MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: JJ on December 21, 2012, 06:15:40 pm
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...because some thieving turd has stolen mine...
Spotted in the station car park at Rowley Regis, West Midlands. Poor sod.
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Hate this kind of thing with a passion :fighting: :fighting: :fighting: :fighting:
I my other half wonders why I'm so fussy with parking and where I leave my car
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Hardly the cheapest rims to replace either... Thieving Bastad's!
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Any CCTV? Mofos. :fighting:
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Just noticed that theyve even had the dammn VW Badge...
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What absolute knobs.
There is cctv there but it's all dependant on where it's parked as its pretty big car park.
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Some right scum in this world...
I'd be going all Kill Bill on them if it was my motor
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wow. Didnt know this happens in this day and age still! I in shock. Poor guy (or girl)
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Tossers. :fighting:
Is there a particular locking wheel nut that is more secure than others?
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Tossers. :fighting:
Is there a particular locking wheel nut that is more secure than others?
McGard?
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Thats just wrong on all levels :fighting:. Ive always felt with locking wheel bolts that there must be a fail-safe way of removing them so the scum just use these and your powerless
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That's just pure f****d up they need shooting even if there is CCTV there's not a fad lot that's gonna come of it all that will happen is he will get a crime number and that's it i had my car damaged and caught the perpetrator outside a police station and the cops let him go :fighting:
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takes me back to when I had all 5 too and the satnav pinched out my Leon Cupra R at a dealership and they wanted to take no responsibility !
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Starting to see more of these from time to time :fighting: :sick:
Are most of these cases where the locking wheel nut is found and the wheels are gracefully removed, or do they just drill through?
Also worrying to think some fairly boggo Scirocco wheels are of interest to thieves (assuming they were fairly standard judging by the cars appearnce and spec from the front) :confused: :stupid:
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To be honest most the time now back windows get smashed :fighting:
Were do most people leave there locking wheel nut? In the kit in the boot, thief's know this too, they don't think twice to just smash the window use the wheel nut key that's in the back and job done, happened all the time at vw when I worked there, since that my wheel nut stays in the house
Need to try and stall them for as long as poss,
Utter utter scum, this is why insurance companies are shafting everyone left right and centre
Bang out of order
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This is abhorrent.
From my research it seems that you can buy a 'universal' kit to remove wheel lock nuts. It's obviously meant for mechanics etc, but there's nothing to stop the subhuman bottom dwellers buying a kit.
To make it difficult I'd say:
Fit a second set of e.g. McGard Ultra locknuts to each wheel. These would have a different unique key so the scum have more work to do. Also they have a spinning head which seems to make them extremely difficult to remove without the right key.
Leave your locknut key(s) somewhere other than the spare wheel well...maybe not at home as suggested in case you have a puncture on the road.
There must be a method of marking your wheels on the inside. If they appear on ebay or somewhere you would then have proof of ownership if the mark appeared.
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Yeah. not a bad shout about somehow marking the inside but then you have an issue if you sell them on? also, if the markings are somehow removable your back to square 1
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All I can think of is having inside the alloys stamped or uv paint to mark them or something
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Use something like Smart Water and if the wheels are recovered its an easy check to see who they belong to. Invisible to the naked eye and as unique as a finger print.
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Isn't there an inherent danger in using more than one locking nut per wheel?
Perhaps a different locking nut on each wheel would be better.
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Station security is rubbish. I watched a program where BBC found a station that had a load of break ins and hooked up to the existing cameras and actually watched the footage. The same car would turn up every day about 2 drive round and nick stuff from cars. Surely a sly number plate recognition camera on in and out and look for any cars that only stop for about 20 minutes ?
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Isn't there an inherent danger in using more than one locking nut per wheel?
I thought this too.
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Isn't there an inherent danger in using more than one locking nut per wheel?
Perhaps a different locking nut on each wheel would be better.
Yes. Only one per wheel is advised.
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Station security is rubbish. I watched a program where BBC found a station that had a load of break ins and hooked up to the existing cameras and actually watched the footage. The same car would turn up every day about 2 drive round and nick stuff from cars. Surely a sly number plate recognition camera on in and out and look for any cars that only stop for about 20 minutes ?
Would be brilliant, buttttttttttt........ money is the main issue
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looks like £3000 worth of wheels, tyres and damage there. Be nice to be able to spend that locking oiks up rather than replacing wheels, not that simple I know but I'm an idealist.
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I totally agree with you.
However, I think an anpr camera would be expensive.
In an ideal world each car park would be patrolled 24 hours a day by security :)
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Isn't there an inherent danger in using more than one locking nut per wheel?
Perhaps a different locking nut on each wheel would be better.
Yes. Only one per wheel is advised.
Why is that?
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I remember reading something about locking nuts being slightly weaker or something compared to the other bolts.
