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NoHaveMSG · 01-03-2025, 10:37 PM

Things like this make me glad I have a shop. But I think I should get locking lugs too for the cars and the shop and my toolbox’s so they can’t get into my tools. Can never be too careful. Am I missing anything else?

sorry spike

Ultramaroon · 01-03-2025, 11:06 PM

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Am I missing anything else?

spike021 · 01-03-2025, 11:25 PM

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Just so you aren't the low-hanging fruit, right? Or get a different kind for each wheel just to fuck with them.

hope that a little bit of deterrent is enough i suppose. all i had on the brz rays were spline drive nuts for like 6 years and nobody touched them. just crazy shit.

humfrz · 01-04-2025, 12:01 AM

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hope that a little bit of deterrent is enough i suppose. all i had on the brz rays were spline drive nuts for like 6 years and nobody touched them. just crazy shit.

Sorry to read that, spike021 -

Happy freaking new year - huh!

spike021 · 01-04-2025, 12:07 AM

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Sorry to read that, spike021 -

Happy freaking new year - huh!

same to you sir, hope you have a happy and healthy new year!

humfrz · 01-04-2025, 12:32 AM

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same to you sir, hope you have a happy and healthy new year!

Thinking about getting wheels stolen, I went out to my garage to see if I had wheel locks on my FRS. I couldn't remember.

When I got into the garage my car wasn't there! Oh yes, I remembered that I had loaned it to my daughter a few days ago because she got her car totaled.

Which reminded me of the time my sister "borrowed" my father's car, after he had pulled several stunts - like pulling away from a gas pump without disconnecting the gas filler hose. After all, he was in his mid 90s.

She decided he was too old to drive, so, after she "borrowed" his car, she never returned it!

Wait one? Do you think my daughter is going to return my car?

Ultramaroon · 01-04-2025, 02:12 AM

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Wait one? Do you think my daughter is going to return my car?

Ask Mrs. Humfrz. We both know how this works.

humfrz · 01-04-2025, 02:25 AM

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Ask Mrs. Humfrz. We both know how this works.

We took our granddaughters home tonight after they spent Friday night with us.

Yep, there in their driveway was my FRS. They are supposed to get a rental tomorrow. Mrs humfrz told me that my son-in-law put a "club" on it for security reassurances.

OR, did my daughter put the club on it so that I couldn't "borrow" it back? -

Sapphireho · 01-04-2025, 05:11 AM

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How do they keep it a secret? Seems like something like anyone should be able to learn.

How do you remove a rounded nut?

Sapphireho · 01-04-2025, 05:19 AM

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hope that a little bit of deterrent is enough i suppose. all i had on the brz rays were spline drive nuts for like 6 years and nobody touched them. just crazy shit.

They want the new tires more than the rims.

bcj · 01-04-2025, 08:45 AM

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How do you remove a rounded nut?

Well rounded hot wrench usually finishes off everything in the way.

spike021 · 01-04-2025, 12:28 PM

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We took our granddaughters home tonight after they spent Friday night with us.

Yep, there in their driveway was my FRS. They are supposed to get a rental tomorrow. Mrs humfrz told me that my son-in-law put a "club" on it for security reassurances.

OR, did my daughter put the club on it so that I couldn't "borrow" it back? -

is it really thieving if it’s taking back your own car??

humfrz · 01-04-2025, 02:13 PM

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How do you remove a rounded nut?

With a cold chisel and a BFH.

Spuds · 01-04-2025, 10:28 PM

So we had some fun working on my mom's car this afternoon. Started as an oil change that my now retired dad and I had to convince my mom we could do better than the local Walmart. The car desperately needed a tire rotation and brake fluid. Some of my favorite quotes. "Why the hell are the wheels off my car?" "I've had this car for seven years and I've never had to have the brake fluid changed!" and "No, that's the filter you can see through, the black stuff behind it is the brake fluid."

/Sigh my parents are... Vanilla.

01-04-2025, 10:28 PM	#10962
Spuds The Dictater Join Date: Apr 2017 Drives: '13 Red Scion FRS Location: MD, USA Posts: 9,592 Thanks: 26,610 Thanked 12,649 Times in 6,264 Posts Mentioned: 88 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	So we had some fun working on my mom's car this afternoon. Started as an oil change that my now retired dad and I had to convince my mom we could do better than the local Walmart. The car desperately needed a tire rotation and brake fluid. Some of my favorite quotes. "Why the hell are the wheels off my car?" "I've had this car for seven years and I've never had to have the brake fluid changed!" and "No, that's the filter you can see through, the black stuff behind it is the brake fluid." /Sigh my parents are... Vanilla. __________________ If a picture is worth a thousand words, a model is worth ten thousand pictures. Also: "Build Thread"

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