The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

So a couple of weeks ago, my mitsi dust caps were stolen. They had the anti-theft grubs, but they were still taken. So last week, I ordered a set of the cheapish, but rather nice looking blue ones from Ebay and stick them on. Just now I noticed they are gone. This stuff really boils my blood!!! If I caught anyone doing this to anyone, i would give the little shyte bag a right kick in the hole. I just don't understand the petty behaviour behind it. It's not in the same category as keying someones car, or nicking the badge, but it's still someone elses property, bought with hard earned cash (assuming the owner works). I don't know what to do about this. I think (but can't be sure) it's happening when the car is parked in my garden. I know they are only cheap and easily replaced, but the thought of grubby hands on my property kills me. Next in line is a flood light and cctv. That's it...my mind is made up!

It's kids taking them for their bikes. Had mine taken in Tesco once. Difficult to combat.

find the little pricks and rob them off their bikes. or put a bicycle chain around there back wheel, if they can be petty so can you.

A Rottweiler is the only solution here!!! Better than Eircom phonewatch.....

Glue them on that'll learn them..

I have the same problem in my little 8 house estate.. the little scrotes nabbed the shiny ones off the vectra - so I've replaced them with the bugly black plastic ones, this far they've left them alone.

I haven't seen them on any of the bikes they jam about on so I'm thinking there's either some "trading" going on, or we're dealing with a collector situation..
..I'd love to collar one of them..I have a fair idea which one it might well be too..

Grrrr..

Haha. It's frustrating, but kind of funny. Even if you catch them, there's not exactly a lot that can be done. It's not like they can be thrown in jail. Just yesterday I saw 4 kids passing slowly by the garden. 2 of them walked in, looking at the car and I noticed their eyes were in the wheels, not the car. 3 of them were wheeling bikes so I ran oun to check the bikes and nothin! They can't be that stupid to nick em and come back to the scene of the crime so soon with the evidence. The last one only cost me about €6. But I bet loads of people buy theirs in Halfords and they cost €18. I checked yesterday. It's a horrible mentality that some kids/teens have and it too often comes down to parents not giving a fcuk where their kids are, who with and what they're doing.

its a crap world, I heard 2 7 year olds tell my son "we can do what we want because the police are not allowed send children to jail" This mentality when the are this young is just wrong and I am sure will follow them into their teenage years..

You could do so many things with those caps, glue was metioned, I'm sure there are lots of other things you could do!

Came out to the car yesterday and 1 of the valve caps was missing. They were all on pretty tight, but one was taken, so i'm guessing there was a disturbance. As I probably mentioned, they come on packs of 5, but I had already used the spare 2 caps from the previous packs, so i'm left with 3 caps and no spares

I ordered another set from Ebay, so that's another €5+ i've had to waste! I will only have to use one of the 5, so I will have a full set of 4 as spares. After ordering the set, I decided to check out the anti-theft ones. I had the grub screw type before but when they were stolen the feckers damaged the valve thread removing them. I had brand new tyres put on, so decided not to go down that route again. Instead, I have ordered those spinning valve caps that need a cylinder key to remove. They are a bit more expensive, but should be alot less likely to be taken. They are covered with a sleeve that spins when someone tries to remove the caps. It would be more genius if the access hole came with a removeable plug to cover, but they should work just fine. Call me vain, but i hate the standard plastic dust caps.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/RICHBROOK-SPINNI ... 179wt_1159

Sounds to me like a mod thats more trouble than its worth in terms of cost and stress - unless of course you get more stressed out by the look of OEM black caps! Once bitten, twice shy - I''d be sticking to the originals for an easy life.

I would say the stress of looking at oem caps is low level, but even they get nicked eventually....according to a few posts i've read on other forums. wouldn't really notice them tbh, but it would bother me more to think that i can't have nice valve caps, because some little sprog will nick them.

CJ wrote:Sounds to me like a mod thats more trouble than its worth in terms of cost and stress - unless of course you get more stressed out by the look of OEM black caps! Once bitten, twice shy - I''d be sticking to the originals for an easy life.

+1 - you'll always lose them at some stage - pesky kids are everywhere these days !!

I have been back to the regular black for many years now.