Got a gift from the previous owner today...

[Kruzen]

So I was finally getting around to installing my EUROOOOOH! Plate filler that I snagged up a few months ago, and so while washing my car today (after throwing on some other goodies ;), pics to come in the next week or two) I decided to take off my rear license plate to get all of that crap cleaned off good and plenty.

What dropped onto my shiny bumper when I took it off?

Oh my! A spare key to my car.

Thanks previous owner for including a theft hazard on my car.

I mean sure, i didn't find it for 2 years, but then again, a thief may know to look there.. or something.

Seriously what the fuck, have you guys ever seen someone hide their key there? You can't even get to it without a screwdriver.

[JasonC]

I never heard of hiding a key there. I was missing the key to my hatch on my firebird. Then one day i was cleaning the car really good and found the key in the core support on the bottom.

[mrsleeve]

I have a spare to my beater caviler in the gas door everybody knows that. Ever now an then I get back to my car at the end of the day from being on the other end of a job and some one has moved my car a 1/2 mile down the road or hid it from me.

[Van Westervelt]

I have heard of hiding a key there. You can get to it by using a coin to unscrew the plate. Some people even put a slotted screw in there.

[808BMW]

I stick my key behind there when I go running, I hate having my key bounce around in my pocket.

[Jand3rson]

Yes, everyone keep posting where you hide your extra key to your car.

[rede30]

The only gifts i get from previous owners are nasty interiors.

[e30frosh]

The gift from my previous owner was a little more than nasty interior. I had to clean the remainder of his blood from the carpet, headliner, and seats. Turns out he couldn't bear the thought of living another day an point-blanked his temple inside the car. YUP! Marla's a suicide car. If you ever need to clean a car in said condition, ammonia based products work really well.

[808BMW]

The gift from my previous owner was a little more than nasty interior. I had to clean the remainder of his blood from the carpet, headliner, and seats. Turns out he couldn't bear the thought of living another day an point-blanked his temple inside the car. YUP! Marla's a suicide car. If you ever need to clean a car in said condition, ammonia based products work really well.

I was looking at a truck that also turned out to be a suicide car. Only he pointed in the mouth so it needed a back window.
I didn't buy it.

[blunttech]

my car doesnt use keys. keys are over rated. super duper bobby cooper deleted my ignition and installed an imobilizer to keep shitbags at bay

[Mr Deagle]

The gift from my previous owner was a little more than nasty interior. I had to clean the remainder of his blood from the carpet, headliner, and seats. Turns out he couldn't bear the thought of living another day an point-blanked his temple inside the car. YUP! Marla's a suicide car. If you ever need to clean a car in said condition, ammonia based products work really well.

oh damn, was the car cheap or something?

[Jscotty]

Seriously what the fuck, have you guys ever seen someone hide their key there? You can't even get to it without a screwdriver.

Yeah but if you ever loose your keys or find a way to lock them inside, I am sure that finding someone to loan you a screw driver is much easier than finding a way to pull up the lock with a coat hanger.

I never heard of hiding the key behind the license plate but I also cannot imagine that you didn't notice the key there when the previous owner's plates were removed and you installed your new license plates.

We used to use that magnetic box that they would advertise in the Parade magazine that you could stick to the inside of your wheel well. Even though millions of readers saw this ad, we figured that this would be a good hiding place and nobody would think to look there. As I got older and wiser I began keeping extra keys in places that I know I could get to such as the office or at home. That way I could never be locked out of more than one place at the same time.

People warn me not to keep house keys in the car, however, I think that if someone steals my car, they aren't going to drive back to my house later in the stolen car to do more stealing at risk of being confronted by me.

[e30frosh]

oh damn, was the car cheap or something?

103k for 2200. I'd say purdy cheap. Blood cleans up easy. It's the mods that take time.

[Mr Deagle]

Blood cleans up easy. It's the mods that take time.

thats quote worthy

[george graves]

103k for 2200. I'd say purdy cheap. Blood cleans up easy. It's the mods that take time.

SO in other words..."Better someone else's blood than bloody nuckels!!!"