370z sport wheels stolen!!! Help!

thezmonster

thats the way i hear u

Shunya

frost

^ what she said

1slow370

Personally i got the sport package because it's the best $3k i've ever spent, and seeing as a pay $2,400 a year to insure the car, American Family can buy me new wheels when they get stolen. Way more protection then wheel locks.

G35guy84

So, as you all know, three months ago between the hours of 12am and 6am my sport wheels/tires were stolen right off of my car in the driveway (if you don't know this story, backtrack through my thread and look at my second picture album). Since then, I've added three different sets of wheel locks (two of which are spinning wheel locks), an alarm and infrared sensors around the perimeter of my house.

WELL, last night at 2am the sensors went off. I jumped to the window to see a man wearing all black and a black hoodie covering his head standing next to my car. Frantically, I looked around for my keys (which happened to be in the other room) and set the alarm off. By that time, the guy had left my driveway and walked around the block. Through the commotion, my next door neighbor came out and said he saw the guy get into a old car and they drove off. I called the police, who showed up only minutes later. I filled out a report and they continued to search the area for about an hour after the incident.

My thoughts on the thieves' MO (assuming it's the same guys):

1. My wheels were stolen on an early Tuesday morning (12am-6am) three months ago. Last night (Tuesday morning), the thief was standing in my driveway at ~2am.

2. They scout out my house, looking for a pattern of when I am home.

3. They choose an early time when they know everyone in the house is in bed and park their car around the block.

4. One guy gets out and walks to my house to make sure everything is clear and see if I've added an alarm/wheel locks/other security measures.

5. If okay, he walks back to the car and the other guys get out to do their thing. Five minutes later, they're gone with the goods and I'm left with an upcoming 2 weeks worth of headache.

So, if you don't have access to a garage, make sure you've got other means of protection. These cars are still so new that thieves will take any advantage they can. BE ON ALERT!

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Trips

I hate to monday night quarterback here! but why not just call 911 and let the police catch them or him in the act and he's gone! now your still going to worry about the scum bags come back, that's only if there was a quick response from local pd otherwise i understand!

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Matt

F that! His wheels have already been stolen once... I'd rather prevent it from happening again then try and catch the guys in the act. My opinion, of course.

Sounds like these guys learned their lesson, after setting off the neighborhood this time. Maybe they'll get a job now and earn their cash.

xiven

I doubt that. They are probably the same guys.

kannibul

Again, I have a garage, and that's where my Z stays.

I've thought about installing a camera system around my house. 3 in the front one in the back...this in addition to improving my alarm system on my house...

Just a matter of money... =/

kannibul

I agree, with the number of security crap he's got on the wheels now, it's slow them down - then again, maybe that's what they were doing was checking to see how much of a pita it'd be...maybe it'd be easier to steal the whole car...(well, until they realize the FOB prevents that)

That's all security stuff does anyway - just makes the criminal think there must be an easier target and move on.

kenchan

if i was going to park my Z outside i would get a proximity and tilt sensor installed.

there are more than just a few scum bags in the world.... if team1 fails, there is team2 to 100000000000.

garage your Z if you can.

StLRedrider

holy shitt, this is the first i seen of this thread i want to say sorry for the bad luck, i had some stuff stolen from me once, nothing worst than walking out to your vehicle and seeing that someone messed with. i sure hope they catch the jack offs that are stealing peoples hard earned belongings.

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speedoflife

Man I feel for you. Just keep it up and hopefully you will get them. I HATE it when my stuff gets stolen. At least they didn't get you this time.
Between this


and this


I feel for whoever tries to grab anything from my house.

Zsteve

might want to get a camera installed too and have set to record when the house prox alarm goes off. maybe they will be on the next stupidest thief videos.

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G35guy84

Yeah, unfortunately, my landlord is taking up all of the garage space so I am forced to leave my baby in the driveway at the mercy of anyone daring enough to try and steal her. I'm going to get a tilt sensor installed, but I hear proximity sensors are more headache than anything due to too many false alarms.

And thanks again to everyone's support. Just make sure you keep an eye on your Z if it has to stay outside like mine. I live in a good area, so it just goes to show that you don't have to live in a bad neighborhood for this kind of crap to happen.

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