I bought this car for myself 3 weeks ago as i was about to finish my undergrad. I moved back home and have only been here for 3 days. i was going to clean the garage out this weekend so i could move the car in. There was no place to get the alarm installed where i was at school, and i was thinking i'd be ok for 5 days, but apparently not. very frustrating. I have compiled a whole list of information/evidence that i have tried to give to the police but they really don't care. I have told them i'm not trying to (For lack of a better phrase) spin there wheels. i'm not trying to get mine back. i'm trying to help so this DOESNT HAPPEN ANYMORE. If anyone else on here wants to help, i will post his phone number later when i get home. if you google it, you will find recent for sale threads for sets of:

24" avanti wheels
audi a8 wheels
g37s wheels
volk wheels
my 370z wheels.

once i put the number up, keep your eyes open, if you find a sale thread with that number, the wheels are probably stolen. he is from st albins queens/jamaica queens NY

Wow so these are your wheels then?

370z wheels

Maybe Im not understanding this, but do you know who it is? Or do you just have a suspicion its this guy whose ads youve found? If you know its him why dont you contact him about purchasing a set, stating your local so you will pick them up personally, then show up with a cop who cares. I doubt it works this way but maybe you can force him to procure receipts or something for all these wheels hes selling, and when he has none, bam thats your guy.

Or do the same without a cop, but bring a bat instead (j/k)

i believe. the back 2 are mine. the fronts are the friend of another member here. I called and tried arranging a meet with him but he was in such a rush to sell them it had to be done last night, and i coudln't get anywhere with the police last night so i just gave up on trying to bust him with the wheels. he probably sold them. the police don't care because they can't prove they are my wheels.

so yes i am under the suspicion they are mine. when i asked how many miles on them he said uhhhh like..... a thousand.... i was like 'is there any damage; hes liek 'listen man these are like fresh, they still got the little things on the tire' (the nubs on the tread on brand new tires) when i asked him if he had a Z he was really awkward about it and wouldnt give me any information. plus, the ad was up last night at seven. my wheels were less than 24 hours prior. and he was in a huge rush to sell them. a lot more of a rush than someone who just took them off their own car. also if you read above, the cell phone number he gave me is associated with a whole bunch of other random wheel for sale threads on the internet

just reading this makes me fvcking furious. i feel for you, man. this same thing happened to me in san diego back in 2001, so i know how helpless you feel.

it sucks that the cops won't help, but not surprised. as was stated by someone else, it's much easier (and more lucrative) to just hand out speeding tickets instead of going after actual criminals.

keep up the good fight. it looks like you have identified the guy, and who knows where that may lead.

This guy needs to get caught bottom line, and everything youre saying leads me to agree that youve got the right person. Like you said your wheels are likely gone and done with, I wouldnt let this fall through though.
You may or may not know this but a while back there was a group of kids doing this exact same thing, probably on an even larger scale, supposedly hitting both private owners and dealerships. They targeted the 370Z wheels, and were called the Rim Reapers. They got caught, which allowed me to sleep a bit easier at night. Knowing somebody is back at it has got me royally pissed off and uneasy. Keep trying man, theres got to be a cop out there that will see to it this douchebag gets whats coming to him.

So, interesting to note - one of my friends back in Omaha takes some super glue and somehow puts his fingerprint in an area that'd be protected/not obvious, so if they were ever stolen, he could prove they were his.

Sure enough, his Avalanche's wheels were stolen, and when they were found (it was an extremely unique set), he showed the cops his finger prints. Case closed.

I think you can track the IP address the add came from (his house), go steal them back :p

it really sucks this happened to you!

Ryan

Man, I hate thieves, I hope they busted or better yet, caught and beaten to an inch of their lives and then thrown in the slammer. Stupid people everywhere who are to lazy to get their stuff.

excellent idea! Where would be a good place on wheels? Inside the wheel under the tire? :ugh2: :happydance:

Uhmmm, who knows - I think he actually put them on the inside of the plastic center caps, all 4 of course. Maybe even consider laying a little paint of a special color on the inside.

Negatory. The IP address you see is merely a virtual address that can potentially change. Furthermore, you'd have to somehow access the customer database of the ISP that owns the addy to get access to "Who owned that IP address at that time"?

To make it worse, they can easily be spoofed :-p lol

Lame
:shakes head:

Yea i'm trying to figure out the best way to uniquely identify my wheels so if they were ever stolen again, i'd have a way of proving they were mine. the problem is its gotta be obvious enough to be able to see, but not so its something they can cover up. i think inside the bore where the center cap covers would be a good place. no one would look there. maybe etch some sort of code or your name or vin or something.

btw i just got off the phone with the insurance guy at the shop. the total bill for new wheels, TPMS, tires and lugs mounted and balanced and installed was a little over 3700 dollars. i mean. i think that price is a little high, but they have to do everything brand new from the factory/parts dept. thank god i have comprehensive insurance. i only have to pay $500 of that.

