Someone Just Knocked On My Front Door

[welshpug 1,657]

Rings a bell, its 4x4 as well as VR6 and the latest was its getting boost

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

You've got me worried now. I've spent hundreds on the 106 rebuilding the engine and rear beam and painting the engine bay etc, the trouble is it's white and the outside has gone a greeny colour where it's been sitting for ages, so it looks like a scrapper. The 205 is out on the road but it has tax, mot and insurance so hopefully no-one's going to help themselves.

 

I think I'll sleep with one eye open tonight.

[large 33]

A couple of years ago I was getting rid of a cooker, rang the local council to pick it up they said it was a 6 week wait. So cooker out the back for 6 weeks.

 

The day before collection i put it out the front. Within 2 hours i had a knock on the door (I don't want to stereotype ) an Irish gent knocked the door and asked if he could have the cooker.

 

I said knock yourself out, at that point he got back into his van and a heavily pregnant woman got out and put the cooker on the back of the van .

 

I was a little pi$$ed off that I had it hanging around for so long when i could have got rid of it within a couple of hours.

[harryskid 193]

Take care mate, bloke calling round like that sounds dodgy

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

My wife was cleaning the porch and we had 2 kids stairgates we had borrowed from someone, one metal and one wooden and she put them outside the front of the house on the drive. She was feeding our son and there was a knock on the door which she ignored. Next thing, the metal one had done but the wooden one was still there but they had nicked the metal fittings off the other. "Farkin' 'ate Pikeys!!"

 

Never trust a dirty guy that smells of dogs in a hi-vis jacket in a transit pickup!

[AJA_GTi 0]

My wife was cleaning the porch and we had 2 kids stairgates we had borrowed from someone, one metal and one wooden and she put them outside the front of the house on the drive. She was feeding our son and there was a knock on the door which she ignored. Next thing, the metal one had done but the wooden one was still there but they had nicked the metal fittings off the other. "Farkin' 'ate Pikeys!!"

 

Never trust a dirty guy that smells of dogs in a hi-vis jacket in a transit pickup!

 

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

i've had a similar thing happen, i built a 200cc trike as a bit of a project about 4years ago now,

it was in the back garden but could just about be seen from the side of the house, i had a couple of pikeys in a flat bed pull up and ask if i wanted to sell it, i offered a high price cos i wanted to keep it. they declined and went on their way, about 2 days later i hear a noise in the back garden, by the time ive grabbed some trousers and a torch there didnt seem to be anything going on.

It wasnt till the next morning i realised it was the bloody trike getting robbed!

i was well gutted i spent ages designing and building it from scratch

[lemmingzappa 75 1 Cars]

I'm always VERY wary of people like this

[swordfish210 20]

I remember that story, and it made me absolutely livid at the time. The caddy looked like a banger but he'd spent hundreds of hours and much money on it. He was VR6ing it or something, wasn't he?

 

Yeah VR6 + 4x4 + Turbo The car was franticly fast but hideously unreliable, pretty sure it has been shelved now.

[muddatrucker 125]

Gypsies are one of the only type of people you can pretty much stereotype for being thieving bastards and not be out of order for doing so.

[DaveW 6]

You've got me worried now. I've spent hundreds on the 106 rebuilding the engine and rear beam and painting the engine bay etc, the trouble is it's white and the outside has gone a greeny colour where it's been sitting for ages, so it looks like a scrapper. The 205 is out on the road but it has tax, mot and insurance so hopefully no-one's going to help themselves.

 

I think I'll sleep with one eye open tonight.

 

You should get a car cover or something.

[davey205 7 1 Cars]

Ooh the insult! I've not had that yet but its probably because I park mine around the back of my block.

[skyinsurance 2]

There was a similar story to this on Retro Rides a while back, some guy asked the owner of a Mk1 Caddy pickup if he wanted to scrap it and he told them to go away, the next day they came back with a low loader and tried to take it from his driveway while he wasn't home. Luckly the guys next door neighbour chased them away and called the police.

