Stolen Wheels!!!!! ANGRY
 

So this morning I go to leave for work and i see this:

http://www.the370z.com/members/jeffb...n-wheels-1.jpg

http://www.the370z.com/members/jeffb...n-wheels-3.jpg

http://www.the370z.com/members/jeffb...n-wheels-3.jpg

It happened between 2 and 7 AM last night (May 27 2010). They used bricks from a house down the road that was under construction and stole my back 2 rays 19 inch sport wheels. They also tried to steal the wheels of an escalade around the block, but they didn't stack enough bricks and the car moved once one wheel was off, so they just left with that.

So i called the police right away, filed claim with insurance, my car is about to be flat bedded to the shop and tomorrow i am getting brand new take offs from another 2010z to replace them, i just have to pay the 500 dollar deductible, insurance is covering everything else.

Either way, some piece of Sh1t stole my wheels. Clearly this was some kind of special order, or they would have taken the whole set.

If any of you see for sale (craigslist/ebay) a set of 2 19" rear wheels from a 370z in the Long island/New york/New Jersey/metro area please let me know as i would like to catch these bastards.

MY CAR STILL HAS A TEMPORARY REGISTRATION/900 miles on the odometer FOR CHRIST SAKE

Very soory man!!! When you get new ones make sure you get the locking lugs!

What is there nothing but A holes in this world

OMG!!!:eek:

man, that really sux...def ge the locking lugs, they aren't 100% effective, but its enough to deter 95% of the a-holes out there that can't pay for their own crap.

sorry to hear the bad news, hopefully they get caught trying to sell them off.

edit- noticed i wrote "are 100% effective"...supposed to be "aren't"

Wow, sucks to hear, hope they catch the a-holes who did this.

Aahh shoot, sorry about your lost man. I wonder why you have not in the garage. Mine is garage all the time, but now I'm gonna get that wheel lock for sure.

Sorry to hear and SEE those photos. Second thread like this, I believe. (Not this particular car but second time it's happened to someone on here)

You aren't the first person to have this happen to in NY. Gah this is rediculous, I feel sorry for you man.

Locking lugs just delays the stealing process. Get a shock sensor alarm and no one could steal rims without setting it off.

yea i bought this car 3 weeks ago after finishing school, and i'm moving back home (i've been here 3 days) and i hadn't had time to clean out the garage to put the car in yet, nor get the wheel locks. This weekend i was planning on cleaning out hte garage and getting the car in there and pickup wheel locks.

Im gonna keep that in the garage, get locking lucks, and get an alarm.... and maybe some land mines and a pet tiger :icon14:

That is pathetic! Definitely need wheel locks...at leaat that will stop/deter the "amateur" thieves.

If someone doesn't have a shock sensor. The thieves only need a few extra sockets and the locks are off. They hammer the socket onto the lock lug.

Best idea yet:tup:

yea i don't have that much faith in the locking lugs, i had them on another car, i mean yea its better than leaving a jack and a torque wrench out there for them to use, but i feel like unless its in a garage or has an alarm, its not safe.

they left the lugs nuts? wow :shakes head:

I'm really sorry to hear about your loss.

I always have believed in "Middle Eastern" justice. Steal another man's belongings? Lose a finger. Steal twice? Lose another finger. Eventually you're going to quit stealing. End of story. I know that goes down bad with some people but I hate thieves, I truly hate them.

Three weeks ago we were visiting my mom in Billings, MT (my hometown) and my wife made some business calls while we were there. I was visiting a friend when she called at noon to say the rental car had been broken into while it was parked in an outdoor parking lot in the middle of the day. They got her cell phone, check book, address book and our house keys among other stuff. I flew home right away to change the locks on the doors; vacation cut short. She knows she made a mistake by not putting her bag in the trunk.

Theft is not a victimless crime; it can be devastating, demoralizing, and truly hurtful. A thief is a self-centered and often times heartless piece of crap that makes his living in a liberal society where judges and lawmakers lack the moral fiber to say Enough is Enough!

Did your side skirts get damaged?

Or the pet tiger...

In reality, every security measure can be ineffective if the thief is really determined. But each measure can make it more difficult.

For example, I know people who've had things stolen out of their car merely because the doors weren't locked, whereas my car with locked doors was parked right next to them but left alone. Had a thief wanted badly enough, a broken window would've done the trick. But just locking the doors deterred a petty thief one night.

