http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17270733

Made me think about how we may be more vunerable as the tank is easier to access given the ground clearance.

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I was filling up with fuel the other day , and the bloke next to me was filling his Subaru or should I say he was filling the floor, his tank had a hole of some sort and his expensive fuel was flooding out from under his car.

possibly he had had his tank drilled too, the fuel spill caused a level 10 alert at morrisons, all kinds of people arriving with cat litter, shovels, brushes, cone, signs and tape. At work
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chicken george wrote:

I was filling up with fuel the other day , and the bloke next to me was filling his Subaru or should I say he was filling the floor, his tank had a hole of some sort and his expensive fuel was flooding out from under his car.

possibly he had had his tank drilled too, the fuel spill caused a level 10 alert at morrisons, all kinds of people arriving with cat litter, shovels, brushes, cone, signs and tape.

Yep the reason we removed our bulk tanks at work, and park the artics in the warehouse. Cordless Makita, a stepped cutter a drum tap and 10 metres of hose , The Pikeys innovative answer to low cost motoring  2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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Reminds me of a time about 10 years ago, my father had just collected a new Merc from the garage where he worked, went to Morrisons in Blackburn which has an underground section of car park, after shopping he returned, or tried to return, to his car, to find the Fire Brigade with breathing apparatus placing an emergency bund around the car.
The mechanics had drilled through the plastic fuel tank when fitting something and the fuel was now filling the car park, being underground it was difficult to disperse.
The chaos was amazing

We had an incident in my neck of the woods where a domestic heating oil tanker was followed by some scallies who emptied the full tanks at remote unoccupied houses. Owners returned to find they had less heating oil than before the delivery!  - 2007(57) XS Auto, Rimini Red, Alpaca Leather.
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One problem with the ground clearance on a Freelander 2 is the access to the catalytic converter. These are being stolen quite a bit around my area due to the price of the metals inside of the cat. They simply come along with a pipecutter and just cut the cat out.

There has also been a rise in thefts of parts from all 4x4's. Rather than pinching the car they have now opted to strip the car where it's parked and just take the bits they are after.

Hi Lee
from what i have heard the CAT on the Freelander 2 is difficult to get at, despite the good ground clearance it is tucked up behind the engine and not easy to get off.
I maybe wrong but if right it will put your mind at rest.

taztastic wrote:

Hi Lee
from what i have heard the CAT on the Freelander 2 is difficult to get at, despite the good ground clearance it is tucked up behind the engine and not easy to get off.
I maybe wrong but if right it will put your mind at rest.

Just means when you get back to your car in the car park the engine will be on the road but the 'cat' is gone.

Suppose with the advent of mobile services - who would suspect a chap in a day-glow jacket working on a car in the car park????

Heard an interesting story the otehr day about a University which had just had it's science labs refitted with brand new equipment - next day a troupe of workmen (in day-glow jackets) arrived and removed it all - never to be seen again. I believe someone quite senior in the uni also signed for the removal  2002 Honda VFR800
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Hopefully your right Taztastic, knowing my luck they just pinch something else. Simont is right though, a Hi-viz jacket makes all the differance.

I know near me there is an old railway line that wa sonly used in the summer months for steam trains ect, and someone stole several miles of track in broad daylight. They even employed workers form an agencey, gave them all Blue hard hats and orange vests with Network rail on and lifted the lot.

Similar thing happened with a new Tesco's. When they were loading the store ready for opening a white van came with two lads in yellow vests, and loaded up all of the flat screen TV's and drove away.

For the network rail stuff is be surprised if they offloaded it easily without smelting it themselves or somewhere as as only a few places take it and they don't give cash, the pay straight into the nr recycling type account iirc! FL2 work pilot!