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Re: locking wheel nut key missing

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Deedee91 wrote:Do people even still steal alloys?
Something I thought when I got my alloys for the vectra, so never bothered with locking nuts. Think stealing wheels is outdated now..
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Yeah don't think it's happened for years. They're about a tenner scrap for 15inch. And selling stolen wheels is hard work tis not be on top. I've got corsa sport they have the centre cap screwed on so I'm happy with that
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Yeah it just makes more sense to take the car, a corsa can be gotten into and started in about 1 minute and it'd take 5-10 to take wheels [emoji38]
If it doesn't fit,
force it,
If it breaks,
It needed replacing anyway :thumbs:
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johnny wrote:Yeah it just makes more sense to take the car, a corsa can be gotten into and started in about 1 minute and it'd take 5-10 to take wheels [emoji38]
1 minute? That's slow. We must have a better quality of car thieves here
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All sorted now, finally got them all off.
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johnny wrote:Yeah it just makes more sense to take the car, a corsa can be gotten into and started in about 1 minute and it'd take 5-10 to take wheels [emoji38]
Out of interest Johnny how do you get round the transponder chip thingy in the key?

Not that I'm planning on robbing any corsas more just in case I ever end up stuck
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For obvious reasons I'm not going to explain how to bypass an immobiliser [emoji38]

But take the the majority of corsas are pre 97 and don't have an immobiliser, they also have a major wiring fault that makes them incredibly easy to bump start but I'm not going to say that either but if it bothers you enough I'm sure it'll come up on Google
If it doesn't fit,
force it,
If it breaks,
It needed replacing anyway :thumbs:
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johnny wrote:For obvious reasons I'm not going to explain how to bypass an immobiliser [emoji38]

But take the the majority of corsas are pre 97 and don't have an immobiliser, they also have a major wiring fault that makes them incredibly easy to bump start but I'm not going to say that either but if it bothers you enough I'm sure it'll come up on Google
I know about the pre 97 I was more interested in post 97 I could by pass an immobiliser with no real trouble but it would take me a while, it was 'in one minute' that got me intrigued haha.

I've had to 'steal' for want of a better word a few cars after losing keys but never one with a factory transponder/immobiliser
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I don't really want to go into tbh mate but I'm sure the information is on Google

I just don't want my name coming up when you Google how to steal a corsa b [emoji38]
If it doesn't fit,
force it,
If it breaks,
It needed replacing anyway :thumbs:
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Hahaha fair enough lad.
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johnny wrote:I don't really want to go into tbh mate but I'm sure the information is on Google

I just don't want my name coming up when you Google how to steal a corsa b [emoji38]
Now that you wrote "how to steal a corsa" you will be at the top of the google search [emoji38]

Also Jeremy Clarkson showed everyone how to do the pre 97s on Top Gear lol
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stanc3w0rks wrote:
johnny wrote:I don't really want to go into tbh mate but I'm sure the information is on Google

I just don't want my name coming up when you Google how to steal a corsa b [emoji38]
Now that you wrote "how to steal a corsa" you will be at the top of the google search [emoji38]

Also Jeremy Clarkson showed everyone how to do the pre 97s on Top Gear lol
Never used to believe that till I saw it done for real haha. My dad used to say it always thought he was having me on
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