993 door wing mirrors stolen??
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I've seen this mentioned a few times, if memory serves correctly there was a lengthy thread on 911uk.com a while back (on the old site).
I suspect at some stage I will get round to etching them - it may not stop them being nicked but at least it will make it difficult to sell them on to any but the most unscrupulous of buyers...
I suspect at some stage I will get round to etching them - it may not stop them being nicked but at least it will make it difficult to sell them on to any but the most unscrupulous of buyers...
I have lost a couple of pairs in the last year or so, the replacement pair went within a month of the first. Subsequent to that, I have had the rear lights stolen as well. I now have old style 964 mirrors which, I believe, are less attractive to thieves.
Every time I see a 964 or older 928 with teardrop mirrors, I want to stop them and ask for my mirrors back. I'm afraid that the mania for updating, making a vehicle look newer or funkier that it really is, keeping up with the Joneses, is as responsible as activities of the the thieves themselves.
Negative dialectics, reification and car ownership, or am I musing on my own here?
Mike
Every time I see a 964 or older 928 with teardrop mirrors, I want to stop them and ask for my mirrors back. I'm afraid that the mania for updating, making a vehicle look newer or funkier that it really is, keeping up with the Joneses, is as responsible as activities of the the thieves themselves.
Negative dialectics, reification and car ownership, or am I musing on my own here?
Mike
captainmark
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Had mine taken in west London last year. Also noticed that 2 other 993's nearby became "mirror-less". Read quite a few reports about it on Pistonheads, 911uk and here. Sadly seems to be fairly common in north/west London.
It's also far from cheap to replace them!
It's also far from cheap to replace them!
The mirrors are attached by a bolt and a couple of lugs made of a base metal similar to Matchbox cars. This metal is weak, brittle and the lugs snap off rather too easily.
Such items on Ebay are advertised with either lugs complete or snapped off. If they are broken, then the mirror is certainly stolen. If it is complete, then the item is still stolen but by a thief with a gentler approach to the removal of another person's property.
It must be said that 993s look far better without mirrors, in fact I reckon the thieves are doing us all a favour.
Such items on Ebay are advertised with either lugs complete or snapped off. If they are broken, then the mirror is certainly stolen. If it is complete, then the item is still stolen but by a thief with a gentler approach to the removal of another person's property.
It must be said that 993s look far better without mirrors, in fact I reckon the thieves are doing us all a favour.
edelschmetterling
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I have just lost both of my door wing mirrors. Arrived home this evening to find somebody had ripped them off. I cannot begin to express how I feel at this very moment in time, needless to say as a victim of crime I am not happy.
Naturally I need to replace them as soon as possible as driving is impossible without them. Does any body know how difficult it is to source / replace these things please? Costs etc"¦
Who would do such a thing?
Naturally I need to replace them as soon as possible as driving is impossible without them. Does any body know how difficult it is to source / replace these things please? Costs etc"¦
Who would do such a thing?
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Problem with ebay is it makes it very easy for a thief to sell stuff they have stolen and the police will take no interest in what they regard as minor crime.
If police clamped down on (had a major, well publicized, campaign against) fairly obviously stolen property on ebay then it migth have some impact on this type of behaviour.
Think I'll take my mirrors of and mark them with my license plate number, or perhaps my PCGB number, so at least I'll be able to give the police a way to identify them should they disappear one night. But I don't expect them to go looking.
Actually suspect mirrors currently on my car may have come from a "source" other than an OPC or the factory. I was touching up a stone chips at the weekend, one on the driver's mirrors revealed red paint under the black.[&:]
If police clamped down on (had a major, well publicized, campaign against) fairly obviously stolen property on ebay then it migth have some impact on this type of behaviour.
Think I'll take my mirrors of and mark them with my license plate number, or perhaps my PCGB number, so at least I'll be able to give the police a way to identify them should they disappear one night. But I don't expect them to go looking.
Actually suspect mirrors currently on my car may have come from a "source" other than an OPC or the factory. I was touching up a stone chips at the weekend, one on the driver's mirrors revealed red paint under the black.[&:]
wblackw9
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Maybe if the main dealers lowered them to £30 each new they would not get stolen as there would be no money in them...Come on Porsche help us all out!! I cant believe a fellow porsche owner would steel them so what else would they be fitted to? Or is there a fair amount of sh*ts out there who own porsches and dont give a damn about anyone else!! How about some sort of cable attached inside the mirror and running through the base into the inside door shell, somethin that cant be cut maybe??
The first owner of my car, living in London, had his mirrors stolen twice and then had the latest ones (all OEM, with invoices to prove it!!) rigged into the alarm - not sure how much of a deterent that is, but at least it draws attention to what's happening. Only downside is that I've set the alarm off a few times accidently in my garage whilst brushing past the car, and boy does it make a racket in a confined space!
edelschmetterling
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Does anyone know where I could get the whole mirrors OEM? I am looking at a £800 bill at the moment... & A gargage to keep her in from this point forward.
zwhitea
New member
Simon at Pro-9 (www.pro-9.co.uk) managed to make be a set out of new and used parts, maybe worth a try to see what he has available...
Adam.
Adam.
Johnny C
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Maybe every time you see some come up, post a question to the seller 'Are these stolen? if not can you tell me where you got them as I've just had some identical ones stolen'
If that pops up a few times on their items they might start getting concerned. Next time they sell a cheap item bid on it. There's nothing that freaks people on eBay who would rather remain anonymous out more than knowing that someone who they can't identify is on their case...
Where I am (Liverpool & Manchester) people tend to leave 911's alone as they think they're owned by a drug dealer!
If that pops up a few times on their items they might start getting concerned. Next time they sell a cheap item bid on it. There's nothing that freaks people on eBay who would rather remain anonymous out more than knowing that someone who they can't identify is on their case...
Where I am (Liverpool & Manchester) people tend to leave 911's alone as they think they're owned by a drug dealer!
edelschmetterling
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In as much I am now seriously planning on moving as a result of this being the last straw of abstract events to occur in South East London, Liverpool or Manchester is a little far for me to commute. "" I am now going to be storing her in a remote garage (at great cost) once the wing mirrors have been replaced. The years of waking up in the morning, walking out the house, smiling and then going to work will now come to an abrupt end.
Finally managed to source a pair of replacements, hopefully they will be ready by the weekend.
If anybody every calls me a Porsche to*ser my response will be an apt one "it's scum like you that made me so""¦
Finally managed to source a pair of replacements, hopefully they will be ready by the weekend.
If anybody every calls me a Porsche to*ser my response will be an apt one "it's scum like you that made me so""¦
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