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So glad that you got your wheels back I know what it feels like when someone steals from you. Nice to know how quickly this was taken care of too with the RCMP officer's help. I guess insomnia and CL lurking paid off this time :D

Wow! Awesome, so how did the cops come in contact wit the wheels exactly???

Happy ending:awwyeah:

so much fucking win.
was the chick a junkie bitch? bangable? :P

That sucks, whatever happened to "possession of stolen property"?

And how is that claim sufficient? If she bought them off CL there would at least be an email in her email box to make contact with the seller or if she called/texted there would be a record in her phone and with the phone company. Not at all in the least hard to follow up on that...

You would think she'd be interested in trying to help find the guy and maybe get her money back. I know if the RCMP came and told me the items I had bought were stolen, I'd be trying to help them find the guy who stole my money and somebody else's belongings.

Awesome thread with a quick happy ending (in time for steak and bj day heh).

Are most shops able to engrave the wheels for you? Will be taking my upcoming new wheels to Speed Syndicate.

shes probably in it on the jack.
damn crackers

Euro Exotic Auto. Did they take over the old Forced Fed shop? Last time I was in Langley it was still boarded up, but it was a good location for another tuner shop to take over.


Glad to see you got your rims back! Once again I'm impressed by the members here. :fullofwin:

question for those here who have engraved their info on stuff... a friend did this to his bike some years back, and after it was recovered from a chop shop they were halfway through shaving his engravings off everything he marked with a dremel or grinder. after that i didn't really give engraving much value as a theft deterrent/recovery tool... but now this has been mentioned again, have things changed or is there now some better way to do this?

I'm reminded of the time my Uncle came home to his apartment to find his lock busted off. Unknowingly some junkie woman was hiding in his closet the whole time (he found out after). She got arrested some how on the scene, cops found pills and some lock busting instruments in her purse after. All i know is if it was me that found her i would have put a fucking beating on her w/o any question!! My Uncle was more forgiving i guess lol.

I would assume the more hidden the place where you can engrave it is, the better. An experienced chop shop would probably check for engravings, but your average dumbass thief probably wouldn't.

+1 for the good guys :fuckyea:

I think instead of the old RS beatdown crew we should do the RS Shaming crew! We find her pic, photoshop her face on a crack whore begging for money, call her 'The Craigslist Wheel Whore' and make an animated GIF out of her. Life:Ruined

:)

were there police present when you went to go get your wheels?

Should keep tabs on that CL phone number. Thieves are gonna thieve.

Can you search CL ads by phone number?

I've ran phone numbers through google and CL ads will pop up

Paid off, dude you saved me huge $$$$!! Thank you!!!

The cops did not get the wheels back, they played middle woman in this one and told her to give them back or go to jail.

If your in to that kind of thing :heckno::heckno:

Cops will not do much with this unless you really press it. She had the wheels in her possession but can not prove she was the one who took them. She claimed to purchase them off of CL and that she had erased the sellers number already.
I know its BS but there is not much I can do and she was dirty so I didnt want to get into it with her and have a needle or something pulled out on me.

You can show that there is a lot of things that point to her having something to do with the theft or re-sale of the wheels but nothing is solid proof. It would most likely just cost the tax payer money and time to deal with situations like this.

I mentioned this to her and she said she no longer had the number and all kinds of other crap which is BS....

I did them myself, but I'm sure a shop could do it.

Would not surprise me.

Nope, not that I'm aware of. Good spot and we are actually expanding there now as well.

Engraving, when done properly, is hard to remove. There are a few ways to do it and the method I used was a hammer and punch. I drew a straight line on the inside edge to keep it straight and then tapped the VIN and SIN into the wheel.
The trick I used was to put these numbers on when you are balancing the wheel. The reason why I say this is that you can choose where to put the number so that the stick on wheel weights go over top of the numbers. If someone stole the wheels they would not be looking under the weights for anything.
IF they did and tried to grind it off you can still get the numbers to show with a special chemical that will highlight the stress in the metal caused by the hammering in of the numbers. If they managed to grind off enough material to get rid of that the wheel would be junk by that point.

Under the wheel weights ;)

No, she told me I can go there myself to get them or she could come along but at some crazy hour so I told her I would just take a friend and go get them myself.

Done and done ;)

Just google search the cell #. It will pop up as a link to CL adds if there are any.

604-217-4582 is her cell # BTW. I do also have her address......not a bright girl.

in hindsight, i really think you should have brought the cop with you. she would have been present to hear that bullshit about having bought them a few weeks back. my other fear is that whoever actually stole the wheels might have been there when you showed up...

a punch and die method i didn't think of. where can i find those? did you do that to these wheels? so... you scrape off the wheelweights, punch your info, and then stick new wheelweights over it again? or am i overthinking this?

I have a very old, yet very effective diamond engraver. I find it marks deeper thank most engravers I have seen. You can borrow it anytime Thumper!

It would not matter if the person who stole them was there, without proof there is no action. It would not matter if the person was there anyway, actions were taken to insure that nothing would happen.
As for the engraving, I would put the wheel on the balancer (no weights) spin it up and find where I would put the weights and then mark that spot, do my engraving and then put the weights on there. Depending on the wheel it may cover the whole thing or only part of it but its better than nothing.

Those type of engravers are better than nothing but are the easiest ones to remove as they remove metal from the wheel rather than deform the metal which is harder to remove.

You are one sneaky sonofagun. Even if the wheels are already balanec you could pop them off, punch on your VIN or SIN, and reapply the weights.

Glad to see the results!

I'd post up the conversation I had with the thief but really not worth it.

I was talking to her in the morning about scheduling a pick up, and she stopped replying for a while. After I messaged her again asking when I could come she instantly replied by telling me the wheels were stolen and that the owner was coming to pick them back up.