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jimmy1
#1 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:49:53 AM
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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?
Tebes
#2 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:22:49 AM
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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!!!smile
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McReggae
#3 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:03:51 AM
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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. Cary a gun and shoot the thugs off our streets!!!smile


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captainrio
#4 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:43:30 PM
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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!!!!
livie
#5 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:58:02 PM
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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...?
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livie
#6 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:00:21 PM
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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
captainrio
#7 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:07:24 PM
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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..
Tommy
#8 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:16:43 PM
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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
jimmy1
#9 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:31:09 PM
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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
innovator
#10 Posted : Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:09:46 PM
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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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