My Audi A6 was almost stolen today...
 

I had a terrible time today & am feeling the need to vent a little, and to let you all hear the stress that I dealt with. Just got this 2001 A6 2.7t about three weeks ago....love the car...anyway... I am on the phone at 3:00 PM in my office in beautiful East Orange, NJ, I look out the window & I see my drivers side door wide open. It took a few seconds to register in my brain, but then I went flying out the door & running down a flight of stairs. I am about 10 feet from the car & the guy inside my car sees me & starts to run. I chased him out of my parking lot & he got into a waiting blue Nissan Quest & he was gone.

I got the plate number & instantly called the police with my description, hoping in desparation that they could do something, but I knew the damage had already been done. When I got back to my car, I almost started to cry. The drivers door handle was gone, the lock was gone, the ignition was gone, wires are hanging out of the steering column, & I am bumming.

This is where the story really starts to get good. It was pouring rain in NJ today & when the guy got the doors unlocked (without the Audi alarm going off, BTW) he also made all the windows go down. SO now I am waiting outside in the rain for the cops to show, and there is no way to put the windows up. I decide to call Audi roadside assistance for help. After about 1/2 hour on the phone with them, I was basically told that they cannot help me at all. They said that because this was the result of vandalism, that they will not do anything to help me. Dissapointed, I call AAA. They will send a tow truck, the only problem is, I cannot get the car into neutral, as the ignition is gone & the steering & auto trans are both locked. They finally tell me that the only thing that they can do for me is to call a locksmith & give me a $100.00 credit for the service. I say OK, but when the locksmith calls, he tells me that he cannot do anything with the car & that it has to go to a dealer for the ignition to be fixed.

By this time it is almost 6:00 PM & I know that I am running out of time. The cops show up, take the report, put the description of the getaway car on the wire, and tell me that if I leave the car overnight, that the thiefs will deffinetly come back to finish the job & steal it. I am freaking out, my 3 week old car is getting soaked & I am running out of options. I decide to call Paul Miller Audi in Parsippanny, NJ as I had my 2000 A6 Avant serviced there before the lease was up & it was returned. The service department was able to refer me to a towing company that might be able to help.

Another hour goes by & the towtruck driver gets there, he is somehow able to start the car with a screwdriver & at least gets it into neutral, but the steering is still dead, and the car will not stay on. He was able to get the windows up & with some pushing, we got it placed so that he could get it on the flatbed & bring it to the dealer.

Now I am waiting for the damage report but I know it ain't going to be cheap. What really bothered me about this whole ordeal, was the lack of help of any kind that I received from the Audi Roadside Assistance program. I cannot believe that they could not even come & try to tow it to the dealer for me, or put the windows up...totally lame. I was also incredibly surprised that the car was so easy to break into without the alarm going off. The tow truck driver showed me that basically you pop off the cover on the door lock & any key will turn the lock & the alarm off. Again totally lame!

After all this, I am left with the one interesting thing that the cop told me. "The thief's love the 2.7t because of the quattro & that it can out run an East Orange cop car on the Garden State Parkway!" HAHA....ughh.

Thats a shit story bro, the worst thing that I had happen to my car of that nature, was when I left it parked outside of my house in Brooklyn, in broad daylight during the summer for a couple of hours. When I came down, someone broke the passenger window and dented the pillar to steal my phone and my digital camera which was in an ipod carry pouch. I know its stupid to leave anything in plain sight in the car, and believe me, after that, I learned my lesson, but still, it was broad daylight, in a pretty decent neighborhood, and right outside my house. :mad:

Hope things work out for you though. Btw, you may want to look into completely disabling that door lock and just using the keyless entry, alot of people do it for aesthetics with a cover, but you may want to do it for safety reasons.

THX moe....at least the fucker didn't get my IPOD & sunglasses that were in the armrest.

damn that fuckin sucks !

you really had a bad day

i hope 2morrow you'll enjoy your day

That is so crazy and so sorry to hear that... It would have made more sense to let them take it...call the rent a car place, have your insurance give you a brand new one...now you have a car that has been damaged, and has all kinds of bad memories.

Also your kids buddy, what if that guy turned around and stuck you with the screw driver? The car is not worth all that; we pay insurance not to have to deal with that kind of nonsense
.:2 cents:

That has got to suck bro.

way to much 2 read

so he didnt get the car, but it got fucked up, but your insuarance is going to cover it

bout sum it up?

