April insights: Recoveries, trends and tips from
Global Telemetrics
Summer is on its way, event season has begun and excitement is building for the World Cup. Global Telemetrics continues to knock thieves out in the early stages, recovering £2.6m worth of vehicles for our customers this month, further contributing to our lifetime recovery total exceeding £224m.
April Recovery highlights
Most recovered vehicle: Mercedes were a clear winner this month with various models of A, C and G class all recovered. Our most recovered vehicle however was the BMW 118i
Other notable vehicles recovered included:
- Lamborghini Huracan
- Fiat Ducato based motorhomes
- Land Rovers including Defenders, Range Rover Vogues and Evoque’s
- Toyotas including CHR and Hilux
- Lotus Eletre
- BMW including 340D and X5 as well as the aforementioned 118i
- Volkswagen Tiguan and Amarok
Airport parking; is your car safe?
Last year, we saw a rise in vehicle thefts from airport parking while customers were on holiday, and early signs suggest the same pattern may be emerging again this year.
Remember to back your basics and that it pays to invest in security.
Do those social media photos need to go up instantly when you land? Does the world need to see your legs by the pool on the day you take the photo? To the wrong viewer, your real-time holiday snaps could be an advert for thieves that your vehicle & home are vulnerable.
Quickly ending thieves hopes
Shortly after 11pm our customer looked out of their window to see a gap where their Range Rover Evoque should have been parked. A quick call to the police, followed by our Secure Control Centre, set our Repatriations Team into action armed with the current location. Our team liaised with the police – who it turned out had been chasing the vehicle earlier – and headed to the location. Just 16 minutes after the call to our team, the Evoque was recovered safely.
If you don’t pay your finance or go AWOL we will find you!
Global Telemetrics works alongside many finance and lease hire companies across the country. Sadly, from time-to-time customers of these companies will have their vehicles stolen whilst in their possession or stop paying their bill, suddenly becoming unavailable via the phone. In the event of a case like this, our Repatriations Team . If this is a service your company may benefit from, please get in touch and a member of our team will be happy to assist.
Hotspots
Continuing a trend from every month so far this year, London was once again the location most likely to have your vehicle stolen, with the most likely borough being Ealing.
Essex was in second place for vehicles stolen this month with newcomer to the top 3 Edinburgh close behind.
Events, events, events!
Event season is now full in swing, with Initiate and Supercar Fest under our belts (both of which can be seen on our social media channels). We have a flurry of events coming up throughout the summer; 25th May we will be at the Yiannimize Live Event at Mercedes-Benz World, 7th June we will be in attendance at the Nottingham Motor Show with our friends Exec Spec,13th June we will be attending Supercar Fest the Runway followed by 16th June for the big event of the summer, the Supercar Driver Secret Meet.
If you are at any of the events, please come and say hello and if not follow our social media channels to see pictures, videos and Lives from the events.
