Got this from over at another forum. Great advice!


This might sound weird and this idea could have been posted before, but I live in SoutheastTexas and we have a pretty big Tire Center around the area called "Modica Bros." Anyways, I was talking to one of the managers some time back and I had some 17" Chrome Cobra Rs and I brought the car in to have some new Nitto Drag Radials put on, and him and I were talking and I told him that since I just recently purchased the rims, I wanted to put locking lugnuts on them, but I heard that the rims can still be stolen even with them on, and he told me....

Heres what you do. Take a zip lock bag and take a piece of paper and write on it, "If the liscense plate on this piece of paper doesnt match the liscense plate on this car, please call the police, and my cell phone, because these rims are stolen my name is _____ ________. Under that he said write down your Liscense plate and cell phone number" and next time you come in to put new tires on your car, put this inside the the tire, between the rim and the tire.

He told me that about 6 months before that, a guy got arrested that same exact way. He said one of his techs brought him the bag with the piece of paper in it and first they called the guy and the guy was like, "Stay right there, dont let that guy leave, call the police" so they turned around and called the law. Come to find out, a guy that lived a couple of houses down from him stole the rims, but sold them to a friend of his (who was getting new tires put on those rims), so the neighbor eventually was arrested.

See, most of the time when people steal rims/tires, the dont hace access to break the tire down, so naturally they'll bring it to a tire shop to have it done. Once the tech starts breaking the tire down, he'll find the bag with the note inside.

This may help someone later down the line.

 

That's a pretty good idea!

I guess if you put it on the rim, then taped it really well all the way around it may work. Securing the package inside the tire would be the hardest part. Maybe someone could sell stickers that go on the insides of rims and be made out with all your information etc. that stick to metal very well. Sell 'em for $20 for a set of 4, produce them for $5, and people would probably eat them up.

 

thats a pretty good idea! yeah, i'd think a sticker like a bumper sticker type material would work the best since it woudlnt be all flopping around inside the wheel, and also not have the potential to throw off the balance.

 

i doubt a piece of paper/ziplock would throw it off.

 

great idea!!!!

 

good idea...

 

That is a good idea, unless your thief works at a tire shop or you sell the wheels and whoever bought them gets arrested.

I probably wouldnt put the license plate on the sticker, just in case you switch to a vanity.

 

Receiving stolen property is illegal too. Don't buy from shady *******.

 

Sticky

 

If some one wants your **** they'll find a way. You can also buy stuff to break wheel locks, tire shops have them incase some one doesnt have a wheel lock.

 

pretty good Idea. But if my locks, brinks, dont work- the AR-15 defenantly will.

 

Naa im talking about if I sell my wheels to someone else and forget about the note inside the tires

 

if they do, then you're no worse off than if you didn't have the note there in the first place.....and how many people actually switch to vanity plates in the grand scheme of things? even if they do, the rest of the information should still match, and you can then just change it to the new plates while they're being serviced.

that's why you have a note in there also that says to contact the person whose name is on the paper first, to verify that the wheels were sold to someone else, and that they can then disregard the note.

this sounds like an awesome idea, i'm probably gonna do it when i upgrade my wheels

 

*** the ar-15--->