 

There is a lot of this around my area.. worries me as I have two mk1 mr2s on my drive.. Best I can do is block them in with a Vectra and hope they take that first!

[TT205 42]

Yeah VR6 + 4x4 + Turbo The car was franticly fast but hideously unreliable, pretty sure it has been shelved now.

 

 

It's now unshelved

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?...734&page=44

[Ant 2]

Gypsies are one of the only type of people you can pretty much stereotype for being thieving bastards and not be out of order for doing so.

 

lol... i found a pikey sniffing round outside my garage once. I would normally be at work, but had the day off. he asked if he could have 3 spare batteries i had by the side of the house. i said no, and he left. I didnt trust him so got a reg of the "rag and bone" van. Next morning, they were gone.

 

I rang the police and gave the reg number and expalined about the pikey. I was told i couldnt use that term and he would write on the system "he spoke with a twang" WTF !!!!

 

Heard nowt.

 

Im paranoid now though as im restoring a 205 on my drive. Im not at home much these days and have visions of it being gone one day.... :-(

[TT205 42]

Try one of these?

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SECURITY-POST-DRIVEW...=item2eb295705b

[GLPoomobile 958]

Yeah, give them something extra to nick

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

I did think about cementing a large hoop into the drive and chaining the rear beam to it

[large 33]

They would just take the chain as well .

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

They would just take the chain as well .

 

Yeah and leave a big hole in the drive, then come back and offer to tarmac the drive

[james306 0]

A couple of years ago I was getting rid of a cooker, rang the local council to pick it up they said it was a 6 week wait. So cooker out the back for 6 weeks.

 

The day before collection i put it out the front. Within 2 hours i had a knock on the door (I don't want to stereotype ) an Irish gent knocked the door and asked if he could have the cooker.

 

I said knock yourself out, at that point he got back into his van and a heavily pregnant woman got out and put the cooker on the back of the van .

 

I was a little pi$$ed off that I had it hanging around for so long when i could have got rid of it within a couple of hours.

 

One of my friends brought a new fridge, put the old one that didn't work in the packagaing, sealed it up and left it out the front of his house, 20 minutes later it was nicked! HA!

 

On a note to worry you some more, I recently broke my old 306, and pikeys came around to offer to take it away. Aparrantly it was worth £30 tops. Obvious answer given to them, the rear beam was on the front garden on a pallet ready to be picked up for delivery (Should have moved it straight away) That night it went. Theiving c*nts even had the cheek to come back and ask if we had any other scrap metal!! Police will never do anything about it.

[Rich_p 23]

If somebody knocked and asked who owned the car on my drive my first question would be who the hell wants to know!

[chipstick 382 1 Cars]

Ive had 2 scrap shells I have wanted rid of recently, and it was actually hassle to find someone who wanted to take them!!

 

I didn't want any money for them, just wanted them gone as 2 shells with no doors/boot etc don't look attractive. The scrap guys didn't really want to know because there is a never ending supply of large cars that people scrap, so a peugeot shell worth probably £70 isn't worth their diesel. I only found one guy prepared to take them away, and he openly said he would come of an evening when he had nothing else to collect. 'If someone rings with a large car, I will have to cancel on you and get that instead'.

 

I moved them to the end of the drive hoping someone would steal them but they didn't

[jeremy 70]

If i see a 205/309 GTI on a driveway, I knock on the door first asking if they need spare parts. If they indicate they maybe interested in departing with it I ask what they are looking for it/make them an offer. Admitidly they are very hard to find in my local area as I bought them all up years ago!! I think as long as you are not rude, and do not outstay any welcome then I do not see any problem.

[Pugs in Pieces 0]

i too do this very often Jeremy, not just 205 and 309 but others too, i have got a 52 reg 106 gti for 150 quid before and an astor grey 99 gti 6 for 200 quid. if you dont ask you dont get.

 

i have admittedly been told to fork off on numerous occasions too.