stolen wind deflector screens on craigslist? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Gougoushu · 06-29-2009, 12:29 PM

This craigslist ad has all the marks of stolen items: misspelled words, wrong years, items that are often stolen, etc.

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/pts/1241351012.html

They are underpriced, and could be resold at a profit, but to me it's not worth dealing with what appears to be a thief.

If anyone had their defector screens stolen in New York, these might be yours.

If anyone from this forum posted this ad ... well, there's no way that could have happened.

RandallNeighbour · 06-29-2009, 01:08 PM

Great heads up for everyone on this forum!

Here's a few more tips to keep your windscreens on your car and not in the hands of thieves or on the side of the freeway in pieces:

1) Don't leave your top down and your car unattended. That's just good common sense.

2) One or two black zip ties on your roll bar inserts at the bottom will not easily seen until a thief tries to remove them. Cheap insurance for them blowing out or being popped out when your idiot passenger decides to recline his or her seat back and it pushes the insert out of the roll bar.

Boxtaboy · 06-29-2009, 01:18 PM

I've seen peoples' tops cut into for those items. It's pathetic.

husker boxster · 06-29-2009, 09:28 PM

Maybe PO-SHA is how they pronounce it in the Hood.

stateofidleness · 06-29-2009, 11:13 PM

3 "peas" ?????

I would arrange to meet with the person just to hit them upside the head and hand them an English textbook... horrible

awesome tip on the zip ties. I've never thought about them coming out while driving with the top down. cheap security!

Boxtaboy · 06-30-2009, 04:59 AM

Seriously though, I've always wondered why people were always trying to source these pieces. Didn't think that there would be such a market for them that they would be stolen regularly and then resold on fleabay or craigslist. Now litronics, I could understand, as they are high ticket items that command decent resale (another thing I worry about). LOL. But, don't most people order the winstops with the car from the get go, or is it that there's a market for them now that everyones' windstops are regularly stolen?