I know that feeling when you first saw it - a mixture of disbelief and furious p1ssed offedness. (years ago I had parked my pride and joy mazda under a bridge while I was at work and they smashed the window to get the radio...)

ppl who do that stuff usually have sh1tty lives and are losers. You are a winner.

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i'm trying SO hard to work with the police. NOT to get my wheels back but to BUST these people so they don't steal from anyone else. i googled this guys number that he gave me to contact him once i saw his craigslist posting
370z wheels

i googled his number and i found all these listings for these wheels:

Asanti 24 inch rims
g37s rims
volk rims w/drag radials and falkens up front
chrysler 300c srt8 wheels
Audi A8 wheels (march 12 listing)

I told the police that i had found a list of other wheels that were for sale and was hoping to cross reference it with a list of recent thefts, but the detective on MY case isn't there right now and they couldn't have cared less. i tried to explain i'm trying to help get criminals off the street, not try to get my own wheels back. i pay my deductible i'm done. i dont want it happening again to me or anyone else again!. i will call the detective back in the morning

Actually, thinking about what happened to you, I bet this is the scenario -

some other 370z owner , probably within no more than 10 miles or less, has banged up their own rear wheel(s) and has been cruising around looking for 'replacement' wheels on the cheap - hence why they only took two as thats all that they could fit into their car or needed. A crime of opportunity - as they didn't even have their own bricks to hold it up, a seasoned operator would'nt leave that to chance.

I bet its someone you may even have seen driving around in your area, maye to/from their place of work or ??

waddya reckon?

I think that they are trying to be a little more sneaky and not taking full sets to cover their trail. i am pming with another member who's wheels were stolen and his friends FRONT wheels were stolen like 2 days ago, now my rears=full set=craigslist for sale.
I see it like this.

Ive got his phone number tied to a whole bunch of wheel listings
i find out from the detectives whether they were all stolen within a recent time period in our area
i haven't touched the lugs that they left with my bare hands, i grabed them with a nearby microfiber buffer head and plopped them in.
If it turns out all those other wheels were stolen, and his prints match any partial on my lug nuts, we have our guy.

sounds like a great plan but i would be surprised if they went to that much trouble... least from my experience. of course my sub and Zune were not worth as much as wheels...

yea i understand what you are saying, but your sub and zune are a different kind of issue. people will always smash windows/steal things from inside a car if they are left inside. the key is not leaving valuables inside the car. this rim stealing thing, its a real problem on long island/new york metro area, and its very systematic and planned. there are groups of people and they do it many times over and over to entire neighborhoods etc. its a crime ring and it needs to be stopped. plus, stealing a zune or a sub is petty theft in the eyes of the law. stealing an entire set of wheels is grand larceny (which is a felony offense) once it becomes multiple occurences which are planned, you have conspiracy. These are major crimes with serious sentences they get caught.

i feel ya, plus i (apparently) left my doors unlocked because my locks were not tampered with and my windows were in tact. i say "apparently" because my friend was driving my truck 2 years later (just a few months ago) and his ipod got stolen out of the truck and he knows for a fact he locked it so apparently something screwy's going on. i would say we are hitting the unlock button in pocket but if you do and don't open the door within 60 seconds or so, they lock back so i'm not sure what's going on

That really sucks man, and its pretty scary to see this constantly happening in NY/Long Island. Im especially worried with my anniversary wheels. I have the oem locking lugs, but I might order a set of these too:

JDM MUTEKI WHEEL LUG NUT M12 x 1.25 OPEN ENDED BLACK: eBay Motors (item 310193958307 end time Jun-10-10 18:36:46 PDT)

Those plus the oem style locking lug might be enough to make them not bother.

Seriously ... stick some razors behind the wheels - at least you got some blood... This is so lame... I hope you find those fvcks...

This is to cheer you up:
http://www.the370z.com/lounge-off-to...els-tires.html

I dunno - seasoned operators don't leave lugs lying around...that smacks of a hasty retreat, eg. a neighbours light going on or a noise of a car pulling up nearby as someone comes home etc.
Seasoned operators become more and more brazen as they go along, and are would be less likely to leave evidence lying around and be ruffled by nearby noises/lights etc, ....

its tricky though,...

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what do you guys think of these?

http://www.nengun.com/kyo-ei/dency-2000-lock-nuts

he means these:

KYO-EI - Dency 2000 Lock Nuts - Nengun Performance

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WTF dude!!!!!!!!! You just got the car!!!!!! I'm so sorry I can just imagine how you feel. I am so lucky I have a garage to keep mine in once it gets hear. Cant belive this.

Yea those!.... how did i manage that. did i do image by accident?



Yea i'm pissed. i'm putting it in the garage immediately after i get it back today. i am going over to the alarm installer to schedule an appt for next week to have a viper installed. I'm debating over whether i should go for the remote start and or smart start (for iphone).

until an alarm is in this thing, its not spending the night outside anywhere.

Dude im so sorry to see this, youve got to catch these people, even if you have to "hire" some people who take an alternative approach to dealing with these types of things. Justice is clearly not being served, the police could care less. COntinue doing your research to locate these guys and then seek some extra help. Be smart about it, get your rims back, get a proper alarm and move on. This kind of stuff really irks me, some low class, idiotic individual planned this, they will not stop until they get caught.......ohhh man im so mad right now.....