Stolen but not forgotten.

I spent 12 months looking for a Defender 90 Hard Top and bought a 2007 model on December 23rd 2015.
On February 15th 2016 it was stolen from my drive overnight. No noise, no glass nothing!!
And no one appears to have seen it since.
Lots of wishes that I had done this and that to prevent this happening.
Lots of theories, secret tracker placed on the vehicle without my knowledge, lifted onto low loader. Pinched and Parked etc.,
I live on the western side of Sheffield, almost on the Snake in a cul de sac; one way into and out of the estate. Not normally visible from a main road so figure I was followed.
Police didn't visit but went through the process, CCT cameras etc.,
I figure that there must be an organised team of villains (stupid point) with a market ready to pay.
Yet the old girl has vanished.
The reg FL57OXG, Green with white top mileage 76k.
Engine number:- 070305122306244DT
Chassis number:- SALLDVAS77A734577
If any one has an ideas about how to recover a stolen Landy, where to start looking etc., and how to prevent it being stolen in the first place, I would really like to know.

Not asking much are you mate, condolences but you do seem a bit naive about the ease of theft and disposal of defenders. Plenty of threads available on what to try and do to deter the scum, on what works and what doesn't in reference to tracking and locating landies once they have been taken. The market is huge for the parts and they aren't exactly difficult to strip now are they.

There are lots of things you can do but if someone wants it badly enough they'll get it. A tracker is good but you'll pay a subscription fee monthly. But other than chaining it to a huge post or blocking it in with another car nothing will stop someone just towing it on a trailer.

I saw in the news the other day that since they stopped making the defender thefts have gone up 75% here in the south west according to NFU mutual.

Mine are parked under several movement sensitive lights plus cameras. Impossible to reverse a trailer down my tight narrow lane so could only be driven away. But that'll be a noisey process. So I'm quite fortunate in that respect. Most of the time people don't get them back.
You can ask on sights like Landy watch and watch eBay in case anyone is selling it on there. But a lot of them don't make it back home.

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully the insurance will help pay for a replacement.

DiscoPol said:

Not asking much are you mate, condolences but you do seem a bit naive about the ease of theft and disposal of defenders. Plenty of threads available on what to try and do to deter the scum, on what works and what doesn't in reference to tracking and locating landies once they have been taken. The market is huge for the parts and they aren't exactly difficult to strip now are they.

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You are right about being a bit naive. One solution I have heard about is to fit a hidden fuel cut off switch restricting anyone driving it away to about 3 miles!

You'd be lucky to get 300 yards with a fuel cut off, I'm not sure but I think it may not run at all or maybe just a few seconds because of vacume? (Spelling)

Mikeynoshoes said:

You are right about being a bit naive. One solution I have heard about is to fit a hidden fuel cut off switch restricting anyone driving it away to about 3 miles!

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Problem is 3 miles is more than enough to load onto a trailer. Ideally you'd want stuff that stopped then taking it off your property and then have a tracker in the vehicle if they did manage to steal it

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Mikeynoshoes said:

You are right about being a bit naive. One solution I have heard about is to fit a hidden fuel cut off switch restricting anyone driving it away to about 3 miles!

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When mine was nicked it was found parked up three miles away, if you think about it a three mile radius from your home is quite an area to search if you had to go looking for it. What ever you fit it's got to be something that you'll still be bothered to use in a few months time

Marmaduke said:

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When mine was nicked it was found parked up three miles away, if you think about it a three mile radius from your home is quite an area to search if you had to go looking for it. What ever you fit it's got to be something that you'll still be bothered to use in a few months time

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I was thinking that a fuel cut off switch and a tracker would probably work.