April fools came early this year...

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April fools came early this year...

Reply #15 – March 02, 2008, 09:20:15 AM

that sucks..

isnt that the 2nd time somthing shiznitty has happend to eliminator?

April fools came early this year...

Reply #16 – March 02, 2008, 10:36:55 AM

hell they caught the guy that stole my stang, and let him go, because they couldnt find the car, or make him tell them where it was... I asked the cop to let me interogate him... He will talk or die.... They wouldnt allow that...

Good luck on fixing it...

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Reply #17 – March 02, 2008, 10:42:55 AM

I've never had this happen, but I have come close. I was at a friends party in a slightly dubious part of town, so I parked underneath a street light in the parking lot. Another friend left early and while we were inside someone had boken several windows trying to steal stuff, the friend who was leaving early caught the thieves (a bunch of 13-14 year olds) but they escaped into the cover of darkness before he could catch any of them. They broke every window up to the car next to mine, dented the door of the car next to mine and were working on the car two past mine when they were found. The weatherstripping on the window was pushed in as if they had tried to pick the lock but I can only assume they didn't like working under a streetlight and moved down the line. Police, as expected, did nothing for the people who had damage. Unless someone saw who it was and can ID him, you are probably out of luck. Sucks that this sort of thing happens.

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Reply #18 – March 02, 2008, 10:51:31 AM

Wow all that for nothing.

My friends gf had her car broken into two nights ago. Right in front of their apartment (higher end apartments too). Now the alternator isnt charging the battery. They got her stereo and cheap walmart subwoofer setup. There were several other cars there that were broken into.

Im glad I dont keep anything valueable in my car. My stereo is 8 years old and my 'sub' is from an old set of computer speakers. I bet that still wouldnt stop someone from wreaking havoc on my car just for the hell of it.

Ive read a few stories of people catching the thieves in the act. Some of them are quite hillarious. You might as well do whatever you want to them, cause the cops sure wont. Beating them til they are out cold and chucking them in a dumpster...

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Reply #19 – March 02, 2008, 12:40:52 PM

I caught a thief trying to break into my '66 Galaxie when in high school. I was in the library, which overlooked the parking lot, and saw somebody ducking down between my car and the one next to it, doing something to my door. I ran out of the library and through the parking lot, ran up behind the buy, and tackled him. I beat the living bejeesus out of him, too, until the prinl came running and pulled me off him. Turns out it was a student from another high school, cutting class to rob cars at our school. scratched the hell out of the paint on my Galaxie, too.

Revenge can be funny, too. When I had my Trans Am I had several cheap stereos stolen out of it. I got tired of the cops telling me there's nothing they can do (they were right, of course, but it still pissed me off) so I got hold of an old Alpine stereo, gutted it, stuffed a bunch of model rocket engines into it, connected the starter wires for the rocket engines to the wiring harness, then mocked up an install in my T/A. Sure enough, it went missing within days. I never heard whether anyone ever connected power to that "stereo" or not, but nobody ever stole the stereo from my T/A again afterwards.

A buddy of mine set up a y trap in his car, too. He epoxied a bunch of razor blades all over the back of his stereo. His plan backfired, though - the thief did cut himself, presumably badly, and he didn't get the stereo, but his bleeding ruined my buddy's interior. He bled EVERYWHERE!!! The police were unimpressed as well, giving my buddy shiznit for trying to protect his own property, telling him that he could get in big trouble if the thief came forward and pressed charges (and sadly enough, they were right). They did take a chunk of thumb with them for evidence in case somebody went looking for medical help, though...

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Reply #20 – March 02, 2008, 01:31:59 PM

that sucks, thieves are total POS.

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;207265

I caught a thief trying to break into my '66 Galaxie when in high school. I was in the library, which overlooked the parking lot, and saw somebody ducking down between my car and the one next to it, doing something to my door. I ran out of the library and through the parking lot, ran up behind the buy, and tackled him. I beat the living bejeesus out of him, too, until the prinl came running and pulled me off him. Turns out it was a student from another high school, cutting class to rob cars at our school. scratched the hell out of the paint on my Galaxie, too.

