Soooo anyways... got my car nicked.

[PatColo]

nicked (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nicked)
Common British slang for "stolen".

See also: pinched (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pinched), taxed (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=taxed), half-inched, lifted, knocked off (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knocked%20off), 'fell off the back of a lorry'.
"The band's (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20band%27s) clothes look like they were nicked from the local Oxfam's (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Oxfam%27s) reject pile (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pile)."


...from right outside Chad. Chad's muh motorhome. And, while I was right there inside, probably but not necessarily sleeping.

My beloved 2016 Honda Fit EX (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2016+honda+fit+ex&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images), only bought 'new-to-me' 3 mos ago... still a baby, only 14K miles, showroom condition. Paid $17K all cash, from "no haggle pricing" CarMax (http://carmax.com).

Aaaaaand it's gone. :o

Should I not have left the doors unlocked & keys in the ignition?? :(?? It's just that I find it so darned conveeeeenient! :cool:

Nah J/K, it's one of them FOB (https://www.techopedia.com/definition/3998/key-fob) keyless jobees. Pushbutton engine start/stop.

And it's my questions surrounding "that whole FOB shit" which is mostly the reason for my choosing to bring this... embarrassing, arguably even shameful, event to the attention of the GSUS Brain Trust.

WTF yawl figure happened?! :|~

I may go ahead & preemptively block 'not the type to say I told yuh so bruh, but...' Book for the lifespan of this thread... but we digress. :)

Yawl go ahead & discuss; I've gotta catch a cab to the big auto mall in town, lots of tire kicking to do this weekend.

[(:)]

[PatColo]

while I wait for some smelly vibrant to show up in a cab, may as well tip my hand re what I suspect happened wrt that whole FOB shit, to help get this party started.

think: FOB faraday pouches... https://www.amazon.com/rfid-key-fob-pouch/s?k=rfid+key+fob+faraday+pouch

[Jewboo]

... embarrassing...I may go ahead & preemptively block 'not the type to say I told yuh so but' Book for the lifespan of this thread... but we digress. :)



Nah. Once you actually bought Chad there is no utility in being contrary anymore Bro.

My suggestion: Don't immediately buy another car that requires towing just yet. Instead, start a TRUE motor home lifestyle and start driving Chad to some nice State and National Parks far away from crime-infested Sacramento.

:)

[midnight rambler]

Suggest you install this on your next ride

https://www.ravelco.com/

[PatColo]

while I wait for some smelly vibrant to show up in a cab,

^ I was j/k about that - I'm mostly shopping online today, expect to be around... this 'event' actually happened last weekend. I've just been laying low wallowing in my confusion & sorrow all week. :'(

In fact I didn't even do the formals: report it to the coppers, inform insurance, until yesterday. I just assumed, no hurry, it's gone, sophisticated thief/ring, the parts were already flung across the north american continent by Monday, fuggedaboudit!

So it's in the nationwide 'stolen' dbase now. PD Sgt who took the report said there's some chance they just took it for a joy ride & it's abandoned somewhere, waiting to be impounded & found to be 'stolen' status, & ultimately returned to me. Within an hour after he left, returned to HQ & entered the car in their system, he emailed saying nope nothing found... & recall this happened a ~week ago already, so I'm back to my first assumption re ...parts were already flung across the north american continent by Monday. At least I'm kind of freed to shop with peace of mind thinking '...maybe I should wait xx days/weeks JIC?!' Nah, F that noise.

[woodman]

So theives have a device that mimics the key fob, allowing them to start your car? I did not know.

[PatColo]

Nah. Once you actually bought Chad there is no utility in being contrary anymore Bro.

My suggestion: Don't immediately buy another car that requires towing just yet. Instead, start a TRUE motor home lifestyle and start driving Chad to some nice State and National Parks far away from crime-infested Sacramento.

:)


Closely watching this joo-engineered coronavirus Black-Swan-Event unfold... I suspect woodman might be exactly correct re his brilliant post,



The virus is of course, the perfect cover to hide the failure of the system. Gotta blame it on something else. We here, have all known that the system would have to reset itself. Offhand I see three ways: Hyper-inflation, total destruction of existing monetary system (which hyperinflation would effect anyway), destruction of enormous swathes of infrastructure along with people (warfare). Any combination of the three and I am probably missing stuff, there is no telling how creative they may get.

& getting the F outa dodge in Sac now might be the thing?? Pain IS COMING... NEAR TERM, even if the joo virus itself is mostly a non "health crisis" issue in the Americas, think: Chink supply chain disruptions... dominos...

