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Rank: Member Joined: 2/11/2011 Posts: 240 Location: jamuhuri ya kenya
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Most people have marked their side mirrors with the vehicle registration numbers. Where do the thieves sell the side mirrors? Is there a way of erasing the numbers?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/26/2008 Posts: 2,097
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This is becoming a City menace. The thugs will sell you back your own Mirror. Thieves will pluck it out even as you drive through jam or immediately after you park your Vehicle. Have your mirrors secured by metal clips riveted to the side mirror Housing. Also have the window visors, front and rear car logos, rear wiper clip, and simply any detachable part, be riveted to the car body. Cary a gun and shoot the thugs off our streets!!!  "Never regret, if its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience."
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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Tebes wrote:This is becoming a City menace. The thugs will sell you back your own Mirror. Thieves will pluck it out even as you drive through jam or immediately after you park your Vehicle. Have your mirrors secured by metal clips riveted to the side mirror Housing. Also have the window visors, front and rear car logos, rear wiper clip, and simply any detachable part, be riveted to the car body. C ary a gun and shoot the thugs off our streets!!! Hapo umenena kama mtu saba!!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 9/17/2010 Posts: 97 Location: Mombasa,Kenya
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im a victim of this..my mirrors were riveted, so the guys plugged off the whole housing....wht they then do is, they break the original mirror, put in a bandia one from the glass makers and sell the housing...i replaced mine, second hand, at 8k!! and iv vowed that the moment i see anyone of them street guys stealing anyone elses mirror, il punch, knock or SHOOT them if the resources are available!!!!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/1/2008 Posts: 834
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how do they get rid of the inscription on the car items......? is it possible to have indented prints or raised ones so that it would be difficult to tamper with it...? If you are going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big. -Donald J . Trump
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/1/2008 Posts: 834
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captainrio wrote:im a victim of this..my mirrors were riveted, so the guys plugged off the whole housing....wht they then do is, they break the original mirror, put in a bandia one from the glass makers and sell the housing...i replaced mine, second hand, at 8k!! and iv vowed that the moment i see anyone of them street guys stealing anyone elses mirror, il punch, knock or SHOOT them if the resources are available!!!! is it possible to rivet it from the inside as in onto to metalic body of the car...? If you are going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big. -Donald J . Trump
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 9/17/2010 Posts: 97 Location: Mombasa,Kenya
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livie wrote:captainrio wrote:im a victim of this..my mirrors were riveted, so the guys plugged off the whole housing....wht they then do is, they break the original mirror, put in a bandia one from the glass makers and sell the housing...i replaced mine, second hand, at 8k!! and iv vowed that the moment i see anyone of them street guys stealing anyone elses mirror, il punch, knock or SHOOT them if the resources are available!!!! is it possible to rivet it from the inside as in onto to metalic body of the car...? theres a way of having it riveted from inside..makes it much harder to break then..but ul not be able to close the mirrors inwards then..
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/9/2010 Posts: 894 Location: Nairobi
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livie wrote:how do they get rid of the inscription on the car items......?
is it possible to have indented prints or raised ones so that it would be difficult to tamper with it...? those marks are removed very easily they even made me wonder if they have any use. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/11/2011 Posts: 240 Location: jamuhuri ya kenya
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@Tommy, how do they do it? My assumption is that even if you scratch off the identity mark you will leave some scratches hence raising suspicion
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/24/2010 Posts: 239 Location: nairobi
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This is one reason which made me think that i should acquire a gun. they snatched the whole thing when i was making a call inside, i tried to run and shout but they disappeared. It had an identity.
Those who buy the joined ones are the ones who create the market.
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Rank: Chief Joined: 1/3/2007 Posts: 18,342 Location: Nairobi
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Please do a public service by donating cash to a tyre fund so we can choma these thieves... I support the use of tyre necklaces when dealing with crooks. Includes my MP. Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 9/17/2010 Posts: 97 Location: Mombasa,Kenya
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VituVingiSana wrote:Please do a public service by donating cash to a tyre fund so we can choma these thieves...
I support the use of tyre necklaces when dealing with crooks. Includes my MP. let the 1st tire come from me - and if theres more thieves than tyres, then ALL the tyres constituting to the balance will be donated by me!!!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/9/2010 Posts: 894 Location: Nairobi
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jimmy1 wrote:@Tommy, how do they do it? My assumption is that even if you scratch off the identity mark you will leave some scratches hence raising suspicion i didn't get to know the name of the liquid they used, but the use of the liquid and continous rubbing on the marks made them disappear leaving the surface clean. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/23/2010 Posts: 1,229
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innovator wrote:This is one reason which made me think that i should acquire a gun. they snatched the whole thing when i was making a call inside, i tried to run and shout but they disappeared. It had an identity.
Those who buy the joined ones are the ones who create the market. There is our problem. They steal because another driver will buy from them in the name of saving coins. Which puts everyone's mirrors and other detachables at risk.
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/11/2011 Posts: 240 Location: jamuhuri ya kenya
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@Tommy, they use high pressured sand to do the identity. The purpose of the sand is to erode/scratch a small section of the mirror/glass. I'm not sure whether this liquid can clear the erosion without the mirror looking suspicious
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