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Hey all,

just a heads up. mate's car got stolen around the Brompton area (near Brompton Greens) last night.

He found out this morning that his car was stolen, and YES! it had a cyclops alarm. Just shows IMPORTS are being targeted more and more these days. Its a R32 Skyline stock black with BN front and sides with a stock wing and FMIC. Further features are stock rims painted black and a scratch on the rear LHS bumper.

Poor bloke, he just did a manual conversion and had massive plans for the car in the future and now some MOTHERF***** has taken his pride and joy!

Plates are [XGC 339], so any details would be greatly appreciated

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Edited by thanglongz
that sux man will keep eyes open

he might of had an alarm but was it armed

poor guy

sorry to hear the bad news!

Will keep my eyes open mate!

some heads up!

Also, as obvious as it seems, i highly recommend having ur alarm tested every month or so, just so that u can be sure that ur alarm is still working and offcourse for some piece of mind. i mean it only takes a few seconds to arm the car and test the usual entry points seeing if it goes off and all.

cheers

Edited by R33LIN
Hope he gets the car back.

Il keep my eyes open and the cricketbat ready ;)

Far out. Sorry to hear that!! I had mine stolen about 3 months ago, but it was luckily found by ME the next morning. Will keep eyes open... I'll keep my aluminium baseball bat close .....

  • 2 weeks later...

Update!

just an update the car has been found and was retrieved last monday. Not too sure about the details of the condition. apparently the car was dumped as it ran out of petrol and the thieves/ joy riders couldnt be bothered filling up.

cheers!

my uncs hq monaro got stolen back in the day, police foundit just outside melbourne in a ditch all windows broken and when he got it fixed the car never drove the same again...

like it had been raped or violated in a way that you just cant explain.

Edited by Pauly33GTS-t

my ppls that have there cars stolen say the same and end up selling it

my first skyline was the result of a mate of our having it stolen so i bought it cheap R31 4door :happy: was a good reliable car had a different diff ratio and a R32 gearbox in it, thing flew

my ppls that have there cars stolen say the same and end up selling it

my first skyline was the result of a mate of our having it stolen so i bought it cheap R31 4door :P was a good reliable car had a different diff ratio and a R32 gearbox in it, thing flew

lol

not the one luke bought?

Update!

just an update the car has been found and was retrieved last monday. Not too sure about the details of the condition. apparently the car was dumped as it ran out of petrol and the thieves/ joy riders couldnt be bothered filling up.

cheers!

Yea car's sitting at my house and we're repairing all the damages 1-by-1. Lucky he got the car back in 1 piece, save for a broken LHS rear quarter window, Damaged front bar, Slashed/ bald tyres and 1 snapped pulley belt.

So if any1 has a LHS rear quarter window (preferbably with the plastic surround) please PM me with price etc.

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