Unsolicited Advice For Keeping Your Marauder Yours!

DEFYANT

DEFYANT

Lives Elsewhere
Hello all.

I am sure many of you have noticed the difficulty in locating replacement parts for our cars. And the premium price things like bumpers and various other one off MM parts are commanding. These cars are fading from places like eBay and will soon be gone for the most part.

Sure having a rare car is nice. We all love the uniqueness of our modern classics at the car shows and thumbs up while cruising. The dark side to this is, I predict the car-jacking / thefts of these car will rise. As the market for parts dries up, the black market will pay the thieves to source parts. This site and others like it will be looked at by thieves interested in stealing our cars to part out.

What to do? If selling, be alert. If you get the slightest hint of deception call off the sale or consider meeting a buyer in a public place. Bringing a stranger to your home where you park the car, could be an inadvertant invitation to come back later and drag the car away.

Mark your cars parts. Years ago, owners would have the VIN etched into the glass. This is a great deterent. Also, get into the hidden areas like behind the bumper covers, dash, seats, etc.... anywhere you can access and "leave your mark" so if / when parts show up on line, YOU or this community, just might find it.

At the meets, we all hang out, talk to each other, look at the cars and bench race for hours. We effectively lose site of our surroundings. Start looking beyond the friendly faces in front of you and see who might be lurking from afar, outside our circle.

Digital photos with geo-tagging, boy this is a scary one. Burglars and kidnappers have been know to use this overlooked loophole to peak into our lives. So can the car thief. It is time to be more careful in the photos we take and locations we use.

It is not difficult, just imagine yourself as the thief and do what it would take to stop "you" from stealing the car.
 
Anyone is welcome to steal my car, it won't be a fast getaway, it's a DTR. That little fact, and, it is stored in an alarmed and well secured facility, plus, it's insured for a stated value.

Car jacking sounds interesting, that may not turn out the way the carjacker plans, but you just never know about these things......

You do have wise words for those that DD theirs, garage queens may not fall into this application so much, but once again, you never know.
 
I owned a GM that was stolen. They found it completely stripped.

They put cheap wheels on it, sat on a cinder block and steered it with a monkey wrench to a side street.

It was obvious they took their time because there were no loose nuts, bolts, screws, washers. The place where they stripped it they had no fear of being caught.

I was told they probably had an order due to another GM suffering damage. IF an MM gets damaged or totalled in your area watch out there maybe an order out to get another MM.

I found out it was probably a strip shop that was "protected" and did not get closed down until there was a new Mayor. It was parked a few block from the strip shop.

I also owned another vehicle that was totalled. A relative had a body shop and parted it out giving me part of the proceeds. When there was next to nothing left they asked me to check it before they hauled it away to the scrap yard.

A ranking "City Worker" was there and kept trying to buy what was left for far more than the scrap value so long as I had clear title and the vin plate was still there. I refused because it did not seem right.

With a clear title and a vin tag a "City Worker" could have a city tow truck tow the same make and model to the pound where he could then pick it up with his title in hand.
 
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sailsmen said:
I owned a GM that was stolen. They found it completely stripped.

They put cheap wheels on it, sat on a cinder block and steered it with a monkey wrench to a side street.

It was obvious they took their time because there were no loose nuts, bolts, screws, washers. The place where they stripped it they had no fear of being caught.

I was told they probably had an order due to another GM suffering damage. IF an MM gets damaged or totalled in your area watch out there maybe an order out to get another MM.

I found out it was probably a strip shop that was "protected" and did not get closed down until there was a new Mayor. It was parked a few block from the strip shop.

I also owned another vehicle that was totalled. A relative had a body shop and parted it out giving me part of the proceeds. When there was next to nothing left they asked me to check it before they hauled it away to the scrap yard.

A ranking "City Worker" was there and kept trying to buy what was left for far more than the scrap value so long as I had clear title and the vin plate was still there. I refused because it did not seem right.

