attempted break in....

[bluebullet]

well it finally happened. Somebody attempted to break into my car.


I left work at about 2AM this morning, and my car was parked between our buildings. I got to work late today, and a lot of customers were there, and there was no place to park but behind the dumpster, which is about halfway down between the buildings. I get in and start the car and turn the parking lights on, and the passenger side of the car is a bit dark....which doesnt bother me because one of the wires for the turn signal bulb in the bumper is a little loose and it doesnt come on all the time. So I get on the highway to head home, and the car just seems to be a lot louder than it usually is, like I have a window cracked or something. I get home and pull on the passengerside door, and it flops around like it was only half locked. I open the door from the inside (the handle is broken on the outside) and find the lock all scratched and jimmied, and the paint leading right up to the outside of the car scratched bad...thank god its between the door and the car and you cant see anything.

The piece that bolts to the frame of the car that the lock holds on to was all loose and the little pole on it was marred up. So I get that tightend up and the door shuts again, and I see that the keyhole has been screwed around with. I step back and walk around the car, and the only things I see that arent right is that my front passenger parking light in the lower valence is gone and my parking and turn signal lens is missing. Including the bulb.

Dam fuc&ing crackheads. The guy in the building on the otherside of the alleyway is a big domestic car builder and what not, and he has security cameras that can see down that area.

Thank god I didnt replace that door handle yet. They would have been able to get into the car if I had replaced it already. But its beyond me if they wanted whats in the car or the car itself, they could have just popped the driverside door or bashed a window...


Needless to say..the Porsche wont be going to work for a week or two....and when it does go back, its going to stay in the front of the building in the light and in full view of us.


I knew the area where my shop is is known for bad stuff to happen...Ive seen a few bum fights and cops beatin down drug dealers, but I never thought they would attempt to break into a car. Thats the first car theyve tried since my boss moved the shop here more than 2 years ago.

[CJFusco]

damn that sucks, dude! I would start thinking about an alarm or something.

[livewirevoodoo]

I'd been thinkin bout an alarm, but who really pays attention to those anyways? Unless it kills the engine, but I dont know how much of a deterrent that really is until after the fact.

I've been toying around with the idea of one of those quick-release steering wheels. No wheel = no drive. Only way someone's gonna steal the car then is if they tow it.

[bluebullet]

well ive seen them get around that no steering wheel only one way. A really big pair of vice grips, clamp it to the steering wheel and you can somewhat steer with that. There is no point in having an alarm because everyone has the 7 tone siren up here...and no one including myself pays attention because everyone forgets that their alarm is on and it goes off when you open the car. If they didnt go off so much, maybe people would pay attention.


Theres nothing you can do..if they want the car bad enough they will take it. The guy behind us in his body shop has a tow truck thats a diesel, and you cant tell the difference when our door is shut if its his truck or a flatbed. They could just drive up in there, flatbed it out or tow it from the back. I should park backwards in the spot more often so that the rear wheels have to drag and make some sort of noise.



The only alarm id ever want is the BMW one...the hi-lo siren that they have on the older 5 and 7 series and the newer 3 series. If there was a way to wire that box up Id be set.