So I just popped into my local Asda Bedminster in South Bristol to do my shopping. Parked up midway down the carpark under a big floodlight. Popped in and bought my stuff.
When I came out there was a very similar looking silver MK4 golf parked right in front of mine. Thats odd I thought to myself... but then not that odd as there are so many of them about.
As I got closer the guy (largeish guy, quite heavy set, red shirt and cap on) and the girl (average height, slim, dark hair) both got into the car. The car was a Silver MK4 with a slightly unusual shiny Blueish coloured VW badge in the front centre and an anniversary style GTI badge with the red I also in the grille. It had pretty scuffed looking paintwork on the front bumper and also I noticed it had a colour coded front splitter below similar to the Anni one.
As I pulled away I glanced to my left to look at the wheels which as far as I could see were Montreals (the same as mine) although they could possibly have been Montreal 2s. I didn't really get a proper look as at that point I got distracted when I realised that my left mirror suddenly wasn't there!... The housing was still there but the glass was missing leaving just the mount and the wiring in place...
What the hell I thought? It was definitely there when I parked. I pulled around back into a space just in time to see the other golf drive off. My initial thought was that another car must have clipped it when parking so I got out and went back to the space to see but there was no sign of the mirror glass on the floor anywhere. Also the car in the next bay was several feet the other side of the line...
Then I had a proper look at the housing and realised there was no sign of damage to the outside whatsoever so I realised it can't have been clipped by another driver but must have been carefully prised out from the housing so as not to damage it... At that point I realised the guy in the other Golf must have pinched it!
I wondered instantly what other easy to remove parts might be missing from my car (arial / badges / centre caps).. I did a quick glance around the car and sure enough my anni style GTI grille badge is missing too (odd as I spotted the other car already had one), but again it was definitely there earlier when I got in my car to go to the shop!
I spoke to Asda security who said that they have CCTV but that I need to report it to the police and they will need to contact them to look at it. I will do this later.
I wondered if anyone on here knows a car matching this description (Although to be honest if you do then I expect you probably don't want to grass them up). Still any info that could help me would be greatly appreciated. As far as I can remember the first bit of the plate looked like T811, I didn't catch the rest...