Has anyone ever messed with your Jeep when the top is off?
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just Ravens.
don't leave any food visible.
they open bags of chips faster than my wife.
don't leave any food visible.
they open bags of chips faster than my wife.
badlieutenant
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Hasn't happened to me yet. We live in a nice low crime area (in fact, our city is in the top 20 lowest crime cities in the US I believe) so maybe that has something to do with it.
However, when we park outside with the top and doors off during the Summer, I always leave everything unlocked (i.e. glovebox) so that people can clearly see there's nothing worth stealing at all.
However, when we park outside with the top and doors off during the Summer, I always leave everything unlocked (i.e. glovebox) so that people can clearly see there's nothing worth stealing at all.
No, that was my previous '97 TJ when SKIM wasn't yet available. But that wouldn't have helped anyway since they dragged it backwards out of my parking space with a flatbed tow truck and loaded it up on the flatbed. A witness said the whole thing took about a minute and they never tried to start it.
WTF!? Wow... Those guys must have came prepared really wanting a TJ. That's insane! I thought they hot-wired it or something.
badlieutenant
TJ Addict
The cops think the thieves noticed my TJ driving around and followed me back to my office. My company was way back in an industrial complex at the end of a dead-end road that had very little traffic so that made sense to me.
That must have been the case. They were probably tailing you for a while and may have been for days or weeks.
Either way, that's pretty messed up.
Zhillslady
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I never put my top on and so far no one has taken anything. Several people have walked up and said they turned my lights off for me so I was glad there was no roof. My car has auto lights and remembering to turn off the ones on the jeep drives me crazy. I have a hat, sunglasses and spare pair of shoes as well as some PB blaster and armor wipes so not a lot to encourage people to steal it. If they want that pioneer stereo I'd rather make it easy to get than slit a vinyl window. I leave my top half doors and have left my golf clubs in a number of times and stopped at the store. Only issue I ever had was finding a guy waiting to ask where I got my Callaway driver that was sticking out of the rain cover on the bag.
Ryan Spielman
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My jeep was messed with at a concert. I had come straight from working at a beach club so I didn't have my doors or windows on. I didn't notice until days later but someone had left an empty beer bottle on the passenger side floor next to the door sill where I would never notice unless I went over there. My brother has had a carton of eggs left in his, and he has a viper alarm system that one time at college started going off because two idiots thought it'd be funny to sit in the jeep since it didn't have any doors on
John Carmony
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I have came up on people looking inside, then garunteed (sic) "I always wanted a jeep like this, just wanting to see what it looked like inside".. I have always thought about sitting back and watching to see if anyone would ever get up in drivers seat since doors were off, I might do that next summer. A friend used to get all nervous and always wanted me to lock my doors.. I said really? Even top on, doors on a door lock a jeep is rather ... dumb. If they are gonna steal something they gonna get it. A buddy of mine got both doors stolen in Atlanta couple summers ago. As a general rule of thumb I go by: Never leave anything in your jeep you are not willing to part with, doors included.
Precisely why I always leave things unlocked (i.e. my glovebox and such). I figure if someone is going to steal something they are going to get it no matter what. Might as well leave things unlocked so they (hopefully) don't break anything in the process. And hey, once they open everything up they'll see there's noting of value to steal.
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Francis Perry
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Had these stickers fabbed up after some waste of life stole/destroyed my favorite XJ. Not even being cute. Seriously hope they're dead.
My neighbor left his garage door opener in his truck. They broke the window, opened the garage, went in the house, took his wallet and her purse, took the keys and both her car and the truck. Some time between midnight and 5 am.
Some people suck. If they want in, your car is fair game, Jeep or not.
I find you in my house, you're leaving in a bag. Cameras will show you coming in, dogs will greet you.
We live in a low crime area, but not a no crime area.
Some people suck. If they want in, your car is fair game, Jeep or not.
I find you in my house, you're leaving in a bag. Cameras will show you coming in, dogs will greet you.
We live in a low crime area, but not a no crime area.
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Alright, @Francis Perry, what are you doing? You are calling up threads that died 4+ years ago. I mean, really? I thought I read a lot. You are digging up old graves. Crazy. Not being critical. It’s just kind of funny.