THX Mike - You know, I totally wasn't thinking. It was like total adrenaline rush. The kid was like 16 & fast & there was no way I was gonna catch him, but something inside made me chase. I was screaming at him& when he got to the car, there were like 4 other guys in the van, so it really is a good thing that I didn't get him. The cops told me that they have the young kids actually do the break-ins, so if they get caught, they are out in an hour or two with a date for kiddiecourt. ANyway, thanks for the kind words. Hoping to rage with you & Mr. SPikes in Vegas. We will be there from the 4th to the 10th.

Tell me about it...how many times have I done that...but now we are a little older with much more at stake now... :)

We get into Vegas on the 4th till the 7th, and raging for sure!:thumbsup

damn that sucks

my 15 year old cousin julian steals cars. he gets paid $2500 for every car he gets. i'm going to borrow some money from him tommorrow :)

damn dude well that sucks but they didnt get the car so thats good too, hate that for ya now you know who to call if anything like this ever happens again

sucks to hear that

at least you still have your car

anyone else have bad audi experiences?

I love Audis but I would never buy one again because of their arrogant roadside assistance clowns.

In 97 I bought a new A4 and the following month it died on I85 in Virginia because of a faulty alternator.

Every step of the way dealing with these cocksuckers was a nightmare.

Sucks:helpme

You should of equipped it with a pager alarm..ive got an older audi (the 90 model) and had it added anyways cuz of all the work im having done to the car. As soon as the glass shatters, or metal makes contact with the glass (getting in with a slimjim), the alarm pages you. At the very least it would of warned you and maybe he wouldnt of done all the damage he did. Those things should come stock on any car..real useful.

That's what insurance is for.....

No one thought to go get a tarp or two to cover until you could get it towed?


Yesterday when leaving the grocery store , I noticed two women walking from a newer Mercedes into the store. The driver's door on the car was wide open. LV purse sitting on the seat. I turned around and yelled for them but of course they didn't hear me. My son's GF went inside after them while I watched the car.

Funny thing.. when the woman came out she was more worried about her LV than the car. She commented to my son's GF that maybe that was how her other car was stolen from some other grocery store parking lot a few weeks earlier.

At least the theives had good taste :thumbsup

DH

Translation: Hey everyone, I have an Audi A4 and I want everyone to know, without me having to shamelessly brag about it.

You have balls running after the guy :P

ScottPB found and tortured the 2 guys who stole his car... He was the first torture case tried in Australia for the past 20 years....

SexTraffic.com doesn't fuck around baby!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

just shows how useless are the cops :2 cents:

Sorry to read that man.. But you still have it and its not the chop shop right now. ::cross your fingers they dont come back::

I'm totally with you on this. A car like that, you better believe I would have complete coverage. I would probably still go chase after it just because I don't like being ripped off, but I wouldn't sweat the damage since it's covered. :2 cents:

Next time dont by Jap crap wannabe luxo cars. ;)

that was bull shiet and so sorry to hear that, i dont know why some people doesnt want to stretch their muscles and work...what goes around comes around, just be thankful coz you still have it

No shit. I would think SOMEONE could go to the auto parts store down the street and get a car cover. If nothing else, that would obscure the type of car underneath.

This woman sounds blonde. :1orglaugh

That's fuckin hardcore! :thumbsup I bet he didn't get convicted either. :winkwink:

Why is it that it took the cops 3 hours to repond?

uhh.. no different then any other PD...



... my question is, you got the tag number? has anything been done yet!?


im sorry about your car:( i love my car to death too, i dont know what i would do in that situation:(

good luck man

:1orglaugh

...its late and im :stoned

are you serious?

The guy opened your door and the alarm didn't go off? Man that sucks!

yeah , audi is NOT a european car based in germany ? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh


german cars top 3

1. bmw
2. mercedes
3. audi


no jap crap fuckhead

it was an A6 not A4


an A4 is nothing to brag about

neither is A6

overpriced piece of shit for morons.

shit happends

I would just wait there for them to come back and finish the job and beat them half to death....then say it was self defense :)

Cool! I hope he gets shot in the face.

I got pissed just by reading all that :(

good luck

Just a quick note of thanks & respeck for all of you who read through my long post last night & had some kind words or sympathy for the shit day that I had. To those of you who thought I was bragging about owning an Audi.....Fuck Off & go back to high school. If I wanted to brag I would have written about my Bentley, which is the garage for winter storage....hahahaha

Anyway, of course I am totally insured, but this will still end up costing me at least 1000.00 ( My Deductable) plus a rental car & all the aggrivation & lost work time. SO while this was kind of a sob story, a thousand bucks is still a thousand bucks!

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