The Great Reset is most probably upon us! Begun right at the top of this new decade; imagine that!

I never did (yet) buy that car dolly we talked about in GoD's motorhome thread (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?41256-Is-a-travel-trailer-a-stupid-idea-for-TSHTF-scenario/page6); was waiting until actual need was imminent, but I've been stable in a ~3 mi radius in Sac so it's been manageable. So presently I'm unencumbered by either car nor dolly to tow it with... just Chad & me.

I'll have to think this one through a bit before rushing out & buying another little lady friend for Chad...???

[PatColo]

So theives have a device that mimics the key fob, allowing them to start your car? I did not know.

Something like that... as I understand the sitch, they get within xx(?) feet of you with ur fob in ur pocket & there's some device they have which signals, triggering a signal-back from fob, revealing its 'code', then they can go to ur car & similarly spoof with ur correct signal/code, & it's the red carpet rideaway from there. That's why the fob faraday pouches.

it's also why the credit card, passport etc faraday wallets/pouches.

I keep such cards, hell even my phone, in faraday pouches... getting one for my Honda's fob just hadn't made it to the top of my to-do list...

[woodman]

Something like that... as I understand the sitch, they get within xx(?) feet of you with ur fob in ur pocket & there's some device they have which signals, triggering a signal-back from fob, revealing its 'code', then they can go to ur car & similarly spoof with ur correct signal/code, & it's the red carpet rideaway from there. That's why the fob faraday pouches.

it's also why the credit card, passport etc faraday wallets/pouches.

I keep such cards, hell even my phone, in faraday pouches... getting one for my Honda's fob just hadn't made it to the top of my to-do list...
I have heard they can do this with credit cards and I never got a debit card for this reason. My credit cards are fraud protected. It seems the criminals will figure a way around anything. If they were only this focused in a positive way, there is no telling how productive they could be.

[midnight rambler]

I have heard they can do this with credit cards and I never got a debit card for this reason. My credit cards are fraud protected. It seems the criminals will figure a way around anything. If they were only this focused in a positive way, there is no telling how productive they could be.

Don't let anyone kid you, being a criminal is HARD work! A criminal has always got criminal thinking as the foremost thought on his/her/it's mind. So you're right, if they put the same amount of time and energy into doing something positive they would be a whole lot better off in all respects. But no, there's some attraction and I'm thinking it may be the "something for nothing" notion.

[osoab]

You should have put the notice out immediately.

I do have a question. Don't all cars now have a tracking devise? Someone, if it's not parts or burning in a gully, should be able to locate the thing.

Sorry for the loss too.

How many new cars just have the keys?

[Jewboo]

..getting the F outa dodge in Sac now might be the thing?? Pain IS COMING... think: Chink supply chain disruptions...The Great Reset is most probably upon us! I'm unencumbered by either car nor dolly to tow it with... just Chad & me.



Re-read all my arguments again in the old Thread because this auto theft sadly confirms my original premise. You and Chad should now be searching for a new permanent home out-of-state surrounded by White People.

:(??

[cheka.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWN3iEPBtQ

[PatColo]

^ heh, "the boot" as it was called in san fran when the city rolled it out, +/- 1990 IIRC, as extreme measure for those with sick amounts of unpaid parking tickets!

That Trimax boot jobee isn't something the average econobox/runabout driver is practically going to be putting on/taking off their wheel at every stop.

remember "The Club" steering wheel bar? I guess they're still around eh? thieves who still really wanted the car had to saw the steering wheel, AFAIK.

[PatColo]

I've been noodling on the q of replacement car or not, in the context of the current fake black swan joo virus.

Still lean towards: CAR. Plus tow dolly. IE stick with Plan A.

Cutting to the quick: now thinking of replacing with a "mid-size family sedan", re which I've been zeroing in on the Nissan Altima.

I had no idea these mid size cars were getting such better mileage today; the 2016 Altima SL (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2016+Nissan+Altima+SL&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images) gets 27/39!

39 highway is what my dearly departed Fit got (being the sportier EX model; the base LX got 43 highway)

Fit = 1.5L 130hp engine, 2600# weight
Altima = 2.5L 180hp engine, 3250#
both get 39 highway?!

both have "Continuous Variable Tranny" (CVT) so that's not the diff...

& with that Altima I get a bigger safer roomier quieter car with leather, Bose sound, +navigation system which my former Fit didn't have (next Fit submodel up, the EX-L, has leather & nav, ~$1-2K more)

Oh don't let me forget: can get said Altima, same year/features/mileage as Fit, for ~$2-3K LESS.

