Stolen white R33 GTST brisbane

[JaseR33]

Unfortunately my car was stolen in the last few weeks while I was away. Car towed from garage in brisbane south. Wasn’t running and unregistered but good condition white 1994 series 1 r33 gts-t. Black 17inch kakimoto rims, fujitsubo ti exhaust, gtr drivers seat, hybrid fmic, standard body with m spec front bar. 

reward for information that leads to recovery. 
 

thanks

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Damn mate, I hope you get it back or find it.

Being unregistered, I'm going to assume it was also uninsured  

[MBS206]

Being in South bris myself this concerns me that they went to these lengths.

 

Can I ask how hard is it to get to your garage? Like is it a garage at the front of the house close to the street, or you need to enter a fenced yard, and garage is out the back?

[Murray_Calavera]

I hate to say it, but this isn't a 'great length' to steal a car. The people that steal high value cars are very used to stealing cars from garages. It really isn't a complicated process, a lot of people leave their keys in very typical places (think bowl/rack by the front door). You break into the house, grab the key and off you go. So what, in about 1 minutes time they have taken the car? 

Probably goes without saying that most of these cars being pinched in this manner are the higher end Audi/AMG/etc. It's the same process though regardless of whatever the car is. 

If you're worried about this, keep your car out of sight. If no one knows its in the garage, no one is coming for it. Other things include if you have an aftermarket ECU, change a setting so the car won't start even with the keys, setup CCTV cameras that ping your phone on activation etc. 

If you think it's hard to break into a house to grab the keys first, just picture the fire fighters coming to recuse someone from a burning house. It's what, 10 seconds to gain entry if that? Locks only help honest people stay honest. 

[GoHashiriya]

A reminder for everyone to keep an airtag (or two) in their car. I hope your car was insured.

[JaseR33]

Unfortunately uninsured. The house was unoccupied at the time and car was parked in a garage/carport (front of house but facing sideways) which was entered via another locked gate and car towed away. Suburb has at least one burglary per week so thieves would’ve been aware of car at some point in the last few months and come prepared with tow truck. 

[MBS206]

On 12/10/2023 at 3:50 AM, Murray_Calavera said:

I hate to say it, but this isn't a 'great length' to steal a car. The people that steal high value cars are very used to stealing cars from garages. It really isn't a complicated process, a lot of people leave their keys in very typical places (think bowl/rack by the front door). You break into the house, grab the key and off you go. So what, in about 1 minutes time they have taken the car? 

Probably goes without saying that most of these cars being pinched in this manner are the higher end Audi/AMG/etc. It's the same process though regardless of whatever the car is. 

If you're worried about this, keep your car out of sight. If no one knows its in the garage, no one is coming for it. Other things include if you have an aftermarket ECU, change a setting so the car won't start even with the keys, setup CCTV cameras that ping your phone on activation etc. 

If you think it's hard to break into a house to grab the keys first, just picture the fire fighters coming to recuse someone from a burning house. It's what, 10 seconds to gain entry if that? Locks only help honest people stay honest. 

I think you missed the part where his car wasn't running...

My main concern of it being "at lengths" is more so in the fact it has been towed.
My perspective is probably different to a lot of peoples, as like in the old days, of having a larger block of land, my garage is in my backyard. Which means being a lot more prepared to get in and out with a car than say as I had a thought of, a garage at the front of the house. 
I'm less worried about my cars that can be driven being stolen. Those ones are insured, and have a few hidden features that make them highly improbable to start, even with the keys. Though, if you do get one running, that's no problem. In my career I've developed a special set of skills to allow me to find them...

The other defense for me for my running cars is inside my house. Even my neighbors joke about it with us saying "I pity the idiot who tries to break into your house"... They will be in for a small surprise inside...

 

And yep, you are 100% correct that most of those high end cars are being stolen the way you describe, and they aren't being towed. From chats with a few officers at QPS that I know, oddly enough, the most common theft of the high end cars in SEQ is actually by youths, for joy rides and having fun. Those people are not stealing non running cars with a tilt tray.

 

This specific theft is most likely to have been done by a low life, knowing there is value in the parts of a rolling Skyline.

There's a few people wrecking R33's around SEQ that appear a little dodgy in how they run their "enterprise". Those are the places I'd start scoping out myself to attempt to locate the chassis or easily identifiable parts if possible.

[WMDC35]

Thieving f****s, no updates so assume no news?

That's the problem with the Nissans, in NZ the cops rarely recover them, so they get away with it, mine is on storage insurance at the moment, still has a 5k excess.

Good luck man.

[Murray_Calavera]

21 hours ago, MBS206 said:

I think you missed the part where his car wasn't running...

My main concern of it being "at lengths" is more so in the fact it has been towed.
My perspective is probably different to a lot of peoples, as like in the old days, of having a larger block of land, my garage is in my backyard. Which means being a lot more prepared to get in and out with a car than say as I had a thought of, a garage at the front of the house. 
I'm less worried about my cars that can be driven being stolen. Those ones are insured, and have a few hidden features that make them highly improbable to start, even with the keys. Though, if you do get one running, that's no problem. In my career I've developed a special set of skills to allow me to find them...

The other defense for me for my running cars is inside my house. Even my neighbors joke about it with us saying "I pity the idiot who tries to break into your house"... They will be in for a small surprise inside...

 

And yep, you are 100% correct that most of those high end cars are being stolen the way you describe, and they aren't being towed. From chats with a few officers at QPS that I know, oddly enough, the most common theft of the high end cars in SEQ is actually by youths, for joy rides and having fun. Those people are not stealing non running cars with a tilt tray.

 

This specific theft is most likely to have been done by a low life, knowing there is value in the parts of a rolling Skyline.

There's a few people wrecking R33's around SEQ that appear a little dodgy in how they run their "enterprise". Those are the places I'd start scoping out myself to attempt to locate the chassis or easily identifiable parts if possible.

Unfortunately cars get stolen with tow trucks all the time . I still wouldn't call skull dragging a car onto a tow truck a great length for a motivated thief. 

That's why the first thing I said was, the primary defence is to keep the car out of sight. If our thief with a tow truck doesn't know it's there, he isn't coming for it.