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General => General discussion => Topic started by: dubslug on 26 November 2003, 16:20
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guys and gals i no its been said a million times but dont leave nothing on show in ur car and park it in plenty of light, i did both and still some thieving sh@thead broke into my car last night, stealing all my stereo stuff i.e sub amps speakers head unit cds etc etc. as u can tell i aint happy, dont let this happen to u!!! according to police there is a gang going abt the hampshire berkshire area at the moment, six cars in total were done on my estate last night all of them golfs.
they tried the lock but the door guards did there job, one fcuked lock though, in the end they went through the driver side rear window, same happened in all the cars according to the polic. just thought id warn u guys n gals be careful i wish this upon no one
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whoa that description is just like one posted a few days back.
gutted mate :(
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awww thats horrible makes me mad!!!
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i dont think gutted covers how im feeling at the moment
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Very unlucky m8. Seems like a lot of people are having there stereo's nicked lately. The way I?ve got round it is not to have a stereo at all. Tend to start talking to your self though and singing the last song you heard before you get into your car. Dam cheeky girls.
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cheers lewis made me laugh, i think its because xmas is coming, same kinda thing happened last year to my mates and there fords(can i say that name on here lol)
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Thas bad. makes you more wary that it only happend to golfs. The next one could be yours forum peeps! :o
Like I said, winter is the time for xmas thiefs jakkin cars/ systems as it gets dark quick.
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makes me mad that I can't have a nice stereo in my car without some estate pikey scamming it.
Leave a rottweiler in yer motor
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The thing that most people dont see is that they BLAST music from their wiked sterio systems when they park the car up.
Turn it down when you park the car up. This is where some owners make the mistakes :-\
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i always turn mine off three roads before i get to mine i learnt that lesson once before
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yea. If your heading home turn ur music down.
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Sorry to hear the news dude - seems like a hell of a lot of thefts going on at the moment. ??? ???
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That sucks a big one!
:(
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I'm real sorry to hear about all these thefts, but has any one had a head unit pinched that has a removable faceplate? I have a kenwood mask unit in mine, but recently I have taken to removing the faceplate whenever I get out.
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sorry to hear that mate :(
maybe its not so bad living down here in newquay
there seems to be much less crime down this way.
just the amount ive heard about on this forum in the last few days is eye opening.
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the theiving gits still hav a go at nicking the stereos even wivout the face on, cause they got a gang somewhere who knows someone who's bound to of nicked a face from somewhere, but it does help to take it out though, i never ever leave my face on the unit!!!!
stealth shelf helps a bit aswell, at least if there randomly on the thief they'll look but wont see anything an will usually move on to one that has got them displayed like a shop window! an they sound better!
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I'm real sorry to hear about all these thefts, but has any one had a head unit pinched that has a removable faceplate? I have a kenwood mask unit in mine, but recently I have taken to removing the faceplate whenever I get out.
Really that doesn't seem to help. I have seen faceplates for sale by the dozens on ebay. Someone steals your head unit they just go on ebay pick up a face plate and off they go. getting robbed sucks though. I had my garage broke into 3 weeks after getting here and lost about a grand worth of tools and a quad bike. insurance did nothing about it never saw the quad bike again. Bad part was I knew that i heard them there the night before and figured it was the dog making racket and never checked it out.
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adam, don't the latest kenwood masks have the 'face' (if you can call it that) and the unit matched so you can't use a different face on the old head unit. I think I read that somewhere.
Another way to keep your headunit is to get some of that twisted metal like rope (the ones laptops use. pcworld sells it) and bolt 1 end to your headunit using the thread on the back pivot it 90? on the bulkhead behind the headunit and ancor it to the floor with a padlock. The downside is they'll more than likely fsck the dash surround up trying and hopefully failing to take the headunit out which won't budge. But at least you keep the stereo.
2 ways to look at it:
1) ?300+ of stereo lost forever
2) ?10 ish dash surround fscked and replaced from scrappy
I know which I prefer.
Locking cages that all headunits have now are useless. halfords and other stereo shops sell replacement keys :( or anyone that's bought a kenwood headunit has a set of keys to steal another :(
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Jeez this is getting to be an epedemic again, I know I shouldnt say it but this sounds like assylum seekers to me, f*ckin crime wave tastic they are, I dont wanna sound like some paranoid bigot but that sort of crime went out years ago right? Why is it back all of a sudden??? mm i wonder maybe Tony can tell us? or maybe his eyes on the street Blunkett? (Laugh, well i would if i wasnt so pissed off with it, sorry)
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Jeez this is getting to be an epedemic again, I know I shouldnt say it but this sounds like assylum seekers to me, f*ckin crime wave tastic they are, I dont wanna sound like some paranoid bigot but that sort of crime went out years ago right? Why is it back all of a sudden??? mm i wonder maybe Tony can tell us? or maybe his eyes on the street Blunkett? (Laugh, well i would if i wasnt so pissed off with it, sorry)
Asylum seekers or pikeys guaranteed. Theres loads of pikeys in the Berkshire area.
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adam, don't the latest kenwood masks have the 'face' (if you can call it that) and the unit matched so you can't use a different face on the old head unit. I think I read that somewhere.
Another way to keep your headunit is to get some of that twisted metal like rope (the ones laptops use. pcworld sells it) and bolt 1 end to your headunit using the thread on the back pivot it 90? on the bulkhead behind the headunit and ancor it to the floor with a padlock. The downside is they'll more than likely fsck the dash surround up trying and hopefully failing to take the headunit out which won't budge. But at least you keep the stereo.
2 ways to look at it:
1) ?300+ of stereo lost forever
2) ?10 ish dash surround fscked and replaced from scrappy
I know which I prefer.
Locking cages that all headunits have now are useless. halfords and other stereo shops sell replacement keys :( or anyone that's bought a kenwood headunit has a set of keys to steal another :(
Thats a hell of an idea with the "swedgie cable" I may have to try that when i replace the head unit in mine. :)
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well if you've got a ?550 headunit like mine then you'll want to keep it longer than a few months :)
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Sorry its late, I'm feeling for ya man.... Bit on the brighter side you have a lighter car now..... :-\
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Jeez !!!
I too am sorry to hear of the news. My last car was borken into and the head unit was tried to be removed. Because I fitted it in so well and tight they couldn't get it out, so they ended up smashing the bloody thing with a hammer in frustration and slashing all the roof lining. They ended up getting away with the parcel shelf and front speakers, but the car just wasn't the same afterwards. I know it sounds funny, but its a bit like car rape in some ways. I didn't feel comfy driving it again and once it was all repaired I just had to sell it on.
Sorry once again, but yes folks, keep the gits from getting ya gear. !! :(
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thats very true it never feels quite as comfy again! :-[