993 Vandalised
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Took my eldest boy to his footie cup semi-final in Windsor on Saturday evening in broad daylight and left the 993 in the car park (the word dickhead springs to mind)
Came back a hour later and I`ve had a full set of Porsche crested valve stems nicked (I know they were an indulgence at the time and they are probably better off adorning a Raleigh Grifter, but that`s not the point)
They also tried to flip out the gold crested centre caps and failed. Worse of all they tried to prise off the hood badge and due to the high Porsche build quality they couldnt pop the speed nuts.
Result a banana-shaped badge, luckily they didnt key the car when they couldn`t prise anything off!
Is it really worth having a nice car anymore?
Took my eldest boy to his footie cup semi-final in Windsor on Saturday evening in broad daylight and left the 993 in the car park (the word dickhead springs to mind)
Came back a hour later and I`ve had a full set of Porsche crested valve stems nicked (I know they were an indulgence at the time and they are probably better off adorning a Raleigh Grifter, but that`s not the point)
They also tried to flip out the gold crested centre caps and failed. Worse of all they tried to prise off the hood badge and due to the high Porsche build quality they couldnt pop the speed nuts.
Result a banana-shaped badge, luckily they didnt key the car when they couldn`t prise anything off!
Is it really worth having a nice car anymore?
That's rotten luck and I truly sympathise. Since buying an immaculate 993 I've been paranoid about leaving it anywhere where it's not directly under my eye. It's not the cost of vandalism - though that's not much fun either - it's the anger engendered by these nasty little oiks which can raise the blood pressure to bursting point!
I sometimes wonder, like you, whether it's worth the worry. My journeys are increasingly tailored to avoid having to leave the car anywhere that's vulnerable to scrote-like activity, and that takes a lot of the fun out of motoring.
The trouble is that I don't see any hope of improvement in my lifetime.
I sometimes wonder, like you, whether it's worth the worry. My journeys are increasingly tailored to avoid having to leave the car anywhere that's vulnerable to scrote-like activity, and that takes a lot of the fun out of motoring.
The trouble is that I don't see any hope of improvement in my lifetime.
I truly sympathise, I had 5 panels keyed on my Chimaera 450, but you have to accept that there are hidden costs with expensive toys like high performance cars, and the jealousy of the Scum of the Earth is, I'm afraid, one of those costs.
Be thankful nothing more was done, you got off lightly!
Reward yourself by fixing said problems with all due expediency, and perchance a jolly jaunt to the continent to celebrate on roads free of that foul pestilence, the scamera!
Hoorah!
Fox
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964C2
Be thankful nothing more was done, you got off lightly!
Reward yourself by fixing said problems with all due expediency, and perchance a jolly jaunt to the continent to celebrate on roads free of that foul pestilence, the scamera!
Hoorah!
Fox
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964C2
Bastard SOBs - such a contrast to what GregE240's been banging on about today, following his two weeks in Naples, Florida - exotica left everywhere, 911 cabriolets, you name it - doesn't even enter the psyche, 
ing with another man's car, that is.
I think this is why I keep mine utterly filthy most of the time: it's a subconscious mind game with the scum, almost as if to say don't bother keying it or whatever because obviously the owner can't be arsed to clean it so it wouldn't be much of a larf, right?
Pitiful, behavioural constraints duly suffered by yours truly at the hands of these urban, property terrorists.
There are no words left, I fear.
ing with another man's car, that is. I think this is why I keep mine utterly filthy most of the time: it's a subconscious mind game with the scum, almost as if to say don't bother keying it or whatever because obviously the owner can't be arsed to clean it so it wouldn't be much of a larf, right?
Pitiful, behavioural constraints duly suffered by yours truly at the hands of these urban, property terrorists.
There are no words left, I fear.
Our Cerbera has also had similar attention, its in such a scruffy way right now that no one bothers keying it anymore. Best to do as DeR says and leave it mucky/scruffy as hell. Doubt we would even notice any new key marks anymore...
Just be glad they didnt try and break in, flucking up the paint work on the door/ wing - breaking the windows (both sides - two seperate break ins within a fortnight) Nicking the old CD player and in the process, scratching up the interior and the carbon A pillars too!!!! Not to mention the damage they caused to the door mechanism when they smashed the window (it went out of alignment) so the Cerb suffered major wind noise for months. Its all sorted now, with the exception of the paintwork/scratches inside.
