My car was stolen

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rudeguy

Lifer
Dec 27, 2001
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Glad she is relatively ok!

Don't worry too much about the ignition. You can just wire up a super secret start button!

Give her a bath and she'll be fine.
 

tortillasoup

Golden Member
Jan 12, 2011
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Car was found. It's trashed inside. They ripped out the radio and destroyed the console in the process. They smoked, burned some carpet, and blah-blah-blah. It was horrendous. I'm tearing down the entire interior and going to do a deep cleaning of every surface.

They didn't leave anything behind except garbage (They must've been on meth to empty so many cigarettes and throw tobacco from them everywhere. So much ash+water. Everything but a pile of shit. It really makes no sense.). They took everything but left me a tarp and an explore Washington State magazine they left in the trunk. They took all my maintenance logs and so forth. Very annoyed.

There's also a random crack in the windshield. And one that constitutes replacement. (It's quite large) Some new dents that are minor.

And the best is that they destroyed the steering column. It steers fine but I cannot adjust it and my ignition system is kind of fucked. I'm going to take the ignition lock cylinder out of it and replace the mechanism that holds it with a new/used one. I just have to find one that will work with my car. (Seriously, they literally took a sledgehammer or a serious foot stomping to that part of the car. It's been broken off. (Notsureifnecessarytohotwiremycar))


Drove to my parents place in Vancouver. Skipped school after picking it up this morning after my morning flight back to Seattle. What a fucking terrible day. My baby has been desecrated.

I'm here for one more day and then I return back to Seattle. I'm leaving it here for a week or two. I don't know if I will take it back to Seattle if I don't have a secure parking spot. (Considering that they'd basically break into it again. Only, I could pull some fuses and it'd never start, but they would ruin my car in the process anyway!)

Believe it or not OP, this is actually a good day for you. The fact that you were able to recover your vehicle at all is a godsend...

NOW WILL YOU GET COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE ON THIS VEHICLE!?!?
 

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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Believe it or not OP, this is actually a good day for you. The fact that you were able to recover your vehicle at all is a godsend...

NOW WILL YOU GET COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE ON THIS VEHICLE!?!?

Maybe, maybe not. They smoked so much in the car that I'm pretty sure that I can't get it out. I can vacuum, wash, and baking soda the carpet and every texture to hell and back... That smoke smell will stay forever.

So, I might be still buying a new car and selling my precious. That or I am getting new racing bucket seats, removing all fabric from the car, and cruising down the road like I am in a tuner car. (An automatic tuner car! Ho-ho-ho!) I want to keep that car because I do really fucking like it. I'm not going to give up on it!
 

tortillasoup

Golden Member
Jan 12, 2011
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Well you still need comprehensive coverage regardless of the vehicle you get... As for the smell, you're going to want to buy a carpet cleaner with attachments and clean up that shit. First hose the interior down soak it up, then get bucket of water and some laundry detergent (don't go overboard on this, otherwise you'll spend hours removing soap from the carpet) get a nice scrubbing brush, go to town on the carpets and shit. (DO NOT USE STIFF BRISTLED BRUSH ON PLASTICS!!! YOU WILL SCRATCH THEM, USE SOFT COTTON CLOTH TO CLEAN) Soak up nasty shit with carpet cleaner, get garden hose, rinse, and repeat until the water being sucked up stops looking like soapy sewage... Then crack the windows and let the car dry out.

Re-check the car for smells a few days later, if it still smells bad, then the next step is to get Twenty Mule Team Borax, mix in bucket with plenty of water (think 5 gallons of water, a cup of borax and quarter or half cup of detergent like as if you're doing a load of laundry, pour but not too much at a time, scrub, soak, basically go over the carpet again, soak up the standing water with carpet cleaner but don't rinse. Wait several hours to let that shit soak in, then come back later and rinse that shit and soak it up with the carpet cleaner...

It's not impossible to get the smells out of the car especially if you go all out and use Borax. Your biggest threat when doing this job is making sure you don't get mildew/mold growing which depending on ambient temps/humidity may require you to get an electric fan and possibly space heater (BE CAREFUL, NO EXTENSION CORDS) to dry that shit out.

What I've described sounds like it's complicated but it's actually pretty simple. There are shit tons of information online discussing the cleaning of smelly carpet, cars, etc.
 

dbk

Lifer
Apr 23, 2004
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Wipe down the entire car, console and fabric.. headliner, seats, floors using industrial carpet cleaner spray (Folex?) then get a couple bottles of Ozium and spray it down. I think I was able to completely spray the interior twice per bottle.
 

SparkyJJO

Lifer
May 16, 2002
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Maybe, maybe not. They smoked so much in the car that I'm pretty sure that I can't get it out. I can vacuum, wash, and baking soda the carpet and every texture to hell and back... That smoke smell will stay forever.

No it won't.

My old car had been smoked in before. Aside from a couple burn marks on the seat and carpet you couldn't tell. It didn't smell at all. You can definitely get the smell out, especially if it is fairly fresh as it hasn't had time to permeate into stuff.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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Check the seat. Did some kid leave his homework in there? "Larry Sellers?" Let's get that fucker! Show him exactly what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass.
 

SearchMaster

Diamond Member
Jun 6, 2002
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$600 PER MONTH? That's over $7000 a year(!!). We pay total of $80/mo in IL for full coverage on A4 Cabrio, S8 and a 911. Both under 30 and no accidents/tickets.

GTR - not cheap to insure.

I think my brother-in-law pays about $500/mo on his 2014 R8 V10. I'm not sure if that amount is just for the R8 or includes all his cars (about half a mil in cars in total :O).
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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You're pretty worried about that cig smoke. You don't mind that the thieves invited their friends over and they all got buck naked and nutted all over that entire interior? And then, just to be dicks (heh, dicks), took Scotch-Brite general purpose scouring pads and made sure to grind that fuckin man seed into the interior fabric? Fuck dude.
 
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