Somebody stole my X ((FOUND IT))

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I hope you were insured...

I've never understood the point of doing this, anyway. I'd rather just wear appropriate garments to keep me warm.
Aren't there usually laws on the books against doing this, anyway?

Just out of curiosity, what are the "appropriate garments" that you would wear if it were 20 degrees below zero (Farenheit)? Would you put on thermal underwear beneath the business suit, and follow up with snow pants? I went out and started the car for my wife this morning so it'd be warm when she got in... it wasn't even that cold out

Well you do live in the boondocks IIRC.

the boondocks is a major urban area compaired to where Dr.P is

 

[daveshel]

Since it was a crime of opportunity, it was unlikely the the perp is somebody who has the connections to sell it to a chop shop or whatever. So they'll likely drive around for a while and ditch it.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: pontifex
umm...

thats just an invitation to come steal it...

That depends entirely on where you live. I have lived a number of places where everyone does it all the time without problems (Kansas and Wisconsin) while you would have to be insane to do it other places (Arizona).


And fwiw, when I do it I start it with one set of keys, lock it, and use the other set to get back in.

i live in mesa and do it every morning with my dodge truck. i also have the doors locked and my front door open while its warming up. key is, i lock the doors after i start it, and have my keys on my belt. i dont do it to warm the inside, i dont like driving the truck on a cold engine. i let it warm up so i dont do that.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Since it was a crime of opportunity, it was unlikely the the perp is somebody who has the connections to sell it to a chop shop or whatever. So they'll likely drive around for a while and ditch it.

When I was in college, my roommate "stole" a girl's car that had been left idling and parked it on the lawn between some academic buildings to teach her a lesson. :laugh:

 

[clamum]

Man that sucks.

I go out and start my car while I get ready for work (in the wintertime), and live in a small town. Hope that doesn't happen to me. Then again, my car is a piece of shit.

 

[Joemonkey]

luckily (and unluckily at the same time) I live across from an elementary school. When I go to start my car to warm it up, i wave to the chick that is getting the kids from the cars to the door. I'd imagine she'd say something if someone other than myself was to get in my car. The unlucky part is backing out and hoping the parents see me while they're looking sideways and waving as they drive off.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I hope you were insured...

I've never understood the point of doing this, anyway. I'd rather just wear appropriate garments to keep me warm.
Aren't there usually laws on the books against doing this, anyway?

Just out of curiosity, what are the "appropriate garments" that you would wear if it were 20 degrees below zero (Farenheit)? Would you put on thermal underwear beneath the business suit, and follow up with snow pants? I went out and started the car for my wife this morning so it'd be warm when she got in... it wasn't even that cold out

Well, when it's -20 here, it usually means a good coat, gloves, and something to cover my ears. I suppose it might be different if I was driving an old V8 that took a while to heat up. My car doesn't take more than 5-7 minutes before the air from the vents is warmer than the outside air.

 

[SeaSerpent]

Well Ive been hanging out with the cops. I guess the tard robbed a gas station and he disappeared into the woods with it. I'm going back out...I hope I catch him first.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
Well Ive been hanging out with the cops. I guess the tard robbed a gas station and he disappeared into the woods with it. I'm going back out...I hope I catch him first.

Good luck man. No worries though....it's just a car. They have a relatively short life for most people these days anyhow.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I hope you were insured...

I've never understood the point of doing this, anyway. I'd rather just wear appropriate garments to keep me warm.
Aren't there usually laws on the books against doing this, anyway?

Just out of curiosity, what are the "appropriate garments" that you would wear if it were 20 degrees below zero (Farenheit)? Would you put on thermal underwear beneath the business suit, and follow up with snow pants? I went out and started the car for my wife this morning so it'd be warm when she got in... it wasn't even that cold out

If your job requires that you wear a business suit, then you should probably be able to afford a remote starter. They're what, like $200 installed? Even still, it wouldn't be absurd to put on a nice wool overcoat, gloves and a scarf which should have NO problem helping hold your body heat in until your car warms up a bit, and it certainly wouldn't be out of the question to put on warmer socks and shoes and change them when you get to work... might look a bit silly but if it's -20F and you're more worried about looking silly than the necessities of life you can suffer for all I care.

