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By NSA11N,
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To all,

Please be very careful and mindful of where you park at Miranda Fair!

Make sure you park either right out the front of a main door, in security parking, or where there are security cameras.

In some instances it may cost you a couple of bucks, but it will save your car from being damaged or worse, STOLEN!!

I was at Miranda with a friend of mine in her S15 yesterday. At about 2.00pm we returned to her car to find another car double parked behind her. As we got closer the driver whistled and a bloke ran out from next to her car. I couldn't get his number plate as i was kinda confused as to what was goin on.

He ran off with a cloth and something else in his hand. Walked round the carpark and couldn't find them.

On further inspection, we noticed scratches at on the plastic trim at the very top of the drivers window.

What this bloke was doing was pulling back the window to press the unlock button with a long piece of wire on the drivers door trim.

NOTE: Most import cars have pillarless doors, thus making it extremely easy to pull the window back and get access to that door unlock button.

There was a thread a while back in the DIY security section - HOW TO DISABLE DOOR UNLOCK BUTTON!

I urge all of you to follow that 1 simple step as i did when i first got my car.

This will only allow the door to lock with that button - only way to unlock is with a key now!

SECURITY Grand Master

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dude!! you've come the closest to seeing these guys in action! surely you could at least remember the car? or anything noticeable about it.

they've hit a few people's cars from here so any info would be great.

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Doof - yeah, it was her car... it don't flutter no more, i put all the hose back together so the car runs a little more efficiently...

All I can tell you is that the guy are two mid 20's middle eastern appearance men in a shit box old gold car.

Maybe on old pulsar or old Mazda 323 or 626

I'll do a search and find out exactly what it was...

Unfortunatly we didn't get number plates as they were old faded ones.

DECIM8 Grand Master

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In Miranda hey.. Jesus.. I thought that was one place my vehicle was safe, luck I dont go there much these days.

Anyone got a link to this page about disabling the locking mechanism or whatever?

satanic Grand Master

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You are very very lucky indeed... Back in 2005 I was parked there whilst doing some shopping with my girlfriend. Not being from the area and definitely not expecting it to be so dodgy; I parked in a bad spot. Came back to find both my passenger side windows smashed - they only took my head unit face plate.

From that day on I swore never to return to Miranda in any vehicle...

Anyways... if I were you I'd take this as a stroke of luck that you got away with scratches only. I'd have given my left nut to have seen the people who did that to my car.

Funny thing was that despite my alarm going off etc; not one person did / said anything to anyone (according to the posts in my thread about it; at least one SAU member saw what happened).

SECURITY Grand Master

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I'll hand out flyers

dude.. seriously. you dont turn reasonable people into crims by stating the obvious. someone who wants to get into your car WILL get into your car, they wont search the forums to find out how. i mean, i can tell you how to break into each and every car without damaging anything. anyone in 'the business' will already know.

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In Miranda hey.. Jesus.. I thought that was one place my vehicle was safe, luck I dont go there much these days.

Anyone got a link to this page about disabling the locking mechanism or whatever?

Click here Unlock button - disable

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dude.. seriously. you dont turn reasonable people into crims by stating the obvious. someone who wants to get into your car WILL get into your car, they wont search the forums to find out how. i mean, i can tell you how to break into each and every car without damaging anything. anyone in 'the business' will already know.

true,but id rather the ones that dont know,still not know.

e.g some young punk reads that then tell his older brother(theif) tells his mates = bad news

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A car being pillarless or not, my alarm goes off if someone flicks the switch from the inside? If you don't have an alarm, would you even consider parking your car in a shopping centre?

And side note, why the hell did you connect those hoses back up? Fark performance, it sounded fat as when I heard it on Sunday night :P I was gonna ask ya what made it that loud...

$4 security parking all day ftw :D

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And side note, why the hell did you connect those hoses back up? Fark performance, it sounded fat as when I heard it on Sunday night :P I was gonna ask ya what made it that loud...

lol, long term its bad for your turbo, same as blocking off your blow off valve to get the flutter uleh...

just wanted change i guess... conservative ppl should get over it...

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quite interesting. on tuesday a gold mazda 626 was seen parked at mcgraths at sutherland outside the nissan dealership. it was next to a r33 gtr. when the staff approached the car took off at high speed. could be the same people. staff took the rego no. of the car.

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Thanks for mentioning that Greg. It would interesting to find out who the car belongs to etc etc.

I will contact them tomorrow RE: the rego number

Also, i think i will keep my car, so i will need to talk further to you about converting my car to manual.

DECIM8 Grand Master

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When you get it publish the plates and we can hunt them down... I would say 99% certain they either live somewhere around hurstville or bankstown/ that place next to it .. forgot its name :S

And im always there!

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lol, long term its bad for your turbo, same as blocking off your blow off valve to get the flutter uleh...

Replace the turbo when its broken as opposed to upgrading a perfectly fine one sounds better when you have to tell the olds :P lol

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