i hate all car thieves !!!!!!!!!!
03-02-2004, 02:21 PM
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I know exactly how you feel... not my Cl-S, but when I first moved to Pittsburgh they raped my car. It made me completely paranoid for like months.. I would wake up in the middle of the night and go running to the window with my handgun thinking somone was trying to break in again....
Solved the problem:... took over the garage and moved everything out of it...
Now I sleep at night.... they can't see it, they can't steal it...
Solved the problem:... took over the garage and moved everything out of it...
Now I sleep at night.... they can't see it, they can't steal it...
03-02-2004, 02:40 PM
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Originally posted by MiK3Y
i dont believe the factory alarm has any type of motion or shock sensor. so unless they open the door, it isnt going to go off. they can pound on your car and break all the windows and it wont go off. i wouldnt say it sucks, i just wouldnt call it an alarm....more like a keyless entry with a door sensor.
i dont believe the factory alarm has any type of motion or shock sensor. so unless they open the door, it isnt going to go off. they can pound on your car and break all the windows and it wont go off. i wouldnt say it sucks, i just wouldnt call it an alarm....more like a keyless entry with a door sensor.
That does suck. I couldn't imagine the feeling of seeing that. Good luck getting it resolved.
03-02-2004, 02:42 PM
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I think the cops need to go shoot all the shop owners that buy these things. Hmm... so you dont have a box for this airbag? Ah well i believe you that you found it on the street.
Bastards!!
Bastards!!
03-03-2004, 11:30 AM
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damn those fucking fucks. i had my cl shot at with bb pellets when i was at work. at least you know, who ever stole the airbags, it had to be another cl in an accident....
03-03-2004, 04:31 PM
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Well, sorry about that, but there are some lessons to be learned here.
I know you may have very little control over this, but props to Smitty about the garage. My cars have been garaged since 1997, and damage to the cars were near zero and ZERO pilferage problems. Being garaged really helps. Then, for the other 10 or so hours you are out and about, park a few more spaces away from most people to keep the damage down.
In a shopping mall, I will park another 50 yards away just to put my car as the only one under a bright parking lot light, just to make potential thieves work out in the open.
And so far, so good. My 03 CLS6 navi is yet to incurr door bang number 1, nine months old and 13,000 miles.
The bright side? You still HAVE the car! I had a new (but still, it was a POS) Chrysler Le Baron in 1987. Got hit really hard by a moron teenager right around st. Pats day, when the body shops were up to their eyes in work. Got the car back in mid June.
Dad loaned me his new and prized possesion, his Dodge Caravan, and warned me "not to put as much as a scratch in it", and he really meant it.
Now, imagine my chagrin, and his, when I found out the entire van was STOLEN, and I had to tell him.
On Fathers Day, 1987.
I understand, completely how violated you feel. When the whole car gets stolen, it's a hundred times worse!
Good luck with the fix!
I know you may have very little control over this, but props to Smitty about the garage. My cars have been garaged since 1997, and damage to the cars were near zero and ZERO pilferage problems. Being garaged really helps. Then, for the other 10 or so hours you are out and about, park a few more spaces away from most people to keep the damage down.
In a shopping mall, I will park another 50 yards away just to put my car as the only one under a bright parking lot light, just to make potential thieves work out in the open.
And so far, so good. My 03 CLS6 navi is yet to incurr door bang number 1, nine months old and 13,000 miles.
The bright side? You still HAVE the car! I had a new (but still, it was a POS) Chrysler Le Baron in 1987. Got hit really hard by a moron teenager right around st. Pats day, when the body shops were up to their eyes in work. Got the car back in mid June.
Dad loaned me his new and prized possesion, his Dodge Caravan, and warned me "not to put as much as a scratch in it", and he really meant it.
Now, imagine my chagrin, and his, when I found out the entire van was STOLEN, and I had to tell him.
On Fathers Day, 1987.
I understand, completely how violated you feel. When the whole car gets stolen, it's a hundred times worse!
Good luck with the fix!
03-03-2004, 11:48 PM
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over the summer i parked my car in a parking lot right by venice beach. it was like 3 in the afternoon. i was walking back to my car and noticed a gentleman trying to crawl through my sunroof. i nearly shat myself. i stood there staring right in the eyes of his accomplice. they both took off running.
so i feel your pain chief.
so i feel your pain chief.
03-05-2004, 03:34 PM
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Thanks everyone for your condolences during this extremely difficult time. :P Right now I'm driving around in a rental black Sunfire. My car is currently being repaired at John Eagle Acura. After which I am going to have my windows tinted, and a bad ass alarm system installed with shock sensors. Not only that, I'm going to get the alarm system that will page me, so that if these fuck heads ever come back and mess with my ride again, I'm gonna come out in full camo with my Sig Sauer P228 and shoot those suns of beaches and then post the pics on this forum. CLS will own car thieves once and for all. And God Bless Texas!
03-05-2004, 03:41 PM
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Originally posted by sham
over the summer i parked my car in a parking lot right by venice beach. it was like 3 in the afternoon. i was walking back to my car and noticed a gentleman trying to crawl through my sunroof. i nearly shat myself. i stood there staring right in the eyes of his accomplice. they both took off running.
so i feel your pain chief.
over the summer i parked my car in a parking lot right by venice beach. it was like 3 in the afternoon. i was walking back to my car and noticed a gentleman trying to crawl through my sunroof. i nearly shat myself. i stood there staring right in the eyes of his accomplice. they both took off running.
so i feel your pain chief.
03-05-2004, 03:47 PM
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Does anyone have a recommendation on what brand car alarm is popular among CLS owners? The guy at this shop near my work was showing me a Prestige with paging system.
03-07-2004, 02:46 PM
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Sorry to hear about that man. I had my car broken in to also...They will take everything if it's no nailed down, and if it is they will tear it out! There is much that is lower than stealing!
03-07-2004, 10:30 PM
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i just bought my 01 cl-s and i live in country-bumpkinville where everyone drives a crappy piece of shit beater. i'm already having nightmares of some jerky ass-munch just fucking it all up and now stealing the airbags, i didn't even know the factory alarm didn't have shock sensors, what good is it then really? knowing that, all i'd do as a thief is break the damn window and you got everything in the car, im suprised they don't steal the radio, damn little fuckers. i didn't know they can install shock sensors in line with the factory one. wouldn't that make it just as good as an aftermarket alarm? and yeah, i'd like to install a real shock system...about 200,000 volts to the bastard that touches our cars.
03-07-2004, 10:48 PM
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I understand what you are going through. When I had an integra... it was stolen 3 times in 2 years.
first one, never recovered and the other 2 were with the help of something we have in canada called a boomerang.
it works like a GPS but with cellular triangulation. my car was find at 50miles and 100 miles from my home in 45 minutes with this.
first one, never recovered and the other 2 were with the help of something we have in canada called a boomerang.
it works like a GPS but with cellular triangulation. my car was find at 50miles and 100 miles from my home in 45 minutes with this.
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