I gave a set of my car key + my autolock/clutch lock key to my friend who was doing all of the body work on the car. He attached the set of keys to his key chain.

So the other day after I finished installing the Supra fuel pump, I wanted to start up the car to make sure that everything works but unfortunately I forgot my RX-7 keys at home. So I asked him if I could grab my keys and he told me that the keys were downstairs in his room. I went down there and grabbed the key chain and when I went outside, I looked at the key chain and my keys were NOT there. So I asked him where my keys are at and he looks at his key chain and is very shocked that they are missing! He told me that the keys were there last night when he had to grab some tools from the car. He later went to break dance practice and apparently, that's when someone stole the keys.

The weird thing is that whoever took the keys did not take his van keys or his house keys. So he hurried up and finished the body work and I moved the car out of there and parked it at my place. So last night while it was parked there, my next door neighbor (whose brother is a Fairfax County cop) came home from work and told me that he saw 3 shady looking hispanic guys near the car, sitting in a Civic HB eyeing the RX-7. As he approached them to take down the license plate #, they took off and he heard the VTEC kick in.

I'm thinking that they are after the wheels (Rota, lol -- I bought the wheels/tires for $700 to replace my worned out FD wheels/tires) because there is nothing under the hood (LS1) that is worth anything to Honda thieves and there is nothing inside the car (All stock) that is worth anything to Honda thieves. The front wheel is 18 X 8 48mm offset and the rear is 18 X 9 50mm offset. I think that the front wheels can fit a Honda Prelude?? What about the rear wheels?

My next set of wheels will be 18 X 10, 285 all around...

So now a set of my car key is floating around somewhere. Does anybody know how much it will cost to change the whole ignition system, door locks, trunk lock, and get a new set of keys?

I bought another clutch lock and also bought some chains, locks, and an alphalock. The alphalock (www.alphalock.com) is strapped to my right front wheel.

I also have 3 kill switches in the car and some other tricks up my sleeve.

 

I don't mean to question your friendship, or your friend, but that sounds a little shady to me..

call Ray @ Malloy.

 

Sorry to hear but since i dont know much more detail about the story, from the looks of it, i say your friend has little to do with it.

Around here, you have to be careful who you make "car friends" with. Even if you knew them for a while because thats the worse. They know your routine, they know exactly what you have, what devices you use to protect the car, where you go, where you park, how long you leave it parked, who is watching it etc etc.

 

its a rx-7 man.
people dont care about stock or not they will stile it just to joy ride.

does your friend have any hispanic friends that you now of?
if someone is going to take the keys then they wouldnt take the time to take it of the key ring!

 

How could they be after the wheels? they can't use 5 lug =P

 

I think the Honda Prelude uses 5 bolt 114.3 pattern

 

My friend is very cool. I've known him for a very long long time, but it's the people that he hangs around with that worries me. Everytime I stop by his house to check on the status of the car, there's always a "new" person there that I've never seen before. He has asian, white, black, and hispanic friends.

I talked to his older brother the day after someone stole my keys and he told me that someone stole over $10,000 worth of jewelry from his mom's jewelry box about a week before my keys were jacked and there was no sign of forced entry.

 

sounds like a bad idea to give your key to someone with that much traffic.

traffic you dont know.

 

i would hide it for a while.

i dont let anyone now were i park my car. even my good friends.

 

Lojack!

 

A garage!
I don't know how you guys without garages would even own an FD. If I didn't have a safe place to put my FD, I wouldn't own one. Period.
I also live about 100 miles from the Mexican border so....

 

LOL @ hearing the v-tec kick in and going to break dancing practice.

 

I say camp out in the hatch with a baseball bat!

 

I always had driveways with an open/close gate on it. My current house has a gate with a lock (thats always locked shut if no one is home) but where i park my car is at the rear of the house, which is about 100-125 feet from the sidewalk. Not to mention i live on a dead end block, so im not too too worried about my car getting stolen. However car theft is at 90% for my town LOL. So i have to be careful of my DD.

 

Is there any other place that you can park it? Even a drive way is better then on the street.....Park it in with another car too! That sucks!

 

Good luck finding a new lock and ignition set. I bought one of the last sets consisting of everything (ignition, door locks, truck, glovebox, etc) a year or two ago. Don't know if they have access to more now or not.

Tim

 

Can't a locksmith tumble all the locks and make new keys? I know they can do it with house locks.

 

Man, those gangsters aren't playin around.

 

I spoke with Ray about lock sets a couple weeks ago, he said they go for $395 and he didn't say anything about not being able to get them. Check with him though. I really enjoyed the irrelevant details in your story (breakdancing practice, vtec, race), not to mention your absurdly thorough protection scheme for your car despite the fact that you give out your keys to your careless friend. Thanks for the laugh.

 

I would sure think so, and it should be a hell of alot cheaper than ordering all new locks.




Theives are not generally looking for something to steal for personal use.....they just want to sell it so anything on any car is fair game to them. 5 minutes on the internet and they will know what is expensive, and how to remove it quickly.

I just have a car port, enclosed on 3 sides, so basically a garage with no door. FD sits in there, light is always left on and every neighbor on the entire block can look out their windows and see it sitting there. If someone was to mess with it, to say the least they have *****. That's what insurance is for.

You can't stop a motivated theive that knows what he/she is doing. All you can do is make it as inconvient as possible and hope they pass it up for something easier with less risk. Otherwise, odds are, they are going to get what they want and be gone before anyone knows they were there.

Park it in the driveway, and get a huge dog house and put it right next to the 7 and label the dog house entry "Killer" with a MASSIVE chain partially looped out the front of the door to make them think a monster is in there sleeping. That should keep them away.

 

another thing to consider is sometimes what cannot be stolen can be destroyed. thats how it is down here anyway, if somebody cannot jack a car they'll totally vandalize the hell out of it, strip it of any juicy interior equip and take off with what they can. you'll still have your car in the end, but damn it'll still be a pain in the *** to repair and re-aquire whatever gear was stolen. i dislike people who have no respect for other's property, it sickens me what one will do to continue purchasing his cocaine or fix up that beater of a civic *for example*.

 

Theives are crafy, man. Don't underestimate how smart they are. With your car on the street like that, they could easily rent a roll-back and come "repo" your car.

There was a thread a year or two ago where some guy on here almost had his FD "repoed" but his sister's car was blocking his in to the driveway.

 

damn i want a malloy license surround. im asking ray for one next time i order.

 

thats also a method here as well, dont know any specifics but lot of hearsay about that.

 

here they dont say anything they just load and go.
we had two different cars come up missing, come to find out one had a flat tire and was parked there for the weekend and the other the motor went out on it. the last time a neighbor saw a rollback!

not fds, one was a van the other a crappy gremlin looking car.