well this didnt happen to me but it happend to my dealership..we have both audi and vw's and over last weekend we had 9 people jump our fence and steal 30 pairs of hids out of our audi's they did this all in 9 mins... i guess thats NJ for ya these guys were pros had scanners and everything...so i guess they like the german cars too

 

yea but HIDs go for hundreds on the street, sorry to hear what happened

 

30 pairs of hids...Bastards.....was all this caught on video?

 

what do you mean scanners

 

maximas aren't targeted as much anymore because everybody knows about the thefts..... the main focus now is on german cars....

 

I havnt seen an HID theft thread in a LONG time here....

 

they had police scanners and as soon as they heard the call go in they all took off..you can see this all on the video and they took off at the same time that the first call went in. so we have 10 $50,000+ audi s4's with no headlights smashed driverside windows and broken locks.. some have no damage to the hoods but others had the corner panels peeled back

 

any pictures?

 

ill try an bring in my camera on wed

 

holy smokes thats crazy. sounds like they had been planning that hit for awhile. are you guys going to replace the lights with hids or go back to halogen (if thats possible)?

 

gotta put all xenon back in caues thats what the window stickers say...can you imagine buying a car that has been broken into...this is just my opinion but that is real shady. i would be furious if i found that out after spending 50g's on an audi S4..im gonna get some pictures up for you guys

 

Do you have to tell potential buyers that the car had its lights stolen?

 

maybe the datadots/brackets are becoming a nuissance to thieves....not as easy or quick as before....

 

OK, another newbie, asked ten thousand times before question (my search feature is DOA), what is a datadots/bracket? Is there a link that someone can post? As I'm about to put HID's on my Max, I'd like to know what these are and if I should consider them. Sorry for the thread jacking, we now return to your normally scheduled thread..................................

 

If your car is not 02-03 you wouldn't qualify for the Data Dots anyway. It was a recall done my Nissan to address the HID theft of 02-03 lights in which they anchored the lights down with metal brackets, relocated the ballasts and serialized the lights.

 

can anyone host this pix that i have of the stolen lights

 

Anyone? I would like to see these pictures

 

wow 9 min??? Thats insane!!

 

seems like the only way HID theft will stop is if HID's weren't worth so much to begin with...after months of seeing this sh*t happen to 5.5 maximas, there is no solution to fixing the problem but that.