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More "stuff" will happen - more recorded crime this week in my corner of the sceptred isle for the first time in a year according to a local cop today.
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had a mate stay at my place for a while, in the past, when he went through a tale of woe. He had a fairly new *&^% $£"!*.
One night some screaming carphound (copyright Lud) stole the whole o/s mirror assembly i.e. the whole lot on the door, everything
who on earth drives around in the small hours to do that?
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who on earth drives around in the small hours to do that?
The same type of low life that spent time unbolting the spot lights from the front of landcruiser several years ago right outside the front of my house....now if they put the same determination into a proper days work.... what..err..sorry i keep slipping into this parallel universe, i'll get referred.
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Door mirrors ??? small fry. My pal has a small farm near Appleby. Miles away from anywhere.
Among other cars he has a 2002 4 door crew cab Land Rover. Got up one morning a couple of months ago and all 4 doors and the bonnet had gone !....now that's enterprise !
Ted
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I agree that many more things will go walk about.
In the past I know of
A headlamp front glass cut off a Fiesta.
Youngsters came out of a pub and piled into a low rent set of wheels and asked for the heater to be turned up only to then notice - no windscreen.
Local scouts had the clutch nicked from their old truck.
I was escorted to my Cortina Crusader 12 hours after it went missing to find it had no doors and absolutely no interior. I steered it by kneeling on the floor with mole grips on the steering column as it was towed to the road side.
I hope Bernie E ihas got locking wheel nuts :-))
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Thieves rarely sink lower than this...I once had to buy three front indicator units for a Montego in the space of four weeks. LH one with missing lens cover meant an MOT fail (exposed sharp edges...) and the RH one fell out in sympathy a week later. Returned from a late night trip to an out of town cinema car park to find some toerag had nicked the brand new LH one. At 27 quid it was worth more than the remainder of the car, which was left untouched. Chap at the local Motor Factor's must have thought I had some weird electrical fetish when I made my third trip there.
Any owners of Renault 21s out there? Mysteriously struck by a very similar killer indicator virus in the early 90's.
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...I once had to buy three front indicator units for a Montego in the space of four weeks.
Chapat the local Motor Factor's must have thought I had some weird electrical fetish when I made my third trip there. Any owners of Renault 21s out there? >>
The Astra's had 4 since I got it.
Opel originals cost arm and leg, but pirate bits are a quarter of the price.
I buy them in pairs, so the two patterns on the plastic match!
The local scum rip off the clear cover, and steal the bulb inside, which is then used to smoke 'tik'- Crystal Meth.
In fact, there was a letter to the paper last week - father thanks a local motor dealer, for actually phoning the father to confirm that the indicator bulb his teenage son was buying WAS for a faulty indicator, and not as a smoking device!
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........ steal the bulb inside which is then used to smoke 'tik'- Crystal Meth.
You seem to know a lot about the technique. Is that what you do?
;-)
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You seem to know a lot about the technique. Is that what you do? ;-)
Sadly, my mollusc friend, the technique is widely known, hence the tale of the autospares bloke verifying bulb purchases.
On a similar note, many years back I had some leave from work, with the intention of doing some DIY at home.
As sods law goes, I ended up with a horrid cold during the time off, with a snotty nose, cough, red-rimmed eyes etc, and when i went to the local DIY super store to but some glue to fix some stuff in the kitchen, they refused to sell it to me, because they thought I was some solvent-abusing type!
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We`ve been lucky over the years. A set of stolen spotlight covers in the 60`s and the radio taken from my wife`s Seicento about 9 years ago. That was `surgically` removed, with the rear side window left propped up against the house wall.
I used to visit a peaceful little hamlet called Marsden, right in the Pennines west of Huddersfield. Sheep wander along the roads, sometimes.
The car crime rate was horrific though as criminals came in during the night from Manchester - which is just on the other side.
Really, at 4am, it seemed to need some form of medieval turnpike arrangement on the single isolated road over the summit with all traffic returning to Manchester being stopped and searched.
Edited by oilrag on 12/11/2008 at 06:54
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Some scum stole my driver side front windscreen wiper ..........
I'm going to start carrying a spare set in the boot!
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Mate's wife stopped in an hotel overnight. She got a few hundred yards down the road in the morning before 'phoning her recovery organisation - 'my radiator's gone'.
Maestro/Montego front indicators were retained by a spring which used to corrode. They became as rare as hens teeth in scrapyards.
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>> Some scum stole my driver side front windscreen wiper .......... I'm going to start carrying a spare set in the boot!
This was standard practice during late Soviet times, except it wasn't spares. People always kept their wiper blades in the boot as there was a shortage of them and if you left a car parked with wiper blades in place, they'd go missing. Whenever the first drops of rain hit the windscreen, traffic would come to a halt as everyone jumped out of their Zhigulis, Moskvichs, Tavrias, Zaporozhets, Volgas etc to fit the wiper blades in place!
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>> Some scum stole my driver side front windscreen wiper .......... I'm going to start carrying a spare set in the boot!
That's why I have a love/hate relationship with my Golf's wiper system; they're buried below the rear of the bonnet lid and you have to initiate a 'special' command using igniton 'on' and wiper switch operation in order for them to come out of hiding and positon themselves vertically on the windscreen. Only then can you service them or bring them forwards off the surface of the windscreen.
This has both a nuisance but a safety/cosmetic aspect, at the same time. However it is a bit of a pain when one wishes to clean the screen properly, although you can just about prise the wipers away without them fouling the bonnet too much.
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After a work colleague's Primera was relieved of its front wheels, front bumper, radiator grille, bonnet, offside front wing, and both headlamps outside the office in broad daylight a few years ago, very little surprises me in terms of general scumbaggery these days.
Mind you that nearly changed yesterday when driving into Bristol on the M32. Some delightful little hoodie darling was standing on a footbridge urinating over the parapet onto the cars passing below. First time I've seen that one!
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Somebody nicked the Vauxhall badge off the front of my father's Omega when in Spain in the early 90s.
In Russia in the 1980s, you used to remove windscreen wipers and other removables prior to leaving your car, as they would otherwise not be there when you returned.
Ah yes, and VW badges; anybody remember what the popular music group was that encouraged nicking VW badges.
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The Beastie Boys.
I remember going to the motor show during that time, and all the VWs had had their interior and exterior badgework removed. It had been done tidily, so I guess it was a precautionary measure by VW themselves rather than the public at large.
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Garages are marvellous things . . . . .
when used for their intended purpose.
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In Russia in the 1980s
Is there an echo in here?
;-)
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My step daughter and her husband have had the glass stolen from their near side mirror (always the near side one) 4 times now in the space of about 4 months. The last time they nearly caught the culprits, who ran off.
They have no garage or off-road parking, so no alternative but to park in the road.
Why would anyone want that many Rover 214 mirror glasses? Or is it just vandalism?
Who knows.
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I suspect a mirror glass has a nefarious drug-related purpose just as indicator bulbs do... What a shocking world we live in: people once used to steal things from cars merely to transplant them to another car!
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Perhaps a simple solution to the problem would be to invest in one of those etching kits and mark your mirrors, lights etc. with your vehicle reg. no.
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My pet spider would be very miffed if someone stole his wall.
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Good old GSF - Brixton branch.
I phoned them at 09.30 and the bloke said he might have one, took a look and said he was out of stock - but they would have a delivery at 1pm today and could I wait that long. He took my number and phoned me back at 1.05pm.
By 2pm I had fitted it myself on the GSF forecourt after paying the sum of £21.74.
VW Audi must have a specialist manufacturing branch in Asia (LOL) as the box it came in clearly said "Made in Taiwan".
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