Hondas are much-desired cars, as my recent thief's (((bosses))) agree; very high owner loyalty... just ask ME, whose last car (ending) 15 years ago was a '95 Civic Si Hatchback (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1995+Honda+Civic+Si&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images). :) Remember the movie "Fast & the Furious" ?? - those were souped up Civics of that era.

The other class of car which holds alot of appeal is an STV, IE Honda CRV as one example, for the "hatchback practicality (plus)" which I was buying with the Fit, plus some light offroad capability, with its bigger wheels & higher ground clearance. But assuming all other features & mileage same, an STV would cost somewhat moar, maybe +25-33%

Surely topic for another thread but what I really need, & which I can't just "throw $ at", is a partner in life; a GF! A travel partner, with her own car, more/less financially independent esp in the context of the economical lifestyle I'm trying to piece together, would solve so many of the headaches I face essentially navigating solo in this world! No more need for an 8' wide tow dolly -- when we make a major leg of our journey, we drive our respective vehicles... then we share Chad wherever we decide to drop anchor for awhile.

But I hate bars; not a PUA; never been a church guy (altar boy past notwithstanding) & don't trust the online date/hookup/etc sites. What yawl think, maybe one of these "conservative/patriot dating sites"?? She's gotta be WOKE, coz we need actual shit to talk about.

Thinking, a ~40yo 'millennial' lady who fell into dajooz' "forego marriage/kids until you've nailed down your career" trap; now her prime child bearing years have just passed & she's more/less accepted that, + she just started getting woke in the recent couple/few years, & I can be her wellspring of knowledge re the depth of this beast.

is that too much to ask!? :(??

[EE_]

I think I know who stole your Honda Fit...it was a girl. Men don't drive those. Sorry.

[osoab]

I think I know who stole your Honda Fit...it was a girl. Men don't drive those. Sorry.

What about Man-ladies. PatColo does live in the land of fruits and nuts.

[osoab]

I've been noodling on the q of replacement car or not, in the context of the current fake black swan joo virus.

Still lean towards: CAR. Plus tow dolly. IE stick with Plan A.

Cutting to the quick: now thinking of replacing with a "mid-size family sedan", re which I've been zeroing in on the Nissan Altima.

I had no idea these mid size cars were getting such better mileage today; the 2016 Altima SL (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2016+Nissan+Altima+SL&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images) gets 27/39!

39 highway is what my dearly departed Fit got (being the sportier EX model; the base LX got 43 highway)

Fit = 1.5L 130hp engine, 2600# weight
Altima = 2.5L 180hp engine, 3250#
both get 39 highway?!

both have "Continuous Variable Tranny" (CVT) so that's not the diff...

& with that Altima I get a bigger safer roomier quieter car with leather, Bose sound, +navigation system which my former Fit didn't have (next Fit submodel up, the EX-L, has leather & nav, ~$1-2K more)

Oh don't let me forget: can get said Altima, same year/features/mileage as Fit, for ~$2-3K LESS.

Hondas are much desired cars, as my recent thief's masters agree; very high owner loyalty... just ask ME, whose last car (ending) 15 years ago was a '95 Civic Si Hatchback (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1995+Honda+Civic+Si&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images). :) Remember the movie "Fast & the Furious" ?? - those were souped up Civics of that era.

The other class of car which holds alot of appeal is an STV, IE Honda CRV as one example, for the "hatchback practicality (plus)" which I was buying with the Fit, plus some light offroad capability, with its bigger wheels & higher ground clearance. But assuming all other features & mileage same, an STV would cost somewhat moar, maybe +25-33%

Surely topic for another thread but what I really need, & which I can't just "throw $ at", is a partner in life; a GF! A travel partner, with her own car, more/less financially independent esp in the context of the economical lifestyle I'm trying to piece together, would solve so many of the headaches I face essentially navigating solo in this world! No more need for an 8' wide tow dolly -- when we make a major leg of our journey, we drive our respective vehicles... then we share Chad wherever we decide to drop anchor for awhile.

But I hate bars; not a PUA; never been a church guy (altar boy past notwithstanding) & don't trust the online date/hookup/etc sites. What yawl think, maybe one of these "conservative/patriot dating sites"?? She's gotta be WOKE, coz we need actual shit to talk about.