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That's just pure f****d up they need shooting even if there is CCTV there's not a fad lot that's gonna come of it all that will happen is he will get a crime number and that's it i had my car damaged and caught the perpetrator outside a police station and the cops let him go :fighting:
Vehicle crime is a crime that unfortunately generally cannot be detected. Pure and simply. Of course the example given, don't know what happened with the police, but unless the offender is on scene and your on the phone to the police, all your going to get is a crime ref number. Certainly in Herts, you get the scenes of crime people out to look for prints/blood etc, but, again, as criminals are generally forensically aware, nothing will be picked up. It is a right pain but what else can be done?
Alot of station CCTV (in fact, a lot of CCTV in general) is of poor quality and simply reading a vehicles numberplate is a struggle. ANPR is used for commonly now in car parks but is mostly managed by private firms. Access to this data for police etc is sometimes non-existent (especially with one major car park operator!).
Smart water is an excellent deterrent and does work. It's worked wonders on the railways and also increased the amount of stolen property returned to owners. MOst of my electrical stuff has it and my sub in my golf for some reason! Definately good stuff. I have a few packs if people want one (I think 2, maybe more, need to find them first!)
The people that steal wheels/badges are scum, nothing more nothing less, who shouldn't inhabit our world. However, the reality is, vehicle crime is VERY hard to detect.
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What he said :happy2:
Also, a lot of the time, they're hooded up, so all you see is figure/s in usually dark clothing.
Detection chances are pretty slim
When my car got broken into (not at a station) the local shop keeper showed me his cctv and the quality was terrible and all I could see were shapes. Thus no one was ever caught. I'd love to see how these absolute twa$s would feel if t happened to them.
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I remember reading something about locking nuts being slightly weaker or something compared to the other bolts.
On one of my old Mondeo's I had 2 lots of locking wheel nuts mainly due to the fact that my dealer lost mine and so had to replace it and also gave me an extra set. :confused:
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What he said :happy2:
Also, a lot of the time, they're hooded up, so all you see is figure/s in usually dark clothing.
Detection chances are pretty slim
When my car got broken into (not at a station) the local shop keeper showed me his cctv and the quality was terrible and all I could see were shapes. Thus no one was ever caught. I'd love to see how these absolute twa$s would feel if t happened to them.
They'd nick someone elses car or attempt to steal someones car window to fit theirs knowing how dumb they are!! haha!
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Haha very true!
Eugh this is something that REALLY annoys me. We work hard to have nice things in our lives that we enjoy and then some scum bags thieve them.
Go out and earn a living like everyone else!
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You speak the truth Rachael. :notworthy:
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Haha very true!
Eugh this is something that REALLY annoys me. We work hard to have nice things in our lives that we enjoy and then some scum bags thieve them.
Go out and earn a living like everyone else!
Tell you what does my head is every scums bags house i've been in.......has a games console atleast AND everytime has a MASSIVE flat screen TV. HOW?!?!?!?!?
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That's an entirely different conversation :wink:
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That's an entirely different conversation :wink:
:) Indeed! Haha. Locking wheel nuts:
Good article here which uses the Mk4 Golf as the test car - http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/accessories-tyres/35994/locking-wheel-bolts
Less than £10 a wheel and tey also say McGard ones are good.
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I know it's a bit off topic but here's the latest craze up in Aberdeen. My sisters friend got her 6 week old A3 stolen the other week by this method. Apparently some gangs got a master key to get into any new Audi and there going about doing this. There using 15-16 year olds to go and steal the cars so they don't get prosecuted!!!
http://local.stv.tv/aberdeen/news/court-crime/28587-warning-to-audi-car-owners/
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That's ridiculous! An emergency key in the glovebox WTF! why haven't they told the owners!
We had a similar thing down Here with bmws, thieves broke in, and programmed a key to the car and drove off happy as Larry
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That's ridiculous! An emergency key in the glovebox WTF! why haven't they told the owners!
We had a similar thing down Here with bmws, thieves broke in, and programmed a key to the car and drove off happy as Larry
Even with all this hi-tech security, no car made to date, cannot be stolen.....and you don't need expensive tools to do it. It really is crazy. Dealers know all this of course!
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Very very true. It's a shame, and a sad society we live in where you go to bed at night and there is a chance your car might not b there in the morning.
I might get a train horn fitted to my alarm, if that thing starts going off they'll definitely start running!
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I know it's a bit off topic but here's the latest craze up in Aberdeen. My sisters friend got her 6 week old A3 stolen the other week by this method. Apparently some gangs got a master key to get into any new Audi and there going about doing this. There using 15-16 year olds to go and steal the cars so they don't get prosecuted!!!
http://local.stv.tv/aberdeen/news/court-crime/28587-warning-to-audi-car-owners/
That's just frigging stupid. Just because it's in the manual does not give the manufacturer the right to leave the equipment to drive the car off left INSIDE the car