Where Do All The Stolen Cars Go?
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2021
- It's 2am and you hear SMASH, then the start-up of a familiar engine. Someone’s stolen your car.
Everyone knows the police are usually too busy to help you with stolen cars, so it's up to you to find it. But more often than not, that’s it - you have no hope in finding it, your car is gone.
But where does it actually go? I had the same question, where DO all the stolen cars go? Let me explain.
But first, let's address the fact that the chances of actually having your car stolen today are pretty low. There are about 287 million cars on the road in the US, and only 810,440 cases of vehicle theft in the US in 2020, and 89,400 cases in the UK. That’s about 246 thefts per 100,000 people in the US and 132 per 100,000 in the UK.
So the odds of your car being stolen today are pretty low, but never zero.
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A chop shop is an illegal garage that profits off selling or repurposing the parts off stolen vehicles. Often run out of a legitimate storefront, an expert chop shop can strip an entire car down to its frame in less than three hours. If your car is unlucky enough to find itself in one of these, chances are you’ll never see that car again.
What’s mad, is that cars are typically worth more as parts than as a whole. While a junk car may be worth only $500 in scrap metal, chances are the individual parts on that car are worth thousands. And chop shops know this.
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Have any of you guys had cars stolen? I would love to hear the stories!
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Hey Driven Media, Idk why but u look the same like Driver 61.
@@Rao_Sahab_7878 yeah maybe a long lost brother or something hope they meet one day
@@Rao_Sahab_7878 it's him bro, check bio of the channel
@@amirjafariasl6974 someone missed a joke somewhere
My mother's car was stolen a few years ago. The thing is she lives in Berlin and you can get to Poland in an hour. After passing the border your car is probably gone forever. It wasn't even a luxury car. It was a freaking VW Polo but it was fairly new and a great transmission wich was the best you could get back then. I think thats probably the reason the car was on the wishlist. Oh yeah and the car wasn't recovered.
A friend of mine saw her beige '92 Land Rover pass by her 12 years after it was stolen in Portugal, while she was going to work at a contruction site in Luanda, Angola. It still had the same stickers she had put in the rear window.
A land rover ran for 12 years? miracle!
what are the chances
did she get it back? what happend after?
@@sherrysh6155 at that time the car was almost 30 years old, it would cost more to get the car back than what it was worth back in 2009.
I think there are big differences between different countries regarding imported stolen cars. There is practically no chance you could put a stolen foreign luxury car on the road in India.
I'd love to see the statistics for how many stolen cars were recovered within the UK. I remember Beckham's car being stolen in the UK and found in a chop shop in Romania.
Wow! Didn't knew that.
Yh the police don’t give a fuck here
Yeah most got nicked, then broken down straight away so it can’t be traced
A right stearing car has very limited market.
@@ursus9104 cars as a whole unit - maybe limited market, but not much. Anyway they're broken apart into bits and pieces which, in most cases are the same to both LHD and RHD cars. And we are not talking about headlight units, dashboard or elements of power steering unit. Of course not all could be reused on different market, but it still pays the cost.
Imagine ordering parts for your car and then get your car stolen because someone would like to fulfill this order!!
😂 why would they steal your car if the parts were useless and in need of replacement? Lol I get what your saying and it is funny and actually had me at first but after thinking about for a second I had a revelation 😂
@@JOKICisdGOAT of course I am kidding, however if someone is about to steal a car he can't know what parts needs replacement before stealing it...
😂😂😂. Also imagine your car gets stolen and the police finally find your car but some parts are missing, so you decide to order the parts
I had a mint condition Mercedes Benz 190E 2.3 Cosworth Manual stolen from my garage in 2008. The police in Michigan were less than helpful. They actually told me that "filing a false police report is a serious crime" so I went and had to see a lawyer who got my insurance company to cover most of the value of the car.
I no longer live in Michigan and never plan on going back. I moved to the Philippines and now own a lifted hilux for a Sunday car and store it in an open garage because car theft is basically unheard of in my Providence.
Dayumm such a nice car too, that's sad
I live in Texas, it is very common for vehicles stolen anywhere in the state to find themselves driven across the border into Mexico. This is especially common for trucks, as they use them a lot of times for cartel vehicles or as drug smuggling vehicles.
Hello neighbor, i can confirm this and people use them for criminal activities.
Right? When he said they go to Europe i knew he was talking out of his ass.
