My wheels have been stolen!

[MGJohn]

Sump said:

MGJohn said:

V8forweekends said:

Herman Toothrot said:

MGJohn, what sort of st hole area do you live in? This isn't the 1st time I've seen you post about all the thieving / vandalism / general chav scum behaviour on your street.

Nice snobbery.

P.S. We are further assured we need more immigrants. Throw ever wider the doors.

Meh, the last immigrant I spoke to came and tinted my windows for £120. Lovely chap from Poland. Compared to the non immigrants £350 I was quite happy as are all of his other hundreds of customers.

Long standing friend of many years is Polish. Used frequently by the local plod as interpreter when they have immigrants in custody. Lovely lady who runs her own business and a credit to the nation. Another long standing Afro-carib friend and neighbour along with the chap who built my extension also of Afro-carib origin ... fine gents who have contributed to the Nation. My father shared the last ten years of his life with an African Lady he met on his travels. She came and settled here in the UK as a NHS nurse and looked after him. When he died she settled with a Dutch Guy in the Oxford area.

Guess what.. They all have told me immigration has gone completely out of control here even back then and now.

I kid you not. You couldn't make it up!

Chris Type R said:

ging84 said:

I've always wondered about thieves leavings cars on bricks, seems odd they are respectful enough to not drop your car on the ground, but not respectful enough to not nick the fking wheels in the first place.

In this instance, inside a garage wouldn't bricks have been necessary in order to get all 4 wheels off - i.e. simply an access issue.

Without those bricks or other support, how do they retrieve the lowered trolley jack when trapped under the car's weight when the wheel is removed.

[MGJohn]

EddyP said:

I've been having a clear out and have a set of proper Rover 800 workshop manuals and a set of alloy wheel locking nuts, you can have them if you want for the cost of the postage or if you can collect from Coventry?

Thanks for the kind offer EddyP. My neighbour and I would appreciate those items. Same T-Series engines in both the 800 Vitesse and my family's Rover 620ti ... all four of them. So yes please. Let me know the postage cost by PM and we can arrange payment and other details.

Thanks again.

[anonymous-user]

photosnob said:

Psycho Warren said:

actually its a piece of piss to pick most garage locks. Farrrr too many are simple wafer locks that open in seconds with a set of jiggler keys or even quicker with a strong flat bladed screwdriver and a strong wrist! Even the ones with euro cylinders in arent hard to get in as a lot are single sided cylinders or have a "thumb turn" handle on the inside.

That was my point without wanting to give a DIY of how to open a garage without a key. Most people who steal for a living are not going to pick the lock - it's easier to open it "another way". They don't care about the cost of breaking the lock.

Quite a few garage doors still have a standard barrel lock. On the face of this is the lock ID. A few quid and the right web site will allow access.

If you do nothing else today deface your locks. Following this call a local locksmith for a quick once over of your property. You'll be amazed, disgusted and angry in equal measure.

[NicD]

The Wookie said:

I had my wheels nicked in Bath about 10 or 12 years ago, they did me the courtesy of knocking it off the bricks after they'd finished and putting a pile of bricks under the radiator and air conditioning condenser, so to add insult to injury I had another 500 quid bill to go with the missing wheels.

OP you have the world's most polite wheel thieves.

some years ago:

[J4CKO]

Back in the late eighties a dopey mate bought a "RS" Escort, he assured us it was genuine but the fact it was a Mk3, had 5 doors and was painted beige made us think it wasn't actually an RSVP, ditto the 1.3 cvh and brown velour interior, but it did have RS wheels, for three days, the lovely chaps he bought it off came and removed them, anyway dopey paid 150 quid for a new set which were actually the exact same ones, he swore blind they weren't but we were about as convinced as about it being a beige 5 door RS 1.3

[Psycho Warren]

yonex said:

Quite a few garage doors still have a standard barrel lock. On the face of this is the lock ID. A few quid and the right web site will allow access.

If you do nothing else today deface your locks. Following this call a local locksmith for a quick once over of your property. You'll be amazed, disgusted and angry in equal measure.

You dont need a locksmith as these days most of it is online and freely available. There are clubs these days for "locksport" for those who do it for a hobby.

Ultimately if they want in, they will get in. Security you can fit will slow them down and hopefully make them choose elsewhere if they are opportunists. But if its targetted ie youve got xx car they want, they will just up the anti.

I can see with better alarms and house security, the simple solution for scum will be knock on the door and smash your face in when you answer and just take the keys and ransack the house as a bonus. Key theft is one of the most growing ways of car theft. While the police are seemingly incapable of being effective in car crime, it will continue to grow, people will respond with house security and scum will just up thier game to suit with us being the looser as there is no one to protect us.

