2000_Black_RT10
Enthusiast
In the middle of the night last week they busted into my garage and attempted to steal my baby. 7000 mile Black RT/10 w/hardtop. Wife asked me why is the cover off the car and the garage door open? Ever get that sick feeling..
It was ready to go, neighbor saw a strange car lurking in front of our home one night. All is under investigation, I don't watch CSI much, but I could see they used cotton gloves, yet they did leave some arm hair where they pryed open the drivers window to reach in to unlatch the door, I'll keep that as a keepsake if time and cost permits a DNA analysis in the future, hearing criminals now have DNA records. Wouldn't it be nice to know who violated your property one day eh', like that movie with Uma Thurman - Gattaca?
I took a picture of it the next day in the meantime, Police stated they wanted to fingerprint the car and not to touch it at the time, doors were locked, battery was dead.
My damage observations -
Door window was forced open outward, bending the door window pillar outward by an inch or 2. It doesn't seem like anything is broken on the door, the pillar frame is just bent. No paint damage, just scuffs / rub marks on the hartop near the door glass.
I temporarily boosted the battery and the door locks work, but the alarm does not activate when the doors are opened from the inside if I turn the alarm on. The hood triggers the alarm, but only the lights flash, horn does not beep. Horn does work if depressed. Hood doesn't appear it was opened. I've disabled the car for the meantime.
Looks like they popped off the ignition key cover with a screwdriver and used a slide hammer to yank the lock cylinder out. The lock cylinder is missing, assuming it's on their slide hammer.
The column costs at a Dodge Dealer in USD is -
$904.00 column
$24.04 shoud-st
$14.11 shroud-lo
$39.24 retainers
$142.74 ignition + $20 to recode to keys
My deductible is $500, so I'll be dropping it off at a Dodge dealer in the next week or so, but if anyone has advice beforehand what I or they should look for damage to repair (cut alarm horn wires or ?), they don't have a Viper tech in-house at this local dealer.
Sad site.. but at least they didn't get the car.
It was ready to go, neighbor saw a strange car lurking in front of our home one night. All is under investigation, I don't watch CSI much, but I could see they used cotton gloves, yet they did leave some arm hair where they pryed open the drivers window to reach in to unlatch the door, I'll keep that as a keepsake if time and cost permits a DNA analysis in the future, hearing criminals now have DNA records. Wouldn't it be nice to know who violated your property one day eh', like that movie with Uma Thurman - Gattaca?
I took a picture of it the next day in the meantime, Police stated they wanted to fingerprint the car and not to touch it at the time, doors were locked, battery was dead.
My damage observations -
Door window was forced open outward, bending the door window pillar outward by an inch or 2. It doesn't seem like anything is broken on the door, the pillar frame is just bent. No paint damage, just scuffs / rub marks on the hartop near the door glass.
I temporarily boosted the battery and the door locks work, but the alarm does not activate when the doors are opened from the inside if I turn the alarm on. The hood triggers the alarm, but only the lights flash, horn does not beep. Horn does work if depressed. Hood doesn't appear it was opened. I've disabled the car for the meantime.
Looks like they popped off the ignition key cover with a screwdriver and used a slide hammer to yank the lock cylinder out. The lock cylinder is missing, assuming it's on their slide hammer.
The column costs at a Dodge Dealer in USD is -
$904.00 column
$24.04 shoud-st
$14.11 shroud-lo
$39.24 retainers
$142.74 ignition + $20 to recode to keys
My deductible is $500, so I'll be dropping it off at a Dodge dealer in the next week or so, but if anyone has advice beforehand what I or they should look for damage to repair (cut alarm horn wires or ?), they don't have a Viper tech in-house at this local dealer.
Sad site.. but at least they didn't get the car.
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