Need help identifying getaway vehicle
Multiple smash and grabs along a very hilly road, my girlfriend's car included. Anyone know what this is?
Posted May 22, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC
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Thinking it’s a VW Jetta because of the front. About a 2018-2020
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Agree with this. MK5 or 6 is my guess.
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Samesies. Deff looks like a MK5-6 front end
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2020 AUDI A4
Pic: https://postmediadriving.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/2020-audi-a4-4.jpg?quality=80
Note the shape of the housing for the fog lights is similar
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Sure could be. The central consensus is that it's likely a Chevy
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I hate to throw another option into the Chevy mess, but I’ve got to go with Malibu... Sorry I’m bad at linking on mobile but if you look up the 20 Malibu it’s got that same fog light case the Audi does. Two reasons I’m favoring that over the Audi,
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I see way more chevy’s in Ice white than Audi’s. I don’t think that’s a big seller for them
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Nothing wrong with a Malibu but it’s a bit closer to the car I’d expect someone to be driving if they’re stealing shit out of cars in the same neighborhood over and over. Well tbh I’d expect them to be driving like a 1999 Camry with one head light but defo not an Audi
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This is a rather well off part of the area too, and no reason to come up here except for all of the hiking areas now popular due to COVID.
Best I can tell that started up the hill, turned around, and came down the road going downhill until they hit town. Only cars on their side of the road got hit. No idea why they were up here at that hour but my guess is that they don't live here.
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A chevy what?
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There's disagreement there. Fusion, Cruze maybe.
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Just FYI, Fusions are made by Ford.
That being said when I saw the pic Audi immediately popped into my mind.
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I'm thinking Chevrolet Sonic/Aveo especially because of the frontal image.
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Looks like an Audi TT Coupe.
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It's got 4 doors so no
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Is this in the east bay?
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Yes, above Montclair
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Did she leave anything visible in her car? That’s Oakland 101. Just so you know, opd won’t do anything about this. Just got to be very conscious of what is visible in your car when you’re not in it. No matter where you are. They also like to hit cars in hiking trail parking lots because people assume crime doesn’t come up the hill ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I used to be a dogwalker and spent a lot of time up near Redwood Bowl and Joaquin Miller. Would see this shit allllllll the time. Whenever I park there during my hikes, I leave the windows partially rolled down and absolutely nothing inside.
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Nope, not this time. This is the third time she's been broken into and those two a laptop was left out and the other she was hiding socks in the Prius smugglers hatch.
OPD is gonna connect the dots abbot this happening nearby on another street at the same time last night. And a series of break ins a month ago with the same MO in this area. And a bunch of stolen mail If they don't have a plate or name they can't do much but this is starting to get repeat itself in this area.
Montclair isn't a crime prone area, unless you count the crimes people who live here commit by doing their jobs. You have to go out of your way to get here, this isn't an opportunistic break in due the proximity of a shitty neighborhood. The neighbors are hella rich.
I suppose it's surprising more doesn't happen but it's harder to hit a dozen cars on a steep hill than it is a parking lot.
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Yeah I’m aware of where Montclair is. I didn’t say it was opportunistic. Are you new to the east bay ?
OPD doesn’t care. I’ve called them when I’ve walked in on literal robberies and there’s not much they will do. The getaway cars for a string of smash and grabs usually has stolen plates or the whole car is stolen.
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That's... not a rather well off area. I guess in comparison to what's down the hill.. but really? It's not.
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The slightly curved reflection on the rear of the car and the 'streak' detail on the right fender seem to resemble a grey or white 2020 malibu. Just my guess, either way though good luck!
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http://biomecis.uta.edu/shape_data.htm
Edit for this other link
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Looks like a car to me... White...
Seriously: if you have videos post them. Stills are much harder to identify.