Some jerk stole the valve stem caps off my wheels !!!
There are only two places it could have happened. I was at a cruise night last Saturday and I wasn't next to the car at all times. There were people all around it all night long and I was off taking pics of the other cars.
I also took the car to work last Monday. Some dumba$$ parked real close. I'll check with Security on Monday and have 'em check the video recordings of the lot. Fortunately, I was parked within perfect viewing range of one of the cameras.
It could have been worse, my baby could've been keyed or something, but it still pi$$es me off!!
Now I'll have to order a couple sets from SLP.
Andy
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it could be worse. The FIRST day I had my car, some kids stole my valve stem cover, and scrathed my fender & set off my alarm. I never caught them. They got the rest a few weeks later. Little bastards. It's the only flaw in my paint.
My driver's side door (is that redundant?) got keyed last summer. "Colormelt" did a decent job of fixing it, but I had to clay to whole car after it spent the day in their shop
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I'll order a couple of new sets from SLP on Monday. In the meantime, I went to an auto parts store and found the last two sets of caps they had and they are actually reasonably close to the ones originally on the car.
I'm glad whoever it was didn't decide to key the car.
Sunset Orange Metallic looks like it would be VERY difficult to match.
It just goes to show you: if you have something nice and take pride in keeping it that way, someone just HAS to mess with it.
They better hope I don't catch 'em.
Thanks for the words of comfort folks.
Andy
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had old man swing crown victoria door open while I was just getting ready to back out of parking spot.Iscreamed at him for about 5 min. He told me I shouldnt be driving so exspencive a car. I could have killed him.left tiny mark on right rear fender lip car only had 700 miles on it.SS conv. have 7000 miles now thats only spot on car.MR ED
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Eddy in Iowa 2001 SS conv.M-6 car # 0612 Black All factory options 2002 ZO-6 cam & springs SVO 30# injectors Slp lid-Holloy filter Slp STB Slp LT headers High Flow cats All SLP GP thru SPO/F1 Mike Stealth performance Tuned by Team ZR-1 JR jmholiday@mchsi.com Posts: 89 | From: Cedar Rapids Ia | Registered: Aug 2001
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ps Hay Draptawp you are every were! cant wait to get pictures of mine up. MR ED
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Eddy in Iowa 2001 SS conv.M-6 car # 0612 Black All factory options 2002 ZO-6 cam & springs SVO 30# injectors Slp lid-Holloy filter Slp STB Slp LT headers High Flow cats All SLP GP thru SPO/F1 Mike Stealth performance Tuned by Team ZR-1 JR jmholiday@mchsi.com Posts: 89 | From: Cedar Rapids Ia | Registered: Aug 2001
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What type of caps were they? Where they the NUT looking type or round. I have the nut type on my 5 spoke chrome wheels and what I do is carry a small wrench with me in the car. I tighten those babies down almost to the stripping of threads. I don't think you can unscrew them without a wrench. No little fingers are going to twist them off in a hurry. lol
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They were the kind that you could put a wrench on. I tightened my temporary replacements hand tight, but like Force-10 mutant power hand tight. I guarantee they won't come off without a fight!!!!
Andy
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