My wheels got stolen.
 

Hoping the other Alaskan SVXers are not all hibernating.

Now with craigslist reward post.
http://anchorage.craigslist.org/pts/632732980.html (removed due to community ***** flags)
http://anchorage.craigslist.org/pts/632769294.html
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My 4 stock SVX wheels with winters tires got stolen from my house the other day.

They look like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...csnew1158b.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...wheels0006.jpg

The tires are Blizzaks, they only have a couple thousand miles on them.

The chances of SVX wheels being installed on a non-SVX car in this town are 0%. If you see them on a non-SVX car, they are MINE. I know pretty much all of the SVX owners in town and I am (probably) the only one with oversized Blizzaks. There is a red SVX owner in my neighborhood but he doesn't use the SVX forum, so I don't really know him.

Any info at all would be appreciated.

Watch for them on Craigs List and on ebay. :( :(

Were they removed from your car? or just laying around in your garage?...

They were stacked up against the front of my garage in semi-plain view, but either someone grabbed them in broad daylight when nobody is here or staked the place out and waited until after 2 am to get'em.

I guess I am just too trusting of people.
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Almost forgot I took a picture a day or two earlier of the crime scene.
Pretty inviting, eh?

and why aren't your snow tires still on your car? :confused:

Wow, I hope the person that stole them isn't pc literate and trys to put them on their car but its the wrong lug size. :D Best of luck finding them.

Thats f'n stupid... I mean come on people... In my home town, the tweakers were stealing everything metal that they could recycle, it was ridiculous. They walked away with an entire row boat and crushed it to get money... It makes me so fricken :mad::mad::mad:

That sucks... I tend to be overly trusting of people as well... :rolleyes:

NikFu, I am on the lookout for your wheels. I hope you get them back.

Snow's melting. Spring is here.
Cool deal.

crazy flatlanders. :(

Flatwut?

What's flat?

Yeah, the tweekers here stole the stainless steel pipes off the urinal at the Carl's Jr... Plus my boss chased someone down in his Prius that was trying to cut the catalytic converter out of a car on the lot at my work!
Fuggin tweekers, should just make it legal to shoot them on sight, problem solved :-) Or go round 'em up and send 'em to Iraq, they can steal metal there. (And you know what the Muslims do to theives... First time, finger, second time, hand, third time, head.

Nik, sorry to hear this, some people have no respect.

It wasn't too wise to leave them where you did. It strikes me that whoever stole them may only want the tires. They will probably fit your Blizzaks to something, then sell the rims on eBay.

Joe

that looks like tudor.

That's why I can't get mad about it. I know it's mostly my fault.

Yes you can be mad!
 

No one has the right to take your stuff. :mad:
Probably someone that moved up from Washington state or Oregon! We live in the two west coast states that have always taken pride in being ungodly.
sad :(

It was probably someone that lives in or visits my neighborhood frequently.

The angle of my house and the road is such that the wheels could only be spotted from one direction, and from a part of the neighborhood that is mostly cut off from pretty much anything. There is also a grade school about 2 lots away. There is heavy traffic in front of my house twice a day, but there is also usually one of two vehicles parked in the lot, somewhat obscuring the view.
The wheels would be invisible at night.

I'm left with 4 possibilities.
A gradeschooler parent who doesn't live here saw them, came in the night.
Someone from around the block took them.
One of the two neighbors whom's backyard is aligned with my driveway.
One of my direct neighbors or their aquaintances.

Something else that's intersting to note, the neighbor who's garage is directly across from mine has TWO sets of wheels/tires just sitting out, 4 of them in bright yellow bags, but they were not touched.

You left out one possibility, they could have been taken by kids, and I mean teenagers of course.

I still think they were taken for the tires. Or else by a fool. SVX wheels don't actually fit too many vehicles. The person taking them may not know that until they have them away safe and get to evaluate what they have taken.

You should post a reward, $100, no questions asked, you need the wheels.

That's what I would do. Otherwise you may never see them again. If nobody "finds" your wheels, then you don't have to pay the money. What have you got to lose?

Joe

I actually already considered that. I would rather "reward" someone for "finding" both or even just the tires or just the wheels than have to buy a completely new set.

There aren't any teenagers in this 'hood, far as I know. Maybe one or two. Plenty of kids though. LOTS of kids. I don't think any of them are strong enough to even lift one rim let alone four wheels.
One thing is for sure, this is one of the more shady 'hoods that I've lived in. Lots of people with yards full of broken vehicles and junk, you know like white trash "everything lives in the garage but our 3 Frankencars" kind of place. Only a few of the houses are like that but, damn.

So go ahead and do it.

Whoever stole them may be thinking they are useless and looking for a place to dump.

Make it easy to have the wheels "found" anonymously, and you may have a chance.

It will be cheaper than replacing them.

:rolleyes:

You probably should have included the term "No questions asked"

You don't have to lick their butts, they are thieving scum, but you do have to assure them you are not trying to trap them if it is to have a chance of success.

Joe

I would put that as well. Just in case... It could make the difference of getting them back, or not getting them back. I hope you do though...

-Dennis

Message altered to read "No questions will be asked, and I won't follow you home."

That's the funny thing about wheels. They roll. :lol::lol:

However, that does suck. I hope you get them back. Unfortunately not much of a chance of recovery, from my experience at least. Posting rewards offered means the person would have to admit to you what they did, and chances are they could flip them for more than the reward offered. Plus there's the whole effort thing, they're probably to lazy to go back, with the chance of no reward at all. Plus, if it's set back, that's pretty rough to move 4 wheels like that. If they were after market, i could see, maybe, but who steals a set of stockers?

To ad insult to injury it has been snowing for about 3-4 days, and the city is white and cold once again. If I were driving my car right now, I would not be able to get ANYWHERE.

:mad:

Not to change the subject but, Do people really get paid just to live in Alaska? I heard you get like a 1,000 dollars a year or something like that just for being a resident there becuase the weather is so intolerable. That true?

http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

With a fund like that, why don't you own more SVX's.:D

This is why.

http://anchorage.craigslist.org/car/606138475.html