If I ever catch anyone doing anything like this I'll give them a damn good kicking and tie them with thier own arms to the wheels of whatever car they damage. That way I can make sure they get enough of a punishment in my eyes and leave the owner to do the rest. Hell hath no fury like me when I see someones damaged pride and joy...
Just be glad they didnt try and break in, flucking up the paint work on the door/ wing - breaking the windows (both sides - two seperate break ins within a fortnight) Nicking the old CD player and in the process, scratching up the interior and the carbon A pillars too!!!! Not to mention the damage they caused to the door mechanism when they smashed the window (it went out of alignment) so the Cerb suffered major wind noise for months. Its all sorted now, with the exception of the paintwork/scratches inside.
If I ever catch anyone doing anything like this I'll give them a damn good kicking and tie them with thier own arms to the wheels of whatever car they damage. That way I can make sure they get enough of a punishment in my eyes and leave the owner to do the rest. Hell hath no fury like me when I see someones damaged pride and joy...
Scum that should be deprived of their green eyed malicious existence. It has to be said from day one of porsche ownership, the parking location scrote coefficient has been a major reason for not using the car as much as I would like to (the other being the sudden explosive growth of the local scameraship).
Two weeks ago I had the three pointed star ripped off of my merc with the surrounding paintwork damaged. Three years ago I decked someone who had kicked my parked car with them not realising it was my car as I continued walking past the vehicle after the brief confrontation. Two years ago some scrote caused £1,700 damage trying to break into my mother's car. I can't say what I would do if I caught another of theseers in the act, but a wise gambler would be putting money on my assisting their vandalistic cause by introducing their head to the car interior via the windscreen.
DEATH TO VERMIN
In history, the natural instict of sorting the barstewartd out would be allowed, with perhaps the worst of the vermin being exterminated on the spot. As the laws of the land forbid this needed culling we will continue our descent into the mire.
DAZ
Two weeks ago I had the three pointed star ripped off of my merc with the surrounding paintwork damaged. Three years ago I decked someone who had kicked my parked car with them not realising it was my car as I continued walking past the vehicle after the brief confrontation. Two years ago some scrote caused £1,700 damage trying to break into my mother's car. I can't say what I would do if I caught another of these
ers in the act, but a wise gambler would be putting money on my assisting their vandalistic cause by introducing their head to the car interior via the windscreen. DEATH TO VERMIN In history, the natural instict of sorting the barstewartd out would be allowed, with perhaps the worst of the vermin being exterminated on the spot. As the laws of the land forbid this needed culling we will continue our descent into the mire.
DAZ
Its just not on.
The worse part is that there is no sign of improvement, things are going to get worse.
I was reading a novel set in 1348 which was said to be the dark ages (bloody killings and general chaos was common).
I wondering people have improved much since (apart form being able to travel faster!)
The worse part is that there is no sign of improvement, things are going to get worse.
I was reading a novel set in 1348 which was said to be the dark ages (bloody killings and general chaos was common).
I wondering people have improved much since (apart form being able to travel faster!)
whereabouts in windsor? I`ve never had a problem so see this as a bit worrying...Mind you, saturday night can be a bit dodgy as there is always a mass chav influx from the surrounding hotspots (i.e slough/staines).
Seeing the number of porkers in the local area it was probably another owner trying to tart his car up!
Seeing the number of porkers in the local area it was probably another owner trying to tart his car up!
i do empathise with you... not in the same league as getting a porker vandelised, one but friday night some drunken yobs picked up a cone which had been left outside my house (i was getting the driveway done at the time) and thought it would be amusing to throw it into the side of my passenger door on my mundane-o. nice crease and dent.
the only thing i can say is the sooner one comes to terms with the fact that these things will happen, the less angry one will be when it does happen. what a sad state of affairs that statement makes about the type of society we live in.
i didn;t bother calling the police about it (even though i have a fair idea who it was) - they probably were very busy at the time anyway sitting in umarked vans drinking cups of tea catching people doing 47 in a 40 zone on the a308 into maidenhead.
still at least my council tax bill has gone up this year to pay for more police to do all
the only thing i can say is the sooner one comes to terms with the fact that these things will happen, the less angry one will be when it does happen. what a sad state of affairs that statement makes about the type of society we live in.
i didn;t bother calling the police about it (even though i have a fair idea who it was) - they probably were very busy at the time anyway sitting in umarked vans drinking cups of tea catching people doing 47 in a 40 zone on the a308 into maidenhead.
still at least my council tax bill has gone up this year to pay for more police to do
all 
Guy, this was done down at Stag Meadow.