@@Benzinilinguine bro you know theres an ocean separating us with mexico and them with russia right? like, more than one place in the world can be a large recipient of stolen cars.
Article isn't covered fully!
In UK (and therefore I believe the same in USA) cars are stolen not only for chop-shop purposes or joyriding, they're stolen to be used as a getaway vehicle from a more serious crime scene. And, yes, it will be recovered by a police forces, but in a burnt-out state.
Superscott is the most blursed thing I've seen in a while...
Another interesting video. I had my (1955) Morris Minor stolen by a man just wanting to get home. It cost me £1.01 to buy a new ignition lock 🌞
I had my bike in college stolen and they actually replaced it with a pink Huffy. Then a few days later the pink bike was gone. I got a replacement bike through my renters insurance but I think the whole situation is hilarious.
best way to protect your car. dont leave your car unlocked or even with the key in the ignition. and for people who keep their car running while going away from it theres no help for them anymore
I thought this was common sense, but the amount of people i see leave their car running, and go into a store for 5 minutes, it just makes me cringe
@@kurmiss yea like wtf nigga
Just dont use a car
I mean now of days your car if push to start you can leave running because the doors auto lock when it realizes the key has left the vehicle. Also if you drive an older accord I suggest you get a wheel lock! All it takes is a screw driver to get in and start your car. There’s a reason they’re the most stolen car in the world. Be safe snd stay dangerous y’all!
Skin car thieves alive in a public square to set an example? Just throwing out ideas.
Caught a guy trying to nick my motorbike, admittedly used my helmet in a different manner lol and shouted don't touch what you can't afford XD
That's the first time I heard about stolen US cars going to Russia. I though distance and border problems not worth the risk. What's interesting is that cars stolen in Russia are shipped ot the Khazakstan with zero chance to return. Thanks for the info!
Once you have them on a ship the distance is irrelevant due to the low price and the fact that there's still only one check on the Russian side to pass. If they have an in at the port of entry it becomes as easy to smuggle as it would be to mexico
@@camdened123456 good point 😉
Western european cars go to eastern europe
@@alphatrion100 also the balkans and the middle east. Whenever you go down the A3 in croatia, most of the traffic will be empty car haulers towards germany and filled ones going east.
@@GTAmaniac1 lmao what?
Cops: yeah we found your car 8 days ago and its been sitting at an impound lot. Come pay the fees to get YOUR car back.
literally all they do lol
Its 2 AM and you hear smash, then the startup of a familiar engine. You've just launched GTA 5.
Actually, key fobs have made it easier to steal newer cars. Some fobs are always active(sending out signal) so all you need is a receiver and you're good to go. Then hold the receiver near the car and it can unlock and start the car(the car thinks it's the key). Then you drive the stolen car back to your shop and use a OBD2 code and make a new key and BOOM you got yourself a new car.
ayyyyyyyyyyy this man moving mad
Literally happened to my C-class 2 months ago
@@solarphoey2787 sorry about that. I wish I could have warned you sooner.
Yes and no, it doesn't constantly broadcast that would cost a lot of battery, but close enough to be right
@@Depl0rable10 well yeah. I was talking in simple terms.
Less than 3hrs, huh? In South Africa stole cars are fully stripped in under an hour.
He said people stole cars to make money, in the 80s they stole cars just to drive home in from the clubs, or to go find some police to chase them!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
i recall in Australia seeing a dark blue GLC 63 AMG frame just dumped on the side of the road a few years back, probably strippes for parts and the vin was the biggest liability
I mean 1.5 cars a minute stolen in the US sounds so much.
I've read somewhere that if you're a future buyer of a car, always have somewhere to store it like a secure/private garage. Parking it outside will only attract thieves and end up vandalized or stolen.
I don't want to hear the expression "chop shop" ever again.
While working for a PD in SoCal, I received a call from Scotland Yard wanting to speak with our auto theft detective. While speaking with the Scotland Yard officer he stated he was calling about high price cars being stolen in SoCal that were ending up in Saudi Arabia. Apparently they were being driven straight to the docks and loaded onto ships.
In another case, a Canadian Mountie called with a recovered vehicle stolen out of my city. He stated the vehicles, which were usually truck, were being placed in the back of a tractor-trailer and brought to Canada where they usually ended up on a ranch.
