LtClaybon

Hope State Farm doesn't screw me on this.


Stolen headlight assembly and god knows what else

screaminz28

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Any more details on what transpired? Are you claiming that someone came by and ripped open the hood like a can opener and tore off the bumper to steal the headlight? Looks like you hit something.

DMZ

Stolen headlight assemblies were the #1 insurance claim on the 2G TL.

Perhaps those same thieves had to find out that they had to do that much damage to get the assembly out of a 3G
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04WDPSeDaN

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I'm sorry for your troubles.

I find it hard to believe they invested that much time with a sawzall, to cut into the hood, fender and bumper for a headlight that was most likely as cloudy as your drivers side one..

LtClaybon

" claiming"? I parked my car in front of the school came out the next morning and it looked like. that my fender my bumper.... nothing was on the ground when I got there. The cables on the inside were cut. Initially, I thought somebody had hit me but it was on the inside on the curbside.

Thanks for the vote of confidence though, HFS

WDPanda

Whatever knife or dremmel they used, left brown powder from the hood mat scattered about. Was your passenger side light new?

icy2

WOW! that's a new one in my book.....Like Panda asked was your light new?? That's a lot of work for one headlight

thoiboi

Any enemies?

TacoBello

Someone has some serious balls to just sit there and cut a car apart on a public street. I'm surprised they didn't just tow the car and steal everything they could get.

Oh Sickest TL

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totalled

teh CL

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ummm…

candrews

It'll buff out. Sorry, inside joke around here. But seriously that is f*cked up dude! Hope you get a new front end and paint job.

SayItAintTom

What city is this? I need to know where never to park my car.

thoiboi

Plastidip the front and it'll look good as new

LtClaybon

Yeah, it was about six months old I guess hopefully they got it out without breaking it

08KBP_VA

Your looking I would roughly guess at 4-5k in repairs all for a $100 light. SMH

JTS97Z28

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WTF?!? The headlights on that car look terrible....yellowed and faded. People would actually risk doing that for an old headlight when you can buy new ones online for dirt cheap? I don't get it.

96SC4

^^he said it was 6 months old...so new.

Why not just bust window and pop hood?
remove with some tools?

thats insane

04WDPSeDaN

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Since reading the replies, not shocked at all now..

Simply because, most of the newer TL owners are ex Honda Civic owners. Welcome to the new Honda Civic.

Scottwax

Often it isn't the actual headlight they want but the ballasts and bulbs (and sometimes projector). It was a huge problem with the 5.5 gen ('02-03) Maximas when they came out. The headlights were apparently pretty easy to steal, some guys on maxima.org in the northeast had their headlights stolen multiple times. And it wasn't for the actual headlights but everything else. That was before HID kits got relatively inexpensive and retrofitting was more common.

JTS97Z28

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Wow that's incredible. Never heard of this issue before. All I gotta say is life is bad if you have to resort to stealing headlights. I almost feel bad for those kinda people.
Thanks for the clarification on the new headlight. In that picture I saw the drivers side that looks pretty nasty and I thought to myself who would steal that.

rockstar143

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And you can probably bet it's someone that has been on Acurazine before...ain't know way that was novice hoping to get lucky and get the light out. They knew exactly WHERE to cut to get it out in one piece.

Sorry to see, man...

Funny, same happened to my RSX-S back in the day except they used a pry bar on the fender. Didn't get the light out though, I lived in a small townhouse community and I'm sure someone startled them.

Hope the door locks in the car they stole it for malfunction at the same time as the headlight starts a fire in their new car.

rockstar143

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Oh and obligatory asshole post that should have preceded my real one:


"holy shit, your cmod grill was done really off center".

screaminz28

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Why did they take the piece of the bumper that they cut? Seems it would have been easier to just leave it on the ground.

I've seen things you wouldn't believe as far as Hondas and theft go.

Acura integra at a used car lot with the entire front clip removed (Hood, fenders, bumper, lights)
Civic hatch with entire drivetrain and turbo kit stolen with car in the front yard.
GSR stolen and left on the interstate with drivetrain removed.
Integra Type-R rolled onto a flat-bed and stolen, in front of owner's house
Integra Type-R stolen by being driven away - theft protection key doesn't apply to LS integra ECU and it plugs right in

I knew some shady people back in the day.

thoiboi

Obligatory "move to a better neighborhood"

TacoBello

Fixed for accuracy.

LtClaybon

Marina del Rey Crime - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times

Police station a block away, there's nothing wrong with this neighborhood. Wrong place wrong time.


This car is the only nice thing i've ever really bought for myself. I hope they don't total it out. If so I know where not to go for sympathy.

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

Whoa. That's new to me!

I second the poster who said, they didn't give a fuck sawzawing the hood in broad daylight. If they needed the one that badly, they are super crazy!!!

rockstar143

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Insurance job



oh, and sympathy, of course.

ATLS_666

All you need is a new light.

aIRpeACE

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wow i have never seen this before. it's crazy

flyromeo3

Great, the TL has become the "new civic"

GreenSpades

Plus a sawzall so he can go steal one off another TL.

Which also explains why they took part os the bumper, they needed to repair their own TL after someone stole the corner part of the bumper but had to smash the headlight in the process.