Well it looks like our 6th gens are becoming popular with the thieves. I live in RI and work with a woman who is 72 and has an 04, yes 72. Any way, she lives in a pretty upscale neighborhood, while she was sleeping Saturday night theives put her car up on orange crates and stole her wheels and headlights. The ***holes even left the locking lug nuts next to the car. Needless to say she was very upset. When she called the cops they said that 4 other 6th gens in the neighborhood were also robbed that same night. Glad I keep mine garaged all the time. There will always be jealous people in this world who have to take things from people who work hard for them.

 

hope those ***holes rot in hell!!!

 

WOW...LOOK...IT'S SNOW

Well back to topic...

I guess I'll have to rig up some kind of electric fence to protect my max...I have no garage for night time

 

I have been wanting to put up a few outdoor security video cameras around my house for a while now. One monitoring my driveway area and front door, one monitoring the backyard and one more somewhere else, this maxima theft makes me feel like getting this done sooner. I am going to look into it more now

 

What A-holes! They will get what they deserve sooner or later.

 

i wish i owned a garage..plus it would be easier to keep the max cleaner.

 

Yeah, I heard the 6th gen Max 18's are a hot item to steal. That sucks cause mine are chrome!

 

Actually, it depends on where you live before we can determine the definition of UPSCALE. On a side note, glad I sold my OEM rims. Last, most upscale areas have garages!!!

 

It is an upscale area where most of the houses sell for around 400,000 or more. She has a garage but her husbands Cadillac STS is in the garage.

 

i always see our 6th gen rims on other cars kinda makes me wonder were they get them from.....

 

as they say hunt them down and kill'em

 

Well my 400,000+ home came with a 2 car garage...

 

Well my old 200+ thousand dollar house had a 2 car garage. but the 400,000 one has a 1 car garage. Hey chris is my neiborhood upscaled? I think it was unitll I moved in. The problem really is that monst people have other things in their garages besides cars, which in turn makes them keep their cars outside at night

 

Yes, your neiborhood is somewhat upscale? The only impact you made when you moved in was I noticed more security lights and fences were installed and an increase in Rottweiler dogs.



Yes agree, put 1G of **** in a garage and leave the 30G+ ride in the driveway... They should of posted a steal this sign also...
Regardless

 

I hear ya Redmax. Lots of junk in the garage not nearly as important or valuable as the cars...

I saw a show on Discovery TV the other week about two men (ex-burglars) who run a home security business. It caught my eye when they took the family and put them in a van with CC cameras and turned one of the guys loose to see if he could break in and steal stuff. He stold credit cards, the child's savings, cash, guns, keys to the new SUV and would have taken the Corvette in the garage if the flywheel wasn't messed up at the time... And since he broke in through a back window, the neighborhood had no signs he was even there, so he would have come back with a mechanic the next day to get the Corvette. He had the garage door opener in the new SUV, so it would have been a quick hook-up and tow. In that quick grab, he spent 8 minutes and made off with about 60K in valuables.

So I cleaned out the garage that very weekend and got both my cars to fit in there again!

 

I am Glad I have a garage

 

Yep, my 400k home did as well. RI seems to be short on space?

 

And big on upscale neighborhood car thieves...

 

So does that mean that my 5 bedroom 3 1/2 bath 3 car garage in texas that is being built as we speak an upscale neighborhood too?..... Sorry about the off topic but im so excited to finally have my dream house....

 

NO, the size of a house does not make it upscale, the community, crime statistic, schools, condition of other homes, area businesses, professions, city and government services available, etc, etc, do.

Some things to ask yourself:

Are there more than 12 Liquor stores in a 5-block radius?

I could build a 10 room, 5 bath, 5 car garage house in the desert, still doesn't change the fact I live in the desert.

BMW, Lincolns, Cadillac's sure don’t do **** at making the hood any more upscale.

 

Well we are the smallest state in the union, you can go from one side to the other in about 45 minutes.

 

Very expensive living up here in the northeast. A house of that size would go for way over 600,000.

 

I see this a lot in Florida; people buy houses with two, three car garages which they use to store their junk, forcing them to park their nice vehicles outside. I watched that thieves show a while back. it made me clean my garage, and rent a small storage space for my so called "I don't want to throw away junk". Now both our cars can be garaged at night.

 

Believe it or not i only paid $169,000 for it in pre construction stage in fort worth TX with isd school districts,very low crime rates plus its a 3600 square foot home on a 3/4 acre corner lot

 

Believe it or not i only paid $172,000 for it in pre construction stage in fort worth TX with isd school districts,very low crime rates plus its a 3600 square foot home on a 3/4 acre corner lot and i do know what realestate goes for in the northeast region.remember im a new york transplant and sold a 3 family home in brooklyn for over $800,000 plus i just sold a condo down here in fla for $155,000 and will be selling my current one for $225,000. realestate works wonders when your a broke **** like me but i finally get a taste of what money really is(about time) again sorry for off topic

 

Now your speaking English... Good on you bro...

 

RI was #7 on the most overvalued places to live in the country --- i.e. we get F###ed on everything --- at least the others in the top ten were warm climates and nice beaches..with the exception of us NYC and boston....RI sux and so do the influx of wanna be mafioso's tough guys --- I've been scoped out...followed home...the whole nine...if you have the chance to come here don't --- save your time and i'll send ya pictures

 

here i park my car outside (no garage for me) and so far so good ..... but now i have to keep my fingers crossed

the real reason being .. in this country, CAMRY's are still loved!!

 

thats funny that you say that cause I put mine on my wifes minivan

 

400,000 with 2 car garage. Damn I need to move. You can't even get a driveway in Boston for 400,000. My little 1700 sq ft home in Boston cost 450,000..........

 

Yes and 3300 Sqft of living space 4br / 3-1/2 bath, 400 Sqft partially finished (basement workshop) and the area is only 7 minutes to my job.

Bought when it was 8 years old for 275K, Recent assestment with upgrades 454K and house is now 11 years old.

 

Yeah...but 400k one year here in MD is 500k the next! My 400k was 2004 price...another house just finished being built on my street and it went for 500k in late 2005!! A lot of people want new and wait till the DOD sends 10k more people to this area!!!

 

Now i want a garage for my car. Im more worried about snow and cold weather then theives though. Not too much theivery on military posts.
-40 degree weather sucks though.

 

Damn...400k in NYC won't even buy you a ranch in the sh*ttiest neighborhood.

 

Dude, you need to move to the west coast. 450 grand will buy you a brand new 3500 sq. ft. home with some very nice amneties out here in WA.

Anyway, does anyone know where the Maxis rank on insurance lists as far as their liklihood of being jacked? That would be good to know.

 

I hear you (all of you) on the Garage, I thing all cars that are garaged look better and their exterior (paint, wheels, rims, brakes, etc) holds up far superior then rides parked in the elements. I also like backing them out of my garage and having no snow, ice or morning dew...

 

I Second that... (I'm an former New Yorker)

 

and now u're living the life ..... fantastic house!! and u threw in the last pic to make us jealous??

 

I am Boston based as well -my place is less than 700 sq ft, no garage, no driveway, yet most would say my neighborhood is "upscale" - go figure.

 

This is the part that strikes me as odd for two reasons.

1. Apparently, locking lug nuts don't do much?
2. 72 years old and she had locking lug nuts installed?

Sucks no matter how you slice it.