A third was our citizens who couldn't pay for the vehicles would drive them across the boarder into Mexico. The only problem with this is that every vehicle's license plate is photographed when driven across the border, along with a photograph of the driver. It made for some bad days for those citizens when we told them they were being arrested for filing a false police report.
The stolen cars go to stolen car Heaven so don't worry about it kids
My man...stuff is completely different here in Brazil lmao
What's it like over there?
@@Matty.Hill_87 99% of the time the cars arent found and chop shops are very popular still, and to make matters worst, some cars even go to neighbour countrys like Paraguay
That lion King clip killed me 😭😂
Trucks are sometimes stolen to commit crimes, such as atm theft. Then the truck is abandoned. This is exactly what happened to me a month ago.
I live on the 4th floor in a private building and my car sits inside my garage plus there is a camera on the street that points exactly at the garage doors . And when I go somewhere with the car I always have the keys with me , always lock it and normally park in a viewing distance .
You avoid the whole problem by having a garage that is secure
I thought this was Donut Media at first, then I saw it wasn’t and almost clicked off, but decided to stay.
I’m glad I did, this was an amazing video and great explanation, just subscribed
What do you dislike about Donut?
@@SM-wt8gd In my opinion the Donut guys are sometimes too childish and focus too much on memes, shouting at the camera, weird/silly animations etc. Still good content. Just recently discovered this channel and love it much more.
@@SM-wt8gd I saw that it wasn’t donut media and thought it would be not as good
Yeah they have pretty much same thumbnail design
@@TobyMacNewsboys Yeah. Lately donut media just isn't the same.
Many years ago now my car was stolen, but I've always half expected to find out that I just parked it somewhere stupid and forgot where I left it.
lmao comment of the day! xD
"It's the circle of life or something " :)
Where I live stolen cars are usually found parked behind drug houses 2 weeks later in the next county over. Usually stripped down and spray painted.
Car theft is becoming more serious in Japan, and many cars are lost along with their memories.
Noooo!
I had a new shape company labelled Ford Transit stolen a couple of years ago. It was then reported to my work by a member of public as it was in their road for a whole weekend and it wasn’t normally there, by the time the police got there it had moved. A week later it was reported in another location but on fake plates this time. The police got there and it was recovered. The whole interior was damaged as all the panels had been snapped off and the passenger seatbelt had been cut right through. The locks and ignition were ruined as well… it was an expensive fix that the insurance dealt with.
Never heard that quarter of Russian luxury cars are stolen . Especially if you take in consideration that first you have to do a custom clearance (up to50% of market value), than register it. And than most of car manufacturers keep track of stolen cars.
Honestly it does sound like bulshit
No, it was the destination FOR the percentage of stolen luxury stolen.
you don't have to do much of either if you know the right people in the right places...
my dad had 2 vehicles stolen within 6 months and the first one was gone maybe 2 months and we got our insurance from it and it was found not even 2 weeks after insurance paid. then our truck got stolen it was found at some crack house and it was completely repainted and it had a metal grill zip tied in and the bumper was fcked and it still doesn’t run correctly
Watching from Russia. Never thought that much cars are stolen. Dear lord
I've seen that not all cars start on button but on the old key lock insert; old way.
Okay they break into the car by opening the doors but how do they start it without an actual key?
It's not like they break under it so easily and connect few wires.
I had a car stolen, the police did find it 3 years later in a housing estate but they wanted me to go collect it
What did you do
@@SM-wt8gd I drove down to have a look, it was sitting on bricks, so not much I could do, it was basically a shell, so I just left it sitting there, seriously dodgy estate (Poleglass Belfast, it's known for joyriders) so I didn't hang around, im sure the gypsies ended up selling it for scrap metal
Most car thefts happen when your keys are left inside, or have a known exploit for starting the engine. Even if it does get stolen, modern cars are GPS tracked, so it won't be stolen long.
My car is theft-proof.
It's a manual with a clutch. And kids today can't drive it.
The best anti theft is having a manual transmission
Not outside the USA.
@@Franko384 especially in places where you need to learn manual just to get a licence
I know a fella, who once found his trailer advertised on DoneDeal. The neckers shoot a photo at his yard and put it up for sale. If someone would called them, they snitch it. No risky storage issues. 😃
Thanks for info 🙂
246 per 100k is still pretty high, I live on a city with 100k people and we have way less than that
Well its the statistical average. Some poor high crime neighbourhoods may have 2x the national rate, while safer (sometimes gated) higher income areas have 5x less crime than the average.
