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This Lincoln LS owner won't be too happy when he goes outside

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Maybe I'm missing something but it looks to me like someone is working on the car, thieves wouldn't leave behind a nice jack like that.

 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
wtf is a shaved door handle?
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It's basically where you remove the door handle, and fill in the hole left afterwards. Thus, the only way to open the door is with your alarm.
 
maybe the thieves were surprised and had to leave quick. Or the jack was stolen anyway...and they didn't have room/didn't want to lug it around. *shrug*
 
Originally posted by: Whade
Maybe I'm missing something but it looks to me like someone is working on the car, thieves wouldn't leave behind a nice jack like that.
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you are missing something, HIS RIMS GOT STOLEN, it's ON CINDER BLOCKS. The front bumper is ON the ground.
 
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: Whade
Maybe I'm missing something but it looks to me like someone is working on the car, thieves wouldn't leave behind a nice jack like that.
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you are missing something, HIS RIMS GOT STOLEN, it's ON CINDER BLOCKS. The front bumper is ON the ground.
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4 good wheels more than makes up for the cost of a new jack. I'm sure they aren't sweating it.
 
Same thing happened to a friend a few years back, I hate to give anyone ideas, but this is how (we suspect) they did it.

Put wooden blocks under the car, silently undo all the wheel lugs and pocket them. Using wire cutters cut the valve stem off (we found the valve stems on the driveway)...the car drops to the blocks...you pull the wheel and run. Probably works best with 4 guys, one on each tire.

Might not work so well with the really low profile tires most people use these days.
 
Originally posted by: se7enty7
wheel locks are rather pointless. take a socket, and hammer it over the top of it and voila.
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depends on the design of the wheel locks. plus hammering makes a lot more noise.
 
I have been saving up for some after market Audi rims for my 2004 A4, but I might think twice before dropping 2g's now. :disgust:

:evil: Bastades!!!
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
DAMNIT. I knew I forgot something. Good thing I was wearing gloves.
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Gloves? No, they found plenty of your prints all over the jack and on the paint of the car itself. Expect to hear from an officer soon.

 
OMG! I just bought some Lincoln LS wheels off a friend for cheap! I don't know where he got them, but they'll be sweet on my SAAB! He even put some tires on them already.
 
Whoever did that deserves to die a horrible death (unless it was the owner who was busy changing the wheels and went inside to get a cup of lemonade).
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
On edit: And the people who support thieves by buying their stolen goods should have every article of personal property stripped from them. I mean picked clean right on down to peeling the wall paper off their walls. Then, perhaps, they will understand what it is that they support.
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The family jewels sound about right. Removed uncleanly with a pair of rusty channel locks, no anesthesia, no chomping bit, no hard liquor.
 
Originally posted by: Nanotech
I have been saving up for some after market Audi rims for my 2004 A4, but I might think twice before dropping 2g's now. :disgust:

:evil: Bastades!!!
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you had to think twice about droppig 2K on rims?

 
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