Does "looks" make your car more of a crime target ?

[paul mac]

I ain't posh nor rich. Just prefer to live in an area to far from town for students to move into, too expensive for scumbags to move into and quite enough for me to get some sleep. Which I didn't get for about a year.

not getting at you mate just trying to show that the list of motors and the reason no one looks at your supe doesn't exactly make up the kind of cars on your average street, i think Clarkey may be nearer to the mondeo, rover street than yours lol thats why he's asking the question

[Clarkey]

Clarkey may be nearer to the mondeo, rover street than

yours lol thats why he's asking the question

 

Exactamundo! Though there is a BMW 7 Series .. sporty thing. Sloped bonnet. Pop-up head lights. And funny enough - the owner doesn't seem your average BMW twat type - he actually indicates!

 

But mostly - your average run of the mill stuff. Got a wanky, Rover 75 - which was red - but is now fading to the same colour as my door handles.

[paul mac]

i say go for it Clarkey, if your planning mods do it, if the little darlings are that way out they will damage your car whether its stock or modded

[Clarkey]

i say go for it Clarkey, if your planning mods do it, if the little darlings are that way out they will damage your car whether its stock or modded

 

Guess abit worried - as I'm not the most popular person in my street. Had a complaint about the noise - the first day I got the keys to my flat!

 

It didn't take the feckers long

 

As you say tho, it may not matter. But first things first, need to sort my ECU management side.

 

Paul, did you buy yourself a BL exhaust in the end ?

[paul mac]

 

Paul, did you buy yourself a BL exhaust in the end ?

no i chickened out lol, i get black looks with a drager, ide probably get linched with the BL, maybe one day

[Clarkey]

no i chickened out lol, i get black looks with a drager, ide probably get linched with the BL, maybe one day

 

Ah! Though, just to shut my neighbours up .. getting a baffle for it. I may like the noise ... but they don't. And I can't be doing with having the entire street ... signing a petition to have an ASBO raised against me

[Terminator]

If you ask any insurance actuary they will tell you that visual modifications make the car more vulnerable to theft or malicious damage. That is why premiums are higher.

You may be one of the lucky ones who does not get hit, or get an orange car.

[Clarkey]

I may try and rent a garage from my local council .... Hmmm.