Keep in mind in certain EU countries and I'd bet worldwide as well, there is a law of the "honest buyer" so even if you car is found out to still be alive and running in country X, their Courts might rule that yes, that's your stolen car, but it can't be sent back to you because a regular "honest" citizen paid for it.
Wtf is this rule that supports criminal activities ?!
that's........fuckin braindead. you know who else was an honest buyer? Me! Between the covid tyranny laws and the laws that prevent a person from legally defending their own life and property, what you said doesn't surprise me
@@yacinealg152 well, if you're a politician running for election (or reelection) and you're courting a certain demographic, if you look and learn that that demographic disproportionately commits acts of scumbaggery like car theft, making crimes like that less illegal can make them more likely to vote for you. among other reasons. the eu just seems bound and determined to at every turn get in the way of or impede law abiding, tax-paying, property-owning citizens, and actively helping or rewarding animals for being absolute animals : /
How is that even possible???
Once I prove that the car is mine, that's that. Infact, this "honest" buyer should be charged with handling stolen goods. You don't just buy a car like a loaf of bread in the supermarket. You can smell a problem with the transaction from a mile away, and if you can't, then you need the lesson so that you never do that again.
i didnt expect this to be so americanised :( i know alot of our UK vehicles go to eastern europe. Its not worth it these days but if we're talking chop shops more than likely your car parts are doing the rounds in birmingham
Our 1998 Suzuki Alto got stolen three times in its life and the damn thing was recovered every time, tho once when the police found it in a jungle just outside the city it was sitting on jack stands with no wheels and a missing radio system 😅😂
Watching this makes me want to watch 'Gone In 60 Seconds'.
If you're stolen car, Wheels, etc, ends up on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace, couldn't the police seize that in their investigation and arrest whoever was selling it?
They don't give a fuck.
Just check your local marketplace you will probably find sketchy things like wheels or chopped up motorbikes and if you ask for papers they have always lost them
few years ago over 100 bikes stolen in miami and other part of florida ended in my city, Cabimas Venezuela
Gangs and Rings all over Florida are taking cars. My coworker had her car stolen, but she got a better car after that lol
Can confirm south FL MY 2022 BMW X5 m sport was stolen out of my seventh floor apartment parking garage that is gated.
Wild
He really was 2am when I clicked on this lmao 🤣
There are chop shops all over london. My car a volvo 850 was stolen from a locked garage with CCTV which has no record of theft. There is growing global car theft problem and nobody doing anything about it?
in 1997 I was running an accounting firm in Antigua. The office had a piece of crap Swift for running errands. I parked it in my driveway for a weekend when I was away. It was stolen and burned ( and my house burgled). But the insurance actually made me a tidy profit on writing off the car. lol.
Chop shops in South Africa can disassemble any VW golf or polo in an hour 😭
THE AD AT THE START OF THIS VIDEO RICKROLLED ME WTF
There’s a lots of cars from USA in Poland most of them are salvaged cars because people can repair them at 1/4 of price and same quality as the USA but I bet a lot of them are stolen
Mine was recovered but unfortunately it was not in good condition in an abandoned parking lot but after it was set on fire on the side of a local country road,...
The bigger crime here is your video quality. Too good to be free and they are more addicting than some drugs!
Isn't there any in Italy, I remember in The Sopranos some mercedes are traded for Furio ;)
Hey Driven Media, Idk why but u look the same like Driver 61.
Driven 61
@@stuartclifton4764 Ya what?
Weird! @driver61!
@@OVERDRIVE.studios Ya man I ain't joking. To me you look exactly like him.
@@Rao_Sahab_7878 mate, this is his second channel...
Mani Chupalyev is one name that comes to mind.
I stole my car E46 coupe in 06, my brother stole his Mini copper S in 08 from and my sister stole Honda Integra DC5 in 11 from Japan to Malaysia. 😆 I work in UK to entitled me for being back car from UK same goes to my brother and my sister is a Japanese Uni graduate from Japan. It count as a steal in Malaysia due to our high taxes for imported cars.
