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Originally Posted by OMG37 (Post 587853)

Agreed. I asked the judge if I could just get 20 minutes in a closed room with one of the three guys caught in my case.

what happened to them once they were 'caught' did they face any jail or fines etc?

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Originally Posted by ZedZed (Post 587920)

It seems to work, I tested and was able to delete my own post :tiphat: :tup:

What kind of member do you have to be in order to take the picture someone else posted of a carbon fiber wheel and replace it with one of a kitten?

Is there a serial number on the wheels that can be tied to the VIN somehow?

I'm sorry that happened, those pics are disturbing!

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Originally Posted by vividracing (Post 591882)

I'm sorry that happened, those pics are disturbing!

Thanks for the sympathy. however, later that day i actually brought the car to have it dyno'd I was making 315bhp (Brick horse power). I'm not sure if you know the calcuation, but 1 brick horsepower = 35 wheel horsepower.

As far as a serial number is concerned. There is nothing. I would recommend etching something to uniquely identify your wheels in a discrete location. Then you can actually prove they are yours if they are stolen.

Man that's a sad sight to see..

:shakes head:

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Originally Posted by Jeffblue (Post 552808)

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

AHHAHAHAHA.... Not laughing at you, but just the fact you mentioned getting a pet tiger. My friend's husband who is also a deputy sheriff just got his car broken into in our parking garage. I got worried and said I should get a pet tiger to protect my new Z. She said that would be a great idea and to save money we could feed it Section 8 tenants.

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Originally Posted by Jeffblue (Post 592933)

Thanks for the sympathy. however, later that day i actually brought the car to have it dyno'd I was making 315bhp (Brick horse power). I'm not sure if you know the calcuation, but 1 brick horsepower = 35 wheel horsepower.

A brick horse power? :ugh2: Man, you need hell of a lot of ponies to pull all those bricks from under your car :tup:

Here are the pics with the 18x8.5 +45 Chrome wheels i took off my altima. i needed to put something on to get it on the truck and they were just handy. They are hellatucked, not pretty.

http://www.the370z.com/members/jeffb...43-photo-2.jpg

http://www.the370z.com/members/jeffb...d-they-fit.jpg

http://www.the370z.com/members/jeffb...lla-tucked.jpg

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Originally Posted by 1slow370 (Post 556844)

if only there were a way to put a ceramic insulator between the wheel and the rotor and some insulating washers on the mag nuts(have to insulate the side of the nut somehow as well)then just run some extremely high voltage capicitors to each wheel with enough a charge to run through the would be thiefs heart out his knee when he kneels down and puts the wrench on the wheel, 1.5 amps should be just enough to kill his ***, then you just need enough a voltage to span the gap his clothes would make and to interupt his heart beat. maybe mist salt water on the ground around the car and have a wire hang down in the center to create a full dc circuit with a spare battery in the trunk to same effect only with a longer sizzle when his muscle clamp up on the wrench.

or if you know where he lives burn his to the ground while he's asleep, or on the legal side get PI to trace back the cell number snoop around a little take some photos of dude in the act, and turn him in. sure you'd be out a few thousand to have a full time tail on the guy for a couple weeks but you'd have him.

Oh and on a side note just Piss you off I've had my car in the air wheels on on jackstands 6" off the ground for the last week in my driveway (yes 19" rays) and the only thing that has happened was that the neighbor kid asked me if he could check out my car (he's 12 so no worries there). I don't want to say it but i kinda hope someone steals my wheels so i can get a freakin set of volks(not the reason it's in the air though mother f***ing oil cooler failure facked my engine)

http://www.techwarelabs.com/wp-conte..._c2_propic.jpg
Or you could install a tripwire connected to taser with pressure switch behind rim.

Jeffblue, sorry to see those pics. Same thing happened to my Jeep back in April.

We had it all on video too, 2:00am in the morning 3 guys came into the driveway, jacked the jeep up, took all four wheels and were gone in 10 minutes. They set the truck down on garden landscaping type bricks on the rotors. Insurance check was $8500 after my deductable. :(

I typically drive my civic when I go to the movies and that sort of thing (that has been broken into as well at the movies). That's the one thing that will suck when I upgrade it to a 370, I won't have a "beater" to drive.

oh, btw....about etching something. When I got the new wheels I etched "Stolen! These wheels belong to...please call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX if these are found"

I figured if the theives sell the wheels/tires, eventually that person is going to need new ones and just maybe the guy at the tire store will be honest. Also, if the cops ever do find the, they will either have that etched inside or will have a really big area that's been sanded down.

lol Jeffblue, those pics look great!

Sorry I haven't read through all the pages. When do you expect to get new ones?

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Originally Posted by rha600 (Post 599804)

Unfortunately, the person who purchases the stolen wheels will not have good title. Therefore, if they were to buy your wheels and then realize they were stolen, if they did the right thing they'd be out their money and out the wheels. The only way it would work out is if the person saw it when they went to buy them and then called you. I think doing something more inconspicuous might be better, like some sort of serial number, or your plate number, but do it in a uniform way so that the thief wouldn't just think to sand it down right away.

as far as your experience, did anything come of the tape? did the police do anyting? did they catch them? my family thought about putting up surveilance cameras, but realized that all it would mean is we'd get it on video, and then the police still wouldn't do anything.

well in my case the tires are on the wheels and the etching is inside the tire...so the person buying the wheels/tires won't see the etching. I'm hoping that when the tires wear down and they get new ones they will go to the local Sears or Goodyear place and HOPEFULLY the guy doing the work will see it.

No, I mean the video does show a white panel van and a dark colored (it was night and on the IR camera) sedan go buy just before and just after they took the wheels. Not a single car drove past other than those two in a 5 hour window that we watched. anyway, the video shows the guys but like I told the cop, it's not like they are wearing name tags so yeah, it shows them, but until they get caught for something else it's not really helping us. :(

yea thats what i figured.

i'm just saying the thing with the tire shop is, if some guy at the tire shop is changing the wheels, he'd probably care more about getting paid by the person who brought the wheels over than ratting them out.