[Closed] Left bike in car-with the boot open:(

I left my garage door wide open all night once. Quite a few nice bikes in there, tools etc. I know exactly that panic-> relief feeling.

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Check your CD collection,just saying 🙂

Bike thief: "It's too easy, must be a trap."

I've left my front door open overnight on a few occasions, lucky to live in a safe area also.

In the 90s I left my bike leant against, but not locked to, a parking meter in Edinburgh's old town. It was still there after my shift at the restuarant.

Whoops!

I left my garage door open overnight once and was amazed nothing went.

I also left the car key sitting in the ignition once with the car unlocked all night. Took me ages to actually find it; the key, not the car as fortunately it hasn't been nicked!

Phew!

This is a grumble of mine- just how easy it is for keyfob buttons to go off in a pocket. Boot opening in particular; at night, driving along, just coming in and before I manage to get the useless thing out of my pocket.

Some sort of early mobile phone style clam-shell design is needed for folk with pockets and not hand/man bags. Pah!

I left the side door of my van wide open during a night ride once, with at least one other bike and my best tool bag in full view. Also nothing nicked.

For added context, this wasn't in sleepy old Cornwall, but Prestwich, Manchester. 🤯

Keyless entry 🙂 My key stays in pouch no need to take it out(can’t press buttons) !! Win win

Used to live in a flat with a remote key'd garage. Turned out it could be accidentally opened for my bedroom... Was open for at least an hour during Friday rush hour on a rat run street but nothing was taken! Still can't believe it

The house I lives in before the current one was never locked.
There was a lock on the door but no-one had ever seen the key for it sk we never bothered. Also never locked the van as it was hassle remembering the key if I wanted to get something in/out of it.
I do where I live now though, but on the odd occasion I've forgotten to do it it's been fine.
I guess it just depends where you live

A lock only keeps an honest man out.

At our previous house we were preparing everything to pack up and move here. There was a door in the living room that we never used as it was a bit low. I tried unlocking it but the key wouldn't move - I then tried the handle and the door opened! "When did you unlock the door?", "I didn't". We worked out it had been unlocked for at least a year.

Back in the day of car keys actually needing to be inserted into the door to be opened I've left the key in the door and gone for a day's climbing. As above, the thieves probably just think it's a trap.

A lock only keeps an honest man out

Or a thief with their hands already full of swag.

Left the car door wide open on the drive one night. Even the pound in the ash tray was still there in the morning!!

Wen i moved from london I had the only car with a wheel clamp on in our road. I did leave it off eventually. I also managed to go out shopping for the morning with the garage door wide open. Not sure anything would be left if I did it now though.

I'm going to collect my winning and say the OP is MR WILKINSON

I was most pissed off when someone smashed the window in my nova to nick a couple of tapes, a hoody and some spare change.

It was unlocked.

I'm a bit forgetful too. Twice I've arrived home to find the front door ajar, one of those I was out all day in town, the other it was open all night, woke up to find it open. In a close with security entry so maybe not as bad
2 occasions though I've left the Ti outside(Hope wheels/brakes,XO groupset and all the other high end bits.. First time, sitting against the hedge outside(in Glasgow southside), it was 2 feet from the pavement. Woke up and after coffee, noticed bike wasn't in the hallway. Not in the bike room either, panic rising. Went outside and there it was. Holy Crow.
The other time I left it in the close, which blocked the passageway and a neighbour moved it towards the back door, which I couldn't see on initially opening the front door. Panic time again 😆

Not a bike but once left about £4k of camera gear in a camera bag in an alleyway in Shoreditch.

I'd been doing a little portrait shoot outside a conference I was photographing and put the bag down to change lenses, then when we finished shooting I just wandered off without it.

I was tucking into a pie at the conference lunch about 15 mins later and suddenly realised what I'd done. Legged it a couple of streets away and it was still sat there with everything inside. 😌

I had a few instances years ago when VW group cars used to randomly wind all their windows down for seemingly no reason.

Think it was a Passat, an Octavia and a Golf that all did it at least once.

The wife ha a habit of leaving cars unlocked, which is a slight annoyance.

Back in the early 90's it was almost expected to have your car broken into at least once.

Did it a while ago before I was married, so living on my own.
Sliding patios doors open and in and out the back garden in a Friday afternoon before going off kayaking for the weekend.
Got back late Sunday, walked in thinking; bloody hell it’s a bit chilly in this house. Wandered through and saw the patio door wide open. Assumed I’d been burgled, but quick scan around and it was as I’d left it.
Yep. I’d left the patio door wide open for two days.

Also left a Marin Team DH bike on the pavement outside my parents years ago. Bike ride pub crawl with mates, got home put it down outside and went in for garage keys. Pissed as a fart, I promptly forgot about the bike and fell asleep. Woke up the next morning, looked out the window and completely blocking the pavement was my bike. Doh.

I came home a while ago, reversing onto the drive and as I passed the side door (hardly ever use the front door) I glanced sideways and spot my bunch of keys hanging from the lock. Keys to three exterior doors, my garage, and my parents front door. I'd been in a rush that morning and had been back and fore between the house and car with various things. The keys had been hanging there, in clear view from the street, for about 10 hours.