 

[NaOH]

Hope you get your XEarth back

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

If they pay out, you are one lucky SOB. Buy the wife a bus pass with the proceeds.

 

[Vette73]

Looks like the OP might not be covered like I was thinking before.

Keys in Car

Keys in car2


I guess the OP is somewhere reading his policy right now.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I hope you were insured...

I've never understood the point of doing this, anyway. I'd rather just wear appropriate garments to keep me warm.
Aren't there usually laws on the books against doing this, anyway?

Just out of curiosity, what are the "appropriate garments" that you would wear if it were 20 degrees below zero (Farenheit)? Would you put on thermal underwear beneath the business suit, and follow up with snow pants? I went out and started the car for my wife this morning so it'd be warm when she got in... it wasn't even that cold out

Well, when it's -20 here, it usually means a good coat, gloves, and something to cover my ears. I suppose it might be different if I was driving an old V8 that took a while to heat up. My car doesn't take more than 5-7 minutes before the air from the vents is warmer than the outside air.

It doesn't get that cold here too often, but I just do the good coat, and toughen up for my 15 minute commute. Sometimes gloves are needed so my hands don't freeze to the steering wheel.

I don't have heat in my car, so I don't have to worry about waiting for the engine to heat up.

 

[Pepsi90919]

why would you walk away from a running vehicle?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I hope you were insured...

I've never understood the point of doing this, anyway. I'd rather just wear appropriate garments to keep me warm.
Aren't there usually laws on the books against doing this, anyway?

Just out of curiosity, what are the "appropriate garments" that you would wear if it were 20 degrees below zero (Farenheit)? Would you put on thermal underwear beneath the business suit, and follow up with snow pants? I went out and started the car for my wife this morning so it'd be warm when she got in... it wasn't even that cold out

Well, when it's -20 here, it usually means a good coat, gloves, and something to cover my ears. I suppose it might be different if I was driving an old V8 that took a while to heat up. My car doesn't take more than 5-7 minutes before the air from the vents is warmer than the outside air.

It doesn't get that cold here too often, but I just do the good coat, and toughen up for my 15 minute commute. Sometimes gloves are needed so my hands don't freeze to the steering wheel.

I don't have heat in my car, so I don't have to worry about waiting for the engine to heat up.

You drive the Beetle in that weather?

 

[maziwanka]

hope it works out for you and you catch those asshats

 

[Gothgar]

ouch...

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I hope you were insured...

I've never understood the point of doing this, anyway. I'd rather just wear appropriate garments to keep me warm.
Aren't there usually laws on the books against doing this, anyway?

Just out of curiosity, what are the "appropriate garments" that you would wear if it were 20 degrees below zero (Farenheit)? Would you put on thermal underwear beneath the business suit, and follow up with snow pants? I went out and started the car for my wife this morning so it'd be warm when she got in... it wasn't even that cold out

Well, when it's -20 here, it usually means a good coat, gloves, and something to cover my ears. I suppose it might be different if I was driving an old V8 that took a while to heat up. My car doesn't take more than 5-7 minutes before the air from the vents is warmer than the outside air.

It doesn't get that cold here too often, but I just do the good coat, and toughen up for my 15 minute commute. Sometimes gloves are needed so my hands don't freeze to the steering wheel.

I don't have heat in my car, so I don't have to worry about waiting for the engine to heat up.

You drive the Beetle in that weather?

Nothing stops it! You should have seen the beetle when we had 14 inches of snow, I was driving around to pick people up and push cars and suvs out of snowbanks.

Unfortunately the PO had a cheap paint job put on that is starting to flake, I got nailed in the fender by a porsche cayenne a year and a half ago, and some jerk tapped my hood in some in a parking lot with no note, so I just(saturday) bought a crappy tercel to drive around while I find someone who can do the bodywork, surface rust repair and new paint.

I'm tempted to finally learn some bodywork myself, but I honestly don't have time for it between going to school, working and getting ready to get married next year. I don't really have the money for a full resto either, but I'm hoping that a contact within the club will be able to do it for cheap if I give him an arseload of time to do it in. I still might go ahead and take some chemicals and a sander to it and clean the old stuff off as well as I can.