Revenge can be funny, too. When I had my Trans Am I had several cheap stereos stolen out of it. I got tired of the cops telling me there's nothing they can do (they were right, of course, but it still pissed me off) so I got hold of an old Alpine stereo, gutted it, stuffed a bunch of model rocket engines into it, connected the starter wires for the rocket engines to the wiring harness, then mocked up an install in my T/A. Sure enough, it went missing within days. I never heard whether anyone ever connected power to that "stereo" or not, but nobody ever stole the stereo from my T/A again afterwards.

A buddy of mine set up a y trap in his car, too. He epoxied a bunch of razor blades all over the back of his stereo. His plan backfired, though - the thief did cut himself, presumably badly, and he didn't get the stereo, but his bleeding ruined my buddy's interior. He bled EVERYWHERE!!! The police were unimpressed as well, giving my buddy shiznit for trying to protect his own property, telling him that he could get in big trouble if the thief came forward and pressed charges (and sadly enough, they were right). They did take a chunk of thumb with them for evidence in case somebody went looking for medical help, though...

Yah I can see the flaw with the whole razor blade thing. You never know what some POS drug addict thief is carrying either. :hick:

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Reply #21 – March 02, 2008, 07:41:59 PM

Back when my cougar was new, I used to go to my friends house in the worst crack neighborhood in Niagara Falls.
Boy did that thing stick out like a diamond in the rough. People were always eyeing it up as I drove into the hood
I used to leave my doors unlocked and never mounted my stereo into the dash. It pretty much just sat in the space.
After about 2 1/2 years of doing that, it never got broken into. And it sat parked on a dark street from dusk till 3 am most nights
Go figure.

I hope you can get everything fixed OK

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Reply #22 – March 02, 2008, 08:04:40 PM

Quote from: 5.0 bird;207277

that sucks, thieves are total POS.

Yah I can see the flaw with the whole razor blade thing. You never know what some POS drug addict thief is carrying either. :hick:

When I had my alarm installed, the first thing the salesman asked me was what kind of car I had...was it a 'Vette or something? When I explained that it was a T-Bird, he started to rule OUT features that I wouldn't need. The idea here was that I was trying to stop "crackheads", not professionals who would go after a 'Vette, Mercedes S-class, etc. Sorry to say it, but that's our enemy--the crackhead who needs quick cash, the no-class loser, or the jealous kid. Pros aren't looking at our cars.

Get an alarm, and make sure it's as LOUD and OBNOXIOUS as you can get. Make sure it makes your car visible as well (e.g. flash the lights), and make sure that the LED is visible to warn them away.

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Reply #23 – March 02, 2008, 08:08:50 PM

im getting one, but ill pulling there horn out, and adding a train air horn, I wanna BLOW there ear drums out if they touch my car!

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Reply #24 – March 02, 2008, 08:19:00 PM

martin that sucks bro i have a dr window glass you can have it u just half to pay the shiping

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Reply #25 – March 02, 2008, 08:23:22 PM

Now that I'm thinking about it. I believe my stereo had a theft system built into it. I remember a blinking red light on it. It probably stopped anyone from stealing it, thinking there was a working alarm system in the car. Although I never had an alarm hooked up in the car.

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Reply #26 – March 02, 2008, 08:30:59 PM

Eclipse CD stereos use an ID disc. If power is cut to the stereo, it won't operate again until you insert the disc. You can choose any music CD you want as the ID disc, and the thief has no way of knowing which one it is (just don't lose it). That's pretty good deterrence, as long as they know it's an Eclipse (has ESN - Eclipse Security Network).

(and no, I ain't saying which one I chose

)

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Reply #27 – March 02, 2008, 08:33:41 PM

Quote

(and no, I ain't saying which one I chose )

Beatles--Abby Road

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Reply #28 – March 02, 2008, 08:38:03 PM

Quote from: daminc;207343

Beatles--Abby Road

Wouldn't be a bad choice, but WRONG :)

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Reply #29 – March 03, 2008, 06:02:38 AM

Thanks, guys. I think I have the glass covered, but I'm going to need a new pice of window trim and a new butcher block.

This also pretty much seals the deal on moving. I'm going to be moving into a house with a two car garage very soon.