A borough-wide spike in tire and rim thefts is hitting northeast Queens hard, according to the police.
The NYPD's 111th precinct, which covers a region of northeast Queens that includes Bayside and
Douglaston, has gotten reports of 37 such thefts so far this year, up from 16 last year.
In 2017, there were 43 thefts by this time of the year, precinct officers say.
The spike prompted the precinct to add staff to its midnight shift, police wrote in a Facebook post
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My neighbor’s car had two wheels stolen in 2014 in the Floral Park area. It was parked one house away and it happened around 6am because I went out around that time and the car was fine but when I returned an hour later the wheels were gone on the driver’s side.
Hey! That looks like my car!
Bayside is the new Cross Bronx Expressway for unwanted cars.
Just wait til Jan 1.
The nypd are useless. They dont know how to do anything but give tickets. They won't do shit about it.
The Bad days are back when shite like this happens.
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Why doesn't the car alarm go off. A motorcycle roars down the street and sets off car alarms.
"Why doesn't the car alarm go off"
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Those alarms depend on a vibration transducer or shaker sensor, if you lift the car slowly and quietly with a small rubber wheel trolley jack on the lower control arm jack it wont go off.
The thieves usually tap or shake the targeted cars a day or two in advance to see how sensitive vibration or shaker sensor is adjusted before they actually hit.
(I s'plaind this to 104pct cop she was clueless then wanted my name and birthdate)
The crooks can also opt to crawl under and cut the wire to the siren speaker with a long needle nose cutters.
Most installer's can only mount the siren's in the grill or wheel shell because of limited space under the hood and the thieves know exactly which cars these are.
Such a shame you have to take such a risk parking a nice car on the street.
Bad times are a coming back!
All those rim upgrades are not worth it. Black steel wheels are the way to go.
Go ahead steal my car...its a 1996 ford escort station wagon, still runs good but its time to junk it. come on thieves i dare you to take my rims!!
Blame the sports packages that are being provided by dealers as standard nowadays.
Instead of fucking cameras they should start fixing the roads. You see when you have lower profile tires the potholes just destroy your rims/tires. Replacement depending on make and model can be very expensive. That's why dealerships sell tire/rim insurance.
Yep. Lower profiles are not for NYC. But for me, I live in a town where 100% of our streets have been repaved in the past two years. I love my low profiles and AMG. But no NYC for my car or me!
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