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Title: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: Donna Lou on 28 April 2005, 11:03
Someone has stolen my vdub dust caps    :angry:    as you can imagine i am very upset, i loved them and now my wheels look bare without them.   I'm thinking of looking for some more but worried that they will get stolen too.   Any advice on how to prevent this or should i just buy in bulk???


As a girly girl i feel accessories are a must!!!


Thanks folks

Take care   DLxx
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: Gambit on 28 April 2005, 12:22
buy some flush valves instead
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: Only_A_8V on 28 April 2005, 12:48
go find the bugger and take em back :evil:

Who ever did it wont be far away!
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: ...joe on 28 April 2005, 22:53
you can get some that have a little grub screw so in theory they can't be nicked.....but any fool with a small allen key can have them away as well!!!!  but it might deter passing scally's!
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 29 April 2005, 10:45
'mini thread hijack'

gambit which flush valves have you got on your rm,s?
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: Gambit on 29 April 2005, 11:12
none - that german fella i was meant to buy them off wouldnt take paypal and my bank wanted to charge me for a international money transfer, so i rapped the idea

i just give the original metal ones a bit of a wire brushing instead
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: CHR15 on 29 April 2005, 11:17
something like this will piss of the opertunist theif!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=52639&item=7969957326&rd=1

(http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/a3/a3/03_1_b.JPG)
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: Judderi on 04 May 2005, 10:54
They still nick them even when they are the ones with grub screws. I used to have a set a set but unfortunately i parked next to a kids skate park and the bmx scum kept stealing them. I got sick of replacing them!
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: mrwotto on 07 May 2005, 20:55
I have fallen victim to the same thieves, nicked my set of dust caps, and likewise I am not amused :(
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: PeeWee on 07 May 2005, 21:19
yes i know how you feel,, i had some nice one's on mine,, but not anymore.. and they are so
easy to steal and some of them are not cheap either.  :cry: :cry:
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: Dizzie on 07 May 2005, 21:24
I caught some kids redhanded with mine. I was working in a petrol station at the time and he came in saying the symbol on the top was weird and did I know what it was. It was the K for my Kahn wheels. He denied it outright saying he found them on the kerb. Now why would some toerag go to the trouble of removing my valve caps and then leaving them on the kerb? anyway, I got them back and they've lived in my toolbox ever since. I put 55p plastic ones on and no one's ever nicked them
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: bal-g60 on 07 May 2005, 21:57
some little scrote nicked my STANDARD bee sting the other night, now this one is superglued on!!

little f**ks if i get my hands on them!
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: Donna Lou on 11 May 2005, 21:20
I've not got around to replacing them yet, i see it is a common problem and the only cure is to connect them to the electricity mains!!!  I could get plastic ones but i thought that the VW ones were so lovely and sexy, set it off a treat..... I know that this is feminine and none of you guys will understand but its a bit like wearing nail polish,  a little detail that can set off the outfit a treat!!  Next time you are out on the pull boys....  take note, did she go that extra mile?
Title: Re: vdub dust caps advice for a girl please
Post by: ...joe on 11 May 2005, 23:13
^^^ my girlfriend is a beautician and she does nails in the evenings for extra cash....i know the nail thing all too well!!! (she's bloody good mind and makes a few hundred quid a month from it!!)