Spare wheels - who's still got theirs?

[bluebottle]

My neighbour (also a custom owner) mentioned today the latest fun for criminal twatmonkeys is.. cutting the cable on transit custom spare wheels and making off with them. Yay. We've both lost ours - some time in the last two weeks. Not something I'd notice day to day!

[bigjohnthomas]

You should of bought a sport it wouldn't happen then

[bluebottle]

Ha.

My neighbour's boss wants him to replace his, but I think I'm going to replace mine with a can of tyre weld. I'm not sure being a renewable tyre resource for local scumbags is my idea of a fun time.

[bigjohnthomas]

yeah the fookers will come back and see if you've got a new one for sure

[FJ111200]

I keep mine in the van.
Took it off the cable attachment in the first week of ownership and got rid of the cable.
Nasty pile of sh*t to be dealing with in a roadside emergency at the best of times.

[bluebottle]

Yeah - I don't have a lot of room in mine to do that (camper) and my neighbour is a kitchen fitter so his is full of tools and kit. I might measure up under the bed but it loses a lot of storage to have it inside..

[loot]

My spare is still there, has a security cable by the looks of it, the wheel is going rusty too

[ginjez]

I bought a spare wheel security plate for the spare wheel on my Discovery. Perhaps there is something similar for the Transit.

[Brains_transit]

Put it on the roof, thiefs won't think to look up there

[Trasher83]

Put razorblades on the sparewheel, as they are probably nicking those tyres in the night, they probably won't see the blades.
I friend of mine got his lightbar stolen twice, third time he put razorblades underneath the bar, they tried to steal the bar a third time. Lot's of blood on the ground. Muahahahahah

[Brains_transit]

I wanted to get a cctv camera as a precaution as only once about 10 years ago my car and 3 others got keyed for no reason and it's best to have it so I found the ideal one then read if you stare directly into the beam it can damage your eyes so I'll need to find another one without a laser