Thinking, a ~40yo 'millennial' lady who fell into dajooz' "forego marriage/kids until you've nailed down your career" trap; now her prime child bearing years have just passed & she's more/less accepted that, + she just started getting woke in the recent couple/few years, & I can be her wellspring of knowledge re the depth of this beast.

is that too much to ask!? :(??


You might be looking for a unicorn PatColo, especially in Cali.

[PatColo]

I think I know who stole your Honda Fit...it was a girl. Men don't drive those. Sorry.

overall, the Fit was a dubious decision at best.

You see, that past Civic Si, which I drove from '97-'05, coincided with the best years of my thus far life, in 20:20 hindsight. Great job(s), a string of hawt GFs, house in Boulder with hot tub, the works.

So there was a big dose of nostalgia, trying to restart that motor... in part via buying Honda's current "sporty little hatchback" offering... which is no longer the Civic.

When they intro'd the Fit to USA, late '00s I understand, they discontinued making Civic HBs, with their Fit to take up that HB mantle.

Well, the Fit's a different car. It's even smaller, & as we all know, Civics are already small. So I knew I was compromising, but F the torpedos, I needed a damn car, let's quit thinkin on it & gitterdone!

So that's the short version -- if I could rewind 3 months to that Fit-buying moment, I'd've made a different selection.

Water under the bridge; I'm smarter for it, at least. :)

[EE_]

overall, the Fit was a dubious decision at best.

You see, that past Civic Si, which I drove from '97-'05, coincided with the best years of my thus far life, in 20:20 hindsight. Great job(s), a string of hawt GFs, house in Boulder with hot tub, the works.

So there was a big dose of nostalgia, trying to restart that motor... in part via buying Honda's current "sporty little hatchback" offering... which is no longer the Civic.

When they intro'd the Fit to USA, late '00s I understand, they discontinued making Civic HBs, with their Fit to take up that HB mantle.

Well, the Fit's a different car. It's even smaller, & as we all know, Civics are already small. So I knew I was compromising, but F the torpedos, I needed a damn car, let's quit thinkin on it & gitterdone!

So that's the short version -- if I could rewind 3 months to that Fit-buying moment, I'd've made a different selection.

Water under the bridge; I'm smarter for it, at least. :)

Sorry to break your balls...couldn't help it. :)

I think someone did you a favor taking your car
https://www.vroomgirls.com/review/honda-fit-sport/

Now go get a more manly car!

[Amanda]

@PatColo-- So sorry about your car!!! And it's definitely stolen, right? As opposed to getting towed for some reason??

I only mention this b/c years ago when I lived in DC by the embassies (where it's supposed to be safe) , I walked out one day and my car was gone---I totally freaked out, but some guy saw me and told me the cops towed it away, b/c it was supposedly illegally parked, but it wasn't (guy with me verified it--at the time they towed it, it was still okay for me to park there). I had to pay $150 to get my car back, even though I did nothing wrong.

[PatColo]

^ Amanda, yeah 'twas stolen no doubt. It was in the designated car space, next to the RV, in the space I was duly renting. The copper verified after he entered it in their system, when I finally reported it nearly a week after it was stolen.



https://www.vroomgirls.com/review/honda-fit-sport/

I see that reviews the '13 Fit - recall mine was a '16. Not sure exactly what year between then it was, but Honda typically does a "generational overhaul" every 4 years, major body/styling/motor/etc update... I've seen Fits like your article pictures from that '13 generation around -- a bit uglier, maybe smaller though I'd have to check dimensions specs, cheaper & girlier looking.:)** But not by much! Article sings the car's virtues well enough.

Any thoughts on the Nissan Murano STV/crossover? (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nissan+murano&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images) If I'm willing to go a bit older, say 2012, & higher miles IE 50-75K, I can get for around the ~$15K ballpark I'm looking for.

Mileage be damned though - I'm looking at a 2012 model here, says EPA 18/24. ~4,100# curb weight would add some fuel tax to Chad too, if pulling on car dolly. If I got a 550# dolly, we'd be getting close to Chad's 5K# tow capacity.... meh, more car than I need... NEXT! :cool:

[Horn]

Its probably sitting back in carmax inventory within 3 months...

[PatColo]

Soooo anyways....

got muh car back. :o

Another Sac PoPo Sgt rang me this morning around 8:30, advised the Fit's been located, and I can come on over & pick it up; he'd be there waiting.

It was parked in the lot behind a Sizzler around 3-4 blocks from the RV park. I had to get dressed & walk; was there 25 mins later.