As I live in Latvia, I speak both languages - English and Russian (plus a couple more) - so I sometimes, especially when after heavy drinking or felling extraordinarily depressed - watch Russian youtube channels. There are many of them on the subject of debunking car salesmen who try to sell stolen, crashed or otherwise dubious (that's SUS in US English) cars. Believe me - there are A LOT of such channels and they seem to thrive (look up Максим Шелков, АВТОТУТ, etc., etc.) Anyway. Greetings from Latvia - and I think I need to go install some antitheft device in my beloved audi. Edited: jeeeez, youtube fonts did a nice one on the name of that channel - if transcribed in English, the closest would me Maksim Shelkov - but there are dozens more on the same theme.
With stolen wheels I’ve heard that dealers have had police find stolen wheels from the sensors in them
Sad that people can invest so much time and effort into their pride and job and have it stolen
My mum had her 1987 Nissan Micra stolen in... well.. 1988. Thieves didn't get very far as they crashed shortly after. Why the presumed joyriders thought stealing a car with a measly 54bhp and a suspension made from jello was a great idea, I will never fathom. Those old Micra K10s can be driven relatively hard but will happily toss you in a ditch and possibly kill you at the slightest mistake, they're essentially built from tinfoil. At least the replacement car had colour matched number plate lights.
Heard of a guy who had his motorbike stolen from the uk and found it on eBay for sale in Albania so went out there and stole it back 😂
I got shot in a pumped out PriusC with a subwoofer system with two people tryna steal it it’s crazy what people try to do
Why is the animation at 02:50 other way around
The McLaren at 6:18 was filmed near my house 😂
I love the fact he says the chances of your car getting stolen are pretty low I can see you never lived in Detroit in your life😂
Not all thieves are smart but even the smart ones are having a problem with sophisticated ignition wiring and electronics.
In Southern Africa, they're end up in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Great Video. Just please remember to delete your search history otherwise it might look a bit sketch.
Atleast, cars can be recovered, but motorcycles... Most of them will never get recovered...
To be fair a motorcycle is way easier to steal and export
@@patrikjansen7831 i know, that's why i said "most of them will never gets recovered"
I just watched a video showing all the stolen cars from Canada arriving in South Africa.
I wonder how cars that are connected to the internet will work out for car thieves . Like Tesla's
get an airtag, and hide it somewhere in the car, that way you'll always know where it is
When I was a kid
We had a blue kia sadona it was a 2002 year modle
Stolen and the police found it put it in impound and we couldn't get it out
I got a new business idea 😂😂
You could put gps trackers in unreachable locations of the car and than track it down when stolen.
Thieves tend to park the car in a hidden location and wait a couple days to see if anyone comes to find it because of the tracker.
@@jrh5544 wich wil give you times to get it back so stil a valid tactic
In Cambodia we have a plethora of Rolls Royces and Bentleys. It makes me wonder.
You guys got that transfer of parts backwards ⏪ lol
I bought a 2010 Porsche panamera turbo from a dealership in the Netherlands. I didn’t pick it up straight away as I had to move to the UK for a couples months for work. I bought the car in January 2022 and told the dealer that I would pick it up in August. To my surprise the dealer sent me a cryptic email 4 months later saying that I had picked up my car. I wasn’t even in the country. I came back to The Netherlands to check on my car but the dealership wasn’t even there. I sadly lost my car😢.
(P.S if you see/seen my car number plate 89-NKV-4 Porsche Panamera champagne Brown with beige interior, please let me know)
1:04 Never Zero! 😂
Here in Italy they get chopped up for parts, motorcycles and bicicles go to eastern europe
May be that's how I bought an almost new Mustang for only 11k usd in Georgia. If someone lost a green ecoboost from Canada some 2 years ago your car is now mine in Batumi.
take a shot everytime he says chop shop
0:32 if you live in South Africa changes your card getting stolen is pretty high
They get broken down into parts that are sold on, no single car goes anywhere because it can be traced at least in the UK, they are all broken down into parts.
Damn, you made it in only 1 edit?
The animation at 2:56 bugs me so much, cause it's supposed to be from the stolen car to the wrecked car
Here’s one way to avoid getting your car stolen, if you see some person trying to steal your car, clobber them on the head or buy a stick, some wouldn’t be able to operate a stick shift soooooo
Not really correct a chop shop busted in Birmingham uk had 119 stolen cars all 2018 or newer all broken for parts
Just give up with owning a Range Rover of any kind now it’s just not worth the stress 😫
ya some one stole my dads toyata sienna and they drove to Uk
Lol just had a g wagon stolen from my work , i guess i found out where itll be taken ti
Should mention that you can be arrested for buying a vehicle without a title present.