Broken into!

[Henderson, Bruce]

It appears that the shop's employees are the culprit.  It's unlikely that someone would come in off the street, grab the keys, steal the equipment and - then - return the keys to the shop.  Unless, of course, you forgot to lock the car.  It's hard to point fingers at people you'd like to trust, but often times they hire people whose scruples and morals are somewhat suspect.  Think where you are - SE Virginia - that ain't NYC.  Let the insurance company go to work - that's why you pay them.

Just a thought.


J. Bruce Henderson
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	David [mailto:duandcc_forums at cox.net]
Sent:	Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:13 AM
To:	Mike_Buckham at ptk.pioneer.co.uk; quattro at audifans.com
Subject:	Re: Re: Broken into!

I trust the owner/manager 100%, but he has gotten two new employees over the past few months. The one I have gotten to know and tust, the oterh has only been there 2 weeks. I tend to agree that something is "fishy" but I don't know that there is anything I can do about it. The officer who took the report said there is no sign of a forced entry (no slimjim marks) and he said that it looks like it was done by somebody with access to the key. Now they thing is the shop leaves keys sitting on the desk and anybody could have walked in, grabbed the key and walked out. Am I suspicious of the shop? Yes, but I hate feeling this way, they do good work at a good price, are convenient and I work with the owners  little sister.

Dave

>
> From: Mike_Buckham at ptk.pioneer.co.uk
> Date: 2003/08/14 Thu AM 04:45:33 EDT
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Broken into!
>
> I'm also sorry to hear about the theft, but slightly skeptical. Are you
> sure that you can trust this mechanic? If not him, then someone else who
> might have had access to your keys from there? I have found my Audis to be
> very well protected against theives. On my last one (a 100qa), a theif
> tried to force open the locks from all the doors and still failed to get
> in. When examining the door internals of my old cgt, it looked very well
> protected against "slim-jims" being poked down the side of the window. If
> there was no visible signs of entry, then I'd suspect that the keys were
> used.
>
> Cheers, Mike.
> 1989 200qta.
>
> ================================
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:32:52 +0200
> From: Per Lindgren <lindgre at online.no>
> To: David <duandcc_forums at cox.net>, quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Broken into!
>
> I'm sad to hear that Dave. It's so annoying, and pretty much a waste of
> time and money.
>
> Per "I hate thieves" L
> 87 Cq
>
> David wrote:
>
> >I walked out of work to discover a missing headunit and sub. Here's what h
> =
> appened: Park car and lock, walk over to mechanic who has a shop next to my
> =
>  office and give him the key so they can track down my oil leak. When I com
> =
> e to pick up the car it's still in their shop. I notice the missing HU and
> =
> ask if they removed it for some reason. They say no and that they thought I
> =
>  removed it as it was missing when they went out into the parking lot to ge
> =
> t the car. Well, it's now an hour later and I'm still waiting for the cops
> =
> to show up. Fortunately it seems that the idiot theifs couldn't figure out
> =
> the trunk on a CGT because my amps are still in there (the sub was "in cabi
> =
> n"). This sucks!!
> >
> >Dave
> >2002 Jetta 1.8T (hers)
> >1993 RX-7 R1 (weekend play toy, soon to be for sale)
> >1987 CGT Special Build 2.3
> >in SE Virginia
>
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