[trackbird]

My wife's Honda was totaled Tuesday of last week. So I've been driving the Camaro daily and she's been taking my truck to work while we are car shopping. This morning she left, opened the garage door and yelled for me. The tone of her voice told me it wasn't good. I ran outside and we found my truck in my driveway on blocks with all the wheels and lug nuts missing. All of them. Apparently they needed them for their truck. I had to take her up to borrow her mom's Accord and I spent the morning chasing down parts. I'll have the new wheels tomorrow and tires as well. $3386 is the total for wheels, lug nuts, tire pressure monitor valves, and replacement tires for the ones I bought in November. Fucking awesome.

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[trackbird]

Were they factory upgraded wheels or the base aluminum? I had a theory that they didn't need a jack, just pick the right size cinder block and let the air out of the tires! But your pictures prove that wrong for the front anyway.

That's an interesting idea. I think they would have needed a jack in this case, but I'm not totally sure.


That's a pic when I had the tires put on (a friend was shopping for tires for his Jeep and they were also in the truck tire discussion thread on CC.com). It's just the 18" aluminum wheels and all the OEM lug nuts. Tires were Goodyear Wrangler Adventure AT (with Kevlar reinforcement). I had a flat tire on the OEM tires at 16k miles and the hole was in the sidewall, so I put 4 tires on it. So maybe they wanted the wheels and better tires? Maybe they were just stealing anything they could get? I can't decide if I'll see them on an '80's or '90's Silverado in town sometime soon...or if they took them for drug money. Seems like a pretty well planned event for druggies. The way they set the truck on blocks, these guys knew something about cars (they did get one side on a brake rotor, but the drivers side is sitting on the "pin" that sticks out of the bottom of the balljoint and the back axle is on the shock mounts. They were pretty careful as they lowered it, almost like car guys who felt bad (but figured "He's insured, so he won't be hurt" or "He has a nice truck, he can afford it"...not sure which).

I told the officer, they are programmed to my tire pressure monitoring system. If they were to find them and we put them near my truck, I should get tire pressure readings. That would be the only way to ID them....until I reprogram the sensors. I may wait a while. I'd like the cops to find them and this to provide evidence to convict (discrediting their "A friend gave them to me" story, or whatever they come up with). I'll give it a few weeks before I reset the TPMS sensors.

Wow, that picture really makes me nostalgic for a time when my truck had wheels. This was long before it was converted to glorified yard art. Ah, the good old days.

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