Sorry to hear that mate, i know how i'd feel if someone did that to me.

******* chav scum :cus:

 

I live near Mansfield and there was a gang going round from village to village kicking wing mirrors off snapping aerials etc.

 

the annoyign thing is it was only my car in the whoel street...why mine?......is t cos its a rover?.....is it cos its modified?.....was it just pot luck.....im not the kind of person who has enemies!

 

yep some people frown on "modders" ... that or simply they are annoyed they could not do such things to there own cars(mopeds!) alot of idiots out there mate.
why not get one of those cheap surveillance kits from argos or something set a camera up there well under £100 and then you can sleep easyer at night!
that or get a flame thrower alarm kit haha
hope itwasnt to pricey to fix!

 

I know how you feel, a few weeks ago someone keyed from front to back all down my drivers side. Someone kill 'em all!

 

I know how you feel, a few weeks ago someone keyed from front to back all down my drivers side. Someone kill 'em all!

that is bad...least its only a few £ for a mirror

 

Manual or electric, i have a manual drivers mirror you can have; i had my passenger mirror kicked off and it scraped down the door too, i upgraded to electric; thus have a manual drivers one if you want it? I've ordered a 6mpixel web cam im going to setup watching my car on the drive as some kids keyed mine, it will record when it detects motion and i'll only review it if something happens...

 

its gettin serious when u need to do something liek that....i ell u if id have caugth them they would be impailed on my fence out the front liek a trophy!!

thanx for the offer on the mrrors but mine are electric

 

There are a few on ebay at the momment.

 

There was a shop on ebay where i got a set of mirrors for £50, can't remeber the name of it though. Sorry to hear about your mirror, makes me angry when i hear things like that.

 

just gonna take a trip to the local scrappers. they have plenty of r25's in there....regualr customer so the tend to give me stuff cheap lol...

 

Fair enough, hope your trip comes in useful!

 

Is it possible to swap the gubbins from the broken electric morror, into the good manual mirror, to make one good electric one?

Just a thought.

Cheers
Dave

 

seems like a lot of hassle to be honest.

 

Skrib,

That sucks, sorry dude

The best way to look at it is that it was very more than likely nothing personal or that it's a Rover, 99% of the time it's a case of wrong place wrong time.

Some gimp booted the wing on my ti, though it pretty much all popped out, so not too bad I guess, better if it hadn't happened at all though! point is, if a stock, unassuming looking ti (just a 600 to most people) can come in for stick, then any car can.

My mate witnessed a couple of large idiots coming up his street a few weeks ago in the morning as he let his dogs out, they were randomly stabbing car tyres with a large knife, needless to say he got the dogs in and sat in his car with the engine running on the pretense he was warming it up before going to work. They left his car alone but did stop and stare in for a moment as they walked past.

Personally, I think he did the right thing, I know it seems bad for all the people who got flat tyres, but to be fair, getting stabbed isn't on my list on early morning priorities! Ahhh, Burslem!

 

Skrib,

That sucks, sorry dude

The best way to look at it is that it was very more than likely nothing personal or that it's a Rover, 99% of the time it's a case of wrong place wrong time.

Some gimp booted the wing on my ti, though it pretty much all popped out, so not too bad I guess, better if it hadn't happened at all though! point is, if a stock, unassuming looking ti (just a 600 to most people) can come in for stick, then any car can.

My mate witnessed a couple of large idiots coming up his street a few weeks ago in the morning as he let his dogs out, they were randomly stabbing car tyres with a large knife, needless to say he got the dogs in and sat in his car with the engine running on the pretense he was warming it up before going to work. They left his car alone but did stop and stare in for a moment as they walked past.

Personally, I think he did the right thing, I know it seems bad for all the people who got flat tyres, but to be fair, getting stabbed isn't on my list on early morning priorities! Ahhh, Burslem!

This realy is gettin serious....i cant understand what motivates these people.

Been to get a new mirror....the breakers i normally go to didnt have any leccy ones so cost me £20 from another.

 

Mindless moronic behaviour. A year ago my brand new ZR had the front wing kicked in by similar pond life. The car was only 6 weeks old. Cost me £500.00 and the police as usual have no evidence.