Studies have shown that noisy car alarms are largely ignored by the public. They don't come running to see what's happening or call for help if it's someone else's car.

I think one should layer their approach... Wheel locks, a shock sensor, locked doors, well-lit parking space right next to the house... But even then, if a thief times his event carefully enough, he can still get what he wants.

People are just scum-asses in general. Sorry this happened to Jeff.

Another thing people should do is turn the steering wheel all the way to one side. It's a major PITA to get the front wheels off. There's not enough space to pull the rim off in the wheel well.




Like so:

those light sensors in the house seem to do the trick as well...

I walk my dogs late at night and sometimes I pass buy a house trigger the alarm and two spot lights go on, and i get startled. I am sure that can deter an thief.

I like to daydream of various theft deterrents. I would never do any of these but it is fun to think about.

1. Sulphuric acid in glass capsules in the wheel wells rigged to explode on illegal removal of wheels.
2. A spring loaded steel spike under the drivers seat if the car is started without the proper key.
3. A remote controlled explosive device which can be activated at any time by the owner of the car.

Feel free to add your own favorites. These are for entertainment only. Obviously if you do any of these you might kill yourself or injure an innocent person accidently. So don't try this at home LOL.

I wonder...should I get 4 more sets of locking lugs, that way you need 5 different lug-keys to take off one wheel. (that or 5 sockets to hammer on to the locks, per wheel)


That would definately be enough of a PITA that most thugzzz wouldn't bother.

You don't even have to hammer a socket on.

I bought some wheel locker remove easy-out sockets that you just slide on like normal and they grip into the locking lugnut and remove it. I bought them cause I lost the key to the ones on my mustang.

\Which is why wheel locks are pretty useless. A thief who wants your wheels is gonna have the tools to do the job...

Where in NY are you? They got all 4 of mine in Queens and left my car on rocks damaging the rocker panels.

Got wheel locks and an alarm which probably won't do much.

Agreed.

When metal values were skyrocketing and the theft of catalytic converters was going up as well, someone broke into the local Infiniti dealership and cut a bunch of cats out. But they were lazy theives, instead of climbing the fence, they used the same tools they used to cut the cats out, to just hack a big hole in the fence :owned:

I've always thought about rigging a magnetron (like from a microwave) pointed at the driver's seat if the car was started by a thief.

i dont think theres any damage to the rocker panels, i put the car up on the wheels that i used to have on my altima, to get it off the ground and so it was driveable to put on the flatbed. If anyone wants to see what a 18x8.5" wide +45 offset chrome wheel looks like in the back of a 370z let me know. It doesn't look good

I'm in Nassau County.

Spineless sociopathic scum, thats all i have to say about the people who do this kind of thing.

Damn, sorry to hear about that!!!! It could of been worst! They could of stole or car or done major damage to the entire car...

You know what really sucks here? Those damn sprinklers that come on and leave water spots on just one side of the car and a rusty brake disk. :shakes head:


Sorry to hear about this though.

i know! god damn sprinklers. well i hope these a$$holes at least got wet, although, based on the water marks on the rotors, it would appear that the water was unabated in its landing on the rotor, meaning that the rotor was exposed when the sprinkler came on, meaning this MUST have happened before or during the time when my sprinklers were on. This evidence, coupled with the fingerprints from the leftover lug nuts should be more than sufficient to fully prosecute these individuals! jesus christ this is like Law and Order!.

When i told the officer i had not touched anything including the lug nuts on the ground he said that it wouldn't matter because they would never pursue finding any type of prints for investigation.... fail

wow that sucks !

More like CSI. Water on the rotor would look pretty much the same whether the wheel was still attached or not. The wheel is pretty open and I've had a good rain make the rotor look the same with wheel attached.

Gotta love the cops though huh?! I guess real crime and crime solving gets in the way of camping out in someones driveway with a radar gun and generating revenue. :shakes head:

That's a good deterrent - but you really should get an aftermarket alarm if you are going to leave her outside... locking lugs are a 10 second inconvenience for a thief who is determined to have your wheels...

**** suckers!

A CCTV cam setup is probably the way to go in this case along with motion lights.

A standard socket won't even fit in my wheels and they are all locking. ;)

I love living next to a cop.
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Man that just sucks sorry to here that.