Watch where you park
05-07-2015, 04:50 PM
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05-07-2015, 08:57 PM
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Easily worth at least three times the street price of the wheels, right?
05-08-2015, 10:09 AM
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Don't discount this....and I'm NOT saying this happened here....but people can and will do lots of things to their own stuff to make insurance claims when they run into money problems or debt (even high earners). I saw it many times, and with high end things too. People buy things they can't afford....even on a big salary. An expensive watch gets "lost" or stolen....diamond earrings get taken by cleaning staff, a high end car caught fire..... and a big insurance check get sent. That and reported losses on taxes.....This car appears to be in a parking garage at a medical facility with higher end cars, the thief had the lug key (plausible), and then wheels get taken. Its a small market for those wheels....
05-08-2015, 11:12 AM
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CL's would have made that a tougher and more time consuming job and maybe deterred it altogether....one bonus point for CL's!! Really sad to see that though! I fkn hate thieves!
05-08-2015, 02:14 PM
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Keyed lugs aren't worth much in slowing something like this down. There are a number of general purpose hammer on keys that, in combination with a cordless impact, will take the keyed lug off almost as quickly as the other bolts.
Pulling wheels off a car is super fast. Pulling the PCCP rotors would have taken much longer even if the thieves even knew what they were.
I worry about the back end resting on the engine as well. Not sure what the liquid is from, other parts of the garage look wet as well.
Bringing wheels to the car and putting them on there is indeed likely to be the best way to minimize further damage. I would however not drive it until the PCCPs were inspected.
This doesn't scream fraud to me, since this car will need to be fixed one way or another in order to recover its value. Ultimately it's a hassle for the owner, with probably some out of pocket cost, and a cost to all of us who insure cars like this. OTOH no one was killed or wounded in a robbery, so this is actually the preferable scenario. In addition, this car doesn't look like it's owned by someone who can't figure out some other way to get to work. It's still wrong (grand theft in fact), but it's far from the worst kind of wrong.
Pulling wheels off a car is super fast. Pulling the PCCP rotors would have taken much longer even if the thieves even knew what they were.
I worry about the back end resting on the engine as well. Not sure what the liquid is from, other parts of the garage look wet as well.
Bringing wheels to the car and putting them on there is indeed likely to be the best way to minimize further damage. I would however not drive it until the PCCPs were inspected.
This doesn't scream fraud to me, since this car will need to be fixed one way or another in order to recover its value. Ultimately it's a hassle for the owner, with probably some out of pocket cost, and a cost to all of us who insure cars like this. OTOH no one was killed or wounded in a robbery, so this is actually the preferable scenario. In addition, this car doesn't look like it's owned by someone who can't figure out some other way to get to work. It's still wrong (grand theft in fact), but it's far from the worst kind of wrong.
05-08-2015, 02:20 PM
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Think about this for a moment. That is a 991 Turbo S that had 20 inch Center Locks. First, you need special equipment and second, there is not much of a market for 20 inch CLs. Whoever stole the wheels, based on the fact that they left the rotors, probably did not do it randomly. No, I'd say this was a planned theft with a buyer for the specific wheels in hand.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm 
05-08-2015, 02:56 PM
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The other possibility is that it was Chris Brown's car (doesn't he have a black Porsche TT) and Rihanna or his current punching bag was teaching him a lesson.
If it was his, couldn't have been more appropriate karma.