STOLEN - My E60

At last, the best out of a bad situation. You have the luxury (or not!??) of another car search now. Hopefully you'll get what you are looking for or perhaps better. I found my best car when I wasn't even looking so you never know how luck will grace you.

Regarding the dealer, on one hand I can totally understand you never wanting to use them again but on the other, I think you may have earned royalty status at that dealer and rest assured the dealer principal will have kicked some butt in relation to this and made sure when/if your car comes in again, it gets treated like the queens Daimler!  Perhaps you could arrange that every time your car has to go there the DP takes charge of the keys himself? You can be sure the same thing wouldn't happen again.

Best result you could have wished for. Hope you get the replacement soon, keep us posted as to your choices!

Mike

gary wrote: Buy an E30 316 and get mullered with the change

Er no!  That would be some bender right enough.

Can you still get  E30 316's then?  I would have thought these belt driven engines and 1980's rust prevention techniques would have consigned them all to the great Scrap yard in the sky.

A replacement would need to be fairly equal to the E60 that I had stolen.

Thanks

Andrew

BeemaBoy wrote: Andrew Rolland wrote:   A replacement would need to be fairly equal to the E60 that I had stolen. Thanks Andrew So that would be an 2003/2004 E65 745I then??? Seems the logical upgrade!!! BB

Hmm I did have a wee look at the 7ers but they all have mega mileage for my price range.

They look to complicated.  There is no conventional gear lever, gear changes are made by a stick on the steering column. 

Andrew

Andrew Rolland wrote: Can you still get  E30 316's then?

Yep - I saw one only yesterday ......

it was at a garage though......

and (quote the garage owner) F'ing thing won't run properly (unquote)

so, your's for cheap then

Following on from Rhys post above does anyone know of a way of checking if any of your old cars still exist?

I would like to know if my H plate Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24V beast is still going.

Andrew

Andrew Rolland wrote: I would like to know if my H plate Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24V beast is still going.

dear god, not another name check going out to yer olde senny

as above you can check dvla at http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/ (click on vehicle enquiry) for when it was last taxed or SORNed, you can also check if it's currently insured @ http://www.askmid.com/ and confirm if the plate still matches the car at https://www.mycarcheck.com/kwikfit/

Ian

It is interesting.....and it gets more interesting!

When I was interviewed by CID when mine got nicked, the officer who interviewed me drove a car which was being serviced at your cousins wifes garage and when he dropped it off, he was escorted "from out the back" into the service desk area by a member of staff past a huge board with all the keys to customers cars!

He commented to me on how easy it would be steal key and cars from this dealership.

So there you go, comes as no surprise really.

I really feel for the customer.  I bet things will get sorted as it was one of the 'their own' staff members cars.

Keep me posted on this one please Ian.

Andrew

523 iAN wrote: PS, how's your car hunting going?

One or two fingers in one or two pies at the moment. Mmmmm, I like pies.

Hopefully should have a set of decent wheels for the meet next weekend.

Andrew