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So my Pioneer deck got stolen today...fml

Father's Day weekend 1995 came out Sunday morning to find the top on my '87 Samurai cut in three places and the thief still could not reach the door handles inside so the scumbag had to unzip the back window to then crawl in through the rear to get to the front and unlock the doors. The thief then stole the Radio/CD Head Unit and the 7 Band EQ/Amplifier underneath by tearing out the bottom of the dash, plus ripping out the wiring along with the radio box. Around $1200 for the inside and another $400 for the top that they could have simply unzipped but decided to cut up ruining it totally and still couldn't get in. Never caught the SOB thief either. All out of pocket as I had liability coverage only.
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reply to michieru
Nope, but I don't have like $800 after market head units.

No car alarm?

People who do crap like this need to be just shot when found, we have no use for them.

reply to michieru
Never happened to me!
I for one am shocked, who steals car radios anymore?
Who buys stolen radios, not knowing if they work or not?
If they didn't work where do you go for a refund, Junkie Lane?
I never lock my car to avoid the broken window!

Apparently some people still steal them. They hock them for what ever they can get and of course - when bought on the street or flea market - no warranties. just cheap stuff...
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Just thought this was a thing of the past as I haven't heard of car radios being stolen in many years!

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reply to CylonRed
My old Eclipse head unit had a neat feature. When power is removed, then restored, it required a "key CD" to work. If you didn't insert whatever CD I had set as the "key" it would sit there flashing "Insert Key CD". They might steal it, but at least I would have limited satisfaction knowing the next person to use it wouldn't find joy. Never understood why more manufacturers didn't do something similar that.

Though I do remember one time searching forever for the CD I set as the key after installing a new battery in the car. I drove around for a couple days with no radio until I gave up and bought a new CD. And of course I found the original CD shortly after buying the replacement. Murphy's law.

And I agree with the others, thieves should be shot on sight.

reply to michieru
Did you have any car alarm? Is so not on or was it on and did no good?
In a parking lot my alarm may do nothing but in my driveway it will. May even get a neighbor out also if it sounds like theirs.

reply to michieru
fire&theft is not part of comprehensive with most places i've gotten insurance from.

it's actually cheaper to just get plpd and f&t put on a car without collision, or getting full coverage.

reply to nonymous
Have a factory car alarm but it did not go off. Anyway got the window replaced by safelite. Just need to head to the dealer to find a replacement trim and try to repair the outer trim with maybe a towel and rubber hammer. As for the deck, I will just save up and upgrade later. I will stay without a deck for a little bit, so the anger lingers and if I see this clown try to rob me again I will make sure it will be his final.

Well its only a suggestion but if you don't want to go without a radio for too long wal-mart sells some cheap ones that work. Back when my dad gave my bro a car it was a 92 ford escort which did not come with a radio because when it was with the previous owner it got stolen and the cables were all cut up. Being the nice brother that I am and the fact he drove from houston to corpus where I live every now and then to visit (at least a 4 hr drive) I felt the need to buy him a cheap cd stereo at wal-mart. The one I picked didn't cost much. I mean its only a suggestion and would at least put some tunes back in your car till you can get what you want. Also the one I picked may of been cheap (like $40 or so) but it did have cables off the back to hook up an amp to it.

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Re: So my Pioneer deck got stolen today...fml

reply to michieru
It's never happen to me but I have had nightmares of this happening before (I know that sounds funny) or car stolen and destroyed.

Sucks for your loss, but atleast it can all be replaced/fixed, the dash and trim will be the hardest part that will probably never be the same without replacing.

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Re: So my Pioneer deck got stolen today...fml

reply to michieru
I actually caught a guy in my truck one time. After I finished with him my son went to work on him.
never saw the piece of crap again.
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reply to michieru
Back in 97 I left my car at my workplace and went out with some friends. Came back the next morning and some a-hole took a screwdriver to the door lock, scratching the paint to hell, some how put a crescent shaped crack in the door, like maybe he kicked it in in anger, and he ripped out my cd player and took my cd book too, about 100+ cds and this was back in the day before I started using Napster =P so yea I paid for every one of those cds myself.

Never caught the guy. Insurance tried to screw me on the CD player, saying I never had one in the first place. Luckily I keep receipts and gave them an ass chewing for screwing over a customer.

reply to Fir_Na_Tine
I already purchased the parts needed to fix the dash, and I just need to solder a wire on the A/C controller unit because at $365 price tag they can blow me. As for the thief, I understand the legal consequences especially these days where they can sue you for getting injured on your property. With all due respect though, if he is in my car and ripping it to pieces just to steal my head unit I will shoot him.

There was a incident on Miami Beach a few weeks ago of a couple who where in there car and where getting robbed at a gas station. The man surrendered everything yet they still shot him in the face, and as for his girlfriend, they shot her too.

It's not about materialistic thing's anymore around here and I am not going to get shot by a hood rat because I did not do anything. If anything this was a blow to my security, now I need to watch my back simply because of the valuables that I own. I would move to another neighborhood but that does not solve anything.

Gone to Afghanistan and back, I honestly feel safer on that FOB than I do back in my own home.

Anyway....sorry I am ranting and just releasing some frustration but this is just bullshit.

Moving forward I have decided that I will just have a CarPC. I will just purchase a double din touchscreen display with VGA input and purchase a ASUS eeePC or maybe create a Mini-ITX. Personally I am thinking of just getting a ASUS eeePC because it's just plug and play.

Purchase a nano bluetooth adapter for phone or see if they have on built in. Run microsoft street and maps in full screen and be done with it. The rest is just configuring and making it easy to just change between things. So I might run some kind of entertainment center software on it. I dunno I am still up in the air but the total repair bill for now is running me at around $520.67 and that was for the glass and the parts they damaged or completely broke off.

I already added comprehensive too my vehicle and got it inspected, so if this happens again I am at least covered and not in a total loss. In short lesson learned.

I was suppose to be debt free by February, now it's looking more like March or April.

Anyway happy new years everyone, take it easy.

-Mike