you'd only need a chip fork.
