Hi all,

Just wanted to share the pain and make you aware of an issue local to me (South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire). I woke up yesterday find a nice big space on my drive where my pride and joy was supposed to be. After a bit of panicked running around I established that very late Monday night, somebody broke into my house whilst me and my family were sleeping, picked up the basics such as my wallet, phone, ipad and my watch, made their way to my front door and pick up all my keys, before going back out the way they came and leaving in my car.

I doubt there is any chance anybody will see it but I thought that if anybody is on the lookout for Golfs, it would be you guys!

I had a pacific blue, 2.0 TDI SE, there aren't many around yet, less with this spec and fog lights and fewer still that have just had some of halfords roof bars on the top!

The other reason I am letting you all know is that the guys who took mine, 20 mins earlier had tried to take a 2011 golf off somebody elses drive, they could find his keys so went upstairs and went through his clothes to try and find them. They left empty handed and head directly to my house for mine. Fortunately they keys were downstairs so there was no need for them to come upstairs.

Police have said they have had a lot of issues recently with the golfs getting lifted, so I just wanted to give anbybody in the area the heads up. Get your new shiny toys out of sight if you can, if you can't and you have a family - leave your keys where they can be spotted easily - I know this is a contentious issue for most, but as I found out, if I hadn't have left them out, these guys would almost certainly have come upstairs for them. And with two little people in the house, I am happier to let them find them and take them. Its a company car and its insured.

I am gutted and now looking at a lengthy wait for a replacement. I only got this one in June!