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philcooper:
just to let you know, tesco's is selling tomtom 910 at 400 quid, and a1 breakers in i think bury near manchester sold me a rear quarter window with seal for 35 quid inc p&p

blackbob:
got the window done for £50 on my glass cover as the exs was that
caffyns landrover want £85 for the glass and gumtree said £35 for a 2nd hand one but sorry none in stock so best way was through the insurance for the glass but didnt cover the scratches to the paint work from the brocken glass that would mean paying £500 exs

tiltboy:
I can sympathise with you as last year we had exactly the same thing happen.

About 7pm one evening, after being in the house for less than ten minutes, I went outside to remove our Garmin streetpilot III from SWMBO's Golf V gtdi. No passenger side window and Streetpilot gone! We live in a small rural farming community and nobody saw or heard anything!

Called plod who came out the next day to look at the golf. No point taking fingerprints apparently. Policeman actually said that there was a well organised gang operating in the Stamford area (about 20m miles from us) following people who use stand alone Satnavs back to thier homes and stealing the units!

Our insurance company were happy to pay for the window to be replaced (less £50 excess) but said that because we hadn't informed them that we were using the unit in the vehicle, it was not covered! Where else would you use it?

The next diaster was Autoglass! They sent a fitter out on the saturday morning who was still drunk from the night before (to the point where he actually had to leave the job to go and throw up!!!). Not the best news really as a mkV Golf needs the outer dooskin taking off to replace the glass on the front doors (due to side impact bars)!!! This guy made such a mess of putting the doorskin back on that I refused to sign any paperwork.

So the car had to go to thier office in Leicester to be rectified. As you can imagine I was a bit stressed!

So to sum up;

Police and insurance not interested. (Despite the fact that Police said they could trace unit using satalites! - I think they were just trying to give us false hope).
Repairs shody.
Lost unit.

All in all we were down by about £500 and no one gave a stuff.

I even had a look in "Smack-converters" (I'm sure you know the high street chain to which I refer!) and on Ebay, but no luck.

What can you do?

Evilgoat:

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Police and insurance not interested. (Despite the fact that Police said they could trace unit using satalites! - I think they were just trying to give us false hope).

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They were making that one up. GPS receivers are just that, receivers. There are ways to trace them when they apear on the internet to get updates but even then I'm not sure its possible.

tiltboy:

--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---
--- Quote from: "tiltboy" ---
Police and insurance not interested. (Despite the fact that Police said they could trace unit using satalites! - I think they were just trying to give us false hope).

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They were making that one up. GPS receivers are just that, receivers. There are ways to trace them when they apear on the internet to get updates but even then I'm not sure its possible.
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Yeah thats what I thought! Can't see any point in saying what they said but hey ho.

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