[Digitalize]

I had my rear shocks off my Honda CG stolen in Bath.

Considering I know many people with 4k+ wheels, I'm surprised more aren't stolen to be honest. Although I'd imagine this is one case where having airride so that their sills are touching the floor is a plus side.

[Al U]

Could be worse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426692/Co...

[MGJohn]

Al U said:

Could be worse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426692/Co...

Not that rare. Airport car parks were also a favourite for engine swaps whilst their owners were enjoying their holidays. How many new BMWs is it that have disappeared from owners' premises now?

Railway Station Car Parks.. last time I used a train and the car park, I noticed a number of single rusty bike front wheels all security chained to the bike racks in the sheds. No signs of the rest of the bikes though.

Still those we entrust to the Nation's well being assure us that "Recorded" crime is down. Oh goody. You better believe it.

[MGJohn]

Psycho Warren said:

yonex said:

Quite a few garage doors still have a standard barrel lock. On the face of this is the lock ID. A few quid and the right web site will allow access.

If you do nothing else today deface your locks. Following this call a local locksmith for a quick once over of your property. You'll be amazed, disgusted and angry in equal measure.

You dont need a locksmith as these days most of it is online and freely available. There are clubs these days for "locksport" for those who do it for a hobby.

Ultimately if they want in, they will get in. Security you can fit will slow them down and hopefully make them choose elsewhere if they are opportunists. But if its targetted ie youve got xx car they want, they will just up the anti.

I can see with better alarms and house security, the simple solution for scum will be knock on the door and smash your face in when you answer and just take the keys and ransack the house as a bonus. Key theft is one of the most growing ways of car theft. While the police are seemingly incapable of being effective in car crime, it will continue to grow, people will respond with house security and scum will just up thier game to suit with us being the looser as there is no one to protect us.

Sad to say that is the really dangerous reality of the way things have progressed in recent years. If you have a very desirable car or other property, you could be next to be waken in the small hours with a gun to your head or a knife to the throat.

EDIT to add @ 14;53 :~

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3048484/Da...

Edited by MGJohn on Tuesday 21st April 14:53

[Quhet]

Jesus. It's as if crime was unheard of in Britain before 10 years ago.
These things would happen whether there were immigrants or not, ridiculous amounts of racism and xenophobia on PH these days

[RobinBanks]

Quhet said:

Jesus. It's as if crime was unheard of in Britain before 10 years ago.
These things would happen whether there were immigrants or not, ridiculous amounts of racism and xenophobia on PH these days

I'm sure that crime was higher years ago than it is now. At least it seemed/seems that way.
I think that some people posting are remembering childhoods frolicking around in the sun and friendly local policemen smiling rather than Post Office armed burglaries and muggings in alleyways.

[Dave200]

MGJohn said:

I'm not racist, I know lots of blacks and Poles. Honest, guv.

[spats]

Al U said:

Could be worse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426692/Co...

Police describe that as "strange"

Its well known for months and months now that the front of those Corsa's unbolt and are worth a pretty penny, its pretty damn common, yet the cops describe it as "strange"

Out of touch or what!

[anonymous-user]

Dave200 said:

MGJohn said:

I'm not racist, I know lots of blacks and Poles. Honest, guv.

Cheap shot. Why are people so obsessed with this? It's not as if there are no links.

[Dave200]

yonex said:

Dave200 said:

MGJohn said:

I'm not racist, I know lots of blacks and Poles. Honest, guv.

Cheap shot. Why are people so obsessed with this? It's not as if there are no links.

Yeah, you're right - let's kick people with names like "Field, Hudson, O’Connor and Steward" out of the country. They are clearly filthy immigrants up to no good.
http://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/12897662.Bungling...

Jesus, this place reads like the Daily Mail comments section sometimes. Engage your brains a bit before commenting, please.

[anonymous-user]

Dave200 said:

Yeah, you're right - let's kick people with names like "Field, Hudson, O’Connor and Steward" out of the country. They are clearly filthy immigrants up to no good.
http://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/12897662.Bungling...

Jesus, this place reads like the Daily Mail comments section sometimes. Engage your brains a bit before commenting, please.

My other half is Irish, My mother is Irish, we have American passports and I'm British. Having worked in more places than I can remember I can assure you that it is not normal how 'we' behave when it comes to dealing with telling things how they are. If you want to question the links to Eastern European gangs, travellers, etc then feel free, all the information is out there...but please don't start calling people out as racists when you have absolutely no clue who they are or what makes them tick.