Why would you bother!

fletch

Yesterday a group of teens robbed the dust caps off my car! :rolleyes:
Anyone else had stupid things robbed from their car....a few years ago, the bulbs outta my Dad's front fog lights were robbed!

PaddyFagan

A collegue had the rear wiper stolen off his clio (The nut that holds it in place was unscrewed, this was no act of vandalism....)

I guess for the most part these are nicked to replace parts on other cars. But perhaps the dust caps are more for display/bragging rights?

jozi

Dust caps as in wheel covers?
They must have been very special
Know of someone who had his reg plates nicked, and replaced (with different ones). Funny prank unless it happens to you.

Jozi

prospect

My mam had a luminous smily face ball that fitted to the top of her aerial. Stupid thing, but it helped her spot her car in a car park.
But, it was stroked from the car, in liffey vally car park...

fletch

jozi wrote:

Dust caps as in wheel covers?

Nope....air valve covers

fletch

prospect wrote:

But, it was stroked from the car, in liffey vally car park...

Surprise surprise!

rymus

I had a small chrome clock pulled off the handlebars on my motorbike in a campsite in France. Bloody thing didn't work anyway so I hope whatever gob****e took it needed a small paperweight

magpie

I had the glass stolen from the right wing mirror on my old Mark IV Golf on Strand Road. Obviously someone needed to replace theirs. Ended up costing me £25, the *****.

blastman

I've had about a dozen dust caps nicked off my cars over the past few years. Since putting my recently(-ish) imported car on the road about two months ago, all the dust caps have disappeared.

I should say these are all metal rather then plastic dust caps. My keyring is basically a spanner that allows tightening of metal dust caps beyond the point where the casual knacker can unscrew them by hand.....

Hellrazer

jozi wrote:

Know of someone who had his reg plates nicked, and replaced (with different ones). Funny prank unless it happens to you.

Jozi

Funny alright--I swopped one of the lads cars plates here with "HONK IM GAY" plates on a Friday of a long weekend(was revenge for a prank played on me--they took all the relays out of the car and just left in enough to keep the car driving.No wipers,electric windows,air con, sunroof, etc for 3 days over a weekend)

He drove all the way to Cork with the plates on the car and couldnt understand why everyone was honking at him.And since it was a long weekend and he was stuck in the middle of nowhere he couldnt even get new plates made up for the car.

clairey

Some little B*sta*ds robbed my indicator and surround off my focus!! its gona cost 70 pound for a new one from hella

jhegarty

fletch wrote:

Yesterday a group of teens robbed the dust caps off my car! :rolleyes:
Anyone else had stupid things robbed from their car....a few years ago, the bulbs outta my Dad's front fog lights were robbed!

i'm going to win this price .....

Half an L plate... yes , Half an L plate......they took the top half and left the botton half...

skibum

My Dad has a 5 series BMW with the "Angel eye's" headlights, some arse hole nicked them, didn't leave a mark or scratch on the bumper or bonnet, but the scumbag cut the wiring loom on both sides, so to replace the headlights and rewire the lights ended up costing him over €1250.

Jip

When we were kids we always took the dust caps off cars whenever we needed them for our Raleigh Burners and BMX's. It's all fun and games until they nick mine !

Dades

Hellrazer wrote:

Funny alright--I swopped one of the lads cars plates here with "HONK IM GAY" plates on a Friday of a long weekend(was revenge for a prank played on me--they took all the relays out of the car and just left in enough to keep the car driving.No wipers,electric windows,air con, sunroof, etc for 3 days over a weekend)

He drove all the way to Cork with the plates on the car and couldnt understand why everyone was honking at him.And since it was a long weekend and he was stuck in the middle of nowhere he couldnt even get new plates made up for the car.

LOL

That's a great prank.

Interceptor

Death to anyone who touches your car.

I have had so much stuff robbed off cars I gave up counting, the worst was the the time some scummer broke ALL of the locks on my Fiesta only to steal the stick-on Garfield off my rear window...

'c

lomb

magpie wrote:

I had the glass stolen from the right wing mirror on my old Mark IV Golf on Strand Road. Obviously someone needed to replace theirs. Ended up costing me £25, the *****.

thats cheap, that glass is curved and heated, ive bought one recently and it was 52 euro and that was from GSF

anyway it will be no good to them, as once u remove it once the clips loosen(only plastic) and basically although it clips on when the mirror is hit by a passing car the glass flies off and hits the side window and smashes. ask me how i know this :rolleyes:

Borzoi

Interceptor wrote:

..... only to steal the stick-on Garfield off my rear window...

In fairness - that's not something I'd admit to.

LOL at Hellrazer - nice one

Interceptor

Borzoi wrote:

In fairness - that's not something I'd admit to.

hey, they were the height of cool in 1989 and you could open the damn car with a spoon but these twats smashed it instead. Serve me right for living on Dorset St...

fletch

jhegarty wrote:

i'm going to win this price .....

Half an L plate... yes , Half an L plate......they took the top half and left the botton half...

lol....u win!

ando

nothing taken yet & 4yrs driving.... hope i didnt just jinx meself

mike65

I've had nothing car related stolen but once back in about 1985 someone nicked a 3 hour blank VHS cassette from my car. Tapes cost a fortune back then!

Mike.

Curran

Some of the things they take are stupid......like the Garfield one......my ex GF had a teddy of a cow taken from the back of her '89 Diahatsu Charade a few years back!

LOL
Her ma used to drive the car also and when she came out from doing her shopping one day, she loaded up the boot of the car......when she got into the car to drive off she realised that it wasnt the car she was supposed to be in

So she cuda had 2 Charade's for the price of 1.......but sure 1 is shameful enough!

She bailed out and threw the shopping into the rite car....locked the other one and burned off!

I nearly wet myself when i heard about it later that evening!

Squirrel

Greatest one was my uncle who had a Toyota keyring on the keys to his Mazda 626, it was from his old car, he managed to lock the keys in the car, some scumbags broke in, nicked them and were caught 10 minutes later trying to get into an Avensis down the road, quality

Petal

Couple of weeks ago, my car was broken into. There were a few cds in the glove box and spare change in side of doors. They weren't taken. Wasn't until a few hours later I realised.. they stole a bag of maeve binchy books from my boot! Smart kids..

dcGT

.... I've had countless dustcaps stolen on me. It's easier to have plain black pastic ones now My number plates have been taken. I've had 1 indicator lens taken... once the f*ckers broke one of my wiper blades in half to use as a tool to prise the stereo out of the dash (they ripped the dash apart in the process). They didn't even have the front face for the stereo!....oh, and I've also had my whole rear parcel shelf ripped out of the car.
Why bother buying spare parts when you can just rob them eh?...scum bags.

DC.

freewing

i used to work for cabel-link years ago and one morning i came out to find the side and passenger doors gone :eek: ( hiace van)also the rear windscreen when i rang the cops they said they were on the way as there had been other reports of similar cases that morning . the muppets were found of course ,they actually drove around in a van with multi coloured body work genius!! . i wouldnt mind but the van was full of trial decoders which worked for about six months for free before the card ran out ,not one was missing