Car was totally undamaged, though the glove box & center console compartment doors were left carelessly open. Battery was there, everything under the hood untouched; car started right up.

There was near-nothing of value in the car in the first place - no material items, important docs, nada, all of said compartments as empty the day I bought it... except for an in-hose-line water filter which RV'ers use to prefilter all the incoming water feeding their rigs at RV parks. I was meaning to buy new/replacement filter media for it -- and this thief kindly left it there for me there on the passenger seat where I'd left it.

Thief was plainly some kind of short stack; driver seat was slid way close; I couldn't hardly get in until I slid it back to the max again! :cool:

And their kindness shined through yet again, in their not bothering to adjust the rear/side view mirrors to their shortstack ergonomic liking, for safe stolen car driving. :)

So this was a really f'n weird "white swan event"; I was so damn cocksure it was gone gone gone fuggedaboudit!! Oh yeah, I "forgot to share" (read: repressed): this Fit theft was (to be) a total unrecoverable financial loss for me, coz I 'frugally' bought liability-only insurance, as I've only ever bought coz I've always paid all cash (no financing), & never once made any kind of claim coz zero accidents. I'd always "bet on myself" vs the insurance co's, and had until this event, always "won that bet."

Meanwhile, I'd been doing all this research, enough to become convinced -- a flat towable dinghy vehicle is the ONLY way to go, vs the multiple dilemmas posed by my former Plan A of buying a tow-dolly monstrosity.

So my recovered Girly-Fit is now firmly in the queue for trade-in, in favor of a flat-tow compatible dinghy vehicle.

As of last night b4 this unexpected turn of events, I was closely looking at Chevy's [MANLY:cool:] Cruze (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2016+chevy+cruze&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images), 2016 or newer. 30/40 MPG; bunch of manly connectivity shit incl iPhone/Android-Auto; attractive pricing... & flat tow friendly, needless to say.

[osoab]

Congrats PataColo.

That is a nice turn of events.

[ziero0]

However it is still a shame the vehicle is owned by the state trust.

[JDRock]

Were happy for you Pat. Maybe im paranoid but check for tracking devices! You have been front and center of exposing powerful people for a long time. It was returned to you a little too easy... jmho.

[JDRock]

also, alot of cholos seem to work at car dealers and we KNOW they deal keys and entry codes to other cholos for the price of a gas station burrito. The way the seat was pulled waaay up gives me more reason to think some chico cholo made the heist.

[Cebu_4_2]

Totally unexpected ending Pat. Congratulations.

I am near vicinity of a tourist town and not a day goes by without a vehicle/s stolen. Back your truck and trailer with high value vehicle on top against a wall and box it in front with another vehicle. Wake up in the morning and ALL of it is gone. Professionals big time. In the summer it's hot rod season and there will be dozens stolen every day. All most likely loaded inside enclosed trailers and gone forever. Nothing mentioned about this in local media or papers because it is tourist town. I learn about the amount of thievery through social media sites I subscribed to. Most of the reported thefts are from locals so I can't imagine how many really get stolen from out of towners since nothing is reported publicly.

Point is if they want it they will take it. Probably best to get some low theft angle vehicle with a monitored tracker system. I'm sure they make something like that, that will stay trackable on it's own power when the battery power is cut.

[woodman]

Totally unexpected ending Pat. Congratulations.

I am near vicinity of a tourist town and not a day goes by without a vehicle/s stolen. Back your truck and trailer with high value vehicle on top against a wall and box it in front with another vehicle. Wake up in the morning and ALL of it is gone. Professionals big time. In the summer it's hot rod season and there will be dozens stolen every day. All most likely loaded inside enclosed trailers and gone forever. Nothing mentioned about this in local media or papers because it is tourist town. I learn about the amount of thievery through social media sites I subscribed to. Most of the reported thefts are from locals so I can't imagine how many really get stolen from out of towners since nothing is reported publicly.

Point is if they want it they will take it. Probably best to get some low theft angle vehicle with a monitored tracker system. I'm sure they make something like that, that will stay trackable on it's own power when the battery power is cut.
The cops are in on it, without a doubt. There was a street in Detroit, I used to pass every day on my way to work; it was used as a storage depot for stolen vehicles. You could see them in different stages of being stripped day by day and finally they would be burned.

[Horn]

So my recovered Girly-Fit is now firmly in the queue for trade-in, in favor of a flat-tow compatible dinghy vehicle.


I'm 2 for 2 so far.

Pat's car will be back in carmax inventory within 3 months.

and Palladium is leading the way down for PMs.