 

I feel for you, had the exact same thing done a few weeks ago

found a good shop on ebay though they sell none OEM mirrors that are identical to originals at a baragin price - quality seemed great on the 400 leccy one I bought highly recommended (I bought new as older scrappy ones tend to have broken heater coils didnt fancy stripping the door down several times)

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/ONLINE-PER...NLINE-PERFORMANCE-UK-LTD_MG-ROVER_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ11793686QQftidZ2QQtZkm

 

I feel for you, had the exact same thing done a few weeks ago

found a good shop on ebay though they sell none OEM mirrors that are identical to originals at a baragin price - quality seemed great on the 400 leccy one I bought highly recommended (I bought new as older scrappy ones tend to have broken heater coils didnt fancy stripping the door down several times)

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/ONLINE-PER...NLINE-PERFORMANCE-UK-LTD_MG-ROVER_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ11793686QQftidZ2QQtZkm

That's the shop i mentioned earlier. I think he has a new mirror though now.

 

Sorry to hear about that m8 feel your pain last friday i had somebody hit my zr with something cudnt have been a car as it wud of hit the bumper strip on the side but that was untouched and i parked wit no cars around me and was only gone 20 minutes ! now i have to pay out 300 to get it put right next week ! Jealousy is a terrible thing thats all they are oh and scum !!!!!

 

I'm sorry it happened to you!

Jelousy is a pain in the arse!!

Some people really need to get a reality check, and sort their lives out.

 

Sorry for whats happened mate, its never nice to wake up to something crap
I always tuck my mirrors in on my 200 now. I have had 3 of the shrek styles ones knocked off with no note or anything which is why I changed to 25/ZR ones. Now I tuck them in whenever I park as I doubt anyone would bother unfolding a mirror and then kicking it off. I just hope that folding them in removes the temptation to kick them

 

Theres nothing wrong with 'shrek' mirrors :fishslap:

:lol:

 

lol no there isnt. Just doesnt give you the option to fold them in so just gives little ****s the temptation to kick them off

 

I was quite annoyed when i had my last car, a hyundai accent. When i bought the car it had a few minor scratches on the rear passenger door. over time, (i had to park on the road) the number of scratches increased, it was like some low life had walked past and thought 'oh, he already has scratches, he wont notice a few more'. in the end my door looked like a victim in a scream movie!
That car has since been written off by some french white van man who couldnt make up his mind at a roundabout. i now own a rover,

 

you guys wont believe this....

i fitted me new mirror and went to fold it in....wouldnt budge....put a bit of force into it heard a bit of a snappign sound...the mirror went loose and still woudlnt turn. I popped the cap off the bottom only to find it had been snapped off once befoer and cowboyed back on with a drill and some screws.

My luck is terrible, i wish id checked the mirror before i bought it but i never thought. Ive tightned the screws abck up and the mirror is solid now but i know that it isnt right and its gonna bug me.

I dont know what ive done to deserve and they say it comes in 3's so whats next the dreaded hgf lol!!!

 

I've seen little chavs doing the mirrors thing, they both had a can of larger in each hand and were running past a few cars doing each one. when they saw me they aggressivly went 'alright mate'. Was with the byrd and didn't want a fight but i was right ****** off later that i didn't belt them. Beware anyone doing this sort of thing is boozed and hyped up and if u confront them it will more than likely go physical. If they are too big/too many call the cops and follow them from a distance is probablly best thing to do. A few peeps have been stabbed up by these dicks.

 

CCTV ftw!!

:lol:

Chavs don't like it then.

 

CCTV ftw!!

:lol:

Chavs don't like it then.

tell u what im tempted to set my viddy cam up tonight and see if they come back....

 

If you have the kit, i'd set it up for tonight.. or maybe all week..

Saturday nights, nothing to do = vandle

Half term, nothing to do = vandle!

 

we have 2 cars in the household...mine unfortuneatly goes on the road untill we source the cash to get the drive extended....

 

Vandalism of cars really gets to me. My 405 estate had all the windows put through in Manchester last month. Nothing stolen, but all the windows smashed. WHY? Keying I think is the worst, it's just jealousy, and I think anyone caught keying a vehicle should be keyed themselves with a stanley blade. A nice sharp stanley blade, dipped occasionally in sulphuric acid.

Russ.