With electric impact wrenches and conical bolt extractors, pros can have the wheels off as fast as a NASCAR pit crew. Wheel locks, alarms, &c may stop a opportunistic thief but they won't even slow down the pros.

I honestly wondered how they were so effective doing it.

3 Simple things you can do to help deter wheel theives.
1. Park near the curb.
2. Turn your front wheels all the way to one direction.
3. Get a tilt sensor added to the stock alarm.

Wheel locks cause more harm then good, at best it addes 30sec per wheel for a thief. At worst your going to have to call a tow truck when you get a flat.

http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/...R/IMG_9003.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3719/9...48c401c1_c.jpg
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http://www.2dayblog.com/images/2009/...enwheels_2.jpg

Ouch!!!!
My eyes are bleeding, True Blood style:(

Ha Ha! Here in Texas they'd give you a medal.

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Don't mess with Texas :driving:

These pics are pretty awful :(

Your best chance is to deter. Tilt-alarm is your first line of defense. The new Viper alarms are ridiculous and have all sorts of remote notification options. See attached screenshots straight from their website.

Second line of defense would be wheel locks. I don't know how many different keys Nissan has for wheel locks (I have encountered 3), but I would put as many different keys as I could on each wheel and use wheel locks on every lug.

It doesn't take a lock key to undo a wheel lock. Hammer on a socket that's sligtly smaller and twist off. Or, even easier, use an EZ OUT. One can put 20 different wheel locks on a Z and they wouldn't deter or even slow down a wheel thief.

I just installed Gorilla Guard Lock #63621 on my 19" Rays wheels (2014 Touring with Sports Package). The outer sleeve spins, so banging a smaller socket on it wouldn't work. I've heard people say, what about just super gluing the outer sleeve? Not sure if that would work, but at least it would give them a problem to deal with and potentially move on to an easier target.

Keeping my Z in the locked garage is the best option and I'm so glad I don't live in some kind of crappy apartment complex any longer. Those places are horrible and the land lords don't give a **** about anything other than collecting the rent. The police don't care either. Any time I've called them, they say they aren't going to investigate and you just file a paper report and forget about it. When you're a victim of car prowls, it's extremely infuriating.

Where do these guys sell all these wheels? Craigslist or something. I'd be looking for them just to beat the hell out of someone. Crazy

Sorry to tell you but those locks do not work properly with OEM wheels. I would take them off asap before you damage your wheels. You are not the first person to make that mistake.

http://www.the370z.com/wheels-tires/...kage-rays.html

Where is your documentation that they don't work? This thread seems to have people who've been using them fine.
http://www.the370z.com/wheels-tires/...kage-rays.html