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Some of you may recall the thread I made about a week ago where I said my car broke down on me. I thought it was a problem with the hydraulic clutch since the clutch went down to the floor and didn't come back up.
Any way, I was at the corner store a block from my house so I just rolled it out to the street and parked it there. I didn't think much of it since it was very near my house and I had a spare car to drive in the mean time. Fast forward three days later and I notice my car isn't there any more. I had been busy at work andhadn't bothered to look for the car (it totally slipped my mind) and I just assumed the car was towed. Turns out it wasn't. So after a thorough search of the area to make sure I wasn't insane I called the police to report it stolen.
Tonight (5 working days later) the stolen car unit finally gets in contact with me and he tells me this is actually very common. One of the latest trends in car theft is that the thief waits in the parking lot of a high traffic area (like the super market I went to) and after the owner goes inside they crawl under the car and loosen the hydraulic line which operates the clutch. This means the driver gets a few normal clutches before the line bleeds off to much flood and the car can no longer clutch. If someone is far from home then they tend to call a tow truck but if a driver is close to home, like at the corner store like I was, then they tend not to call a tow truck and instead just leave the car and walk home. The thieves then come back later that night and get the car (all they have to do is bleed one hydraulic line and they're off). The cop said this is all the rage right now down here by the Mexican border since the Mexicans come across to find late model cars (exactly like mine) which they then part out.
I've never had a car stolen before. This sucks.
Any way, I was at the corner store a block from my house so I just rolled it out to the street and parked it there. I didn't think much of it since it was very near my house and I had a spare car to drive in the mean time. Fast forward three days later and I notice my car isn't there any more. I had been busy at work andhadn't bothered to look for the car (it totally slipped my mind) and I just assumed the car was towed. Turns out it wasn't. So after a thorough search of the area to make sure I wasn't insane I called the police to report it stolen.
Tonight (5 working days later) the stolen car unit finally gets in contact with me and he tells me this is actually very common. One of the latest trends in car theft is that the thief waits in the parking lot of a high traffic area (like the super market I went to) and after the owner goes inside they crawl under the car and loosen the hydraulic line which operates the clutch. This means the driver gets a few normal clutches before the line bleeds off to much flood and the car can no longer clutch. If someone is far from home then they tend to call a tow truck but if a driver is close to home, like at the corner store like I was, then they tend not to call a tow truck and instead just leave the car and walk home. The thieves then come back later that night and get the car (all they have to do is bleed one hydraulic line and they're off). The cop said this is all the rage right now down here by the Mexican border since the Mexicans come across to find late model cars (exactly like mine) which they then part out.
I've never had a car stolen before. This sucks.
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