Keyed...again :(

Marcrs · February 18, 2011, 01:46:51 PM

I am so peed off today. The poor rex has sat there since the snow really, and today I decided it needed a well deserved run to work.

I charged the battery the other weekend and fitted it...it took a while to start this morning, but fired up fine, and drove like a dream, I had actualy forgotten how good it was

I got to work, and wandered round the car, and noticed some nice kind person has keyed the rear wing - on the top face in front of the spoiler.

When fixing the headlight a month or so ago I noticed a scratch on the front wing, but wasn\'t sure if it was deliberate or not, looking at it again, it seems it was keyed before.

I guess someone doesn\'t like it parked there for too long...I mean, it is outside my house...:2Rolleyes

It\'s so depressing, I can\'t afford a full respray, and now I need to paint 2 panels that didn\'t need any work doing to them, so it looks like that may be the only option...
to be honest, I am considering selling up, I really can\'t stand to see it getting abuse like that - it needs to be locked away somewhere safe

Carbon RX · February 18, 2011, 02:03:59 PM

If outside your house start video recording from a window... never know if may catch the small minded (an trousered) idiot...

Never give up for such a reason of other peoples jelousy as they have won then! :2Confused

Clarky · February 18, 2011, 04:14:30 PM

It does seem the only safe place is in a garage or lockup, people have some weird habits for enjoyment, or jelousy, its very gutting...

captainbizzaro · February 18, 2011, 05:05:41 PM

Lowlife ....wits need hanging, my first FB was parked outside a girlfriends house on new years eve about 10 years ago and when I returned a bit worse for wear caught a kid snapping the aerial and then scratching it down the side of it. Wasn\'t a happy chap.

Sorry to hear dude, like was said earlier set up a camera!

syebba · February 18, 2011, 05:15:13 PM

Hmm,i had a similar problem with our cars being vandalised years ago,i stayed up at night peeking through a window with a golf club in my hand,never did catch them.
Only safe place is a garage,so i think you\'re best option is to sell it,i\'m afraid.

Ian65 · February 18, 2011, 08:13:42 PM

Had my 1st RX7 keyed all over so I know how you feel.... don\'t give up though Marc, you\'re an enthusiastic owner and member of the forum and we don\'t want to lose you.
Could a \'Mr chips away\' type of repairer fix it without blowing the panels in?

clive · February 18, 2011, 09:07:49 PM

Real sorry to hear about this Marcrs, I know how you feel and as John (Clarky) says this could be straight jealousy,

You would initially think this would be kids, but in my case years ago when I had just brought a showroom condition Plymouth Fury identical to the one in the picture below and knew before I went to work all was OK with my immaculate new toy,

At work I along with the other few hundred employees had to put the car in the works car park where not a kid would ever be seen, dinner time I went out to the car to find it had been keyed from front to back.

I had no enemy\'s or problems with anyone and that day I realised that this was just straight jealousy from an adult (using the word loosely!) :Grrr

shaunwil · February 18, 2011, 11:02:46 PM

Just isn\'t right !!!! What the hell is the point

Shaun

Marcrs · February 20, 2011, 01:05:18 AM

Well, a bit of an update.

It\'s too harsh for a chips away type repair, although I will lay some paint in for now, better than bare metal...

I have a couple of cars, my red 323 was keyed outside last year, it was only about 4" long, and I thought it might not have been deliberate. That car usually sits on the driveway in the gazebo, out the back of the house, but I put it out the front while I worked on another car...

I have another mazda 323 too,a white BG GT. I usually drive that one to work, but I drove the red one last week for a change and to give the battery a charge...so the GT sat parked in the street for a few days.
Went out in it today, and found they have keyed the bonnet of that too

So, it\'s definitely personal, and I think I know who it is - I guess she was peed off that she couldn\'t park or something...and blamed my 2 cars?
We believe she has vandalised cars before, Karissa\'s mazda 323 (yes, we have 4 mazdas between us) was parked across our drive, and about 4" across the neighbours back fence one night...the wipers and mirrors were all bent up by the morning...

Due to my job, i have to stay within the confines of the law, no fighting, no drunken brawls, and certainly no revenge attacks on nasty neighbours...but I do have a plan

A friend of mine runs PRO-TECH Security Systems, and he is going to hook me up with some CCTV, 4 cameras and a recording system...be the best chance I have of actually catching the culprit...

Also, I am hoping to expand my polishing/detailing business, and I should have a premises pretty soon, so the rex will be stored in the unit then, safe and sound

Sorry for the long post, if you\'ve made it this far then I congratulate you

On another note, when I drove it on Friday it made a bit of a boinging noise when I went over the speedbump at work...and it seems I have lost a chunk of rear spring!
Spax have been ordered, need to get them fitted, as it\'s MOT time in March...

Keeping my chin up...somehow

captainbizzaro · February 20, 2011, 08:11:05 AM

Glad you\'ve formulated a plan of attack mate, keep us posted. Vandals are amongst the lowest life form in my book.

CHC (RIP) · February 20, 2011, 11:08:03 AM

Really sorry to hear your plight John - very childish in my book. Been there before too and it\'s not nice - even had the \'dragons\' drivers door tampered with when it was parked outside our property, never found the culprit though.

Just a point - have any other neighbours been suffering this too? If not I think the possible culprit might well be guilty but you will need the evidence for verification.
Hope you get the b*****d whose responsible and you can make them pay for it.
Cliff

Marcrs · February 20, 2011, 11:32:59 AM

I have checked pretty much every other car in the street, and it seems that only mine have been touched...

I have a nice pic of the RX7 on my TV at the moment - as well as recording, I can view it at any time on the big screen

CHC (RIP) · February 20, 2011, 12:15:43 PM

Well putting 2 & 2 together (maybe I get 7) but it does appear to me that the suspect is 60/40 guilty - but without conclusive evidence it determines nothing.
My suggestion in the short term (if you need to park them in the road) would be to park the cars somewhere else up road if possible ans staying away from this persons property - then see what happens to them.

Marcrs · February 20, 2011, 04:54:55 PM

Trouble is, she lives next door...

This is the result of step 1 of the plan...24 hour recording, and I can have a gander at it in the advert breaks :Thumbs-up

CHC (RIP) · February 20, 2011, 05:14:10 PM

Okay - good starter for ten. Will there be sufficient light to record movements during the dark hrs and will the clarity be good enough so you can positivley identify the culprit?