Allright, long story short, the radio was stolen. They took the bezel, broke part of the dash, stole the box that I made, and the speakers in that box. I had like 20 hours into that damn thing...


the also broke part of the bezel in the trofeo.

my door was open on the trofeo, then I noticed my gloves were on the ground under my truck.

It's an XLT, so it's got an extreamly hard to find bezel.

I had the doors unlocked, and keys in both cars... that will be changing... Dammit

God help the theif if I find them... I hate theifs.


Going outside to grab the keys out of both cars, and lock the doors.

I'll be checking the pawn shops and stuff monday. I filled out the police report online, bla bla bla... I doubt anything will happen...

what a god damn time to have this happen.
~Nate

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1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)

so you leave your cars unlocked and leave the keys in them all the time... dude you were just asking for something like that to happen. every time i go to surf's house.. which is in the middle of nowhere i still lock my doors...

just asking?

I know it's be easy to steal from me, but I havent really made anybody mad at me.


Not a blame the victim fan, and besides, they could have gone in through the back glass on the truck if they werent too big...


~Nate

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95 Honda Shadow ACE 1100.
1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)

first thing a theif always checks is if the doors are locked.. easiest way in .. no offense to ya but dude..but thats how it happens

Not always. My first car was a 79 cutlass. I always left that car unlocked. (still do) They smashed a window to get in. Ripped apart the dash. Pried the glove box open(also unlocked) breaking the dash above it.
All this in a parking garage in milwaukee 3 cars away from the lot attendant booth. He saw and heard nothing.

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1959 Gravely LI, 1963 Gravely L8, 1973 Gravely C12
1982 380SL
1978 450 SEL 6.9 euro restoration at 63% and climbing
1987 300 D
2005 CDI European Delivery
2006 CDI Handed down to daughter
2007 GL CDI. Wifes

Either he did it or his buddy did!

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2006 Mustang Convertible 4.0 Eaton Supercharged

Sorry to hear you got ripped.

Hope you catch the ba*terds. Had the same problem in our neighborhood for about a year. Somebody always getting hit, broken windows etc to get in. I finally put an alarm in my jeep, that thing went off at least once a week, always at 2:00 in the morning. Neighbor finally caught them, they sliced the soft top on his Wrangler. He caught the kid sitting inside trying to rip the radio out of it. Couple of 18 year olds. They are in jail now.

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84 500SL
99 Jeep XJ
93 Jeep YJ
03 Custom Softail

do you really belive that only the people mad at you will steal from you?

theives dont care who you are. my brother brought home a lowered/ bagged truck and within 24 hours somone was trying to break into it.

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Went with some friends to a bar the other night. Before we went to bar we got some dinner. The friend that drove his car manages to eat very little food and I noticed him pounding back the scotch whiskey like water.

I asked him if he was getting a jump start on the evening? To which he kept on drinking while we ate our dinner. After 1 hour waiting for our table, and his drinking at the bar and drinking during OUR dinner, he was plastered. We finished dinner around 10pm and it was still raining outside. Our drunk friend got beligerent and insisted that he drive to the bar. I refused to ride with his drunk *ss and told him as agreed beforehand that I would be the DD for the night. He walked toward the car and slurred out that he would just pull the car up, since it was raining, and I could drive them the rest of the night.

We waited, and waited and waited till finally he comes running back to us screaming "call the police they have stolen everything." I was thinking sure. He slurrs out that they had stolen the radio, dash, and steering wheel. Suspicious of his alarm, I told him to go to the car and wait till the police arrived and I would be there in a second. I didnt call the police either.

I walk to the car, in the rain, and find him sitting in the backseat waiting for the cops to come. "Jerry, the next time it might help if you get in the front seat to look for the steering wheel." He hasnt lived that one down since the night it happened.

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That sucks, hopefully they didn't damage the dash to bad. Is your insurance going to cover it?

You never want to have any nice equipment, like subs, head units, DVD players ect showing. Thats just asking to get the car broken into, hide all that stuff. Thats why head units have face plates.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Back in '79, I had my '69 Caprice "broken into" (doors weren't locked, keys were hanging on the driver's-side kick panel vent knob)...I walked out to the car at 0730 in the morning (after having gotten home from the bars only a few hours before (at 0230!))...

Both doors were open, dome light was on, all my 8-track tapes (YEP! They went after the RCA-Under-Dash unit w/security screws on the bracket) were spread over two neighborhood yards...I was MAJOR PI$$'D!!!

I checked everything over - the only thing damaged was the front bezel on the 8-track player, a little round 'dent' where it appeared that they got pi$$e'd that they couldn't get the unit out, so they hit the front of it with a hammer - dented it, but they didnt' break it.

ANYWAYS, after canvassing the neighborhood, I found out from a couple of the local "heads" that a few kids from the south side of town had been cruising the area during the previous two weeks in a beat-up '64, 4-dr., primered, Impala.

Sure enough, about an hour or so after bar-time two days later, the car was cruising my block...two kids were walking down the streets, "checking" car doors and the driver was trailing them with his lights off...I walked out the front door of my place (so they wouldn't see me) and continued to see where they were headed...and they ended up at my car (this time-locked) and they checked the doors. They didn't get in and they continued on.

I then made the "plan."

After they cleared the neighborhood, I got on my 10-speed and did a little ride. I was riding a wave of luck. I spotted the car, at a house, next to a popular bar on the south side.

I scoped the car out the next few nights, then one Tuesday morning, about 0400, I ended up dumping about two cups of regular AND powdered sugar into the gas tank, followed with a "poured" (HARD AS HELL TO DO!) bread-bag-sized amount of styro-foam beads (from a bean-bag chair) and it was all followed up with a good wash/flush/rinse-down of two pints of rubbing alcohol.

Never saw the car my neighborhood again. But I eventully saw it in a local scrap yard about two weeks later. Yard-guy said that the dad couldn't keep HIS car running. Dad had to pay the yard-guy $50.00 to flatbed it to its final resting place.

Thank God I didn't start bragging 'bout the car being there 'cause I caused it to die!

But, I didn't shed a tear over the 'lil ba$t@rd$ having to walk to their favorite haunts. However, I did consider finding out the dad's name and leaving an "anonymous" note/call about why he was "hooving it" 'cause of the kids' antics. But, I figured, sooner or later, he was going to be made aware of what was going on in his house (As if he, maybe, didn't already know...). I just considered his car being a "tip of the iceberg" of the problems he was dealing with. I didn't need to pour more salt into his festering wounds.

I already did enough pouring!

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
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