Member Since: 05 Aug 2015
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 506
Beware - Basingstoke Railway Station Car Park
Not mine fortunately but our admin team at work have just circulated these photos of a D4 that was hit in the Basingstoke Station Car Park yesterday.
Anyone looking to upgrade their front end and offered parts by someone in Hants/Berks/Surrey area who hasn't got a D4 on the drive they have come off should be asking where they have actually come from...
D4 - Stornoway Grey
D2 V8 - Zambesi Silver (rust free JDM import 😎)
FL2 - Sd4 HSE
110 Td5 DCPU - Bonatti Grey - sold
FL2 Td4 - Zambesi Silver - sold
D2 Td5 - Epsom Green - sold
F1 Td4 - Giverney Green - sold
90 300 Tdi - White – sold BIG mistake should have kept it!
F1 Td4 - written off by a taxi!
D1 300 Tdi - written off by a Fiesta...
D1 200 Tdi - sold
90 Turbo Diesel - sold
Ser 2a SWB - sold and glad I 'got rid'
Ser 2 SWB - sold but wish I still had it!
24th Sep 2019 12:19 pm
Farmer Col
Member Since: 05 Jan 2017
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 263
ards!! This sadly doesn’t surprise me. I was talking to a Southern Water bod one day, who was looking at a job behind Basingstoke railway car park, and saw two characters looking around a BMW. They called the Police who didn’t want to know because it was Railway property, so they had to go round to the Station, and after eventually finding a Transport policeman, went back to the car park to find that the BMW had been stolen. Beware!
Even if we modify ours to bolt in the lights.. it wont stop them smashing the window and trying to take them anyway...
i bet these people dont even own green oval or they wouldnt do this.
24th Sep 2019 1:02 pm
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6266
it might be someone who reconed it is good chance to upg my own bus cheap with adaptive lights and nicer grill ?
24th Sep 2019 1:16 pm
Dusty
Member Since: 23 Sep 2013
Location: London
Posts: 1022
Early D3’s are cheap now so it wouldn’t surprise me if they are stolen ‘to order’
Probably not even worth claiming on your insurance by the time you factor in excess and inflated premium at renewal.Discovery 4 HSE
SDV6
2015
24th Sep 2019 1:18 pm
RDR
Member Since: 24 Mar 2013
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 2260
gits
there was a spate of similar in chesterfield train station carpark a few years back we all (4 of us) lost our spare wheels and rear light clusters.MY06 S - Gone but not forgotten
MY12 HSE - Gone
MY16 HSE Luxury - Sold
MY20 D5 HSE - Sold
Current RR L460 PHEV
Sadly, Uncle Ray's upgrade to the spare-wheel-protector isn't as practical as the original.
24th Sep 2019 8:18 pm
NickJ
Member Since: 11 Oct 2010
Location: there's no f in point
Posts: 2137
Suggestions for improving the security of the front end parts please?
24th Sep 2019 9:03 pm
eightfoot
Member Since: 12 Apr 2015
Location: sunny essex
Posts: 762
cable ties on the grill clips the headlight sliders and rear light clusters wont make them impossible to remove but will certainly slow the w**kers down a bit maybe long enough to put them off or for someone to catch them and point out the error of there ways please excuse any grammer/punctuation mistakes,i'm thick,thankyou
current vehicles 2005 d3 2013 d4
24th Sep 2019 9:34 pm
Gary_P
Member Since: 03 May 2016
Location: Kent
Posts: 1523
Thanks for the tip eightfoot.
Is that the consensus opinion on the best way of securing? It appears this was done without opening the bonnet from what I can make out.
Found a way to secure the rear lights and now need to do the front ones and grill.
Any advice appreciated.
CheersGary
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25th Sep 2019 10:04 am
James W
Member Since: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Wirral, UK
Posts: 3067
I had assumed that the passenger window was smashed to access the bonnet release and therefore open it to aid removal
also, b s
Given the resources (i.e. will never happen) it would be easy to identify old D3s with facelift D4 lights on them and request proof of purchase. Those caught with buying ones that have been nicked (i.e. not from parts suppliers) should be charged with handling stolen goods. That would hopefully drop the demand and therefore hopefully the supply.D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
2018 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography - Gone to someone with less sense and more time to enjoy it
2016 Toyota Hilux Invincible - Liberating experience
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25th Sep 2019 10:10 am
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6266
shatter proof layer on fron side windows
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25th Sep 2019 10:10 am
James W
Member Since: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Wirral, UK
Posts: 3067
Also, is it time to go back to security etching headlights and other bits like they did in the 80s/90s?D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
2018 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography - Gone to someone with less sense and more time to enjoy it
2016 Toyota Hilux Invincible - Liberating experience
25th Sep 2019 10:13 am
Gary_P
Member Since: 03 May 2016
Location: Kent
Posts: 1523
Doesn’t look to be any sign of broken window. No glass on the deck.Gary
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ards!! This sadly doesn’t surprise me. I was talking to a Southern Water bod one day, who was looking at a job behind Basingstoke railway car park, and saw two characters looking around a BMW. They called the Police who didn’t want to know because it was Railway property, so they had to go round to the Station, and after eventually finding a Transport policeman, went back to the car park to find that the BMW had been stolen. Beware!
wont make them impossible to remove but will certainly slow the w**kers down a bit maybe long enough to put them off or for someone to catch them and point out the error of there ways 