I'm sorry bro. You probably know about the guy in Hicksville who had this experience too:

http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...olen-help.html

You say you are in Nassau too - it has to be the same people who did this.

Can you link me to the guy from Suffolk who had this issue too, I'm in suffolk as well, I have base wheels though not sports, and we have two sports car in the driveway with a camera system me and my buddy with the other car bought half and half together.

Thats him, its his friend who's front wheels were stolen.

I take my wheels off every night....:wtf2:

I have security cameras around my house to at least see who did it...Alarm in my car for motion/glass breakage.

Definitely wheel locks would help,...

I would've saved the $500 and used that towards new/used aftermarket rims and tires and sell the fornts to recoup some money...

Good luck and ask your neighbors if they saw anything,..

Id personally stake out myself with a lure and have a hugh bat handy....I also keep my glock 9mm, Sig 40, mossberg 500, and remington 870 handy... :)

I had friends who lived in a rough part of Baltimore City. They weren't gun owners, but their car bore an NRA sticker, an FOP sticker, and had empty bullet boxes in clear view in the back seat. They never had a break-in in that car.

Just got off the phone with the detective. its official. the police don't care.

oh and yea. i bought aftermarket wheels in may. they are still on order. So this is really just a pain in the ***. 2 rear wheels and tires are worth more than 500 dollars so it makes more sense to pay the deductible to have them back to sell the whole set together.

i dont understand that, cause it very well may be the same guys back at it from last time...

thats so lame.. Im gonna contact him now and express interest in the rims and see what he says.

Thats your wheels and my buddies that were stolen within 4 days of each other.. its basically a "serial" rim stealer.. Insurance companies have to put heat on law enforcement to stop this as they pay out thousands of dollars.

Police would care if it was his own.

I used to live in Suffolk... the cops out there are the highest paid in the country and don't give a **** about helping anyone out like this. If it doesn't happen right in front of their face "you can't prove it"

Best of luck with this man... I know how it feels to have your personal security feel violated.

he said the only way these people get caught is when they get caught red handed. so after explaining all of my reasoning of why i think this guy is the theif hitting multiple people. he's like 'let me ask you this... did anyone see this happen/did any of your neighbors come to to you and tell you what they saw' i'm like 'no'

so he is all like 'the only way these people get caught is red handed.

He thought OEM wheels were some type of high performance aftermarket wheel, cuz i was mentioning that his number was linked to a whole bunch of OEM wheels from audi's and infinities being stolen.

These guys hit the dealership that my car was purchased at. i just called today to ask them if there was any way to identify the wheels and he mentioned that 3 sets of wheels had been stolen.

Let me ask you something. . . just having a witness is enough?
How does the POLICE prove that the witness isn't lying? What if I have a suspect and a fake witness?

Exactly...

I'd say arrange a meeting with this guy and find out what he looks like. Then get your neighbor to say they saw some guy with his description sneaking around your house in the middle of the night.

If they want to play games... then play games.

This would give you a reason to shoot the guy on the spot and it should be legal to do so.

Well my volks have serial numbers on them - and I have a photo with my name and the date with the wheels on my car. So if they were stolen - it should be pretty easy to track down. Also they have very unique curb rash which I think is a blessing in disguise - no smart thief is going to steal your one rashed left front and back right lol...

When I bought my Z a few weeks ago from a dealer here in Calif they had all their Zs on the lot parked side by side - about 3 inches apart. When I asked why they too had been hit and it was a deterrent to keep people from stealing the wheels.

people jacking cars or stuff from cars is very personal. I think if I ever had a gun and caught them in the act, I'd make sure they'd never think about doing anything like that again.

yea right now the Z is in the garage, and the altima and G the mirrors are less than an inch apart and the front wheels are turned all the way.

I'd be more concerned with my car sitting on bricks in areas that are not lift points.

Got Damage?

no damage, they basically were on the rails where jack points would be.

That's NCPD saying that? Like they are busy doing anything else?

Did you try to call NYPD AUTO CRIME UNIT? They may know or may want to know about this perp.

This is going to sound extremely stupid, but it's somewhat relevant; I'm not at suggesting you do this, but because I have to parallel park in the city so much, I have light scratches and curb rashes on pretty much all my wheels. There's no way someone could reproduce the scratches and curb rashes, so if someone did steal my wheels (though why bother with a damaged set anyways?), I'd be able to identify them immediately.

Do you have the option to get cash instead and just buy the wheels/tires on your own? If so I have a complete mint set for sale, with TPMS!

Yep there are a bunch of people sitll going around stealin wheels. The last douche who tried to steal a G37 set tried to sell them on here and one of our members was the victim. They got caught though....wonder if its them again.