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Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« on: October 29, 2009, 12:09:47 pm »
Last week my car was vandalised with the back window smashed to get hold of both locking nuts, the standard VW and the McGard. It looks as though 4 guys, one on each wheel had spanners and removed all the standard nuts apart from the locking ones, then the window went in and the locking nuts were quickly passed from corner to corner to remove each wheel.

Must have been like a McLaren pit stop with the alarm sounding off. Luckily one of the nice guys put the McGard nut onto a standard VW wheel nut and churned the key making it dead and so unable to remove the remaining McGards. The car is now in the bodyshop with a £3200 bill.

Question is where should you keep your nuts, is it the right thing to keep them together next to the spare wheel or should they be hidden within the car where they would then smash all the windows to find the nuts in the ashtray.

Finally if you do not have McGards then get some fitted today. 

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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 12:13:39 pm »
Holy shizzle !

that sucks mate , 3200! what needs replacing? can you not go through insurance?
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2009, 12:19:25 pm »
Yep...It's an insurance job.

1, New rear window.
2, Repaint back hatch - vandalised
3, Repaint back bumper - vandalised
4, New wheels - all vandalised when they could not be removed. Had to be drilled off by specialist.

The new window was fitted yesterday, but good old window man fitted a blue one when I am a MY06 green window.
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2009, 12:29:42 pm »
bloody hell-its a god jod you had the mc guards on-was this out side your house
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2009, 12:35:06 pm »
Candyman.................

I know of an almost identical story.......................which has me thinking you are/must be the same person??!

Would you happen to be from Nottingham??!
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2009, 12:35:49 pm »
No..... It was parked while I was watching Nottingham Forest.....Go on let me have the jokes.... I'll start things by saying at least they won.
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2009, 12:36:49 pm »
Trickyred....How did you hear?
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2009, 12:38:49 pm »
You are the same guy then!! My old man knows you!!

Red GTi?

I'm his son!! ( & a Forest Fan!! )  :happy2:
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2009, 12:41:35 pm »
Oh yes....Your Dad works with me and drives a VW... Am I right?

Don't tell him this is what I do when at work !!!!!!!!!
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2009, 12:44:16 pm »
Busted!!

Spot on with your detective skills!!

As long as you don't tell my work I'm on here too!! :innocent:
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2009, 12:52:54 pm »
Not good, where in Nottingham was this ?
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2009, 12:54:13 pm »
Not the best of places.... Parked near Meadow Lane in the Cattle Market.....Never again!!
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2009, 12:55:32 pm »
yes, deffo not the best place  :surprised:
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2009, 12:58:32 pm »
I've parked there every other Saturday for 32 years while suffering the tricky trees and never a problem...Just my luck... but told by the boys in blue that gangs are driving round looking for GTI's with nice wheels.
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Re: Monza's nearly stolen - Where do you keep your nuts?
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2009, 01:00:06 pm »
By the way.... The bu**ers even took my little stumpy aerial
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