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Friend is selling his car today, so last night we took it for a drive down the coast, he was driving so i just kicked back and downed beers.

I got to his house at around 10pm and we got back from down the coast late in the morning. I crashed in his spare room as i was too tired and had enjoyed too many drinks to drive.

So at lunchtime today when i went to leave, i was talking to his neighbour when he noticed some sockets on the driveway, then we realised they were actually the wheel nuts from the right rear tyre!

So luckily the neighbour spotted it so i didnt drive off down the road with only 2 nuts albeit loose themselves, secondly the scumbags that decided they wanted my rims were interrupted by someone/something, possibly us coming home in the early hours.

Thats the first time i have had that sort of scare with the car in 3 years!

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One of the scariest car related things that has happened to me was driving an 1966 aston martin DB6 when a front wheel came off at about 80kph (hubs were fitted incorrectly). Id hate to think what could happen at a decent speed on a busy road. Thiefs are one of the lowest forms of human life.

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I have one lock nut per rim, and thankfully that was one the nuts still on the wheel.

Talking to my friend, he suggested that if they were crooks looking to take my wheels they would have taken interior bits as well AVCR etc, he thinks its some deadhead idiots trying to cause an accident.

Since this little incident i have changed the sensitivity on my alarm to MAX. You bump the car now it goes off, trying to un-torque the wheel nuts will now set it off... its going to be a pain in tha a55 at shopping centres though.

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Yes lock nuts wont save your wheels against a determined theif, it is easy enough to chisel them off.

The thing is, that requires bringing a hammer and chisel along, and making a lot of noise, and probably setting off ultrasonics inside the car.

It would be much easier to just look somewhere else.

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