Update about the X5 stolen

[briandwlee]

Hi, all.

Weird thing happened a few days ago; the X5 was found at the parking lot of my dealer here without any damage. It was stolen at parkade of Northland Village Shopping Mall here in Calgary.

I visited the dealer to discuss a 3 or 5 series to replace the X5, but I found my X5 sitting in the parking lot. No one at the dealer noticed that my car was there. It was unlocked when I found it and my key worked perfectly. I could start the engine and lock/unlock the car.

What I am curious is how the car was driven without a key. I had all my keys including the plastic key. Everybody knows/claims that an X5 cannot be driven without a key. But the vehicle was parked perfectly in the parking lot meaning that the car was driven to get there.

I asked my dealer here to find out how many keys were ordered, but they said one, which I ordered. So weird. Who on earth has access to the car???

Since it was so scary that I would call BMW Canada to initiate some investigation or something like that, but I don't know if they want to get involved or to take care of this kind of issue.

The dealer... First time I reported the theft, they seemed to help me a lot; they offered loaner vehicle for weekend and helped me with BMW Assist, but after all they were just being nice to sell one more car to me. They implicitly hinted that BMW Canada would be nice to me in every aspect if I buy one more BMW to replace the X5, but BMW did not give any da** in regards to early termination of the lease. BMW Canada just sent a document with a purchase price on it and I had to sign on that document to turn in the vehicle. It was just normal trade-in procedure. No mercy or anything like that.

I think I was so stupid that I was expecting such mercy or anything like that. After all, I learned that BMW dealers or sales people there were no different from other car dealers out there. They are just 100% pure business men or business entity in nice suits rather than in jeans and jumpers.

Sad...