Keyless entry 🙂 My key stays in pouch no need to take it out(can’t press buttons) !! Win win

If you have a number of desirable vehicles that scallys go for e.g. Golf R or certain BMW’s having keyless is likely to be lose-lose.
I would never have it on a car I owned, or would disable it if It had to be there. I have driven a number of cars with keyless and cannot see any advantage to be honest, but I must be in a minority as it seems to be a desirable option for most people. Same with electric boot opening, I just don’t get it.
The windows wind down on a single button can be disabled.

I had a few instances years ago when VW group cars used to randomly wind all their windows down for seemingly no reason.

my old mk3 golf used to do that if you held down the unlock button.

Buy a lottery ticket!!!!!

My car keys were often to be found in that useful repository on the steering column 😉 Now i have keyless entry and sometimes just leave them in the also useful repository in the centre console.

This is not some kind of car stealing jeopardy experiment. It is because I am an absent minded idiot. Backed up by leaving the bike shed un-alarmed, un-locked, wide open with the keys dangling in the lock.

Never lost anything while we lived here (12 years) despite serial stupidity. And while crime is pretty low, nicking of ag machinery etc is defo a thing in rural herefordshire. Bloke about a mile away has these amazing oak gates fitted. Lovely they were. Two days later they were gone!

Mate left keys on the roof of his 4 year old RS6 in Hownslow for about 9 days (flew out of heathrow), didn't realise until he returned and could't find the keys on the return journey.

Chatting to a local on his return they had all assumed it was either a drug/sting car or belonged to an unsavoury type you wouldn't mess with as car thefts on that street were a weekly occurrence, so had all avoided like the plague and even had been chatting on the road whatsapp about it.

He also realised a few days later his insurance had run out that the end of the previous month...

That sickening walk to the car knowing your bike has been there to grab all night…

I got up one Tuesday morning after the usual weekly Monday Night Pub Ride and while making a coffee glanced out of the kitchen window to see my bike still leaning against the shed with the back gate wide open.

I've done the garage open before, and also left the bike hanging on the side of the 'wash station' on the side of the garage whilst I went out to the shops. Fortunately, we are in a quiet cul-de-sac.

Must be quiet as the neighbour leaves all the kids bikes out on the drive and they haven't been robbed.

a mate and myself went off to Cadir Idris for the day and somehow by accident left his front door wide open! About 4-5 grands worth of bikes plus several grands worth of stereo and musical instruments all still there when we got back!

Once left my phone on a wall in Calver, remembered in Hartington, drove back, still there. I recently discovered the front door, which we rarely use, had been unlocked for at least 3 months.

I also left the car key sitting in the ignition once with the car unlocked all night.

Done this, parked on the street outside the house. Wife wanted the car but couldn't find the key, "er, it must be in my jeans pocket". It was winter and the key was freezing, had to bluff and warm it up before handing it over. It wasn't long after leaving the house keys in the Yale lock on the front door which is directly on the pavement, so kept schtum to avoid more earache.

Once left my car with the key sticking out of the door lock for several hours in tenby.

it was still there when I got back! 🙂

Back in the day of car keys actually needing to be inserted into the door to be opened I’ve left the key in the door and gone for a day’s climbing.

Back when my step-dad was still alive it wasn’t unusual to come home and find his keys in the front door lock…
I admit to having gone out and left the front door unlocked, and sometimes the back door, especially if I’ve popped out to refill a bird feeder while my breakfast drink kettle is on.
Fortunately neither of my last two cars have had ‘keyless’ entry, which is an oxymoron, as you have to have the key with you, in order for the car to unlock itself!
What I don’t understand is having a key fob without the actual blade, but still have to stick the bloody fob into a slot in the dash to start the sodding car! For the love of god, why? And I’m looking at you, Volvo, Citroen, Renault…
Then there’s the inability to start the car, because the car can’t detect the key fob, so there ensues much waving and rubbing the key around the steering column to try to get it to recognise the key. At least when it happens with a Ford, clicking the unlock button re-registers it.
I have far too much experience of this happening, sadly, due to dealing with fifty to a hundred cars a day for despatch. ☹️

Regularly leave my car accidentally unlocked, or sometimes just don't lock it whilst unloading and CBA to go back and lock it (no remote locking).

It also has a glitch where one of the rear doors doesn't always lock or unlock with the rest due to a bad connection somewhere. And the spring on the front door handle has gone so unless it's pushed in flush when locking it doesn't lock either. Open that and the central locking unlocks the rest of the car.

Used to regularly leave it round Liverpool and Manchester, only once came out the hotel to find the door open.

Other side: Returning refreshed from a night out I noticed a local builders van had its side door open (door away from house). Had quick deko to see if it looked like scrotes were within but it was scrote free.

Made an educated guess at which house was the builder's and knocked on the door. When the big, very big, grumpy, bloke answered, i told him the van door was open. He became a bit less grumpy, thanked me and closed the door.

Which is a cool starry bra, right?

Except it was about midnight, November and this was in one of the even more "dynamic", "exciting" and "characterful" bits of Wythenshawe, Manchester. I didn't close the door because: Wythenshawe, dabs, crime, etc.

A lock only keeps an honest man out.

An honest man wouldn't be trying the handle...