lurcher

Check this out over in the Canada forum

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...threadid=11610

Guy in Montreal has his wheels swiped while away on holiday. At around the same time, a set of RX-8 wheels comes up for sale on Ebay. The seller lives in, wouldn't you know it, Montreal! It's a big city of course but still, smells fishy...

Do Euro RX-8s ship with wheel locks? I know it would only slow a determined thief down for a little while, but it's better than nothing...

Titanium Grey

Lurcher, I believe wheel locks do come as standard, but I can't remember where I have seen this.

cw007

yeah but up there in dundee they would nick the chassis and leave the wheels propped up by bricks.

Almost as a bad as barrowfield Glasgow and ferguslie park in Paisley.

oh and not forgetting the infamous Wester Hailes in Sunny Edinburgh

RX-Late

and Byker in Newcastle!

Murphy

The trouble in all of these areas is mainly caused by visitors from Hertfordshire... :D :D :D

jimbobjoe

Wheel locks are standard. As they are in every coutry except canada !
Go figure.

cw007

yeah murphy, i collect my monthly doose of temazpan from my dealer in Paisley and rampage around my place of birth. Then come home and find that Watford has a few dodgy areas as well.

i.e. Garston (which is about 3 miles from leafy tory Bushey where i live now)

cw007

oh and South Oxhey.

Murphy

You from Paisley then cw007?

My wife works in Paisley and we live nearby in the south side of Glasgow.

Like all towns/cities there are good and bad parts.
A case of "give a dog a bad name and it sticks" much of the time!

(Mind you, I wouldn't park my car in Feguslie Park overnight!)

lurcher

Like Glasgow, Dundee has something of a reputation, but there's actually not very much car crime here from what I can gather - although it does have its nasty areas like anywhere else.

The only story I remember hearing was a guy at work - he lives a few hundred yards away from me - who had the rear spoiler neatly removed from his Saxo VTS one night. That's a popular, cheap and quickish "boy racer" car so something of a prime target.

He has an Elise now which you could probably carry off by hand if you brought two or three mates along to help out.

Wing

You know what, they are actually suppose to come with the car in Canada, mine did, others have as well. Dealers do not want the wheels stolen from their lots so they put them on. It's $30 saves a lot of problems. Not sure why in Montreal they wouldn't give them! odd.

cw007

on the subject of carting of cars by "hand"


back in the eighties when the 2CV was "fashionable" me and some mates were in Paris, we "picked up" one and carted it round the corner (about 200 yards all in) just for a laff and well should have seen the froggy doing his nut when he found his souped up trash can was missing

cw007

On the subject of good ole Paisley, I lived in the "poash" Whitehaugh jist aboot 2 mins fay Barshaw Park. on the hawkhead Road.

Came fay Foxbar or at least thats where i grew up or dragged up as the case may be

Murphy

Well while I'm a "Weegie" born and bred (Govan), I lived in Dykebar for a couple a years - jist a spit away fae ye.
Ma wife's shoap is in Glasgow Road - near yon Arnold Clarks Mazda garage!

JohnnyCumLately

I heard that a group of students at Imperial College once dismantled a car, carried the parts, and reassembled it to full working order on a roof or somewhere equally inaccessible. It may be a myth, but I want to believe it.

Eric

Just got a mail from my dealer.
Dutch 8ths will not come with wheel locks. We have to order and pay for them ourselves. Seeing the photos I will not have any doubts doing so.

Eric

lurcher

Don't know if it's true or not, but checking on snopes.com to see if it was listed, I did find this:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/hondacog.asp

Like just about everyone else, I was sure that ad was computer-generated...