Thread: Paranoia sets in - wheel carriers. HF aerials, & fridges

Was only thinking about that the other day, whilst the HF aerial is padlocked on with a better than average padlock which is hard to get at I need to put locking nuts on the spare wheel and secure the RWC

at work they once had 6 4wd's worth of spotties, expensive looking areials, spare wheels, roof racks and jerry cans stolen from a gated car park in plain view of the back of our building (about 600 staff in that section who look out that side). Then the next week they stole petrol tanks out of the new bombadors - aparently they just drop them down and drag em out? all in the middle of a work day....

They were cutting through chain link fence. Video camera's everywhere now....

Never worried about it...

Thats what insurance is for..

I've had a winch disappear... And they stole the globes from my Lightforce once!

Knocking off of spare tyres of 4wds is common, lock nut them or take em off,as for the other stuff there are mongrels out there that will pinch anything not nailed which is really a shame, u work hard to buy your accessories and some oxygen stealing drugged out goose will knock em off to buy a hit of something, shooting is too good for them

Originally Posted by p38arover

Am I paranoid? Have others heard of fridges/carriers/aerials being ripped off?

Ron

I don't think you're paranoid...but I am lazy. I've been meaning to buy locking wheel nuts for the alloys (including the one on the back door) for months, but keep convincing myself to wait until I go to the UK and get them there....you know they'll get nicked just before I get back with the lock...

I also don't unbolt my UHF aerial, and my GSM one doesn't unbolt....again, I know my luck won't hold forever, but at least my Defender isn't daily transport, so the risk is minimised.

Whether you are being paranoid or not depends on where you are. In Dubbo for example they are currently running a campaign to try and get people to lock their cars - with plenty of unlocked cars there is not much incentive to remove tyres etc. Also depends on what car you are driving and what sort of wheels you have.

For example, demand for steel One-Ten wheels = 0, hence pretty safe. Same generally applies to any Landrover parts away from the cities, as the opportunity to sell the wheels etc is very limited.

On the other hand, there are places round here I would not park without removing the UHF antenna, let alone an HF antenna. And parking in some places with visible valuables such as fridges on show is asking for broken windows as well as missing goods.

John

JD
Interesting to see Dubbo has not changed all these years, it was the same 25 years ago. A good mate lives just out of town and he can't stand going in, if he sees any of the brethren about he knows something is going to get knocked off.

john

Originally Posted by JohnE

JD
Interesting to see Dubbo has not changed all these years, it was the same 25 years ago. A good mate lives just out of town and he can't stand going in, if he sees any of the brethren about he knows something is going to get knocked off.

john

Can't be all that bad if they are STILL trying to convince people to lock their cars. Personally I wouldn't leave mine unlocked there, but in daylight I don't bother about removing antennae, and as I said, Landrover wheels are unsaleable, so no problem there.

John