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Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby sc_BK » Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:11 am

Some miserable sod has nicked my wind deflectors :evil:

I had a set taken once before, along with wheel trims, but that was in Edinburgh.

Round here you could normally leave your house unlocked!
Cheeky feckers, I can only assume they're not local!


Anyway any suggestions on making them harder to pinch? I'm thinking try and glue them in place, and etch the reg number on to them :idea:
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby Brains_transit » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:04 am

Where about in Edinburgh, street name or area
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby sc_BK » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:19 am

That was a while ago now, end of 2014. It was at butterfly world of all places!!
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby sc_BK » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:21 am

The set nicked this week was either at my house (hidden in the woods) or when it was briefly left in a forestry commission carpark :evil:
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby derv23 » Thu Mar 24, 2016 3:10 am

Thieving twats :evil: . Gets my goat that. Lying in the street , skip , fair doos , have it, sort of.
But whipping it off a motor grrr :twisted:
Etching would at least make them less desirable, you hope.
I'll eventually get a pair for mine. Be looking for a permanent ish way of keeping em on.
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby ake » Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:00 am

Strangely mine haven't been touched yet on either Transit.
Wheel trims how ever are a different story, they dissapear at an alarming rate
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby Mike » Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:01 am

sc_BK wrote:Cheeky feckers, I can only assume they're not local!:


They were 'travelling' :wink:
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby Guy88 » Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:36 pm

i used windscreen sealant to secure mine, thin smear of it and leave windows down for a couple of days

will break them befor they come out
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby bambi mk 1 » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:25 am

Put them on the inside :idea:
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby derv23 » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:07 am

Mike wrote:
sc_BK wrote:Cheeky feckers, I can only assume they're not local!:


They were 'travelling' :wink:


:lol: .
Not one to stereotype but yer probly right.
Last 2 vans Ive had up here gyppos (faux oirish accents) have asked to buy em both. Had to growl one of them away as looked right dodgy.
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby Brains_transit » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:16 am

Not sure how they are held on but maybe drill a hole in the plastic run a thin wire down the door and rig up one of those alarms that goes off when you pull the pin. You should be left with 1 out of 2 :lol:
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Re: Stopping wind deflectors getting stolen

Postby Dominik1968 » Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:10 pm

Hi.

Glad to see a few of the old names still on here. I've had two lots of side window air deflecters stolen in the last month.First time my next door neighbour saw them and they only got away with the drivers side but a week later they came back and took both of them so this time i'll not be replacing them.

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