My boy was playing there at 6:30pm, I got back to the car an hour later, car park was full it was daylight.
Daft thing is that I had intended going in the family beemer, but was running late and took the 993.
I`ve had no other bother around here in nearly 8 years of Porsche ownership.
Before that was a different story though I lost 325i which was nicked and buned out and a succession of stereo`s were lifted from my old Merc`s and GTI`s in the town centre!
So much for the Royal Borough!
My boy was playing there at 6:30pm, I got back to the car an hour later, car park was full it was daylight.
Daft thing is that I had intended going in the family beemer, but was running late and took the 993.
I`ve had no other bother around here in nearly 8 years of Porsche ownership.
Before that was a different story though I lost 325i which was nicked and buned out and a succession of stereo`s were lifted from my old Merc`s and GTI`s in the town centre!
So much for the Royal Borough!
Abzoulute BARSTEWARDS the lot of em Having had me Subaru WRX nikt, 944s2 nickt, animal crew cab all chrome bits attemted theft twice all within 12 months I know the pain of avin the pride n joy damaged, and worst of all the insurance company insult you further when renewal is due by giving you a stonking great premium to pay!!!!!!!
An these were parkt on my drive in wot is considered to be a relitivly car crime free area!!!!!!!
Sod it bort misen a SAAB 9000 CSE turbo all the refinments you need an mor full leather and guz well 2 good point is it aint that desirable to the car thieves an dunt stand me at a load of dosh, keep me wedge under wraps at home.
Bring bak the birch an let the owners flog the little twots!!!!!!!
An these were parkt on my drive in wot is considered to be a relitivly car crime free area!!!!!!!
Sod it bort misen a SAAB 9000 CSE turbo all the refinments you need an mor full leather and guz well 2 good point is it aint that desirable to the car thieves an dunt stand me at a load of dosh, keep me wedge under wraps at home.
Bring bak the birch an let the owners flog the little twots!!!!!!!
Lowlife peasants like that are merely fulfilling their own destiny.
They're behaving like the peasants that they are which is, of course, why they are probably at the arse end of society anyway.
It doesn't help to guess that any punishment they would get (if caught), would probably not surpass the average speeding fine.
They're behaving like the peasants that they are which is, of course, why they are probably at the arse end of society anyway.
It doesn't help to guess that any punishment they would get (if caught), would probably not surpass the average speeding fine.
Just adding to this worrying thread as I am due to pick up my new 987 within a couple of months and I am already getting the jitters about leaving it out on the street.
My Beemer suffered terribly in its early life with keying, bad parking, windows smashed and stereo nicked but the worse was when a kid on a bicycle went down the road and threw paint stripper over about 40 cars.
Damage to mine cost me £500 so about a total of £20000 worth of damage was not bad for one little c**t. Strangly the police showed no interest.
My Beemer suffered terribly in its early life with keying, bad parking, windows smashed and stereo nicked but the worse was when a kid on a bicycle went down the road and threw paint stripper over about 40 cars.
Damage to mine cost me £500 so about a total of £20000 worth of damage was not bad for one little c**t. Strangly the police showed no interest.
Los Angeles said:
I think we should resurrect that spooky horror movie where a car is a reincarnation of the devil. This time it's a predatory black Tuscan. It hangs around shadowy districts waiting to be vandalised then pounces on the unsuspcting vermin and absorbs them! They manifest themselves as splodges stuck to the tyres and get squiched constantly as the car drives itself around the city looking for more nasty vandal victims. Sometimes it lurk among the brushes in a car wash - Death Wash is a good title.
ah, yes - "christine" - of that genre (ie, psychotic, autonomic automobiles), it's a damn fine film.
i don't think such a name would suit a maverick, vigilante tuscan, however.
how about, "maggie" ... now that would be scary.
;-)
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