Damn little kids!

[BigBlue]

Well that's good to hear. The dealership I bought my car at originally tried to screw me and asked for way above MSRP on the car. I got them down to MSRP after I threatened to call the head office and report them.

After that tho I had a good experience. Apparently I got those nuts thrown in as well as having a really good tint job done on the windows.

 

[Kooldino]

3pmadzam, I appreciate it. Get back to me on those tips.

 

[BondoBob]

Dug up this old thread rather than start a new one:

Came out to the MP3 this morning and sure enough I'm missing two left side (the side away from the house) valve stem covers and one of the chrome stem covers. I am pissed. I have had this problem twice before and am REALLY F-ING TIRED of it. Some kid on a bike will die if I find him riding around with MAZDA valve stem covers.

Bob

I carry The Club in my car...and it ain't for locking up the steering wheel!

 

[Kooldino]

Hehe. Well, if it helps, i found ones that look ALMOST stock at wal mart for $2. Put them on with a wrench and they'll stay there forever.

 

[BondoBob]

Thanks, I'll stop at Walmart on the way back from my client. Are you sure they don't have ones with a razor edge? I want to see pieces of little fingers laying on the ground next time!

 

[Sir Nuke]

the wheels on my wifes P-5 are the painted ones...mine are polished....so her wheels didn't come with the chrome caps or stem covers.....she noticed pretty quick and made the comment that she wanted shiney vavle stems too.....after one of these threads first started and someone mentioned wally world I checked them out and got a set for $3....then told my wife I got something for her car and she needed to check it out....now understand my wife IS NOT INTO cars....and I was really surprised it only took her about a minute to notice! lol best $3 I ever spent!!! :{D I mean...how many times can you go out and spend $3 and REALLY make a woman happy!! lol

 

[1sty]

I heard that if you tighten then a quarter turn with a wrench, that they're really hard to take off bare handed. Ok, just needed to vent. GRRR.

It does I had to do it for my integra when I worked at shaws becuase they kept getting stolen even the black plastic ones

 

[drifter]

me too

yeah my valve stem caps got stolen too, sucks, but what can you do, not like I have any clue who took them, cause If I did, oh man would I WHOOP some ass.

 

[BondoBob]

Stopped at Walmart (second time I've visited one of these) and bought a set of blue caps and stem covers. Now I'm sure to lose them since these REALLY stand out. But for 2.93 and tax...I won't get QUITE as upset.

The thing that really bugs me is not that some cretin's child is pedaling around the neighborhood with MAZDA logos on his Schwinn, but how close somebody can come next to my car and I don't know about it. If you have enough time to steal the valvestem caps then you could cut the tire, key the car or smash the side window.

 

[Sir Nuke]

Bob, get you four attack dogs...and stake them out at each corner and with just a long enough chain that they can just about touch each other nose to nose......that should deter the missing valve caps in the future!

 

[Kooldino]

Stopped at Walmart (second time I've visited one of these) and bought a set of blue caps and stem covers. Now I'm sure to lose them since these REALLY stand out. But for 2.93 and tax...I won't get QUITE as upset.

The thing that really bugs me is not that some cretin's child is pedaling around the neighborhood with MAZDA logos on his Schwinn, but how close somebody can come next to my car and I don't know about it. If you have enough time to steal the valvestem caps then you could cut the tire, key the car or smash the side window.

true, but they're not stealing your caps out of spite, they're doing it because they want to and it's convenient. Besides, you shouldn't wish harm on your car!

 

[BondoBob]

In talking with a friend on the phone the other day, I was reminded of the time WE took some guy's caps for our bikes. It happens.

With the crap that has happened to my car, it's funny how jumpy my wife has gotten about it. Case in point: My car was parked in the driveway overnight. This morning early the garbage men were out front. The wife heard the cans get dumped and was doing something in the kitchen (just over the driveway) when she heard the terrible sound of glass breaking. Instantly, she thought that someone had hit the car. Turned out to be a large number of Snapple bottles that the neighbor put out get crushed in the garbage truck.

 

[Kooldino]

In talking with a friend on the phone the other day, I was reminded of the time WE took some guy's caps for our bikes. It happens.

With the crap that has happened to my car, it's funny how jumpy my wife has gotten about it. Case in point: My car was parked in the driveway overnight. This morning early the garbage men were out front. The wife heard the cans get dumped and was doing something in the kitchen (just over the driveway) when she heard the terrible sound of glass breaking. Instantly, she thought that someone had hit the car. Turned out to be a large number of Snapple bottles that the neighbor put out get crushed in the garbage truck.

You little hoodlum you! I never did stuff like that because my dad would have beat me silly if I ever got caught.

That's GOOD that your wife is jumpy about the car...one more person on the lookout.

 

[BondoBob]

As I noted elsewhere, the NEW set of !@#$% valvestem covers from WalMart disappeared from the train station parking lot today. I think I'll just buy a case of the god damn things. Wonder if there is a way to run DC power down to the wheels. A lot of power...maybe just electrify the whole car exterior. Key that you little SOBs!