So it was about 4 months ago on a Sunday morning I walked out to my car with all 4 tires slashed. Pissed off, I decided to not let it get me too down, I had a spare set of wheels with really bad tires on them but enough to get me to a tire shop to replace 2 of the slashed tires and keep 2 bald lumpy tires on the rear. That night I was able to park my passenger side against my brick wall so those tires could not be reached in fear of the worst case scenario I could only loose 2 more tires. In case the title didn't give it away, I walked out to my car Monday morning (hoping this was a random act of vandalism) and sure enough the 2 exposed tires were slashed. One of them being brand new I freaked out. I was planning on calling the cops that Monday and obviously I called them at that moment.
Luckily one of my neighbors saw my tires and informed me that he had 4 slashed tires on his car just 2 weeks prior and another one of my neighbors had 2 slashed tires over time on his car, all in our front driveway.
At that point I bought a week long bus pass. I actually super-glued the slashed tires shut and filled them with 15psi and they held air just sitting there enough to become a decoy, the slasher never returned the rest of the week. Luckily a family member (mom) was able to hook me up with 4 cheap tires the next week. And with my Macgyver skillz I was able to come up with some locking wheel caps. These will only work on a lowered car with normal / high offset wheels. The ply wood slides up into the fender and a chain is ran arround the bottom of the tire and through a handle screwed to the wood to keep the wood held to the chain. Sure with a car jack or a few people you can lift up the car enough to pop the wood out of the fender or with a screw driver you can unmount the handle and wiggle the wood over the chain but it does its job as a deterant. All my neighbors and myself have been safe since and I hope if it ever happens again my car will be left standing...
I want to re-design them as I want to get some low offset wheels in the future and this design wouldn't work but for now they do their job to allow me to sleep at night.
Luckily one of my neighbors saw my tires and informed me that he had 4 slashed tires on his car just 2 weeks prior and another one of my neighbors had 2 slashed tires over time on his car, all in our front driveway.
At that point I bought a week long bus pass. I actually super-glued the slashed tires shut and filled them with 15psi and they held air just sitting there enough to become a decoy, the slasher never returned the rest of the week. Luckily a family member (mom) was able to hook me up with 4 cheap tires the next week. And with my Macgyver skillz I was able to come up with some locking wheel caps. These will only work on a lowered car with normal / high offset wheels. The ply wood slides up into the fender and a chain is ran arround the bottom of the tire and through a handle screwed to the wood to keep the wood held to the chain. Sure with a car jack or a few people you can lift up the car enough to pop the wood out of the fender or with a screw driver you can unmount the handle and wiggle the wood over the chain but it does its job as a deterant. All my neighbors and myself have been safe since and I hope if it ever happens again my car will be left standing...
I want to re-design them as I want to get some low offset wheels in the future and this design wouldn't work but for now they do their job to allow me to sleep at night.
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