Why steal hubcaps

Can't even buy 1 because it being newer will look different. Gotta buy all 4. MichaelD Lifer. Jan 16, 31, 3 Your vehicle is 10 years old; just remove the other three hubcaps. IgoByte Diamond Member. Jan 23, 4, 0 The person probably needed it for their own car Originally posted by: MichaelD Your vehicle is 10 years old; just remove the other three hubcaps.

Lucky Lifer. Nov 26, 13, 1 0. Nov 15, 4, 0 0. Go to the local junk yard and you can pick one up that should match perfectly with the other three. The one I got from you matches the three I've got on my car. Originally posted by: Kelvrick Originally posted by: MichaelD Your vehicle is 10 years old; just remove the other three hubcaps.

The signs aid your defense in court when you blow the heads off some slimeballs that come prying open your window at night Originally posted by: MichaelD Originally posted by: Kelvrick Originally posted by: MichaelD Your vehicle is 10 years old; just remove the other three hubcaps.

Jul 1, 24, 1, If Martha Stewart has here, she would probably tell us that old hub caps can make great change holders or ash trays. Of course, she's probably out on bail awaiting trial, so I'll have to say it for her. Originally posted by: Lucky The signs aid your defense in court when you blow the heads off some slimeballs that come prying open your window at night Jan 6, 3, 0 0. I'm missing a hubcap. I think it gives my car some style Aug 18, 6, Whatever you do, don't leave one hubcap missing..

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Apologies if this comes across as a rather pathetic post, but this is bothering us a bit. Moved to a new place in Dumbarton three days ago, and realised last night that some scrote had nicked all four hubcaps from my car. No big deal in the grand scheme of things, but a bit of a disappointing welcome to the neighbourbood. Nice and middle-class street, lovely friendly neighbours, but some slightly edgier areas a short walk away.

Car similar to others on street which are still intact! All I'm really wondering is - why on earth would somebody nick some dirty and scratched pieces of plastic worth a tenner new? Cable-tied on, so would have required slightly more than token effort. Wife is worried that it could be a "statement" rather than an actual theft for financial gain. What do people reckon? That would be a bit unsettling if so.

Pretty sure we haven't offended anyone after 3 days!! It's got us a bit paranoid though, trying to come up with any tenuous reason - e.

Anyway, hopefully you'll all be able to tell me to man up, it happens all the time, doesn't mean anything, and I've just led a sheltered existence! What do you reckon? In reply to somebody else: If you find one of the hubcaps in your bed, that is when you really have to start worrying.

In reply to somebody else: Perhaps they have "lost" their own? I once arrived at my vehicle to find someone unscrewing my back light cover for this reason. In reply to somebody else: It might be prudent to make sure you have some locking wheel nuts fitted. Scomuir 09 Jul In reply to somebody else: Isn't necessarily anyone local, or could be kids because they can, or someone unable to put the effort to go to Halfords to replace their own missing hubcaps, etc.

Someone once nicked the little caps that covered the wheel nuts of my old Passat when it was parked outside my Dads. Was while we were sorting out my Mums funeral. Nice timing. Also, in the same street, and on a previous car, the fuel pipe was cut and fuel drained. I didn't notice, and ran out of fuel on the main road. Thankfully, it was me and not my mum, so was able to push the car off the road into a side street. This was in a village on the outskirts of town.

One day I saw Banzai and some buddy of his sitting in the marina parking lot, enjoying a veritable banquet seriously, not kidding of goodies from the park trash cans, which they were eating off of hubcaps.

I guess they mistakenly think we are too high class of a membership to actually engage in such behavior. Come collect your prize! I've stolen my first hubcap. OK, what do I do with it? Factual Questions. Over here they used to steal the wheels. Cuz, back then, we had cool cars, and we also had cool hubcaps.

Usually 4 hubcaps were stolen at a time. Steal the whole car. Once I was just waiting at a red light , and I saw such a theft. Bosses orders to take off all hubcaps.

Open at 9 AM tomorrow. Signed Morris. Some owners strategically installed razor blades as an unwelcome surprise for pilferers. In Louisville, an even more dangerous situation was created when owners began standing guard over their automobiles with shotguns at night.

To be fair, I would be hard-pressed to think of a more effective theft deterrent than the business end of a shotgun. With razor blades and shotgun shells taking the situation from bad to worse, authorities began looking for a better solution and hit upon engraving. Engraving hubcaps with identifying marks provided a way to prove ownership which made caps easier to reunite with owners and also made them less desirable to steal in the first place.

The identifying marks used varied from city to city. Lauderdale used a number devised by the police department that consisted of the year of the make of the car, the first letter in the name of the car and the last three digits of the serial number.