Also, my commute is really 25-30 minutes, I like to think it's 15, but that's why I'm always late to work. The problem in the really cold weather is having to leave a window cracked so the moisture from your breath doesn't freeze on the inside of the windshield. I have the heaterboxes for the bug, but just pulled them off in july and since I've been thinking about buying a beater never crawled back under and put them back on.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Looks like the OP might not be covered like I was thinking before.

Keys in Car

Keys in car2


I guess the OP is somewhere reading his policy right now.

I bet that insurance companies in the US work differently then in the UK.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Turin39789
Nothing stops it! You should have seen the beetle when we had 14 inches of snow, I was driving around to pick people up and push cars and suvs out of snowbanks.

Unfortunately the PO had a cheap paint job put on that is starting to flake, I got nailed in the fender by a porsche cayenne a year and a half ago, and some jerk tapped my hood in some in a parking lot with no note, so I just(saturday) bought a crappy tercel to drive around while I find someone who can do the bodywork, surface rust repair and new paint.

I'm tempted to finally learn some bodywork myself, but I honestly don't have time for it between going to school, working and getting ready to get married next year. I don't really have the money for a full resto either, but I'm hoping that a contact within the club will be able to do it for cheap if I give him an arseload of time to do it in. I still might go ahead and take some chemicals and a sander to it and clean the old stuff off as well as I can.

Also, my commute is really 25-30 minutes, I like to think it's 15, but that's why I'm always late to work. The problem in the really cold weather is having to leave a window cracked so the moisture from your breath doesn't freeze on the inside of the windshield. I have the heaterboxes for the bug, but just pulled them off in july and since I've been thinking about buying a beater never crawled back under and put them back on.

I have the heat exchangers for one of my VWs, and the heat control boxes for the other

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Looks like the OP might not be covered like I was thinking before.

Keys in Car

Keys in car2


I guess the OP is somewhere reading his policy right now.

I bet that insurance companies in the US work differently then in the UK.

There was a past thread here where the same thing happened and the guy's insurance covered it. Probably depends on the insurance company.

It's the kind of thing that you'd think wouldn't be covered, because you're willfully making your car very easy to steal. I assume they wouldn't cover you if you took your car to a race track and crashed it, because you're doing something that has a much higher probality of damaging your car than driving around on regular streets. When I lived out in Indiana I went to a quarter-mile oval track where they had all sorts of non-standard races for their season ending event. In one of the events the allowed spectators to pay to race their cars two at a time head to head. In one of the races one of the cars bumped the other car in a turn, and the car that got bumped went into the wall and was totaled. I can't even imagine how pissed that guy must have been.

 

[Jeeebus]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Looks like the OP might not be covered like I was thinking before.

Keys in Car

Keys in car2


I guess the OP is somewhere reading his policy right now.

I bet that insurance companies in the US work differently then in the UK.

I know some county in MD was trying to make it a fine-able offense to leave your keys in the car while running due to the number of thefts the county was seeing... I want to say Montgomery County, but am not sure. I wouldn't doubt insurance companies excluding coverage in such situations... they're always looking for a chance to screw us, so why not on this ground?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: pontifex
umm...

thats just an invitation to come steal it...

That depends entirely on where you live. I have lived a number of places where everyone does it all the time without problems (Kansas and Wisconsin) while you would have to be insane to do it other places (Arizona).


And fwiw, when I do it I start it with one set of keys, lock it, and use the other set to get back in.

Agreed ...
I've lived in the suburbs of Chicago my whole life. Where I live now, I am comfortable leaving my car running with the doors unlocked and with me going inside the house.

Where I used to live, I wouldn't even leave the doors unlocked, let alone leave the car running with the doors unlocked ....

That said .. my car is a 99, and it's a domestic, so it isn't very high on the demand list for thieves.

 

[Fenixgoon]

that absolutely sucks, OP.

at the same time, i would NEVER leave my car running with the keys in it. EVER. people where i live sometimes leave their houses unlocked. me? HELL NO. you are leaving an open invitation for theft, regardless of how little crime may be present in your area.