Rickraw1
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Hi. I've just had my Ford Transit Autotrail 'Tribute T625 Sport' Motorhome Reg YD12 JCX stolen from a driveway on Water Orton Road, Birmingham sometime in the night of 29 to 30/7/17. It seems that Transits are a doddle to steal by popping the bonnet catch from under the vehicle and by attaching a different ECU the, using a key that works with that ECU they simply drive away. It takes less than 5 minutes. Ford really needs to sort this out but I'm writing this to let owners know how quickly our van disappeared with all our valuables worth thousands of pounds as we were on our way home from a holiday in France and a wedding in Italy. My advice (now) is to think carefully about how many valuable items you have with you and that items such as cameras, phones, tablets and laptops are not covered by household insurance if stolen from a van.
I remember hearing a motorbike speeding off during the evening the van was stolen but I had another theory. We had stopped at a motorway service station on the M40 for a just a few minutes. During this time it is not without possibility that someone could have checked our van over then put a magnetic tracker on our van and followed us later. They could also have intercepted the remote control signal as I locked or unlocked the van then they would have had time to make a key using that code before returning. They could even have done all this whilst we were on the ferry from France.
We have lost thousands of pounds here but at least we were not sleeping in the van at the time and we are all physically healthy even though, in our minds, we are feeling sick.
Looking through these sites I can see that we are not the only ones to have been targetted.
I remember hearing a motorbike speeding off during the evening the van was stolen but I had another theory. We had stopped at a motorway service station on the M40 for a just a few minutes. During this time it is not without possibility that someone could have checked our van over then put a magnetic tracker on our van and followed us later. They could also have intercepted the remote control signal as I locked or unlocked the van then they would have had time to make a key using that code before returning. They could even have done all this whilst we were on the ferry from France.
We have lost thousands of pounds here but at least we were not sleeping in the van at the time and we are all physically healthy even though, in our minds, we are feeling sick.
Looking through these sites I can see that we are not the only ones to have been targetted.