With a clear title and a vin tag a "City Worker" could have a city tow truck tow the same make and model to the pound where he could then pick it up with his title in hand.
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HUM // Sounds like ESSEX county ,Jersey :shake:
 
Thanks..I shall be paranoid now...well what's a good brand/product for car alarm? I was thinking viper for the marauder??
 
DEFYANT said:
Hello all.

I am sure many of you have noticed the difficulty in locating replacement parts for our cars. And the premium price things like bumpers and various other one off MM parts are commanding. These cars are fading from places like eBay and will soon be gone for the most part.

Sure having a rare car is nice. We all love the uniqueness of our modern classics at the car shows and thumbs up while cruising. The dark side to this is, I predict the car-jacking / thefts of these car will rise. As the market for parts dries up, the black market will pay the thieves to source parts. This site and others like it will be looked at by thieves interested in stealing our cars to part out.

What to do? If selling, be alert. If you get the slightest hint of deception call off the sale or consider meeting a buyer in a public place. Bringing a stranger to your home where you park the car, could be an inadvertant invitation to come back later and drag the car away.

Mark your cars parts. Years ago, owners would have the VIN etched into the glass. This is a great deterent. Also, get into the hidden areas like behind the bumper covers, dash, seats, etc.... anywhere you can access and "leave your mark" so if / when parts show up on line, YOU or this community, just might find it.

At the meets, we all hang out, talk to each other, look at the cars and bench race for hours. We effectively lose site of our surroundings. Start looking beyond the friendly faces in front of you and see who might be lurking from afar, outside our circle.

Digital photos with geo-tagging, boy this is a scary one. Burglars and kidnappers have been know to use this overlooked loophole to peak into our lives. So can the car thief. It is time to be more careful in the photos we take and locations we use.

It is not difficult, just imagine yourself as the thief and do what it would take to stop "you" from stealing the car.
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+1 on that
 
Spectragod said:
Secured and secured and alarmed are 2 different things, they would probably take one of the 4 Shelby's before my Marauder though.
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Lojack was installed in the car IIRC. Never able to locate the vehicle. Not sure about an alarm on the garage...I'll have to ask.
 
I marked all of my Marauders. I peed in them. Also installed Rattlesnake alarms. One bite and its over.
Serious everyone needs to do whatever it takes to secure your MM's.
 
Thanks Paula.
While you can have all the hidden switches, fuses removed, engine removed, what ever
the Flatbed with a hook is alll they need.
Secured doubled secured means little to them. You have to go out sometime or other.
I had Lojack all ready installed, did no good. They seem to find that almost at once.

As to car Jacking, When someone runs up on you with a pistol pointed at you even
through glass, the cars is theres.

I knew a guy once who had a remote kill switch, so if he got car Jacked he could
run across the street, and hit the switch, they wrecked the car a block away, because they bailed and let the car roll into on coming traffic, You can guess how that turned out.

A guy I work with had this installed, Looks like it may work
ATT000011.jpg


He has yet to have to use it .
He does use it while he is on the Job.

Bottom line, if some mutt wants your ride, they will get it some how.
Ingenious device if you really look at it. Easy to use and dismount with.
Quick release.
Russell
 
Mercguy04 said:
Thanks Paula.
While you can have all the hidden switches, fuses removed, engine removed, what ever
the Flatbed with a hook is alll they need.
Secured doubled secured means little to them. You have to go out sometime or other.
I had Lojack all ready installed, did no good. They seem to find that almost at once.

As to car Jacking, When someone runs up on you with a pistol pointed at you even
through glass, the cars is theres.

I knew a guy once who had a remote kill switch, so if he got car Jacked he could
run across the street, and hit the switch, they wrecked the car a block away, because they bailed and let the car roll into on coming traffic, You can guess how that turned out.

A guy I work with had this installed, Looks like it may work
ATT000011.jpg


He has yet to have to use it .
He does use it while he is on the Job.

Bottom line, if some mutt wants your ride, they will get it some how.
Ingenious device if you really look at it. Easy to use and dismount with.
Quick release.
Russell
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I've thought about this but NJ is not the South or the West. Getting a pistol permit is a PITA. :)
 
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