Considering buying a 1.2 petrol

Wouldn’t worry unless you live in down town Baghdad or the UK equivalent. I’ve never met anyone or heard anyone in the trade suffer this or any of their customers. It’s not a huge problem despite the headlines published on no news days.

Parts of London are that equivalent, and open thefts of all sorts of things are common, most everyone else looks the other way for obvious reasons, waste of time calling the old bill the crims will be gone by the time they arrive and who's going to risk being targetted by violent scum for being a witness for the sake of an exhaust...yes its wrong but apparently these things must be expected if one lives in a city, ask the mayor.

Where I live (not a high crime area, but near a CAT production plant and an industrial estate) we have Police posters saying there are CAT thieves operating...

I suspect most of the problems are in the major cities where there are more hybrid car minicabs regularly left overnight or (in more upmarket areas) when at work on the street rather than people affected by having them stolen when their car is parked on their driveways.

Wouldn’t worry unless you live in down town Baghdad or the UK equivalent. I’ve never met anyone or heard anyone in the trade suffer this or any of their customers. It’s not a huge problem despite the headlines published on no news days.

It is a worry. I live in what I still think is a civilised Northants conservation village and a nocturnal thief tried to steal a cat from a villager's Renault (don't know the model) the other day. Didn't succeed but has cost her £400 to replace. This sort of thing is beyond the pale (if that's not a racist remark these days) -they'll be dropping gearboxes next.