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993 door wing mirrors stolen??

ORIGINAL: Johnny C

Where I am (Liverpool & Manchester) people tend to leave 911's alone as they think they're owned by a drug dealer!

Now there was me thinking my mirrors are safe now me and the car live up-north away from London, just because the folk are more respecting of a nice car up here...oh well, suppose I'll accept the drug dealer protection if it works.

Is it only 993 mirrors that go? The newer ones not as nice?
 
Hello I have put my reg on my mirrors and glass on my car as many of the item that are stolen end up on Ebay etc.If they are maked it makes them less attractive to steal.

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Has anyone got an old broken miroor and base?? I am quite happy to try an come up with a design of some sort to secure theses better. I believe that the way the mirror case is joined to the base can be used as security. The base is held on by a large start bolt which is hollow for electrice. If someone can provide me with what i have said i plan to make a hollow insert to fix inside that which will in turn take another hollow longer bolt that screws through a flat plat inside the door. This will then stop the mirror being ripped off as it will be solid and also your electric wires can still pass through. What do you think? anyone willing to help??
 
thing is they would still try to force it off, so would it do more damage to the door?

Maybe theres a better way, find someone to make good cheap replicas. Therefore removing the inhernt theft value of the porsche orignals
 
WARNING
Over the past number of days whilst moaning about my wing mirrors being stolen I have since learnt that one small independent in London has had four 911's in for wing mirror replacement owing to theft.

Evidently this is still an issue for us to contend with, who's to say how many additional unreported thefts of this kind have taken place in the last few months?
 
ORIGINAL: edelschmetterling

WARNING
Over the past number of days whilst moaning about my wing mirrors being stolen I have since learnt that one small independent in London has had four 911's in for wing mirror replacement owing to theft.

Sorry to hear about your mirrors. I assume you are in London ? I stopped leaving my 911s in town or by the roadside years ago, because they always attract attention from scumbags. Its a sad state of affairs, but if I know I have got to leave it in town, I will take another car. And I live in the Middle of Nowhere (Wilts).

I guess my introduction to 911 ownership was watching two scumbags keying my 2.7 while it was parked outside my flat 22 years ago in Southampton.

Since then, I have had two more keyings plus a bunch of tossers jumping on the boot of my 964 and flattening it in Putney.

I am only really happy when the car is garaged, but I know that is not so easy for some people.

Oh yes, and never leave a targa top open. Some idiot chucked chinese takeaway onto the seat while it was parked in Southampton.
 
Sorry if I saw someone damaging my car I would be right out to sort them out . I could not just look as they did it .

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ORIGINAL: Porker993

Since then, I have had two more keyings plus a bunch of tossers jumping on the boot of my 964 and flattening it in Putney.

you live in putney so do I, Just off the lower richmond road infact


 
ORIGINAL: Porker993

I guess my introduction to 911 ownership was watching two scumbags keying my 2.7 while it was parked outside my flat 22 years ago in Southampton.

Since then, I have had two more keyings plus a bunch of tossers jumping on the boot of my 964 and flattening it in Putney.
Mark,

Equally sorry to learn of your unfortunate experiences & yes I was parked in London at the time, however in the many years I have parked in this little road in Greenwich nothing has ever happened. Perhaps I developed a false sense of security as a result?

These are beautiful cars with true lineage, works of mechanical art, but some peoples behaviours are beyond explanation. - I went on a Stag weekend earlier this year & met the nicest of chaps who lived in a highly respectable middle class (forgive the terminology) part of North London. He told me how he now drives a Range Rover 4x4 because he could no longer tolerate people keying and walking over his GT2...!

Who in their right mind would do such a thing, more to the point why? To what avail? The action achieves nothing but upset, inconvenience & great cost to the owner - an otherwise stranger to the vandalising, mindless, disrespectful, low life something for nothing member of delinquent society.

"¦Sorry about the language, obviously still very upset about the whole affair.
 
ORIGINAL: SEE YA

Sorry if I saw someone damaging my car I would be right out to sort them out . I could not just look as they did it .

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Unfortunately there were two flights of stairs and I had no trousers on, otherwise I would have. By the time I got down there to inspect the damage, they were long gone.
 
ORIGINAL: smtk

ORIGINAL: Porker993

Since then, I have had two more keyings plus a bunch of tossers jumping on the boot of my 964 and flattening it in Putney.

you live in putney so do I, Just off the lower richmond road infact

No, I don't live in Putney, we were just staying at a hotel in Putney Bridge road for some reason, a few years ago. I thinks it was drunks on their way home from the local boozer. We heard some noises in the night and woke up to find a squashed 964. Gutted or what.
 
I now have my replacement mirrors mounted, however they no longer sit completely flush owing to the door panels being dented slightly during the course of the originals being removed (by a millimetre ). I am not happy, another further future expense to correct the actions of these juvenile delinquents.
 
Being curious, I went on to eBay to look for 993 mirrors to see what the market in stolen goods was doing. No 993 mirrors but there is another mirror that suits one of my cars just fine. Now bidding. Serendipity.
 
ORIGINAL: edelschmetterling

I now have my replacement mirrors mounted, however they no longer sit completely flush owing to the door panels being dented slightly during the course of the originals being removed (by a millimetre ). I am not happy, another further future expense to correct the actions of these juvenile delinquents.

Do you not have a rubber/plastic mount between the door panel and the mirror?
Mine has this (but perhaps mine is non-standard).
Would easily take up 1 mm of slack.
 
Mark,
Yes I do have the rubber mounts between door and panel. It is just a mm on one of the corners of each of the mirrors. - I have her out of public view and hopefully out of future harm now.

Thanks all for your support & assistance with getting through this horrid matter.
 
Are you going to put your reg on the mirrors ?.I have put it on my ones and all my windows .

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I am going to scar them somehow, but I haven't decided how. I want to do both the mirrors and the wings to make it permanent & therefore unrepairable to cover their source. Trying to do this without distorting them is a challenge, will let you know what I do in the end.
 

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