Originally Posted by Jeffblue (Post 660267)

i'm really not worried about someone coming around with a pneumatic hammer or torque wrench and taking off my wheels, its way too loud. The idea is they do it quickly but quietly. indeed, i could park my car, walk away for 1 minute, and if a formula 1 pit crew rolled up to my car with the right tools, they could steal my wheels and be off before i turned around to look back.

I understand your point, there is no fool proof lock for wheels. But theres no fool prof lock anywhere. You could have a really good set of dead bolt locks on your front door, and its not going to stop someone with a 12 guage slug or a battering ram. The fact of the matter is, there are countless videos on youtube of 'How to take off your wheel locks if you lose your key' and they all involve a method that wouldn't work with these locks because theres no room on the sides of the lock.

As far as i'm concerned, the typical wheel lock design, is equivalent to a lock that comes on a suitcase, pretty much anyone can get it off, which is why i'm not content with them. I plan to run regular wheel locks and the black top wheel locks, that way if the thief is stupid enough to not realize that the black top is a lock, maybe they wont bother trying to take off my other lug nuts first if they see the standard wheel lock.

Originally Posted by Elia Cid (Post 660296)

How about registering new vehicles and wheels with matching laser etched ID VIN numbers or having Nissan do it from factory , plus a stolen wheel / parts registry?

Just my two cents<O:p</O:p

Originally Posted by rha600 (Post 661817)

actually they don't have to. I couldn't find it online but like I said in another post, they have a spliter that looks like a socket only it has a wedge inside. one or two hits with a hammer and presto.

As for the sound, it depends on where you live and if you're at home, out on vacation or just out to dinner for the night in a different car. There's really only one way to stop them, and the cops probably wouldn't look kindly on that solution.

Originally Posted by rha600 (Post 662235)

yep. When I was getting the tires put back on the wheels after mine were stolen and I was talking to the guy in the dealer. He told me about that kit that was posted above that has a "universal" key to get the locks off but he said there was also the spliter that was what I described. And when you hammered it on it basically just split the lugnut in half.

I'm sure depending on the design of the wheel you still might not be able to just pull it off but it would be enough to put a large screwdrive or even a flat head screwdriver type socket on a ratchet or breaker bar and bam, the lock is off.

basically it's like you said though. Nothing is truly safe and it just depends on how bad they want what you have.

Originally Posted by SUNG101492 (Post 663279)

Sorry but am i the only one that thinks this is pretty hilarious??? hahaha

Originally Posted by SUNG101492 (Post 663279)

Sorry but am i the only one that thinks this is pretty hilarious??? hahaha

Originally Posted by SUNG101492 (Post 663279)

Sorry but am i the only one that thinks this is pretty hilarious??? hahaha

Originally Posted by tonybui (Post 663326)

With 2 posts you are probably a thief that's y it's hilarious when people wheels got stolen !!

Originally Posted by SUNG101492 (Post 663279)

Sorry but am i the only one that thinks this is pretty hilarious??? hahaha